Dominican Republic. Acceleration 2023 was the name given to the first edition of the Hillstone Networks LATAM Partner Summit, an event that took place in Punta Cana from May 22 to 24 in which around 45 organizations from the cybersecurity sector in Latin America met.
The event was attended by integrators, distributors and MSSPs from countries such as Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Chile, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Panama, Nicaragua, El Salvador and Guatemala, mainly.
The first conference of the event was given by David Holmes, analyst at Forrester, who shared with the attendees, the main cybersecurity trends, the market size of cyberattacks and the best strategies to combat them.
Then, in his keynote speech, Tim Liu, CTO and Co-founder of Hillstone Networks, unveiled an innovative integrative cybersecurity proposal that involves the 3 C's: Complete coverage, which considers all areas involved in a network environment; Control, to establish an adaptive and layered defense strategy; and Consolidation, to reduce the complexity and management costs involved in using various types of security solutions and vendors. All this with the aim of allowing companies to be cyber resilient and help them maintain business continuity.
Subsequently, sessions were opened to present details of channel development and enablement programs, success stories, solutions for vertical markets and the latest technological innovations including Zero Trust Network Access and SD-WAN, XDR and NDR solutions powered by Artificial Intelligence, protection of workloads in the cloud, among others.
"Each of these technology offerings currently represents great business opportunities for channel partners across the region. For example, AI-powered threat detection and response solutions will undoubtedly set the tone for the cybersecurity business in the coming years, in fact, consulting firms such as Gartner point out that XDR will be a disruptive trend in the coming years," said Claudia Vizcarra, Channel Director of Hillstone Networks in Latin America.
Acceleration Awards 2023
Hillstone took advantage of the event to award its best channels, companies that during 2022 took the lead, acting boldly to expand the cybersecurity business in Latin America.
In the case of Mexico, Techxagon was recognized as Partner of the Year and WHIP Solutions SA de CV as Distributor of the Year. In addition, the company BESTEL was awarded with the award for Best LATAM Project.
