Clavister, a Swedish developer of advanced IT security solutions, have opened an office in Prague with responsibility for the company's sales and marketing in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia. Also, in Poland a person has been recruited to support a growing number of retailers in that country.

The new office in Prague is manned by Daniel Hetenyi and Miroslav Bagjar, both with extensive experience in sales and support. In Poland Piotr Popiel has been employed, who previously worked with education and consulting for HP, among others.

"Eastern Europe has a huge growth potential, and we see important increased value in early establishment in these markets", said Clavister's President and CEO Peter Johansson.

The new establishments aim at marketing and sales of the Clavister Security Services Platform (SSP), a family of integrated security platforms that solve large parts of company's IT security problems. SSP is an extended UTM platform with integrated functions such as firewalling, VPN, intrusion protection, anti-virus, surf-filters, traffic shaping, authentication, etc. It requires minimal maintenance, has central administration and exceptionally flexible configuration possibilities.

The family consists of four models that cover the entire range from protection of small local offices to powerful clustered systems in the multi-gigabit class for network operators. The different services can be activated individually with software keys and the platform thereafter takes care of product updates automatically.

Clavister AB is a Swedish privately owned company that develops IT security products. The main product, the Clavister Security Services Platform, is an integrated security platform that monitors traffic to and from networks and protects against intrusion, viruses, worms, trojans and overload attacks. Not only does it protect critical business assets, it also blocks undesirable surfing, requires minimal servicing, has central administration and exceptionally flexible configuration possibilities and thanks to its scalability fits everything from small companies to big telecom operators.

There are also special versions for ISPs, telecom operators and companies that develop managed security services.

Clavister was founded in 1997. The head office and development department are in Örnsköldsvik while sales and marketing is in Stockholm. The company's products reach the market via sales offices, distributors and retailers in Europe and Asia. Clavister also supplies its engineering on an OEM basis.

Clavister have received a number of awards in the international press. For further details see www.clavister.com.