Clavister, a Swedish developer of advanced IT security solutions, have chosen the Tokyo based company LANOS OF JAPAN LTD as their distributor for the Japanese market. The agreement strengthens Clavister's presence on the Japanese market and is an important step in the company's overall investment in Asia.


For 22 years Lanos of Japan Ltd has been a comprehensive supplier of services in system administration, consulting and system development and service and operation of IT and business processes. For additional information, see www.lanos.co.jp.

"This agreement means that we move our positions forward on the Asian market at the same time as we improve the service to our existing customers in Japan", said Clavister's President and CEO Peter Johansson. "Lanos is a well-known IT consultant with a strong reputation that gives us a good platform to provide local support and reach out with our solutions to the Japanese market."

Lanos will primarily market the Clavister Security Services Platform (SSP), a family of integrated security platforms that solve large parts of companies' IT security problems. SSP is an extended UTM platform with integrated functions such as firewalls, 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.