CrowdStrike has announced the winners of its annual Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ) Partner Awards, which recognises outstanding contributions from its partner ecosystem, at the CrowdStrike Partner Symposium in Bangkok.

The awards highlight phenomenal work from the partner, growth partner, solutions integrator, technology alliance ecosystem partner, MSSP and distributor of the year across Asia Pacific and Japan, as well as regionally in Australia and New Zealand, India, Southeast and North Asia, and Japan. They also celebrate remarkable individuals in roles such as best partner salesperson and best partner solution engineer.

The panel of judges evaluated the significant value each partner and individual brought to both clients and CrowdStrike over the past year when deciding the award winners. This assessment included consideration of transactions, enablement and support.

The winners for APJ include BT (Global SI Partner of the Year: APJ), Amazon Web Services (Technology Alliance Ecosystem Partner of the Year), UnThreats (MSSP of the Year), and PT. Virtus Technology Indonesia (Distributor of the Year). In Australia and New Zealand, Sekuro Operations Pty Ltd took home the award for Partner of the Year and Growth Partner of the Year went to CyberCX. Other awards included Best Partner Salesperson of the Year for Adele Buchanan of CSO Group and Best Partner Solutions Engineer of the Year for Feng Zhang of Sekuro Operations Pty Ltd.

In India, ACPL Systems Pvt Ltd was recognised as Partner of the Year, DigitalTrack Solutions Private Limited as Growth Partner of the Year, Vinod Kumar of Foresight Software Solutions Pvt Ltd as Best Partner Salesperson of the Year and Ramchandran R of Valuepoint TechSol Private Limited as Best Partner Solutions Engineer of the Year.

In Southeast and North Asia, the awards went to Nexus Technologies Inc (Partner of the Year), Systex Information (H.K.) Ltd (Growth Partner of the Year), Ralph Adrian Espena of Trends & Technologies (Best Partner Salesperson of the Year), and Lim Eng Kiat of UnThreats (Best Partner Solutions Engineer of the Year).

In Japan, the honours were bestowed upon LAC Co. Ltd (Partner of the Year) and ITOCHU Techno-Solutions Corporation (Growth Partner of the Year).

As one of the world’s fastest growing and most innovative security companies, CrowdStrike is leading the era of AI-powered cybersecurity to keep customers ahead of rapidly evolving adversary strategies. Its market-defining CrowdStrike Falcon platform, elite incident response and services, and renowned cyber threat intelligence team have made CrowdStrike one of the most trusted brands in cybersecurity.

The CrowdStrike partner ecosystem plays a vital role in delivering on the company’s mission of stopping breaches, providing industry knowledge, market expertise and access to organisations across the globe.