Linz, September 17, 2009 security specialist under ground_8 has appointed Hans-Peter Steven (43) as the new channel manager for North West Germany and Belgium. Linz, September 17, 2009 security specialist under ground_8 has appointed Hans-Peter Steven (43) as the new channel manager for North West Germany and Belgium. In the course of its expansion into new markets, underground_8 reinforces also its sales activity in northwest of Germany and the bordering Belgium. For this reason, the Austrian security specialist took Hans-Peter Steven on board. He is responsible in particular for the Channelbetreuung and for obtaining new and taking care of the existing partner landscape. In the last ten years in the IT industry among others for tech data, Secuware, o2 and BitDefender, Steven worked as business development manager. Steven goal-oriented and customer-oriented sales style for the introduction of new products could score points in these companies. “Most security solutions for infrastructure are on large companies with” relevant specialists and budgets but not tailored to, small and medium-sized companies”, explains Steven. “Just for this target group, underground_8 offers professional solutions, which are ideal with its ground-breaking technologies such as stealth firewalling and the possibility to scan encrypted connections without large overhead for this target group. “The potential for us and our resellers is gigantic and suitable, which have deals thanks to the user-oriented implementation variants also for resellers up to date still not with the issue of security.”