• Announces Enhanced Channel Partner Program Investing in Resources, Incentives and Training to help Forcepoint’s Middle East Channel Grow 

Dubai, UAE: Forcepoint, a global leader in data-first cybersecurity, today announced its participation in GITEX 2021, showcasing its full range of cybersecurity solutions and delivering support for key channel partners as they create significant new business and revenue growth for customers transitioning to Forcepoint’s unique Data-first Secure Access Service Edge platform.

In corporate news, Forcepoint has announced the company has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Security Service Edge (SSE) leader Bitglass. Forcepoint plans to integrate into the company’s Data-first SASE platform Bitglass’ best-in-class Security Service Edge (SSE) combination of CASB, SWG, ZTNA, CSPM, and DLP managed from a single cloud-based console with over 300 PoPs worldwide.

Over the last eighteen months, IT and security teams in Middle Eastern organizations have had the unenviable job of ensuring business continuity throughout rapid digital transformation. Data is the building block of today’s digitized economy but the opportunities for both innovation and malice around it are incalculable. Forcepoint leads the industry in Data-first SASE cybersecurity, enabling enterprise and government customers to add new cloud-first, hybrid-ready cybersecurity capabilities at the pace that suits their business requirements, not the vendor’s.

“Today’s reality is that people are working from everywhere, and progressive organizations must protect precious information assets in perimeter-less networking environments. Forcepoint’s Data-first SASE ensures customers can secure data access and usage by closing down attacks and opening up data use. Forcepoint’s Middle East team can’t wait to meet up with partners and customers at GITEX, and help them customize a SASE adoption plan that matches their cloud strategies,” said Mahmoud Samy, Vice President Regional Sales, EMEA Emerging Region at Forcepoint.

Forcepoint will be using GITEX to communicate the launch of its updated Global Channel Partner Program, a significant investment in systems and support and the introduction of new partner Levels designed to help partners grow faster and increase profitability, a simplification of how partners work with the company, and the opening up of partner-led services.

Products built to protect the modern enterprise

At GITEX 2021, Forcepoint is running live demos of all of its solutions with a presence on two strategic partner stands, Starlink (Hall 1, Booth C1) and Mindware (Hall 3, Stand D1). The highlight is on Forcepoint’s Data-First SASE platform – a unique approach to networking and security that reinvents these technologies as converged cloud services, providing uniform connectivity and protection to the remote workforce. Visitors to the show will also be able to see in action, Forcepoint’s network security (NGFW and SD-WAN), data protection (DLP, CASB) and cloud security (Secure Web Gateway and Cloud Security Gateway) solutions.

In addition, Forcepoint’s Ozgur Danisman, newly promoted to VP EMEA Sales Engineering, will be speaking at Ingram Micro’s X-Labs session, introducing risk-adaptive data security for today’s hybrid workforce. Ozgur’s new role will see him lead the cybersecurity technology presales team for the whole EMEA region, responsible for providing security for hybrid and rapidly evolving computing environments, with secure network access, protection of precious information assets, and delivery of unified secure access and data protection that spans on-premises, hybrid and cloud. 

Enhanced Global Channel Partner Program

Forcepoint’s newly enhanced Global Channel Partner Program is an investment in a broad partner ecosystem with the resources, incentives and training support necessary to help customers succeed in a complex world of distributed enterprises, rapidly evolving hybrid workforces and ever-expanding SaaS applications. The enhanced program has new tiers and competitive discount programs designed to deliver predictable profitability for partners.

“Paramount is committed to providing market leading services in cybersecurity across the whole of the Middle East, and our partnership with Forcepoint helps us deliver on these goals,” said Suhas Varambally, Senior Vice President, at Paramount Computer Systems. “The enhanced channel partner program, and Titanium membership, will provide us with predictable financials, as well as the support, training and most critically, market-leading SASE solutions we need to provide to our customers as we protect their critical information assets and infrastructure and deliver business value, year-on-year.”

Further underlining Forcepoint’s commitment to partners is the recent promotion of Reem Habashi to Director Systems Integrators and Service Providers, EMEA. In this role, Reem will be responsible for developing Systems Integrator, Systems Outsourcer and Services Provider routes across the EMEA region. These strategic routes-to-market for Forcepoint will help customers transition to Forcepoint’s Data-first SASE architecture. Reem will accelerate existing partnerships including Telefonica and Swisscom, Deloitte, Orange and others.

Details of Forcepoint Speaking Slot

Date: 17th October 2021

Location: X-Labs Stage – Hall 1, CyberSecurity

Time: 2:20 – 2:35 PM

Speaker: Ozgur Danisman, VP Sales Engineering, EMEA

Topic: Risk-Adaptive Data Security for Today’s Hybrid Workforce

  • What to prioritize between WHO accesses your business systems and WHAT is stored inside?
  • Adapting existing infrastructures for evolving workplace models
  • The healthy balance between being compliant and having necessary threat protection technology in place

About Forcepoint
Forcepoint is the global leader for data-first cybersecurity. Forcepoint’s behavior-based solutions adapt to risk in real-time and are delivered through a cloud-native SASE security platform that protects users, devices, and networks as people access the web and cloud. Forcepoint solutions prevent the theft or loss of sensitive data and intellectual property no matter where people are working, and eliminates breaches caused by insiders. Based in Austin, Texas, Forcepoint creates safe, trusted environments for thousands of enterprise and government customers and their employees in more than 150 countries. www.forcepoint.com 

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