Climb Channel Solutions South Africa has expanded its long-term investment in South Africa with the signing of a distribution partnership with Utimaco, a global provider of IT security solutions.
The partnership will also cover the rest of Africa, Indian Ocean Islands and the Nordics.
Climb brings Utimaco’s digital trust, encryption, and cryptographic security portfolio to local partners, helping them address growing customer demand around compliance, resilience, data sovereignty, and post-quantum readiness.
The evolving cybersecurity landscape across South Africa is creating new opportunities for partners to address broader business priorities around compliance, operational resilience, data sovereignty and long-term data protection.
With local and regional expertise sitting alongside the scale and reach of a global distributor, Climb will enable partners to identify new market opportunities, build specialist expertise and develop service-led offerings that address growing demand for cryptographic security and digital trust capabilities.
Specifically, South Africa’s financial services sector represents a significant opportunity for channel partners as banks and financial institutions increasingly prioritise data protection, regulatory compliance and operational resilience. By bringing Utimaco’s specialist cryptographic security solutions to local partners, Climb is helping the channel address some of the most demanding security requirements across financial services, government and critical infrastructure environments.
This latest partnership follows Climb’s official launch in South Africa in May, which was announced alongside Sophos, a global leader of innovative security solutions. The move to South Africa marked the next step in Climb’s EMEA expansion strategy, and followed successful moves into the UK, DACH, Ireland and Southeastern Europe.
Gerard Brophy, chief relationship officer at Climb, comments: “Through this partnership, Climb will help partners expand beyond traditional cybersecurity conversations and engage customers around encryption, digital trust, data sovereignty, identity protection, and post-quantum readiness, which will create new opportunities for value-added services and long-term customer relationships. This partnership with Utimaco also strengthens Climb’s long-term commitment to bringing leading cybersecurity, compliance, and resilience technologies to African partners.”