Sophos updates channel partners in first-ever Singapore roadshow

Security provider Sophos has organised a series of in-country partner roadshows across ASEAN to update channel partners on its latest product roadmap and opportunities to grow their business in the IT security industry. The inaugural roadshow in Singapore was attended by more than 60 representatives from channel partner organisations in Singapore. 

Source: Sophos. Stuart Fisher, Regional Vice President and Managing Director, Sophos Asia Pacific, delivering the welcome address to partners in Singapore. 

Riding on the global conference theme Discover Sophos, the roadshow included updates on the ongoing Project Galileo that creates a connected endpoint and firewall security system, integrating security functions across all points to improve overall protection for organisations.

Sumit Bansal, Director for ASEAN, Sophos said: “This roadshow has enabled us to keep our partners closely aligned with our latest developments while engaging and empowering them with the information and tools required to grow their business. We are certainly looking to extend this inaugural roadshow as an annual initiative to foster our partnerships.”

“Complexity in security management is a key issue that many of our customers have to grapple with, as they adjust their businesses to cope with the impact of social, mobile, cloud and big data,” said Linda Liang, Business Director, Accentrix. 

“Sophos champions a 'simple security is better security' approach that really resonates with what our customers are looking for today. We were glad we attended the roadshow as it enabled us to learn more about the updated security strategy and solutions set that were based on the “complete security made simple” proposition. We look forward to sharing what we have learned at the roadshow with our customers.”

As part of the roadshow, Sophos also recognised contributions from channel partners in Singapore with Partner of the Year 2015 Awards. Pacific Tech was named Distributor of the Year while Nexwave Telecoms was seen as a Rising Star. The Sales Engineer of the Year (Enduser Security Group) 

is Bryan Teo of Stone Forest IT, while Xu Tao from Amnet Technology received the Sales Engineer of the Year (Network Security Group) award.