OPSWAT announced an exceptional record-breaking year after adding key hires to the executive team, receiving more than 1,000 students since the Academy 3.0 launch in October, and adding more than 100 new global partners and growing partner-driven revenue by 40%. Now, OPSWAT is proud to announce its 2021 Partner of the Year and Emerging Partner of the Year Global Award Winners!
The Awards are intended to recognize the channel partners that have accomplished outstanding performance throughout the year by making significant value-added efforts in attaining success with the OPSWAT portfolio. These efforts can be in one or more areas of the business and are based on a combination of sales performance, investment in personnel and marketing programs, and meeting key program requirements, such as executing territory business plans.
Congratulations to the following OPSWAT Partners of the Year!

Bulwarx, founded in 2013, is an independent and innovative force in the Israeli cyber security market. It strives to serve as a knowledge center in the cyber security field by developing expertise in the application of leading technological solutions against cyberattacks, providing a comprehensive service that assists in dealing with cyber threats, and providing a fast response to cyberattacks.
“For 8 years, Bulwarx and OPSWAT have been closely collaborating together with great success on both the technological and the business front. Through the years, both companies have grown and established themselves as market leaders and symbols of high quality and abilities. Together, we have positively dealt with the development and expansion of cyber threats, built and promoted technologically advanced and innovative solutions, and have managed to adapt and strengthen the defense arrays of our joint clients that create both a high quality and advanced response for them. The bond formed between the two companies is profound and based on trust and acknowledgment of the abilities of the other. We are proud and thrilled to have been chosen as a 2021 Partner of the Year and we are looking forward to our deep and boundary-breaking partnership for years to come.” - Tamir Lavi Co-founder & CEO at Bulwarx ltd and Yoav Melamed Co-founder & CTO at Bulwarx ltd.

SHI helps organizations around the world achieve their business and technology goals through the delivery of integration solutions, services and IT equipment. Their team is 5,000-strong and full of helpful experts from every area of IT operations, from volume licensing to security, data center to mobility and collaboration.
“We are ecstatic to be OPSWAT’s Partner of the Year! SHI International Corp. in tandem with OPSWAT is determined to offer our customers the best security solution for their problems. SHI International Corp. would not have been able to achieve this prestigious award if it wasn’t for the collaboration between our two teams. We predict bigger and better things to come in 2022.” - David Baum, SHI International Corp. Sr. Manager, Presales Network

INFODAS is an independent, family-owned business founded in 1974 in Germany. The company develops innovative cross-domain solutions and provides cybersecurity, IT and AI consulting to government, defense and commercial clients. INFODAS SDoT product family cross-domain solutions cover any unidirectional and bi-directional use-case, and are approved up to German, EU, NATO SECRET and hold CC EAL4+ certifications. SDoT are listed in NATO’s NIAPC and European Councils LACP for EUCI.
“We are honored and humbled by this award. We love the can-do attitude of the global OPSWAT team and look forward to expanding our business together. Our solutions greatly complement each other and expand the cybersecurity posture of our clients”, Dr. Alexander Schellong, VP Global Business & Member of the Board.

Crestan distributes innovative technologies and offers a complete range of solutions and advanced services. They strive to continually educate, reward and cooperate with the channel to build solid partnerships as they cover the Middle East and North Africa markets.
“We are delighted & proud to be OPSWAT’s Distributor in the Middle East & North Africa region. Crestan, together with OPSWAT, is devoted to enhancing Critical Infrastructure Protection and delivering turn-key threat prevention solutions to our valuable customers. Our joint success could only be made possible with the synergy between the teams, a reciprocal collaboration, breakthrough technology and the continuous support of OPSWAT. We envision 2022 with more shared wins.” - Nizar Hirbli, Crestan Business Development Manager

A10 Networks (NYSE: ATEN) provides secure application services and solutions for on-premises, multi-cloud and edge-cloud environments at hyper-scale. Our mission is to enable service providers and enterprises to deliver business-critical applications that are secure, available and efficient for multi-cloud transformation and 5G readiness. We deliver better business outcomes that support investment protection, new business models and help future-proof infrastructures, empowering our customers to provide the most secure and available digital experience. Founded in 2004, A10 Networks is based in San Jose, Calif. and serves customers globally.
“We are very honored to receive the Emerging Partner Award in the APAC category from OPSWAT for A10 Networks. The combination of our SSL/TLS visibility solution and OPSWAT's solution, which has been available since 2020, has enabled us to provide our customers, mainly in the critical infrastructure and public sectors, with a comprehensive response to increasingly advanced and sophisticated threats. We thank OPSWAT Japan office’s support as this accomplishment has never been delivered without their kind collaboration.
With the A10 Thunder series, A10 Networks is deploying a variety of network security features to ensure security and availability, and is focusing on responding to the demands of the Japanese market in a detailed manner. A10 Networks will continue to meet the demands of customers with stringent security requirements by deepening its collaboration with OPSWAT's solutions, which offer superior flexibility and detection rates.” - Toru Kawaguchi, President & Country Manager of Japan, Vice President of A10 Networks, Inc.

Trace3 empowers organizations to lead their market space by keeping pace with the rapid changes in IT innovations, ensuring relevance to specific business initiatives required to maximize revenue generation by leveraging the latest Silicon Valley cloud, big data and datacenter technologies. They have a unique ability to deliver optimal solutions combined with their talented team and over 10 years of documented best practices that unify people, processes and technology. Over 2,000 globally recognized companies trust Trace3 to stay relevant and innovative in today’s highly competitive market.
“Trace3 is excited to be awarded Emerging Partner of the Year by the OPSWAT team. While a relatively new partnership for us, we see the deeper value that the OPSWAT platform provides for customers solving very challenging use cases to secure and govern data transfers in highly controlled environments. Together in this partnership we’re ensuring advanced multi-channel threats are mitigated, and we’re supporting remote workforce flexibility that needs cloud and SaaS application access.” - Mark Butler, Trace3 Advisory Chief Information Security Officer
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