Tectia launches New Channel Sales Office in Switzerland


HELSINKI, FINLAND and WELLESLEY, Mass. - March 30, 2011, 2011-03-30 08:00 CEST (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Tectia Corporation (HEL: TEC1V), the market maker in real-time information security solutions, has announced the establishment of a Tectia-branded channel sales bureau in Switzerland.

Located in Kloten near Zurich, Tectia Switzerland is a privately-owned company that has been authorized to use the Tectia name in the local market. The company will act as sales, marketing, and engineering hub providing customers and other Tectia channel partners with Tectia information security solutions for enterprises and public organizations in Switzerland.

“We are very impressed with the entrepreneurial spirit and competencies of the owners of Tectia Switzerland and look forward to work with them. As a Tectia-branded concern, they will become the face of Tectia in Switzerland. This means that not only will they share the same branding and market messages, they will also uphold our reputation for providing relevant and cost-effective software solutions for today’s enterprise-level information security problems,” said Jouni H. Leinonen, Tectia COO.

Mr. Oliver Surber of Tectia Switzerland said he was pleased and excited at the opportunity to become part of the Tectia global organization. “We are naturally eager to build on this relationship. Tectia has an outstanding pedigree as a developer of best-in-class information security solutions that can be easily deployed and have little or no impact on customers’ daily operations. We hope to be able to bring those benefits to more customers in Switzerland,” he added.

Tectia Corporation
Tectia Corporation, (formerly SSH Communications Security Corp.) is the market maker in real-time information security solutions for modern, networked organizations. We create an invaluable Circle of Trust for our customers and their stakeholders by securing, automating, managing and sharing confidential information with Tectia solutions in fixed, mobile, and cloud environments.

We enable and enhance business for thousands of customers in multiple industries in the private and public sectors around the world. We operate in the Americas, Europe, and APAC regions, with headquarters located in Helsinki, Finland. The company was established in 1995, and holds 15 patents. Its shares are quoted on the NASDAQ OMX Helsinki.

         PR contacts:
         
         Tectia Corporation
         Jouni H. Leinonen
         firstname.lastname@tectia.com
         +358 (0)20 500 7000
         
         Tectia Switzerland
         Oliver Surber
         firstname.lastname@tectia.ch
         +41 79 704 1319

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