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2025.08.06

Five Engineers Certified in Zscaler's Partner Technical Community Program "Zscaler Aces"

AP Communications Co., Ltd. is pleased to announce that five engineers (Yasuhiro Yamane, Hiroki Yamada, Akihiro Hiramitsu, Naoto Shimada, and Mihoko Surizaki) belonging to the 0-WAN project in the BzD Department of our iTOC Division have been certified in "Zscaler Aces," a global technical program for partners deployed by Zscaler, Inc. (hereinafter "Zscaler").


■ About "Zscaler Aces"

Zscaler Aces is an exclusive partner technical community gathering the "best of the best" skilled professionals who collaborate effectively with Zscaler to drive customer transformation and security protection.

The Zscaler Aces program provides Zscaler’s outstanding technical pre-sales partners with a community and resources to drive customer success. By investing in these partners, the program aims to further spread the benefits of zero-trust architecture and effectively introduce cutting-edge Zscaler solutions to address customers' most critical initiatives.

By making additional investments in outstanding technical partners, this program further accelerates success for the partners' businesses, Zscaler, and most importantly, their mutual customers.

Membership in Zscaler Aces is selected and maintained based on the following criteria:

  • Performance as a Zscaler pre-sales expert in customer engagements.
  • Zscaler educational track record.
  • Demonstrated overall commitment to zero-trust evangelism and partnership.

■ About Our Certification

Five members from our zero-trust business "0-WAN" team were certified. This is the result of high recognition among Zscaler partners in Japan for our advanced technical capabilities and our track record of customer-oriented proposals, implementation, and operational support.

In particular, the following points were emphasized for the certification:

Holding relevant certifications:

Having engineers who hold the following certifications and possess broad knowledge of Zscaler from both sales and technical perspectives:

  • Zscaler Technical Associate (ZTA)
  • Zscaler Certified Sales Engineer (ZCSE)
  • Zscaler Digital Transformation Administrator (ZDTA)

Contribution to Zscaler's popularization:

Conducting activities to raise awareness of Zscaler among a wide audience through writing blogs and speaking at events.

Recommendation from Zscaler:

In addition to a track record of Zscaler implementation and support, building strong relationships of trust with customers and Zscaler employees, cooperating in cultivating new products and solving challenges, and having activities to spread Zscaler's value recognized by Zscaler.

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