Gemalto announces Annual Cipher Partner award

Gemalto announced its APAC Annual Cipher Partner Award winners at an awards ceremony in Phuket, Thailand. In recognition of the contributions and support by Gemalto’s partners, six awards were presented, including 'Solution Partner of the Year', 'New Partner of the Year', 'Top Contributor of the Year', 'Rising Star of the Year', 'Cipher Partner of the Year' and 'Marketing Excellence Award'.

Gemalto strengthened its network of APAC channel partners focused on data security solutions for enterprises. “Through the acquisition of SafeNet, Gemalto has accelerated its portfolio of data security solutions for the enterprises allowing the customer base to protect its data assets that may reside in hybrid environments of physical and virtualized assets. We now have the opportunity to offer a stronger combined portfolio, enabling more growth opportunities for Gemalto and our partners,” said Rana Gupta, vice president of APAC sales for Identity and Data Protection at Gemalto.

Spectrum BD (Bangladesh) and eSECURE Technology (Taiwan) received the New Partner of the Year award for projects they brought to Gemalto. Spectrum BD sold a Hardware Security Module (HSM) solution to the Central Bank in Bangladesh for its Real Time Gross Settlement project, and eSECURE Technology brought Gemalto an authentication project for a major bank in Taiwan last year. Whereas, Macnica Networks (Japan), PRONEW Technologies (Taiwan) and Stream I.T. Consulting (Thailand) were recognized with the 'Rising Star of the Year' award due to the significant increase in revenue contributions by these partners.

ADOST (South Korea) and Channel Solutions (Philippines) was awarded with the 'Solution Partner of the Year' award. The 'Top Contributor of the Year' award was given to Macnica Networks Corp. (Japan), Transition Systems (India) and Nera Telecommunications (Singapore) for generating the most partner revenue in 2014. The 'Cipher Partner of the Year' went to Transition Systems (India), Bangkok Systems and Software Company Limited (Thailand) and Paysecure Technology.

Finally, Ascentech K.K. (Japan) and Transition Systems (Indonesia) took home the 'Marketing Excellence Award'.

“We value our strategic relationships with our partners enormously for the support they give us in growing our customer relationships. Together, we can deliver a better overall quality of solutions and service and thus improve their data security strategies. Congratulations to all of our partner award winners, and we hope that our successful partnerships continue for a long time to come,” added Gupta.