Fortinet helps partners to improve their support strategies to better secure their customers’ network at its SAARC PartnerSync 2019
Honours 2018 SAARC Partner of the Year Award Winners
Bangalore, India, May 22, 2019 : Fortinet, a global leader in broad, integrated and automated cybersecurity solutions, today announced at its SAARC partner conference, PartnerSync at Istanbul in Turkey, the winners of its 2018 Partner of the Year Awards. The conference brought together over 125 partners from India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal and Maldives to foster security challenges of digital convergence and educate attendees about the latest cybersecurity threat trends, innovations and strategies to safeguard data and networks.
“Organizations of all sizes are in the process of digital transformation deploying new SaaS solutions, moving workloads to the cloud, implementing consumer engagement tools, and more to stay competitive in today’s fast-paced digital marketplace. However, many of these organizations do not have the security infrastructure or team members in place to ensure the protection of critical data. This is why our partners are so integral to the success of Fortinet’s mission to enhance global security. Fortinet partners provide tools, guidance, and expertise across all industry verticals to secure their networks from increasingly sophisticated attacks.”
Joe Sarno, Vice President, International Emerging, MEA, Eastern Europe, India & SAARC, Fortinet said, Networking solutions and strategies designed to meet the demands of digital transformation, including SD-WAN, mobile computing, IoT, and multi-cloud infrastructures and services—as well as emerging technologies such as 5G and Edge networks—are forcing organizations of all sizes and across all regions and industries to reassess the effectiveness and scalability of their existing legacy security infrastructure.
To address this challenge, Fortinet shared itsinsights at keynote and breakout sessions on how to securely unlock the potential of our digital economy, enabling them to confidently focus on the business, technology, and infrastructure drivers shaping their future.
This year’s conference included:
- Keynotes to guide partners through the modern threat environment to improve their security strategies.
- Premier technical sessions focused on critical cybersecurity and threat trends, as well as Fortinet’s products and solutions.
- Breakout sessions focused on helping attendees develop and deploy a comprehensive security architecture, including sessions especially designed for SD-WAN, Network Access Control and OT environments.
- Panel discussion on the growing challenge of interconnected devices, the widening distributed network, and how security strategies need to adapt to meet the new demands of today and tomorrow.
The conference recognized partners with awards for their contributions in the year 2018.
- Best Partner India – MSSP Tata Communications Limited
- Best Partner India – West Logix Infosecurity Private Limited
- Best Partner India – Central Amity Infosoft Private Limited
- Best Partner India – East AIM TechnoSoft
- Best Partner India – North Inspira Enterprises India Private Limited
- Best Partner India – South DigitalTrack Solutions Private Limited
- Best Partner Sri Lanka Millennium I.T.E.S.P Private Limited
- Best Partner Bangladesh ESL Bangladesh Limited
- Best Partner Nepal Dristi Tech Private Limited
Rajesh Maurya, Regional Vice President, India & SAARC, Fortinet said, “Fortinet is grateful for the efforts of our partners who havehelped us achieve our goal of bringing about the next generation of cybersecurity designed to combat modern threats. We would like to thank all our partners who have demonstrated immense growth over the past year based on commitments to secure their customer networks using Fortinet solutions.”
Avinash Prasad, Head, Managed Security Service, Tata Communications said, “As companies go through their digital transformation journey, it’s imperative for them to build in security by design at the onset to address potential risks and also keep up with the fast-paced evolution of threats with a robust security operating model. At Tata Communications, we address these core issues by offering an integrated security framework that can simplify cyber security complexities across the digital estate with specialised threat management, bolstered by global network intelligence and powerful service oriented platforms. This recognition from Fortinet is a testament to our commitment to service excellence in the cyber security space. We are proud to partner with Fortinet to ensure a faster and more complete visibility into vulnerabilities and threats across the network.”
Nitin Patil, Director, Logix InfosecurityPrivate Limited said, “Logix infosecurity is commited to help its customersovercome security bottlenecks, whether it is performance limitations of many legacy security devices or the time it takes to manage devices and correlate data to respond to threats.Partnering with Fortinet we are helping customers build a security architecture with a framework to support open standards with the Security Fabric to integrate security devices and reduce security sprawls.”
MuneerAhamed, Managing Director, DigitalTrack Solutions Private Limited said, “DigitalTrack has been partnering with Fortinet for more than a decade and together we have helped many customers gain granular visibility in their networks to ensure that every element is covered by a comprehensive security fabric strategy, including the ability to control devices, as well as automate security processes across physical and cloud-based environments to respond to new threats in real time.”
Manoj Patel, Director & CEO, Amity Infosoft Private Limited said, “Amity Infosoft is helping customers extend their existing investments while embracing new technologies as part of their digital business expansion. Security has become a key component in every network and having complete visibility of all elements in expanded network environments is crucial. Through our partnership with Fortinet, we are enabling our joint customers to have greater security visibility and unified management of their entire IT and security infrastructure.”
ManojKanodia, CEO, Inspira Enterprise India Private Limited said, “Our customers consider security as a fundamental element of digital environments because it must be found at every point of interaction with data—regardless of who, how, or where. Partnering with Fortinet we address security transformation by integrating security into all areas of digital technology resulting in fundamental changes on how security is architected, deployed and operated.“
Manish Agarwal, Business Head, AIM Technosoft said, “We have to ensure that our customers are adjusting their security strategies as they adopt new technologies to accelerate their business. While changes in IT infrastructure can be effective, and even necessary, when done improperly they can hurt security efforts. Along with Fortinet we work to ensure customers are aware of the controls and strategies they must have in place to maintain security, visibility and performance.”
