Layer 7 Technologies announced its go-to-market partnership with Steria Benelux. Steria will act as a channel partner for Layer 7’s SOA gateway products in Belgium to offer leading SOA security, governance solutions and support to its current and prospective customers.

“We are seeing a drastic increase in the number of customers that are developing applications in an SOA environment, and they are facing new security and governance challenges as a result,” said Eric Stylemans, Security Department Director, Steria Benelux. “Layer 7’s family of SecureSpan gateways and associated APIs, address these challenges across diverse enterprise environments to provide our customers with effective and proven solutions.”

“We are very excited to form a strong partnership with one of the leading end-to-end IT providers in Belgium,” said Dimitri Sirota, Vice President, Marketing and Alliances, Layer 7 Technologies. “We feel that working together will provide more end-users with the opportunity to effectively and securely add SOA to their IT environments.”

Layer 7’s family of SecureSpan gateways will provide Steria, and its customers, with a best-of-breed portfolio of open standards-based, WS-Policy compliant governance solutions that address security, performance management and operational SOA governance issues.