Sophos announced India and SAARC partner award winners at 2026 Bali Summit

Sophos, a developer of interconnected cybersecurity solutions, has announced the recipients of its India and SAARC Partner Awards 2026. The announcements were finalised during the annual Sophos APJ Partner 100 summit hosted in Bali, Indonesia, an exclusive gathering designed to assemble regional channel leaders, business development executives, and technical experts from across the Asia Pacific and Japan region.

The annual awards framework serves to evaluate and honour ecosystem partners that have delivered notable contributions to the deployment, integration, and commercial sales of the security vendor's product portfolio. The validation metric for this cycle assessed operational performance benchmarks recorded between April 1, 2025, and March 31, 2026.

Core performance and security innovation laurels

The 2026 iteration highlighted organisations that transitioned traditional point-product sales into integrated, managed defences capable of matching automated, machine-speed threat vectors.

The primary award designations for the India and SAARC region include:

• Partner of the Year Award 2026 — Magnamious Systems: Granted to the regional entity that demonstrated an integrated approach to constructing scalable security postures. The selection criteria prioritised the deep integration of Sophos Managed Detection and Response (MDR) services to neutralise active infrastructure threats, alongside sustained year-over-year commercial sales volume acceleration.
• Distributor of the Year 2026 — Redington Limited: Awarded based on internal evaluation matrices verifying the highest year-over-year revenue expansion index achieved among all eligible regional distributors.
• Sub Distributor of the Year Award 2026 — DM Systems: Recognising secondary distribution tier excellence by achieving top-tier growth milestones inside the regional supply channel.

A Channel-First Blueprint for Complex Threat Environments

As modern enterprise architectures face specialised challenges, such as attackers logging directly into endpoint networks using compromised credentials rather than forcing entry, the role of skilled security service providers has become an operational necessity.

Sophos’ global market architecture remains anchored entirely within its distributor network, focusing on deep technical enablement and structured sales upskilling to turn tier-one partners into advanced threat response units.

Chad Cleevely, Senior Director of Channel Sales for Asia Pacific and Japan at Sophos, emphasised the benchmark value established by the 2026 award recipients:

“We are proud to recognise and celebrate our partners, whose unwavering dedication continues to drive the success of Sophos solutions across India and the SAARC region. Sophos is a channel-first company with our partners at the heart of everything we do. The outstanding achievements of the 2026 Sophos India and SAARC Partner Award winners truly set the benchmark for excellence. Their commitment to delivering innovative, advanced cybersecurity solutions helps our customers strengthen their protection against an increasingly complex threat environment.”

Technical Enablement Focus

The APJ Partner 100 event layout complemented these award modules with dedicated technical tracks and break-out symposia. Operational workshops concentrated heavily on active threat response mechanisms, Extended Detection and Response (XDR) engineering deployments, and global cross-vendor integrations to ensure regional partners can maintain data defence baselines across the SAARC business landscape.

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