Help AG achieves CPSP status from Palo Alto
Stephan Berner, Help AG
Help AG has recently announced that it has achieved the Certified Professional Services Partner (CPSP) status from Palo Alto Networks. According to Help AG, by achieving the status they will now be able to offer its customers end-to-end services on Palo Alto’s nextgeneration firewall solutions with the highest standards and quality. “Through our longstanding partnership with the vendor, we have successfully deployed and supported its cyber security platforms in some of the most critical and large infrastructures in the Middle East. We have already attained the highest partnership level with Palo Alto and the CPSP Programme was the next logical step. From a technical standpoint we are now positioned to deliver an unmatched level of valueaddition to customers that hope to leverage Palo Alto’s market leading security technologies,” said Stephan Berner, MD, Help AG. The vendor will also conduct ongoing recertification and provide Help AG access to its Professional Services engineers and community discussion forums.
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