Camberley, Surrey, UK - 31 July, 2012 - To support the expanding role of access control solutions that leverage the intelligence of the network, Telindus announced today that it has achieved Identity Services Engine (ISE) Authorized Technology Provider (ATP) status from Cisco. This designation recognises Telindus as having fulfilled the training requirements and program prerequisites to sell, deploy and support Cisco ISE products and solutions.

The Cisco ISE platform is a comprehensive, next-generation, contextually-based access control solution that offers exceptional visibility and control to ensure a highly secure enterprise and efficiently enforce security policy across an entire distributed network. The Cisco ISE offers authenticated network access, profiling, posture, and guest management along with monitoring, reporting and troubleshooting capabilities on a single physical or virtual appliance. The Cisco ISE enables scalable and flexible enforcement mechanisms leveraging existing identity-aware network infrastructure, and ships on a wide range of physical appliances with different performance settings to address multiple deployment requirements.

Marek Lowther, managing director of Telindus, stated: "Telindus wholly believes in providing our customers with the best business outcome through investing in the right technologies to meet current and future needs. Achieving ISE ATP status is important to us in two ways:

• As one of a handful of organisations in the UK to gain ISE ATP accreditation, it is an example of our continued technology leadership and strong heritage in delivering secure networks to our customers.

• Our Network Access Control solutions allow our customers to exploit new productivity enhancing business initiatives, such as Bring Your Own Device (BYOD), mobility and guest computing, as well as addressing their compliance obligations."

The Cisco ATP program is part of the go-to-market strategy for Cisco ISE solutions. The program helps define the knowledge, skills and services that channel partners need to successfully sell, deploy and support ISE solutions.

About Cisco Identity Services Engine and TrustSec Solutions
The Cisco ISE is a policy component of the Cisco TrustSec solution. A Cisco ISE solution can be deployed as an appliance or virtual machine to enforce security policy on all devices that attempt to gain access to network infrastructure. Integrated with the Cisco Prime Network Control System (NCS), Cisco ISE helps manage all devices more securely.

About Telindus
Telindus is a market leading ICT services company with a proven reputation in the delivery of business enabling ICT solutions for public and private sector organisations and service providers. With expertise in a range of technologies and vendors, Telindus is always at the forefront of technological advancement and innovation, and continually invests in its people, solutions and services to meet the changing and challenging needs of its clients in any given market.

Telindus provides reliable and innovative network solutions and services both nationally and internationally, all supported by the company's core service offerings of professional services, network infrastructure support, and managed services which are underpinned by planning, building, managing and constantly improving on all projects. This is why many of the world's leading enterprises, service providers, and public sector and defence organisations make up Telindus' client base.

Telindus is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Belgacom Group, one of the world's leading telecommunications organisations. This gives it strength, scale and international reach, along with the flexibility, agility and local market understanding gained through a long heritage in the UK.

For further information of Telindus, go to: www.telindus.co.uk

For further information, please contact:
Victoria Lloyd-Williams
Proposition Marketing Manager
Telindus
+44 (0)1276 406263
victoria.lloyd-williams@telindus.co.uk

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