GTS Named Thales Emerging Partner of the Year 2025
Prestigious Recognition Celebrates GTS Holding’s Rapid Growth and Strategic Partnership with Thales in Delivering Advanced Cybersecurity Solutions
Cairo, Egypt – 2025 — GTS Holding, a leading regional provider of cybersecurity, enterprise infrastructure, and digital transformation solutions, is proud to announce that it has been recognized as Emerging Partner of the Year 2025 by Thales Cybersecurity Products during the Thales Partner Connect 2025 event—one of Thales’ most prestigious global partner gatherings.
The award recognizes GTS Holding’s exceptional growth as a strategic cybersecurity partner, its technical excellence, and its ability to successfully deliver advanced cybersecurity solutions that help organizations protect their most valuable assets, sensitive data, and digital identities. It also reflects the strong collaboration between GTS Holding and Thales, built on a shared commitment to innovation, customer success, and enabling trusted digital transformation across the Middle East.
Receiving the Emerging Partner of the Year 2025 award represents a significant milestone in GTS Holding’s partnership journey with Thales. It demonstrates the company’s ability to rapidly develop specialized expertise, execute complex cybersecurity projects, and consistently deliver measurable business value through globally recognized security technologies.
A Recognition Built on Partnership and Performance
The Thales Emerging Partner of the Year award is presented to partners that demonstrate outstanding momentum, technical competency, business growth, and alignment with Thales’ long-term vision for digital trust and cybersecurity innovation.
Achieving this recognition reflects far more than commercial success.
It recognizes partners that invest in developing highly skilled technical teams, build strong customer relationships, and successfully implement cybersecurity solutions that address today’s rapidly evolving digital risks.
For GTS Holding, the award validates years of investment in engineering excellence, cybersecurity consulting, and strategic partnerships with world-leading technology providers.
By combining Thales’ globally trusted cybersecurity portfolio with GTS Holding’s regional expertise and customer-focused delivery methodology, organizations benefit from solutions that address both technical requirements and long-term business objectives.
Meeting the Growing Demand for Digital Trust
Organizations throughout the Middle East continue accelerating digital transformation initiatives that involve cloud computing, digital banking, remote work, artificial intelligence, and increasingly connected business ecosystems.
While these technologies enable innovation and operational efficiency, they also create new cybersecurity challenges related to identity protection, sensitive data security, regulatory compliance, and cyber resilience.
As cyber threats become increasingly sophisticated, organizations require comprehensive security strategies that protect information wherever it resides—whether in on-premises infrastructure, hybrid cloud environments, SaaS platforms, or distributed enterprise networks.
Digital trust has therefore become one of the most important foundations of modern business.
Organizations must ensure that sensitive information remains protected, digital identities are securely managed, encryption keys are safeguarded, and critical business systems remain resilient against both internal and external threats.
This growing demand has made advanced cybersecurity technologies an essential component of every digital transformation strategy.
Delivering Advanced Thales Cybersecurity Solutions
Through its strategic partnership with Thales, GTS Holding provides organizations with access to industry-leading cybersecurity technologies designed to protect data, identities, applications, and critical infrastructure.
These capabilities include:
- Data encryption and encryption key management
- Hardware Security Modules (HSM)
- Identity and Access Management (IAM)
- Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
- Privileged Access Management
- Data protection and compliance solutions
- Cloud security and digital identity protection
- Enterprise cybersecurity consulting and implementation
Rather than delivering standalone security products, GTS Holding works closely with customers to develop integrated cybersecurity strategies tailored to their operational requirements, regulatory obligations, and long-term business objectives.
This consultative approach enables organizations to strengthen cyber resilience while supporting secure digital innovation.
A Partnership Focused on Customer Success
The partnership between GTS Holding and Thales extends beyond technology implementation.
Both organizations share a common vision of helping enterprises establish trusted digital environments where users, applications, devices, and data can interact securely without compromising operational efficiency.
This collaborative approach combines Thales’ global cybersecurity innovation with GTS Holding’s deep understanding of regional market requirements, regulatory frameworks, and enterprise business challenges.
By leveraging local expertise supported by world-class technologies, customers benefit from comprehensive cybersecurity solutions delivered through highly skilled consultants, certified engineers, and experienced project teams.
This partnership has enabled GTS Holding to successfully support organizations across banking, financial services, government, healthcare, telecommunications, energy, manufacturing, and other critical sectors where protecting sensitive information is essential to business continuity.
Leadership Perspective
Commenting on the recognition, Eng. Ayman Al Sayed, Co-Founder and Managing Director of GTS Holding, said:
“Being recognized as Thales Emerging Partner of the Year 2025 is a significant milestone for GTS Holding. It reflects the strength of our partnership with Thales, the dedication of our teams, and our shared commitment to delivering cybersecurity solutions that enable trust, resilience, and long-term value for organizations across the region. As digital transformation continues to accelerate, we remain focused on helping our customers secure their most valuable assets through innovation, expertise, and trusted technology partnerships.”
Mohamed Mady, Technical Director of GTS Holding, added:
“Cybersecurity today extends far beyond protecting infrastructure—it is about establishing digital trust across every aspect of an organization’s operations. Through our partnership with Thales, we help customers implement comprehensive security architectures that protect identities, safeguard sensitive information, and ensure compliance with evolving regulatory requirements. This recognition reflects our engineering expertise and our commitment to delivering world-class cybersecurity solutions.”
Strengthening GTS Holding’s Regional Cybersecurity Leadership
The Emerging Partner of the Year 2025 recognition further strengthens GTS Holding’s growing portfolio of strategic partnerships with leading global cybersecurity vendors.
The company continues investing in advanced technical certifications, engineering development, cybersecurity consulting capabilities, and solution specializations that enable customers to address increasingly sophisticated cyber threats.
By combining global technologies with local expertise, GTS Holding supports organizations throughout Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates with consistent engineering excellence and customer-focused service delivery.
This regional approach enables multinational organizations to work with a trusted partner capable of delivering integrated cybersecurity solutions across multiple markets while maintaining the highest standards of quality and technical expertise.
Looking Ahead
Receiving the Thales Emerging Partner of the Year 2025 award marks another important milestone in GTS Holding’s continued growth and reinforces its commitment to advancing cybersecurity innovation throughout the Middle East.
The company will continue strengthening its partnership with Thales while expanding its cybersecurity portfolio, investing in technical expertise, and helping organizations confidently navigate increasingly complex digital environments.
GTS Holding extends its sincere appreciation to Thales for this prestigious recognition and for its continued trust and collaboration. The company also thanks its customers, partners, and dedicated team members whose expertise, professionalism, and commitment to excellence made this achievement possible.
Together with Thales, GTS Holding remains committed to building secure, resilient, and future-ready digital ecosystems that empower organizations to innovate with confidence while protecting their most critical information and digital assets.
About GTS Holding
Founded in 2018, GTS Holding is a regional technology solutions provider specializing in cybersecurity, enterprise networking, cloud infrastructure, managed services, and digital transformation. Headquartered in Egypt with operations across Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, GTS partners with globally recognized technology leaders to deliver secure, scalable, and future-ready technology solutions. Through engineering excellence, strategic partnerships, and customer-centric innovation, GTS Holding helps organizations strengthen cyber resilience, modernize IT infrastructure, and accelerate digital transformation across the Middle East.
Learn more about GTS Holding: https://gtsholding.net/about-us/
About Thales
Thales is a global technology leader with more than 80,000 employees operating across aerospace, defense, digital identity, cybersecurity, and secure communications. Through its Cybersecurity Products portfolio, Thales helps organizations protect identities, applications, data, and critical infrastructure with advanced solutions including encryption, Hardware Security Modules (HSMs), Identity and Access Management (IAM), Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), cloud security, and data protection technologies. Trusted by governments, financial institutions, and enterprises worldwide, Thales enables organizations to build secure digital ecosystems while accelerating innovation and regulatory compliance.
Learn more about Thales Cybersecurity Products: https://cpl.thalesgroup.com/