Recently, I was lucky enough to be one of the honored recipients of the 2016 North America Frost & Sullivan Award for Embedded Security for Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) Customer Value Leadership. Held at a banquet in Santa Clara, California, I was surrounded by elegance and excitement, the event brought together top executives to celebrate their achievements.
Each year, Frost & Sullivan presents this award to the company that has demonstrated excellence in implementing strategies that proactively create value for its customers with a focus on enhancing the return on the investment that customers make in its services or products. The award recognises the company's inordinate focus on enhancing the value that its customers receive, beyond simply good customer service, leading to improved customer retention and ultimately customer base expansion. We were praised for our IoT portfolio, our traction in the market and of course our strength as a security company and the scale at which we already operate in enterprise security.
This award is particularly significant because it comes from Frost & Sullivan, a firm that possesses deep relationships and insights into the Enterprise IoT world. The companies that were recognized at the event were not just security or software companies. I had the pleasure of meeting a wide range of individuals who are working on some exciting tools, from creating new connected medical devices or industrial sensors to companies that provide services that determine the location of these connected devices.
This was a great event and I am honored to be part of Symantec and recognized by Frost & Sullivan. I believe that IoT is still in its infancy and we have a lot to do but events like this not only give us a chance to get together but also provide us with an opportunity to learn, collaborate and make a difference.