We are proud to share that Proofpoint has been recognised with two major industry honours this month: Security Vendor of the Year for Best Partner / MSP Program at the CRN Channel Awards Asia 2026, and Best in AI-Powered Cybersecurity at the CybersecAsia Readers' Choice Awards 2026. Together, the two wins reflect Proofpoint's commitment across the region: building a partner ecosystem that helps the channel grow and delivering an AI-driven cybersecurity platform that keeps pace with how fast threats are evolving.
The recognition builds on Proofpoint’s strong track record across the region. In 2025, Proofpoint was named Security Vendor of the Year for Identity, Email, and Cloud Security at the CRN Channel Awards Asia. At the CybersecAsia Readers’ Choice Awards, Proofpoint has also earned multiple honours, including Best in Web & Email Security in 2024 and 2025. These recognitions reflect continued confidence from the region’s partners, customers, and cybersecurity community.
Recognising partner success
The CRN Channel Awards Asia recognise organisations driving the Asia IT channel forward. This year’s Best Partner / MSP Program recognition reflects Proofpoint’s focus on helping partners grow through stronger incentives, enablement, deal protection, and new high-margin managed services opportunities.
The award follows the February 2026 launch of the Proofpoint Partner Network, a revamped global partner program designed to create more opportunities for partners to grow their security businesses.
“This recognition belongs to our partners as much as it does to us. We built the Proofpoint Partner Network around what partners told us they needed: clearer incentives, stronger margins, and a faster path to new revenue through managed services,” said Nelson Soon, Vice President of Channels and Alliances, Asia Pacific and Japan at Proofpoint. “Being named Security Vendor of the Year for Best Partner / MSP Program reinforces that we’re on the right path and motivates us to keep investing alongside our partners across Asia Pacific and Japan. We look forward to continuing to strengthen these partnerships and driving even greater success together.”
Recognising AI-powered, human and agent security
The CybersecAsia Readers’ Choice Awards are among the region’s established cybersecurity awards, recognising the technologies and vendors that make a difference to organisations across Asia Pacific. The Readers’ Choice Awards are shaped by the region’s cybersecurity community, with CISOs, technology leaders, and practitioners voting for the solutions they trust and use.
Being named Best in AI-Powered Cybersecurity is particularly meaningful as AI moves from experimentation into the core of how organisations operate. Employees are increasingly working alongside AI systems, business workflows are becoming more integrated and automated, and data is driving decisions across the enterprise. At the same time, attackers are using AI to make their campaigns more convincing, scalable and adaptive. Security leaders recognise the need to adopt AI-powered cybersecurity to navigate this challenge. According to the 2025 Voice of the CISO report from Proofpoint, more than two-thirds (68%) of global CISOs are exploring AI-powered defences.
The award recognises Proofpoint’s approach to combining AI-powered detection and threat intelligence with a deep understanding of human behaviour and intent.
George Lee, Senior Vice President, Asia Pacific and Japan at Proofpoint, said: “As we move towards an increasingly agentic workplace, cybersecurity needs to harness AI for the speed and scale required to protect these new workflows, while applying a human lens to understand context and intent. AI can help us identify and respond to threats at machine speed, but understanding the full context behind an interaction is critical to making the right judgement. This combination of AI and human understanding will be essential to help protecting the people, data, and AI-powered workflows that are becoming central to how businesses operate. Being recognised as Best in AI-Powered Cybersecurity by the practitioners in Asia who face these challenges every day is a strong validation of our approach and continuous investment.”
Building on momentum
Together, these awards reflect complementary parts of Proofpoint’s approach to cybersecurity in this dynamic region: strong partnerships that help organisations build lasting security programmes, and an AI-powered, human and agent cybersecurity platform that helps them adapt as threats evolve.
We’re grateful to our partners, customers, and the cybersecurity community across the region for their continued trust and recognition, and look forward to building on this momentum.