BlackFog Continues European Expansion with French Distributor Watsoft

Cheyenne, Wyoming March 19, 2020. BlackFog today announced European expansion with a distribution agreement with Watsoft, a leading French distributor and partner to resell its privacy and cybersecurity solution.

Watsoft is a value-added distributor focused on providing SMBs and MSPs with professional software solutions to help them manage and secure their information systems.  With a network of over 3300 reseller partners in France and other French speaking countries, Watsoft is committed to offering best of breed solutions to their growing customer base. With the issue of privacy now at the forefront for many organizations, Watsoft has decided to add BlackFog Privacy to their solutions portfolio.

“With BlackFog, Watsoft can offer a new privacy and security solution that bridges the gap between security solutions that focus on prevention such as firewalls, and malware solutions that remove known infections after they have been discovered. Data protection is a major concern for companies and BlackFog offers a solution that can meet today’s data privacy and security requirements,” said Oleg Bivol, president of Watsoft.

“BlackFog is excited to launch into the French market through our partnership with Watsoft. Watsoft has been providing software solutions to the SMB market since 2001 and we are confident that they are the right partner for our continued success in EMEA.” said Dr. Darren Williams, CEO and Founder of BlackFog. “We are pleased to become one of their trusted brands and we look forward to bringing BlackFog Privacy to their large and growing customer base in France and beyond.”

BlackFog will join Watsoft at the IT Partners show at Disneyland Paris on July 1^st and 2^nd, information and registration can be found on watsoft.com.

BlackFog is the category-defining vendor in anti data exfiltration (ADX). Founded in 2015, the company invented ADX on the thesis that the endpoint is the only control point capable of stopping data from leaving an organization, an architectural bet that has now been validated across three exfiltration vectors: ransomware, shadow AI, and autonomous AI agents. BlackFog’s endpoint-native platform protects more than 500 enterprises, government agencies, and critical infrastructure operators worldwide. 

The company is the publisher of the annual State of Ransomware report and the BlackFog/Sapio Shadow AI Research, the most-cited primary research in the category. BlackFog’s recognition includes the teiss Awards 2026, the AI Excellence Award 2026, the Cybersecurity Excellence Awards 2026, and the Cybersecurity Breakthrough Award. Headquartered in San Francisco with international operations in London and Belfast. Learn more at blackfog.com.

Watsoft is a value added distributor whose mission is to provide SMBs with professional software solutions to help them manage and secure their information systems since 2001. Its offer is distributed by a strong network of more than 3300 resellers in France and French speaking countries. Specificities of Watsoft: a strong MSP base, an electronic distribution mode, technical support for its resellers, a technical training offer, an efficient commercial service dedicated to resellers, and the provision of marketing tools.

To learn more, visit Watsoft’s website or Twitter, LinkedIn and YouTube.