CHICAGO — May 7, 2026 — AHEAD, a provider of technology services that modernizes security, cloud, and data platforms, today announced it has been named Zscaler Americas Partner of the Year at the Zscaler Executive Partner Summit 2026. The award recognizes partners who demonstrate exceptional leadership, innovation, and execution in helping customers across the Americas region modernize security, accelerate digital transformation, and achieve measurable business outcomes using Zscaler’s Zero Trust Exchange Platform™.

AHEAD was recognized for its ability to translate Zero Trust strategy into real-world impact, helping organizations simplify security estates, reduce cyber risk, and maintain business continuity in an increasingly complex threat landscape. AHEAD achieves this through:

• Simplifying complex, multi-vendor security estates, reducing risk, and enabling secure, scalable growth using the Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange across large enterprises.
• Deep expertise and specializations as a Zscaler Premier Partner with Service Delivery Authorization, MSSP Authorization, 145+ Zscaler technical certifications, and one of only 17 partners globally with the Data Security Delivery Specialization designation.
• A mature Zero Trust framework aligned to CISA/NIST, vendor-agnostic design, full lifecycle services, and 24×7 managed security operations, so Zero Trust becomes an operating model that sustains business continuity in a constantly evolving threat landscape.

“Earning Zscaler’s Americas National Growth Partner of the Year recognition reflects the investments we’ve made to help clients re-architect security around Zero Trust and AI,” said Cory Carlson, VP, Security Sales at AHEAD. “As organizations modernize legacy networks and applications, they need a partner who can translate strategy into an operating model, a platform, and measurable reductions in risk. Together with Zscaler, we’re helping clients build more cyber-resilient environments, minimizing the blast radius of attacks, improving detection and response with AI-driven insights, and keeping users securely connected to the apps and data they need, from anywhere.”

The Zscaler Americas Partner Awards celebrate partners who have delivered outstanding
results over the past year through strong collaboration, differentiated go-to-market execution, and deep customer engagement. AHEAD’s recognition reflects its continued growth, market leadership, and ability to deliver coordinated, outcome-driven solutions alongside Zscaler.

By aligning closely with Zscaler’s platform strategy and focusing on secure access, data protection, and AI-driven threat prevention, AHEAD has helped customers across the Americas region to advance Zero Trust initiatives, modernize legacy security architectures, and strengthen resilience in the face of evolving cyber threats.

“Zscaler stands at the forefront of an AI-redefined era in cybersecurity, and our partners are instrumental in delivering intelligent, scalable, and proactive Zero Trust solutions to customers worldwide,” said Anthony Torsiello, Senior Vice President, Global Partner Ecosystem, Zscaler. “It is with great pride that we recognize AHEAD with the Zscaler Americas Partner of the Year award, underscoring their exceptional ability to operationalize Zscaler’s AI-powered security platform to address the unique challenges facing organizations across the Americas region.”

In collaboration, AHEAD and Zscaler are helping enterprises move beyond perimeter-based defenses to a Zero Trust model that is more adaptive, more intelligent, and fundamentally more cyber-resilient.

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About AHEAD

AHEAD accelerates strategy into execution by engineering integrated solutions across infrastructure, applications, data, and security. The company builds and manages digital platforms that power transformation for leading enterprises, modernizing platforms and workflows and applying AI to unlock the full impact of people and technology—building what others only blueprint. For more information on AHEAD, please visit our website at ahead.com, or follow us on LinkedIn.

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