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Genetec honours Oceania 2025 partner success
Genetec, a global leader in enterprise physical security software, has announced the winners of its 2025 ANZ channel partner awards at the company’ s regional Elevate‘ 26 Asia-Pacific conference held in Da Nang, Vietnam.
In celebrating another year of growth and excellence, the event attracted almost 60 Genetec Asia Pacific distributors, channel partners and technology alliance organisations, recognising highperformance partners for their contributions throughout FY2025.
The awards programme acknowledges and celebrates outstanding channel partners for their achievements and successful implementation of Genetec solutions. By doing so, they enhance the scale and speed of physical security delivery, while also improving operational efficiencies.
Perth and Melbourne-headquartered Convergint took home the ANZ Partner of the Year for achieving the highest revenue in FY25 and collaborating seamlessly with Genetec to support customer success.
PMT Security, headquartered in Melbourne, won the Unified Partner of the Year award for the second consecutive year based on its work to successfully embrace hybrid solutions for both onpremises and SaaS deployments. The company successfully brought
in new clients, including its first new SaaS customer in Queensland.
In addition, PMT Security was awarded the inaugural Genetec Cloud Partner of the Year based on its comprehensive embrace of Genetec SaaS solutions, engineer certification, new client wins and close working relationship with Genetec commercial, R & D and product teams to run multiple proofs of concept.
First Distribution strengthens cybersecurity go to market with Qualys
First Distribution is teaming up with Qualys, a leading provider of cloud-based IT, security and compliance solutions, to bring a differentiated cyber-risk management offering to modern IT environments.
The collaboration brings together First Distribution’ s strong channel presence and cybersecurity focus with Qualys’ proven enterprise-grade cyber-risk management solutions.
Qualys is widely recognised for its innovation, scale and credibility in the global cybersecurity market, consistently delivering solutions that help organisations gain visibility, reduce risk and maintain compliance across increasingly complex environments. Its Enterprise TruRisk Management( ETM) solution provides organisations with a powerful engine behind their Risk Operations Center( ROC) and a proactive approach to cyberrisk reduction.
As cyberthreats continue to grow in frequency and sophistication, organisations are seeking trusted security technologies that are both powerful and scalable. Qualys enhances First Distribution’ s cybersecurity portfolio with an offering that is well aligned to current market needs and partner requirements, enabling more meaningful security engagements with customers.
By combining Qualys’ technology leadership with First Distribution’ s channel-centric approach, the collaboration aims to drive long-term growth and deliver measurable value across the market.
“ Qualys is a highly respected global security brand with a strong track record and a clear, compelling value proposition,” said Brad Stein, General Manager – Cyber Security, First Distribution. •
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