CrowdStrike salutes top-performing APJ partners

Cybersecurity vendor CrowdStrike has honoured its top-performing partners in Asia-Pacific and Japan (APJ) at its partner symposium in Bangkok.

The awards recognise the partner, growth partner, solutions integrator, technology alliance ecosystem partner, MSSP and distributor of the year across APJ and regionally in Australia and New Zealand (ANZ), India, Southeast and North Asia, and Japan.

The judging panel assessed the value partners and individuals have provided to mutual customers and CrowdStrike as a business over the course of the year in terms of transactions, enablement and support.

In ANZ, Sydney-headquartered information security consultancy Sekuro Operations took home the Partner of the Year award, while its Principal Security Architect Feng Zhang was recognised as the Best Partner Solutions Engineer of the Year.

Meanwhile, Trans-Tasman security provider CyberCX was named Growth Partner of the Year and Adele Buchanan, general manager of alliances at Perth-headquartered security firm CSO Group, was recognised as the Best Partner Salesperson of the Year.

In APJ, BT was handed the Global SI Partner of the Year award, while Amazon Web Services was named Technology Alliance Ecosystem Partner of the Year.

Malaysia's UnThreats took home the APJ MSSP of the Year award and Virtus Technology Indonesia was recognised as Distributor of the Year.

Winners across other regions included:

India:

Partner of the Year - ACPL Systems
Growth Partner of the Year - DigitalTrack Solutions
Best Partner Salesperson of the Year - Vinod Kumar, Foresight Software Solutions
Best Partner Solutions Engineer of the Year - Ramchandran R of Valuepoint TechSol

Southeast and North Asia

Partner of the Year - Nexus Technologies
Growth Partner of the Year - Systex Information (Hong Kong)
Best Partner Salesperson of the Year - Ralph Adrian Espena of Trends & Technologies
Best Partner Solutions Engineer of the Year - Lim Eng Kiat of UnThreats

Japan