Celebrating Excellence: Partner Award Winners 2025 Announced at the EMEA Virtual Experience Roadshow!

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Honoring our top-performing partners across EMEA for their outstanding contributions in 2025

Jul 28 2025 By

We’re thrilled to announce the winners of the 2025 EMEA Partner Awards, revealed during the Virtual Experience Partner Roadshow by Gerard Allison, SVP EMEA Sales and Jason Ellis, VP, EMEA Channel Sales.

These awards celebrate our most outstanding partners across the region — organizations that have gone above and beyond in driving innovation, delivering exceptional customer value, and contributing to the growth of our shared cybersecurity mission.

Please join us in congratulating this year’s top performers:

🥇 EMEA Distribution Partner of the Year – Starlink, Middle East
Played a pivotal role in helping Sophos outpace market growth in the Middle East by delivering on key business objectives from day one and consistently investing in dedicated Sophos resources to drive impact and scale.

🥇 EMEA MSP Partner of the Year – XEFI, France
One of the largest Sophos MSP Flex partners — achieving an impressive 27% year-over-year growth and delivering transformational growth across local and regional markets through their strong managed services expertise and unwavering commitment.

🥇 EMEA MDR Partner of the Year – Bechtle AG, Germany
Delivered explosive 165% YoY growth in MDR, secured high-impact wins across diverse industry sectors, and deeply integrated Sophos into their own SOC — offering customers trusted, localized support in their native language.

🥇 EMEA Partner of the Year – Cyberlab, UKI
Demonstrated exceptional growth across all key areas — from acquiring new customers to expanding MDR and DR services. Their deep expertise, long-standing partnership, and unwavering reliability make them a true example of a trusted and skilled cybersecurity leader.

 

To all the winners — thank you for your partnership, passion, and performance. Your success inspires us, and we look forward to achieving even more together in the year ahead!

About the Author

Sophos is a cybersecurity leader defending 600,000 organizations globally with an AI-driven platform and expert-led services. Sophos meets organizations wherever they are in their security maturity and grows with them to defeat cyberattacks. Its solutions combine machine learning, automation, and real-time threat intelligence with frontline human expertise from Sophos X-Ops to deliver advanced, 24/7 threat monitoring, detection, and response.

Sophos offers industry-leading managed detection and response (MDR) alongside a comprehensive portfolio of cybersecurity technologies — including endpoint, network, email, and cloud security, extended detection and response (XDR), identity threat detection and response (ITDR), and next-gen SIEM. Together with expert advisory services, these capabilities help organizations proactively reduce risk and respond faster, with the visibility and scalability needed to stay ahead of evolving threats.

Sophos goes to market with a global partner ecosystem, including Managed Service Providers (MSPs), Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs), resellers and distributors, marketplace integrations, and cyber risk partners, giving organizations the flexibility to choose trusted relationships when securing their business. Sophos is headquartered in Oxford, U.K. More information is available at www.sophos.com.