First Distribution, the leading Pan-African distributor for cyber security, data centre, enterprise and cloud solutions, today announced it has been awarded the Sophos Distributor of the Year, in South Africa.

First Distribution is recognised for its outstanding performance and commitment to securing organisations with Sophos’s next-generation cyber security solutions and services.

“The shift to remote working has expanded organisations’ attack surfaces, and cyber criminals are stopping at nothing to penetrate these increasingly virtual networks. Armed with Sophos’s industry-best cybersecurity solutions and services, First Distribution is securing organisations against these advanced threats,” said Kendra Krause, Sophos senior vice-president of global channels and sales operations.

“Sophos is proud to support and recognise this year’s winners that are leading the industry in delivering business-critical cyber security solutions, and we look forward to their continued success.” 

First Distribution offers a wide range of cyber security technologies and Sophos is one of the premier cyber security vendors in its business. First Distribution is also a leader in cloud offerings and wants to secure a greater number of South African organisations with cloud environments with Sophos’s next-generation cyber security solutions. With Sophos, organisations can easily access to details about their entire cloud infrastructure across different public cloud providers on one screen in a single management console and can dive directly into assets for more information about asset inventory and cloud security posture. 

Sophos has grown from strength to strength as a company and we are happy to be part of that journey. Sophos’s innovative methodologies to cyber security are refreshing and it is clear that the market thinks so to.

We at First Distribution have invested in resources to make a success of the Sophos brand and we are proud to be recognised for our efforts. Plenty of time, effort, planning and collaboration have gone into building a successful Sophos team and it is great to see us being successful.

A big thank you to the local Sophos team and all involved. We can already see the year ahead will be a bright one.