2017 Partner Program Guide: 5-Star Security Vendors

Secure Positioning

Security remains one of the hottest segments of the IT industry. The demand is there, driven by a steady stream of news stories of cyber attacks and compromised data. And the number of legacy and startup vendors offering products and services in identity management and data protection; web, email and application security; SIEM and threat detection; endpoint security; and network security keeps expanding.

That means solution providers have many decisions to make about which vendors to work with. And those decisions include sizing up the caliber of a vendor's partner program.

The 2017 CRN Partner Program Guide offers the information solution providers need to evaluate IT vendors they work with or are considering working with. The guide is based on detailed applications vendors submitted outlining all aspects of their partner programs.

As part of the Partner Program Guide, CRN designates some programs as 5-Star Partner Programs. Here we present the 5-Star designees in the security technology space.

A10 Networks

Program Name: A10 Affinity Partner Program

Year Program Established: 2014

Number of North American Partners: Not Disclosed

North American Channel Chief: Kirsten Young

Partner Program Details: /partner-program-guide/ppg2017-details.htm?c=1

AlienVault

Program Name: AlienVault Partner Program

Year Program Established: 2013

Number of North American Partners: Not Disclosed

North American Channel Chief: Mike Calonica

Partner Program Details: /partner-program-guide/ppg2017-details.htm?c=9

APC by Schneider Electric

Program Name: APC Channel Partner Program

Year Program Established: 1991

Number of North American Partners: 5,466

North American Channel Chief: Shannon Sbar

Partner Program Details: /partner-program-guide/ppg2017-details.htm?c=11

Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company

Program Name: Partner Ready for Networking

Year Program Established: 2016

Number of North American Partners: 4,022

North American Channel Chief: Jim Harold

Partner Program Details: /partner-program-guide/ppg2017-details.htm?c=16

AT&T

Program Name: AT&T Alliance Program

Year Program Established: 1998

Number of North American Partners: Not Disclosed

North American Channel Chief: Kevin Leonard

Partner Program Details: /partner-program-guide/ppg2017-details.htm?c=19

AT&T

Program Name: AT&T Partner Exchange

Year Program Established: 2012

Number of North American Partners: Not Disclosed

North American Channel Chief: Randall Porter

Partner Program Details: /partner-program-guide/ppg2017-details.htm?c=20

Avaya

Program Name: Avaya Edge

Year Program Established: 2016

Number of North American Partners: Not Disclosed

North American Channel Chief: Gary Levy

Partner Program Details: /partner-program-guide/ppg2017-details.htm?c=22

Barracuda Networks

Program Name: Barracuda North America Channel Partner Program

Year Program Established: 2004

Number of North American Partners: 6,224

North American Channel Chief: Ezra Hookano

Partner Program Details: /partner-program-guide/ppg2017-details.htm?c=24

Bitdefender

Program Name: Partner Advantage Network

Year Program Established: 2011

Number of North American Partners: 3,585

North American Channel Chief: Rob Chomko

Partner Program Details: /partner-program-guide/ppg2017-details.htm?c=26

BlackBerry Ltd.

Program Name: BlackBerry Enterprise Partner Program For Solution Providers

Year Program Established: 2014

Number of North American Partners: Not Disclosed

North American Channel Chief: Jeff Bruce

Partner Program Details: /partner-program-guide/ppg2017-details.htm?c=27

BMC

Program Name: BMC Partner Advantage

Year Program Established: 2012

Number of North American Partners: 66

North American Channel Chief: Sanjay Gupta

Partner Program Details: /partner-program-guide/ppg2017-details.htm?c=29

Bradford Networks

Program Name: Bradford Networks SecureNet Channel Program

Year Program Established: 2009

Number of North American Partners: 143

North American Channel Chief: Rick Sloane

Partner Program Details: /partner-program-guide/ppg2017-details.htm?c=31

CA Technologies

Program Name: CA Technologies Global Partner Program

Year Program Established: 2008

Number of North American Partners: Not disclosed

North American Channel Chief: Tony Jennings

Partner Program Details: /partner-program-guide/ppg2017-details.htm?c=37

Carbon Black

Program Name: Carbon Black Connect Partner Program

Year Program Established: 2014

Number of North American Partners: 251

North American Channel Chief: Bradd Barmettler

Partner Program Details: /partner-program-guide/ppg2017-details.htm?c=39

Carbonite Inc.

Program Name: Carbonite Partner Program

Year Program Established: 2013

Number of North American Partners: Not Disclosed

North American Channel Chief: Jessica Couto

Partner Program Details: /partner-program-guide/ppg2017-details.htm?c=40

Centrify

Program Name: Centrify Channel Partner Network

Year Program Established: 2014

Number of North American Partners: 281

North American Channel Chief: Nathan Adams

Partner Program Details: /partner-program-guide/ppg2017-details.htm?c=42

Check Point Software Technologies Inc.

Program Name: Check Point Stars Program

Year Program Established: 2015

Number of North American Partners: Not Disclosed

North American Channel Chief: Amnon Bar-Lev

Partner Program Details: /partner-program-guide/ppg2017-details.htm?c=43

Cisco Systems

Program Name: Cisco Cloud and Managed Services Program

Year Program Established: 2012

Number of North American Partners: Not Disclosed

North American Channel Chief: Rick Snyder

Partner Program Details: /partner-program-guide/ppg2017-details.htm?c=49

Cisco Systems

Program Name: Cisco Channel Partner Program

Year Program Established: 1996

Number of North American Partners: Not Disclosed

North American Channel Chief: Rick Snyder

Partner Program Details: /partner-program-guide/ppg2017-details.htm?c=50

Citrix

Program Name: Citrix Partner Network

Year Program Established: 1989

Number of North American Partners: 2,579

North American Channel Chief: Rafael Garzon

Partner Program Details: /partner-program-guide/ppg2017-details.htm?c=51

Commvault

Program Name: Commvault Partner Advantage Program

Year Program Established: 2013

Number of North American Partners: Not Disclosed

North American Channel Chief: David Fischer

Partner Program Details: /partner-program-guide/ppg2017-details.htm?c=55

Cylance Inc.

Program Name: Cylance Partner Program

Year Program Established: 2013

Number of North American Partners: Not Disclosed

North American Channel Chief: Didi Dayton

Partner Program Details: /partner-program-guide/ppg2017-details.htm?c=62

Dell Inc.

Program Name: Dell EMC Partner Program

Year Program Established: 2017

Number of North American Partners: Not Disclosed

North American Channel Chief: Greg Ambulos

Partner Program Details: /partner-program-guide/ppg2017-details.htm?c=66

D-Link Systems

Program Name: Value in Partnership+

Year Program Established: 2008

Number of North American Partners: Not Disclosed

North American Channel Chief: Mike Hardy

Partner Program Details: /partner-program-guide/ppg2017-details.htm?c=71

ESET

Program Name: ESET Partner Program

Year Program Established: 2006

Number of North American Partners: 3,000

North American Channel Chief: Gerald Choung

Partner Program Details: /partner-program-guide/ppg2017-details.htm?c=78

Exabeam

Program Name: Exabeam 3D Alliance Program

Year Program Established: 2015

Number of North American Partners: 65

North American Channel Chief: Ted Plumis

Partner Program Details: /partner-program-guide/ppg2017-details.htm?c=79

Extreme Networks

Program Name: Extreme Partner Network

Year Program Established: 1996

Number of North American Partners: 1,316

North American Channel Chief: Gordon Mackintosh

Partner Program Details: /partner-program-guide/ppg2017-details.htm?c=81

ForeScout Technologies

Program Name: ForeScout Partner Program

Year Program Established: 2005

Number of North American Partners: 221

North American Channel Chief: Todd DeBell

Partner Program Details: /partner-program-guide/ppg2017-details.htm?c=88

Fortinet

Program Name: Fortinet Partner Program

Year Program Established: 2002

Number of North American Partners: Not Disclosed

North American Channel Chief: Joe Sykora

Partner Program Details: /partner-program-guide/ppg2017-details.htm?c=89

Gigamon

Program Name: Gigamon Partner Program

Year Program Established: 2015

Number of North American Partners: 304

North American Channel Chief: Barbara Spicek

Partner Program Details: /partner-program-guide/ppg2017-details.htm?c=93

Globalscape

Program Name: Globalscape Partner Program

Year Program Established: 2016

Number of North American Partners: Not Disclosed

Worldwide Channel Chief: Gary Mullen

Partner Program Details: /partner-program-guide/ppg2017-details.htm?c=95

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Program Name: HPE Partner Ready

Year Program Established: 2002

Number of North American Partners: Not Disclosed

North American Channel Chief: Scott Dunsire

Partner Program Details: /partner-program-guide/ppg2017-details.htm?c=98

Hitachi Data Systems

Program Name: Hitachi TrueNorth Partner Program

Year Program Established: 2003

Number of North American Partners: Not Disclosed

North American Channel Chief: Jay McGloin

Partner Program Details: /partner-program-guide/ppg2017-details.htm?c=100

IBM

Program Name: PartnerWorld

Year Program Established: 1999

Number of North American Partners: Not Disclosed

North American Channel Chief: Neal Callahan

Partner Program Details: /partner-program-guide/ppg2017-details.htm?c=102

Imperva, Inc.

Program Name: Imperva PartnerSphere Channel Program

Year Program Established: 2008

Number of North American Partners: 134

North American Channel Chief: Brian Feeney

Partner Program Details: /partner-program-guide/ppg2017-details.htm?c=106

Intel Corporation

Program Name: Intel Technology Provider Program

Year Program Established: 1980

Number of North American Partners: 24,000

North American Channel Chief: Todd Garrigues

Partner Program Details: /partner-program-guide/ppg2017-details.htm?c=112

Intronis MSP Solutions by Barracuda

Program Name: Intronis Partner Program

Year Program Established: 2008

Number of North American Partners: Not Disclosed

North American Channel Chief: Neal Bradbury

Partner Program Details: /partner-program-guide/ppg2017-details.htm?c=116

Ivanti

Program Name: Ivanti Partner Program

Year Program Established: 1985

Number of North American Partners: 1,000

North American Channel Chief: Reza Parsia

Partner Program Details: /partner-program-guide/ppg2017-details.htm?c=119

Ixia

Program Name: Channel Xcelerate Partner Program

Year Program Established: 2014

Number of North American Partners: 542

North American Channel Chief: Bob Usher

Partner Program Details: /partner-program-guide/ppg2017-details.htm?c=120

Kaspersky Lab

Program Name: Kaspersky Partner Program

Year Program Established: 2008

Number of North American Partners: Not Disclosed

North American Channel Chief: Michael Canavan

Partner Program Details: /partner-program-guide/ppg2017-details.htm?c=122

Kerio Technologies

Program Name: Kerio Partner Program

Year Program Established: 2001

Number of North American Partners: 2,149

North American Channel Chief: Abi Vickram

Partner Program Details: /partner-program-guide/ppg2017-details.htm?c=123

Lenovo

Program Name: Lenovo Partner Program

Year Program Established: 2005

Number of North American Partners: Not Disclosed

North American Channel Chief: Sammy Kinlaw

Partner Program Details: /partner-program-guide/ppg2017-details.htm?c=127

LookingGlass Cyber Solutions, Inc.

Program Name: LookingGlass Cyber Guardian Network

Year Program Established: 2015

Number of North American Partners: Not Disclosed

North American Channel Chief: Laurie Potratz

Partner Program Details: /partner-program-guide/ppg2017-details.htm?c=130

Malwarebytes

Program Name: Malwarebytes Partner Program

Year Program Established: 2012

Number of North American Partners: 1,363

North American Channel Chief: Brad Justak

Partner Program Details: /partner-program-guide/ppg2017-details.htm?c=131

Microsoft Corporation

Program Name: Microsoft Partner Network

Year Program Established: 2010

Number of North American Partners: Not Disclosed

North American Channel Chief: Stephen Boyle

Partner Program Details: /partner-program-guide/ppg2017-details.htm?c=136

Mimecast

Program Name: Mimecast Channel Partner Program

Year Program Established: 203

Number of North American Partners: Not Disclosed

North American Channel Chief: Sean Broderick

Partner Program Details: /partner-program-guide/ppg2017-details.htm?c=137

Nexsan

Program Name: Nexsan Partner Program

Year Program Established: 2001

Number of North American Partners: Not Disclosed

North American Channel Chief: Tony Craythorne

Partner Program Details: /partner-program-guide/ppg2017-details.htm?c=144

Nutanix, Inc.

Program Name: Nutanix Partner Network

Year Program Established: 2013

Number of North American Partners: Not Disclosed

North American Channel Chief: Chris Morgan

Partner Program Details: /partner-program-guide/ppg2017-details.htm?c=149

Oracle Corporation

Program Name: Oracle PartnerNetwork Program

Year Program Established: 1999

Number of North American Partners: 5,500

North American Channel Chief: Bill Swales

Partner Program Details: /partner-program-guide/ppg2017-details.htm?c=153

Palo Alto Networks

Program Name: Palo Alto Networks NextWave Channel Partner Program

Year Program Established: 2011

Number of North American Partners: 1,500

North American Channel Chief: Todd Palmer

Partner Program Details: /partner-program-guide/ppg2017-details.htm?c=158

Pulse Secure

Program Name: Connect Now Partner Program

Year Program Established: 2014

Number of North American Partners: Not Disclosed

North American Channel Chief: Evan Fromberg

Partner Program Details: /partner-program-guide/ppg2017-details.htm?c=171

Puppet

Program Name: Puppet Partner Network

Year Program Established: 2010

Number of North American Partners: Not Disclosed

North American Channel Chief: John Schwan

Partner Program Details: /partner-program-guide/ppg2017-details.htm?c=172

RSA Security

Program Name: RSA SecurWorld

Year Program Established: 2004

Number of North American Partners: 1,655

North American Channel Chief: Ted Kamionek

Partner Program Details: /partner-program-guide/ppg2017-details.htm?c=186

SolarWinds MSP

Program Name: SolarWinds MSP Channel Partner Program

Year Program Established: 2016

Number of North American Partners: Not Disclosed

North American Channel Chief: Frank Colletti

Partner Program Details: /partner-program-guide/ppg2017-details.htm?c=203

SonicWall

Program Name: SecureFirst Partner Program

Year Program Established: 2016

Number of North American Partners: Not Disclosed

North American Channel Chief: Steve Pataky

Partner Program Details: /partner-program-guide/ppg2017-details.htm?c=204

Sophos

Program Name: Sophos Partner Program

Year Program Established: 1985

Number of North American Partners: 7,000

North American Channel Chief: Erin Malone

Partner Program Details: /partner-program-guide/ppg2017-details.htm?c=205

SOTI Inc.

Program Name: SOTI Altitude Partner Program

Year Program Established: 2005

Number of North American Partners: Not Disclosed

North American Channel Chief: Shash Anand

Partner Program Details: /partner-program-guide/ppg2017-details.htm?c=206

Splunk

Program Name: Splunk Partner+ Program

Year Program Established: 2015

Number of North American Partners: Not Disclosed

North American Channel Chief: Christian Smith

Partner Program Details: /partner-program-guide/ppg2017-details.htm?c=207

Symantec Corporation

Program Name: Symantec Secure One

Year Program Established: 2015

Number of North American Partners: Not Disclosed

North American Channel Chief: Keith Weatherford

Partner Program Details: /partner-program-guide/ppg2017-details.htm?c=213

Thycotic

Program Name: Thycotic Partner Program

Year Program Established: 2015

Number of North American Partners: Not Disclosed

North American Channel Chief: Bob Gagnon

Partner Program Details: /partner-program-guide/ppg2017-details.htm?c=222

Trend Micro

Program Name: Trend Micro Partner Program

Year Program Established: 1998

Number of North American Partners: 17,000

North American Channel Chief: Dan Woodward

Partner Program Details: /partner-program-guide/ppg2017-details.htm?c=227

Veracode, Inc.

Program Name: Veracode Partner Program

Year Program Established: 2015

Number of North American Partners: Not Disclosed

North American Channel Chief: Jacques Lopez

Partner Program Details: /partner-program-guide/ppg2017-details.htm?c=234

Verizon

Program Name: Verizon Partner Program

Year Program Established: 2013

Number of North American Partners: Not Disclosed

North American Channel Chief: Janet Schijns

Partner Program Details: /partner-program-guide/ppg2017-details.htm?c=236

Viavi Solutions

Program Name: Viavi Velocity Partner Program

Year Program Established: 2015

Number of North American Partners: Not Disclosed

North American Channel Chief: Sergio Bea

Partner Program Details: /partner-program-guide/ppg2017-details.htm?c=238

VMware

Program Name: VMware Partner Network

Year Program Established: 2003

Number of North American Partners: Not Disclosed

North American Channel Chief: Frank Rauch

Partner Program Details: /partner-program-guide/ppg2017-details.htm?c=244

WatchGuard Technologies

Program Name: WatchGuardONE

Year Program Established: 2015

Number of North American Partners: Not Disclosed

North American Channel Chief: Eli Robinson

Partner Program Details: /partner-program-guide/ppg2017-details.htm?c=245

Webroot

Program Name: Webroot Channel Edge Partner Program

Year Program Established: 2006

Number of North American Partners: 6,000

North American Channel Chief: Charlie Tomeo

Partner Program Details: /partner-program-guide/ppg2017-details.htm?c=246