RHEA Inc. Enters Into Strategic Alliance With Wedge Networks

Leading cybersecurity and engineering solutions company, RHEA Group to offer Wedge Networks Absolute Real-time Protection platform - WedgeARP™ in Canada and across Europe and South America

10 September 2020 - CALGARY, Canada: RHEA Inc., headquartered in Montreal, Canada, offers bespoke engineering solutions, system development and security services, announced today that it has been appointed as an authorized Elite partner for Wedge Networks in the Canadian, European and South American markets. Through this strategic alliance / partnership, RHEA Inc. will be able to deliver the Wedge Absolute Real-time Protection™ (WedgeARP™) platform to its global customers who are actively looking for real-time protection from advanced persistent threats and never-before-seen malware.

WedgeARP™ provides network-based, real-time threat protection for all types of endpoints in a wide range of networks (mobile data, 5G, SD-WAN, SASE, and smart-city/IIoT). With an embedded deep learning AI engine and patented real-time deep content inspection technology, WedgeARP™ can detect never-before-seen malware in milliseconds. Running on an orchestrated threat management platform, it is an effective and autonomous approach to enable large-scale real-time threat prevention.

Through this agreement, RHEA Inc. expands its portfolio of cybersecurity solutions and the addition of Wedge Networks creates an excellent opportunity for providing real-time threat protection to its clients around the world.

Yves Metten, Executive Vice-President at RHEA Inc. said, "We are excited to enter into this strategic alliance with Wedge Networks as it will allow RHEA to enhance its real-time cybersecurity protection offer to its client base worldwide.”

“We will be offering the WedgeARP™ platform throughout the markets that we touch, and, with our in-house cybersecurity team, we will execute both sales and technical support to ensure the best solution integration and overall customer experience throughout Canada, Europe and South America,” said Metten.

RHEA Group is a niche and highly specialized international engineering company that provides services to the most respected institutional organizations and firms in aerospace, security, and defence around the world. Over the past three decades, the organization has contributed to history by working on many profound and ground-breaking projects. RHEA’s Concurrent Design methodology and information technology solutions have enhanced the design process of complex systems and products worldwide.

“RHEA Group is an important organization for Wedge Networks to partner in our mission to secure the cloud-connected world,” stated Dr. Hongwen Zhang, Wedge Networks, CEO & CTO. “Its dealings with some of the most mission critical applications for many prestigious organizations across the globe will place the WedgeARP™ platform into areas where real-time cybersecurity is of the highest priority.”

RHEA Group is authorized as an Elite Partner to distribute, market, and promote the Wedge Networks solutions in Canada, as well as across Europe and South America.

 

About RHEA Group
RHEA Group provides bespoke engineering solutions, systems development and cybersecurity services for space, military, government, and other critical infrastructure organizations. Their security teams are led by specialists with decades of experience and customers receive ongoing support from their highly skilled experts. As a trusted organization, RHEA has been providing cybersecurity services to government departments and organizations on two continents for decades.

Headquartered in Montreal for its North American operations and in Belgium for its European operations, RHEA employs in excess of 550 people and has offices in Canada, Belgium, UK, Czech Republic, Italy, France, Luxembourg, Germany, Spain, Switzerland and the Netherlands. RHEA is ISO 9001 and ISO 27001 certified. For more information, visit: https://www.rheagroup.com.

About Wedge Networks
Wedge Networks Inc. is a Real-Time Threat Prevention solutions company. Its innovative technology platform, Wedge Absolute Real-time Protection (WedgeARP™), is a software defined orchestrated network security system. Deployed, via the cloud, on premises, or in a virtualized environment, in data centers by enterprises, governments, and managed security service providers, WedgeARP™ inspects, detects, and blocks in real-time, malware and cyber threats (known, unknown and customized). Wedge does this through its patented Deep Content Inspection (DCI) technologies, combined with artificial intelligence and best-of-breed security functions.

Awarded a Gartner Cool Vendor designation, and twice bestowed with Build-In-Canada Innovation awards, Wedge Networks is headquartered in Calgary, Canada with international teams in the North America, Asia Pacific, and the Middle East and North Africa regions.

For more information on Wedge Networks, visit: https://www.wedgenetworks.com/

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