FireMon unveils 2024 Ignite Partner Award winners worldwide
FireMon has announced the winners of its 2024 Ignite Partner of the Year Awards, recognising achievements by channel organisations in cybersecurity policy management for enterprise customers operating in hybrid environments.
The awards programme highlights companies that have demonstrated leadership in technical execution, customer impact, and joint go-to-market strategy. This year's recipients include organisations from North America, EMEA, APAC, and LATAM, reflecting the global reach of FireMon's channel-first model.
Award recipients
The full list of award winners is as follows: Growth Partner of the Year - North America: CDW; Strategic Partner of the Year - North America: WWT; Distributor of the Year - North America: Climb CDW; Partner of the Year - North America: GuidePoint Security; Alliance Partner of the Year: Fortinet; Partner of the Year - EMEA: Prianto; Partner of the Year - APAC: Netpoleon; and Partner of the Year - LATAM: Agility.
According to FireMon, the awards recognise partners for delivering positive customer outcomes, driving growth, and contributing to increased cybersecurity resilience in hybrid enterprise settings. The criteria for selection included sales, marketing, and technical success, as well as a demonstrated commitment to customer success and technical excellence in supporting complex infrastructures.
Nicole Stavroff, Vice President of Worldwide Channels at FireMon, noted the central role partners play in the company's business strategy. In a statement, she said:
"Our partners are at the core of FireMon's success. These awards reflect the innovation, focus, and trust that fuel our global growth and the outcomes we deliver together for customers."
Stavroff also emphasised the importance of collaboration and communication, adding, "As a channel-only company, we believe that open communication and collaboration are the foundation of a successful partnership. We empower our partners with the solutions and messaging they need to help their customers. Our top partners tell us that almost every conversation they have with customers on a daily basis comes back to issues they are having managing their security policies and policy control, and that FireMon is the answer."
Partner programme evolution
FireMon's Ignite Partner Programme has continued to adapt in response to the evolving cybersecurity needs of modern enterprises. Over the past year, the company reports it has aligned its global channel strategy, account-based sales approach, and go-to-market efforts with the technical strengths of its leading partners to address new challenges faced by customers.
Stavroff observed that as organisations move towards cloud architectures alongside traditional systems, the resulting complexity raises the stakes for security policy management.
"As organisations move from ground to cloud across the hybrid enterprise, complexity becomes compounded and unmanageable. Ensuring the hygiene of all security policies makes real-time monitoring more critical than ever before," said Stavroff.
"FireMon reduces the reachable attack surface and is a key component of any attack surface strategy, ensuring continuous compliance, simplifying complexity, and reducing risk. Being a 100% channel company, our partners are at the center of everything we do. They help us deliver solutions and value to where it matters most: to our customers. Our Ignite Partner Program and company philosophy focus on building strong partner relationships, built on mutual trust, collaboration, and open communication, helping customers solve their top business challenges and deliver successful outcomes together."
Enabling measurable outcomes
FireMon provides its partners with solutions for security policy visibility and management, continuous compliance, risk mitigation, and operational automation. These resources are designed to help partners assist customers in meeting regulatory requirements, reducing misconfiguration risks, enhancing their security posture, and achieving tangible business benefits.
Stavroff congratulated the award recipients, stating, "Congratulations to all our 2024 award-winning partners. You represent the best of the best in a highly competitive industry, and we are honored to work alongside you as we continue to shape the future of security policy management together."
The 2024 Ignite Partner of the Year Awards underline FireMon's ongoing commitment to a partner-first approach, with the programme expected to continue to evolve in line with the shifting realities of hybrid and cloud-first enterprise environments.
