Fortinet (NASDAQ: FTNT), a global
leader in broad, automated and integrated cyber security solutions, conducted
its annual SAARC Partner SYNC conference in Bangkok, Thailand and honored
partners for their outstanding achievements in 2017. The conference hosted over
150 attendees representing partner organization from the five SAARC countries
of India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal and Bhutan.
At
the conference, Fortinet announced the winners of its 2017 SAARC Partner of the
Year Awards. The awards recognise outstanding cybersecurity sales, customer
experience, collaboration, and marketing achievements in the region.
Data
Edge Ltd was awarded as the Best Partner Bangladesh, while KBSL Information
Technologies Ltd as Best Partner Sri Lanka.
Inspira
Enterprises Pvt. Ltd was awarded as the Best Partner India in ‘Overall
Performance’ category, Tata Communications Ltd as Managed Security Service
Provider, IBM India Pvt. Ltd in ‘Platinum Partnership Level’, and Logix
Infosecurity Pvt. Ltd in Gold Partnership Level.
“Security
is one of the biggest obstacles to digital transformation today, and this
highlights the limitations of current security implementations. The security
point solutions bolted onto networks over the years are simply no longer able
to address the new security challenges posed by the adoption of digital
technologies and their attendant issues of elasticity, scalability, speed and
volume. Partners have a huge business opportunity with Fortinet’s Security
Fabric to provide customers with a proactive security platform that supports
the agility, automation and orchestration businesses today require,” said Joe
Sarno, Vice President, International Emerging, MEA, Eastern Europe, India &
SAARC, Fortinet.
Plenary
sessions and workshops at the conference centered around Digital Transformation
and the need to shift security from a fixed perimeter mindset to one where
security is automatically applied wherever data is located. Partners were
presented with new business opportunities to bundle specialized security
technologies to be dynamically deployed where and when they are needed, and
then marshal the distributed power of the entire security infrastructure to
respond to detected threats in a consistent and correlated fashion.
PartnerSYNC offered a unique opportunity for
partners to gain insights into Fortinet’s Security Fabric architecture, provide
direct feedback to Fortinet leadership, learn to maximize Fortinet’s enablement
programs, and gain and share best practices with the cybersecurity industry’s
brightest minds.
Honouring the winners, Rajesh Maurya, Fortinet’s
Regional Vice President for India & SAARC, said: “I would like to
congratulate this year’s winners for their significant achievements in 2017.
These partners demonstrated a commitment to deliver the very best cybersecurity
solutions that defend their customers against today’s advanced threats. A big
thank you to all our partners for their dedication and achievements in 2017
−working together, we have all greatly contributed to a more secure digital
future in the SAARC region."
“Fortinet
provides us with the security technology and support we require to deliver
those industry-leading protection and value-added services that enables our
customers to successfully and confidently deploy their digital transformation
strategies. The Fortinet Security Fabric provides us with
a
foundational security architecture around which we can build our businesses and
practices around. We are honoured to receive the award which reinforces our
commitment to secure our customers with the best technologies and further our
partnership with Fortinet,” said Mr. Md Asifuzzaman, Managing Director, Data
Edge Limited.
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organizations around the world. Fortinet empowers its customers with
intelligent, seamless protection across the expanding attack surface and the
power to take on ever-increasing performance requirements of the borderless
network - today and into the future. Only the Fortinet Security Fabric architecture
can deliver security without compromise to address the most critical security
challenges, whether in networked, application, cloud or mobile environments.
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