Westcon-Comstor has become the first Authorised Training Partner in Europe for Proofpoint, a leading cybersecurity and compliance company.
This accreditation enables Westcon-Comstor to deliver Proofpoint-certified education and enablement services at scale to channel partners and end customers across Europe. Training will be delivered through the Westcon-Comstor Academy, which offers comprehensive, multi-vendor technical programmes tailored to partner needs.
The agreement will accelerate partner upskilling and certification and allow full integration of Proofpoint courses into the academy’s expanding offering. Martin Flensburg, Vice President of Service Delivery and Go to Market at Westcon-Comstor, comments:
“We are thrilled to achieve this notable first with Proofpoint. Gaining authorised status underlines the unique, value-added offering of the Westcon-Comstor Academy and is an acknowledgement of the quality of training we provide. We look forward to repaying the faith that has been placed in us by providing channel partners and their customers with the highest standard of education and enablement across the Proofpoint portfolio.”
Through its academy the distributor has provided presales, technical and enablement training to more than 3,000 channel partner companies and 30,000 individual users globally since 2017, ensuring partners have the product knowledge, vendor training and engineering capability to deliver value to their customers.
Westcon-Comstor is already authorised to deliver accredited training across all courses globally for Palo Alto Networks and Check Point Software and is the largest Authorised Training Centre for F5 in Europe, Middle East and Africa.
The academy also offers accredited training for multiple other cybersecurity and networking vendors in Westcon-Comstor’s global portfolio including Infoblox, Extreme Networks and Broadcom.
“We’re proud to partner with Westcon-Comstor as our first authorised training provider in Europe,” said Kent Breaux, Senior Vice President, EMEA at Proofpoint. “Their proven expertise in enablement, combined with regional reach and technical depth, makes them the ideal partner to expand access to certified Proofpoint education across the continent.”
Westcon-Comstor and Proofpoint have distribution agreements in place across multiple European markets including the UK, Germany, Spain, Portugal, France, Belgium, Netherlands, the Nordics, Italy and Greece.
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