We’re so excited to announce our 2023 Partner of the Year awards. These annual awards recognize AT&T Cybersecurity partners that demonstrate excellence in growth, innovation, and implementation of customer solutions based on our AT&T USM Anywhere platform.

AT&T Cybersecurity’s 2023 Global Partner of the Year award goes to Cybersafe Solutions! Cybersafe Solutions experienced incredible growth in 2022 and we’re thrilled to be partnering with their team to help customers orchestrate and automate their security.

In addition to Cybersafe Solutions as our Global Partner of the Year, we’re proud to recognize seven other partners who demonstrated excellence in 2022. See below for the full list of winners and their feedback regarding their partnership with AT&T Cybersecurity.

Global Awards:

Global Partner of the Year: Cybersafe Solutions

“I am humbled and honored to accept AT&T’s 2023 Global Partner of the Year Award. Throughout our partnership, we have worked together to develop a comprehensive solution that enables Cybersafe to continuously monitor our customers’ networks to identify and mitigate threats rapidly. Sincere thanks to the entire AT&T team on contributing to this success.  We are truly excited for what the future holds!”

-Mark Petersen, Vice President of Sales

Growth Partner of the Year: Xerox

New Partner of the Year: Arete Advisors

“Arete is honored to be named AT&T Cybersecurity’s New Partner of the Year. Our complementary partnership combines unique threat intelligence from AT&T’s USM Anywhere SIEM platform with Arete’s XDR platform to provide our clients with faster threat detection and greater clarity. We look forward to a future of continued growth together as we work to transform the way organizations prepare for, respond to, and prevent cybercrime.”

-Joe Mann, CEO

Distributor of the Year: Ingram Micro

“The cybersecurity threat landscape is growing in complexity—calling for greater collaboration across the IT channel ecosystem and between MSPs and their customers to stay secure. Together with AT&T Cybersecurity we are empowering channel partners with the knowledge and solutions needed to better protect their house and their customers from cyber attacks. It is an honor to be recognized three years in a row as AT&T Cybersecurity’s Distributor of the Year.”

-Eric Kohl, Vice President, Security and Networking

Regional Awards

These awards recognize partners that had the highest sales bookings in each of the 4 regions during last year.

North American Partner of the Year: Coretelligent

“We are honored to be recognized as AT&T Cybersecurity’s North American Partner of the Year and look forward to our continued partnership and delivering leading-edge security solutions to our shared clients. Coretelligent and AT&T Cybersecurity are a best-in-class pairing that provides the robust and secure cybersecurity management and monitoring that enterprises need to defend against the extreme threats of today’s cyber landscape.”

-Kevin J. Routhier, Founder and CEO

EMEA Partner of the Year: Softcat

“We are thrilled to be announced as AT&T’s Cybersecurity EMEA Partner of the year for 2023. We’ve thoroughly enjoyed working with AT&T of the course of the past year and we’re so thankful that our dedication has paid off. We’d love to thank everyone at AT&T and Softcat who has worked with us on various projects during this period.”

– Aoibhín Hamill, Cyber Managed Services Advisor

APAC Partner of the Year: Vigilant

“We are thrilled and honored to receive the prestigious AT&T Cybersecurity APAC Partner of the Year award! This recognition is a testament to our team’s hard work and commitment to delivering exceptional cybersecurity solutions to our clients. At Vigilant Asia, we strive to be at the forefront of innovation and this award affirms our efforts. Here’s to more partnership success!”

-Victor Cheah, CEO

Latin American Partner of the Year: GMS

“GMS is thrilled to be named Latin American Partner of the Year for 2023. Having previously garnered this distinguished award, our partnership with AT&T Cybersecurity only gets stronger as time goes on. AT&T’s continued innovation is central to our value proposition, and we feel privileged to work so closely with a company that shares our commitment to providing optimal security for our customers throughout the Andean region.”

-Esteban Lubensky, Executive President

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