Open Systems Receives Industry Awards for SASE Experience Platform

Open Systems recognized for its expertise, superior customer service and support, and dedication to innovating its offering

ZURICH- May 15, 2024 - Open Systems, the leading provider of native, managed SASE solutions with a superior user experience, today announced that Open Systems SASE Experience has been selected as a winner in the Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) category of the 2024 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards, and has been named Best Solution for Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) in Cyber Defense Magazine’s Global InfoSec Awards.

Open Systems recently received TMC’s Internet Telephony SD-WAN Product of the Year award and the Globee Business Awards’ Golden Globee Award for SASE. The honors closely follow Open Systems’ recent recognition as a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Zero Trust Edge Service Providers, Q2 2024, based on an evaluation of nine vendors in the ZTE service providers market. Open Systems’ industry-leading SASE Experience has received numerous honors and has emerged as the solution of choice for midmarket organizations seeking secure connectivity across cloud and hybrid environments and locations, delivered as a service. It combines SD-WAN, firewall, SWG, CASB, and ZTNA into a comprehensive framework, supported through its user-intuitive customer portal, and delivered as a 24×7 managed service with unmatched customer service.

“We congratulate Open Systems as an award winner in the Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) category of the 2024 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards,” said Holger Schulze, CEO of Cybersecurity Insiders and founder of the 600,000-member Information Security Community on LinkedIn, which organizes the 9th annual Cybersecurity Excellence Awards. “With over 600 entries across more than 300 categories, the awards are highly competitive. Your achievement reflects outstanding commitment to the core principles of excellence, innovation, and leadership in cybersecurity.”

“We scoured the globe looking for cybersecurity innovators that could make a huge difference and potentially help turn the tide against the exponential growth in cyber-crime. Open Systems is absolutely worthy of this coveted award, and worthy of consideration for deployment in your environment,” said Yan Ross, Global Editor of Cyber Defense Magazine.

Open Systems SASE Experience revolutionizes secure access by prioritizing user experience and simplifying complex SASE solutions. It alleviates the burdens faced by CIOs managing remote and hybrid workforces, cyber threats, and digital transformation initiatives. Unlike traditional SASE platforms, Open Systems integrates seamlessly across IT and OT cloud, on-premise, and hybrid environments, ensuring easy, consistent, scalable, resilient, and agile secure access to users, applications, and data.

Open Systems prioritizes customer satisfaction, assured connectivity, business agility, and reputation through its Service Experience Promise. This commitment is upheld by the Open Systems Mission Control Operations Center, which provides proactive and preemptive support to minimize disruptions and enhance operational performance, ensuring customers receive unparalleled service and expertise.

“Supporting globalization, strategic digital transformation, the work-from-home migration, and the dynamics of organizational growth - all with the finite resources that today’s economy requires - puts new burdens on IT teams,” said Stefan Keller, Chief Product Officer, Open Systems. “Open Systems SASE Experience simplifies complexities that can otherwise strain in-house teams, and does so with industry-leading service reliability, security, and scalability that organizations need. We’re honored to be recognized for the value our services provide to our customers.”

About Open Systems

Open Systems is an AI-first SASE platform company delivering secure access and networking to help enterprises connect users, applications and infrastructure across complex hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Its proprietary platform combines SSE capabilities, including ZTNA, SWG, CASB and FWaaS, with SD-WAN, end-to-end connectivity, unified policy management, and advanced analytics in a single architecture.

While many cybersecurity providers focus primarily on advancing technology capabilities, Open Systems combines its AI-first SASE platform with an execution model designed for real-world operability, ensuring services are not only deployed, but continuously run, adapted and improved through a combination of AI-enabled operations and NOC-based expertise (Mission Control), built on decades of operational experience, helping organizations reduce complexity, increase visibility and strengthen security outcomes at global scale.

Founded in Switzerland in 1990, Open Systems generates more than USD 100 million in annual revenue and supports global enterprise customers operating in more than 180 countries. Since 2024, the company has been part of Swiss Post, combining Swiss trust and stability with global reach. As a European alternative to US- and Israel-based cybersecurity providers, Open Systems is guided by strong principles around sovereignty requirements, regulatory alignment, transparency and shared responsibility - taking clear ownership for security, performance and operational outcomes, helping organizations maintain control in an increasingly complex digital landscape.