2023 Fortinet Partner of the Year Award Winners

In today’s IT environment, people, data, and devices are distributed everywhere. At the same time, the threat landscape is becoming increasingly sophisticated. To ensure the highest level of protection amid these changes, companies are increasingly adopting holistic approaches that converge networking and security.

This is where Fortinet partners shine, demonstrating their expertise, acting as trusted advisors for their customers, and helping to secure and protect their networks in the ever-evolving threat landscape. By helping these organizations fortify their digital environments, our partners have actively supported Fortinet's mission to secure users, devices, applications, and edges everywhere.

Fortinet's 2023 Global Partner of the Year Awards recognizes exceptional cybersecurity sales and achievements in customer experience, collaboration, and marketing. Below are the 2023 winners across North America, EMEA, LATAM and APAC.

North America Partner Awards:

Partner of the Year (Growth) – WWT, U.S.; and A2N, Canada

The Growth Partners of the Year have demonstrated accelerated growth over the past year, along with a strong focus on customer success using Fortinet solutions. These partners have worked to address their customers’ digital acceleration requirements with a range of products and services while also growing their own businesses.

Distributor of the Year – Ingram Micro, U.S. and Canada

The Distributors of the Year have demonstrated a commitment to regular partner outreach and enablement, educating resellers on solutions and services, and helping to facilitate opportunities with Fortinet.

Unified SASE Partner of the Year – Liquid Networx, U.S.; and INSA Corp, Canada

The Unified SASE Partners of the Year have fully maximized the business opportunity with SASE to secure the hybrid workforce, enabling the convergence of networking and security for their customer base.

MSSP Partner of the Year – ENA by Zayo, U.S.; and TELUS, Canada

The MSSP Partners of the Year exemplify a high level of innovation, growth, and commitment to our customers. These partners have demonstrated increased service adoption across the Fortinet Security Fabric platform, starting with FortiGate Next-Generation Firewalls and expanding into solutions such as Secure SD-WAN, FortiSASE, zero-trust network access, FortiEDR, and Secure SD-Branch.

Security Operations Partner of the Year – CDW, U.S.; and Stratejm Inc., Canada

The Security Operations Partner of the Year has demonstrated excellence in building solution offerings across the digital attack surface, aligning with Fortinet’s strategic business priorities and demonstrating a commitment to Fortinet and its customers.

OT Partner of the Year – Rockwell Automation, U.S.; and CDW, Canada

The OT Partners of the Year have fully maximized the business opportunity with Fortinet’s market-leading OT solutions and successfully deployed OT across their customer bases.

GSI Partner of the Year – HCLTech, U.S.

The GSI Partner of the Year demonstrated solution innovation, agility, and scale, combined with a unique use of Fortinet Security Fabric solutions to drive customer success globally. This partner has exhibited a commitment to secure digital acceleration at scale with Fortinet for their customers, resulting in significant business outcomes.

Cloud Partner of the Year – AWS, U.S.

The Cloud Partner of the Year fully maximized the business opportunity of Fortinet’s Cloud Security solutions, delivering consistent policies, centralized management, and visibility to their customers.

Partner of the Year – Bell Canada, Canada

The Partner of the Year demonstrated record business growth thanks to their expertise on the partner business model, Fortinet solutions, and their customers’ business needs.

Regional Partner of the Year – Precicom Technologies, Canada

The Regional Partner of the Year has shown consistent growth and performance when supporting their customers in the deployment, maintenance, and success of Fortinet solutions.

Security Fabric Partner of the Year – Compugen Inc., Canada

The Security Fabric Partner of the Year differentiated themselves from the competition by maximizing the opportunity with the Fortinet Security Fabric platform to build solution offerings across the digital attack surface, from the data center to the cloud to the home office, adapting as customer demands or needs evolve.

EMEA Partner Awards:

Partner of the Year (Growth) – Orange

The Growth Partners of the Year have demonstrated accelerated growth over the past year, along with a strong focus on customer success using Fortinet solutions. These partners have worked to address their customers’ digital acceleration requirements with a range of products and services while also growing their own businesses.

Distributor of the Year – Exclusive Networks, Middle East

The Distributors of the Year have demonstrated a commitment to regular partner outreach and enablement, educating resellers on solutions and services, and helping to facilitate opportunities with Fortinet.

Unified SASE Partner of the Year – Swisscom

The Unified SASE Partners of the Year have fully maximized the business opportunity with SASE to secure the hybrid workforce, enabling the convergence of networking and security for their customer base.

MSSP Partner of the Year – Telefonica

The MSSP Partners of the Year exemplify a high level of innovation, growth, and commitment to our customers. These partners have demonstrated increased service adoption across the Fortinet Security Fabric platform, starting with FortiGate Next-Generation Firewalls and expanding into solutions such as Secure SD-WAN, FortiSASE, zero-trust network access, FortiEDR, and Secure SD-Branch.

Security Operations Partner of the Year – GCC Computers Ltd.

The Security Operations Partner of the Year has demonstrated excellence in building solution offerings across the digital attack surface, aligning with Fortinet’s strategic business priorities and demonstrating a commitment to Fortinet and its customers.

OT Partner of the Year – Computacenter

The OT Partners of the Year have fully maximized the business opportunity with Fortinet’s market-leading OT solutions and successfully deployed OT across their customer bases.

LATAM Partner Awards:

Partner of the Year (Growth) – Logicalis Brasil, Brazil; and ITGES, Spanish Latin America and the Caribbean

The Growth Partners of the Year have demonstrated accelerated growth over the past year, along with a strong focus on customer success using Fortinet solutions. These partners have worked to address their customers’ digital acceleration requirements with a range of products and services while also growing their own businesses.

Distributor of the Year – Dacas Corp

The Distributors of the Year have demonstrated a commitment to regular partner outreach and enablement, educating resellers on solutions and services, and helping to facilitate opportunities with Fortinet.

Unified SASE Partner of the Year – Quanti Solutions S.A.

The Unified SASE Partners of the Year have fully maximized the business opportunity with SASE to secure the hybrid workforce, enabling the convergence of networking and security for their customer base.

MSSP Partner of the Year – Claro Brasil

The MSSP Partners of the Year exemplify a high level of innovation, growth, and commitment to our customers. These partners have demonstrated increased service adoption across the Fortinet Security Fabric platform, starting with FortiGate Next-Generation Firewalls and expanding into solutions such as Secure SD-WAN, FortiSASE, zero-trust network access, FortiEDR, and Secure SD-Branch.

Security Operations Partner of the Year – Wexler

The Security Operations Partner of the Year has demonstrated excellence in building solution offerings across the digital attack surface, aligning with Fortinet’s strategic business priorities and demonstrating a commitment to Fortinet and its customers.

OT Partner of the Year – Canvia

The OT Partners of the Year have fully maximized the business opportunity with Fortinet’s market-leading OT solutions and successfully deployed OT across their customer bases.

Security Fabric Partner of the Year – Innova Guatemala  

The Security Fabric Partner of the Year differentiated themselves from the competition by maximizing the opportunity with the Fortinet Security Fabric platform to build solution offerings across the digital attack surface, from the data center to the cloud to the home office, adapting as customer demands or needs evolve.

APAC Partner Awards:

Partner of the Year (Growth) – NEC Corporation

The Growth Partners of the Year have demonstrated accelerated growth over the past year, along with a strong focus on customer success using Fortinet solutions. These partners have worked to address their customers’ digital acceleration requirements with a range of products and services while also growing their own businesses.

Distributor of the Year – Wavelink Communications Pty Ltd.

The Distributors of the Year have demonstrated a commitment to regular partner outreach and enablement, educating resellers on solutions and services, and helping to facilitate opportunities with Fortinet.

Unified SASE Partner of the Year – NTT MSC Sdn. Bhd.

The Unified SASE Partners of the Year have fully maximized the business opportunity with SASE to secure the hybrid workforce, enabling the convergence of networking and security for their customer base.

MSSP Partner of the Year – TM Technology Services Sdn. Bhd.

The MSSP Partners of the Year exemplify a high level of innovation, growth, and commitment to our customers. These partners have demonstrated increased service adoption across the Fortinet Security Fabric platform, starting with FortiGate Next-Generation Firewalls and expanding into solutions such as Secure SD-WAN, FortiSASE, zero-trust network access, FortiEDR, and Secure SD-Branch.

Security Operations Partner of the Year – mcr IT

The Security Operations Partner of the Year has demonstrated excellence in building solution offerings across the digital attack surface, aligning with Fortinet’s strategic business priorities and demonstrating a commitment to Fortinet and its customers.

OT Partner of the Year – DXC Technology Australia Pty Ltd.

The OT Partners of the Year have fully maximized the business opportunity with Fortinet’s market-leading OT solutions and successfully deployed OT across their customer bases.

Expert Partner of the Year – Tata Communications Limited 

The Expert Partner of the Year has shown consistent growth and performance when supporting their customers in the deployment, maintenance, Engage Partner Program utilization, and success of Fortinet solutions.

Advanced Partner of the Year – Fujitsu Limited 

The Advanced Partner of the Year has shown consistent growth and performance when supporting their customers in the deployment, maintenance, Engage Partner Program utilization, and success of Fortinet solutions.

Select Partner of the Year – Ishan Infotech Ltd. 

The Select Partner of the Year has shown consistent growth and performance when supporting their customers in the deployment, maintenance, Engage Partner Program utilization, and success of Fortinet solutions.

SD-WAN Partner of the Year – Bharti Airtel Services Ltd. 

The SD-WAN Partner of the Year has fully maximized the business opportunity with Fortinet’s market-leading Secure SD-WAN solution, successfully deploying SD-WAN across their customer bases to enable the convergence of networking and security.

Renewal Partner of the Year – Spark New Zealand 

The Renewal Partner of the Year has shown consistent growth and performance when supporting their customers in the deployment, maintenance, and success of Fortinet solutions.

 

We look forward to continuing to contribute to our partners’ success and business growth for 2024!

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