Galway, Ireland, Copperfasten, a leading Irish developer of security products, today announced it has agreed a partnership with European IT Distributor DotForce, giving Dotforce distribution rights to its products for Italy and Spain.

Ronan Kavanagh, CEO of Copperfasten, said "We are delighted to be gaining a significant foothold in these two important markets and with Dotforce we have a solid partnership with a company whose aims are in line with those of Copperfasten"

In a market with many players Copperfastens Mail Firewall Appliance has gone from strength to strength and has exhibited a number of key advantages over its competitors, largely due to the approach it takes in dealing with Spam and viruses. Unlike many other products in this space the Mail Firewall Appliance focuses not only on the identification of Spam and Viruses but as importantly on how the issues are managed within organisations right through from the installation process to end user requirements. It is a preconfigured plug and play hardware solution, there is no client intervention required, and there is an emphasis on providing end users with the tools to manage spam themselves. Functionality such as end user digests and quarantine release, automated reporting and individual rule configuration allow the user to control email rather that having to continually resort to an organisations IT department for assistance.

Fabrizio Bressani, Managing Director of Dotforce said in choosing to partner with Copperfasten " We found the CopperFasten solution to be easy to understand, deploy and manage ."

The Mail Firewall Appliance has been widely deployed in Government, Health, Education and private sector customers. According to Kavanagh, "We are really looking forward to developing our reseller channel in Italy and Spain and showing customers why Copperfasten should be their product of choice for email protection".

For more information contact Ronan Kavanagh Copperfasten on 091- 540054 or Email: ronan@copperfasten.ie www.copperfasten.com .