Meet the winners: Video Q&A with Mimecast

VP Sales UK&I Jamal Shakir joined CRN in the studio to talk being crowned Security Vendor of the Year 2022 and what's next for the vendor' partners

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Congratulations to cloud-based email management vendor Mimecast for winning Security Vendor of the Year at the CRN Channel Awards 2022

The vendor has more than 500 UK&I resellers in its channel.

In this sit down Q&A, VP Sales UK&I Jamal Shakir joined CRN Editor Nima Sherpa Green in our central London studios to talk about how the company is evolving, what decisions he thinks channel partners need to be making now in a fast-moving market, and the top challenges likely to shape security managed services over the course of 2023. 

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