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ENTERPRISE TECHNOLOGY What are your aims and aspirations for the next 12 months in these very challenging times? I’m looking forward. I want to engage more deeply with our partners for the very long-term. Fortinet is, and always has been, a company that wants to continue to have impact on the security industry for the betterment of our customers and for our partners. I want to see us aligned to partners that share our long-term goals and see us helping each other on that journey. How do you see, if at all, the channel partner ecosystem changing over the next five years? I think it is particularly difficult now, given what happened, to predict the future. I mean Digital Transformation is always driving customers Fortinet is, and always has been, a company that wants to continue to have impact on the security industry for the betterment of our customers and for our partners. forward in their strategy, it’s shaping and creating their projects. And our partners have done a very good job getting connected to that strategy, so that they can help evolve it with their customers or at least have awareness of its implications for the customers, so that they can be involved in projects early. And I see this becoming the baseline for successful partner engagement with customers going forward. Or else they’re going to be locked out of early stage value creation and they are going to be limited to INTELLIGENT INTELLIGENT TECH CHANNELS TECH CHANNELS Issue XX 31 21