Arrow Electronics Announces McAfee Foundstone Product Training and Sales Courses

Business Wire, April 26, 2005

ENGLEWOOD, Colo. -- The North American Computer Products group of Arrow Electronics, Inc. (NYSE:ARW) today announced it will host a new McAfee(R) Foundstone(R) Enterprise Product Training Management and Sales Course on May 2nd and 3rd at Arrow's Los Angeles training facility. Free to Arrow's McAfee solution providers, the courses were created to provide attendees with deep product knowledge and informative insight surrounding vulnerability management.

Both courses offer combined lecture and lab environment to teach systems engineers how to proactively manage vulnerabilities and threats, and how to gain maximum potential from Foundstone Enterprise solutions to align security with business objectives. Foundstone Enterprise is an enterprise-class security solution designed to manage and mitigate business risks.

"Security risks continue to increase year after year, as do the speed and sophistication of attacks," said Kevin Powell, vice president, Enterprise Software, Arrow Electronics. "We are offering our partners the opportunity to participate in these courses to help them identify potential risks and learn how to effectively install, configure and maintain these products on their current systems."

The enterprise product training course will instruct system engineers to:

--Install, configure and efficiently utilize all of the features of the Foundstone Enterprise system.

--Navigate through the Foundstone product feature set and learn how to effectively deploy the technology.

--Learn vulnerability management best practices, which enable more efficient remediation and risk reduction.

--Learn to create, modify, enhance, and schedule scan configurations that adhere to specified criteria.

Designed to teach attendees how to successfully sell Foundstone security solutions, the sales course objectives include:

--Learning how Foundstone solutions mitigate client's security risks.

--Learning methods to effectively differentiate sales processes with Foundstone solutions.

"McAfee is pleased to partner with Arrow to offer this exclusive product training and sales courses to solution provider systems engineers," said David Roberts, senior vice president, North American Channels at McAfee, Inc. "Understanding potential risks and assessing vulnerabilities are critical to the success of any business. These new courses enable engineers to stay one step ahead of security issues."

About the North American Computer Products group of Arrow Electronics

The North American Computer Products group of Arrow Electronics, Inc. (NYSE:ARW) is a leading distributor of enterprise and embedded computing systems to resellers and OEM customers in North America. Based in Englewood, Colo., the group is comprised of four divisions that make up Enterprise Computing Solutions (Support Net, SBM, MOCA, Enterprise Storage Solutions) and OEM Computing Solutions, which serves industrial OEMs and intellectual property-based companies. Visit all of our divisions at www.arrownacp.com.

Arrow Electronics is one of the world's largest distributors of electronic components and computer products and a leading provider of services to the electronics industry.

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