Devicelock and PC stars announce distribution partnership in China

Published 28th November 2008

Moscow, Russia – November 26, 2008 – DeviceLock, Inc. (formerly SmartLine Inc), a worldwide leader in endpoint device control and context-aware data leak prevention software solutions, has today announced a distribution agreement with PC Stars (Beijing Baihui Digital Stars Co., Ltd.), China’s biggest online software distributor and leading software as a service (SaaS) provider.

Under the agreement PC Stars will distribute, market and support DeviceLock endpoint security software products throughout China. As a member of the global DeviceLock channel partner community, PC Stars will receive significant partner benefits including access to the DeviceLock partner web portal, product training, sales assistance and quality technical support. In addition, the companies will implement a joint marketing program across the target market.

DeviceLock-based software solutions proactively protect organisations of all sizes across all sectors against data leakage and prevents the infiltration of corporate network by malware through local ports of employees’ computers. It significantly reduces business risks resulting from insider negligence, errors or malicious actions. DeviceLock software is designed for Microsoft Windows operating systems and features a comprehensive central management that is natively integrated with Microsoft Active Directory®. It enables users to precisely control, log, shadow-copy and audit end-user access to the ports and peripheral devices, including local, network and virtual printers, as well as Windows Mobile® and Palm® OS based personal mobile devices, of any type of computer. DeviceLock also integrates with leading encryption products from PGP, Lexar, and TrueCrypt, in order to protect data on removable storage devices. In addition, DeviceLock blocks operations of USB and PS/2 hardware keyloggers.

PC Stars commits to be the biggest online software distributor and leading SaaS provider in China through continuous innovation and re-constructing the value chain of software distribution and online applications. PC Stars focuses on enterprise software products developed abroad, and aims to be the largest source of foreign software products for the Chinese corporate market. To date, PC Stars has distributred more than 5,000 software products and services from approximately 600 software developers and publishers through its own publishing and distribution platforms www.softwarelist.cn, which is run by its own license department. PC Stars also provides product marketing and promotion services for its suppliers and partners through flexible and effective cooperation models, as well as high-quality technical support services for end customers and sales channel partners.
“We are proud to have the biggest online software distributor in China as our authorized distributor and looking forward to becoming a valuable partner to them,” said Ashot Oganesyan, DeviceLock CTO and founder. “With the wide network of software resellers and systems integrators that PC Stars has established in China, we believe this partnership will become a vital instrument for accelerating DeviceLock expansion across the Chinese corporate IT security market.”

“In these times of rapidly increasing demand for endpoint, data leak prevention solutions on the Chinese corporate market, our partnership with DeviceLock will allow us to offer to our customers and sales channel a leading endpoint device control and context-aware DLP software that has been reliably protecting millions of computers in security-sensitive organisations and businesses across the world,” said Steven Cui, License Department General Manager at PC Stars. “Through our joint efforts and commitment, we will work together to satisfy the immediate and future needs of our customers within the dynamically growing information security market in China.”