Today still too often associated exclusively with its historic offer of prevention of Quantum network threats, Check Point wants its partners to gain expertise in its new technologies for protecting cloud environments and protecting users and access, embodied respectively by its partners. CloudGuard and Harmony solutions. Two offers that are now among the pillars of Check Point Infinity, its global cybersecurity architecture that provides preventive protection of networks, Cloud, endpoints, mobiles and connected objects.
To facilitate this increase in skills, a guarantee of quality for end customers, Check Point announces the implementation of new technical certifications that will ensure that their owners are fully capable of deploying, installing, configuring, supporting and maintaining these solutions. These certifications are aimed at its historical partners but also at new partners, ” born in the cloud Which its wholesalers Arrow, Infinigate and Westcon are responsible for recruiting.
Four partners are already certified and four others are in progress, notes Michael Techer, General Manager France of Check Point. Several more should be launched in the coming weeks. Of its fifteen four- and five-star partners (the high levels of certification for Check Point partners), ten should be certified on one of these new specializations – or both – anticipates Michael Techer.
These new specializations follow the announcement at the end of the first quarter of a new “professional services” certification, which allows the partners who hold the position to intervene in situations (analysis of technical problems, optimization of architectures, support for exotic environments…) which required the intervention of Check Point teams until now. ” This new certification confirms our desire to give partners the opportunity to acquire new skills, to access additional tools, to be more relevant to customers, etc., and ultimately to generate more value. », Comments Michael Techer. This certification will only be offered to partners at least at the four-star level. Check Point hopes to convince 5-7 partners to become professional services certified by the end of the year.
Check Point claims 147 active partners in France. Among its main partners, the publisher counts Rempar (ex-Majj), the only Elite certified partner, Orange Cyber Defense, NTT, AT&T, Computacenter, HPE, Fujitsu, NXO or SFR. Their number increased slightly in 2020.
According to Michael Techer, Check Point France’s growth exceeded 20% in 2020, driven by the growth of its new technologies (CloudGuard and Harmony) and the recruitment of new customers. In fiscal 2021, he hopes to do at least as well as in 2020.
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