VSHN wins ‘Biggest Microgateway Deal 2025’ at the Ergon Airlock Partner Event

On January 27th and 28th 2026, Ergon invited its partner ecosystem to the Airlock Partner Event on the Stoos – two days dedicated to collaboration, exchange and a shared view on the future of Identity Security.

VSHN was proud to join the event as an Airlock partner and to be part of an inspiring atmosphere with many interesting people, discussions and technical insights. The combination of deep conversations, strong community spirit and the impressive mountain setting made the event a special highlight right at the start of the year.

A strong partnership with Ergon and Airlock

Airlock and the Airlock Microgateway are part of Ergon’s security portfolio and play a central role in protecting critical digital services. As a partner, VSHN works closely with Ergon to help organisations operate these components reliably, securely and at scale – especially in environments where availability, compliance and trust are non-negotiable.

Events like the Airlock Partner Event or our Cloud Native Computing Meetups show how important close collaboration is when building and operating identity and access solutions that organisations can truly rely on.

Biggest Microgateway Deal 2025

A special moment for VSHN was receiving the partner award ‘Biggest Microgateway Deal 2025‘.

The award recognises our successful joint customer project with HIN – Health Info Net, Switzerland’s trusted network for the healthcare sector. Together with Ergon and Airlock, we support HIN in operating secure and highly available access infrastructure that meets the strict requirements of the healthcare ecosystem.

You can learn more about this project in our HIN (Health Info Net) Success Story.

This award is a strong confirmation of what is possible when technology, partnership and operational excellence come together.

On site with the VSHN team

Our VSHNeers Daniel Briner and Tobias Brunner represented VSHN during the two-day event and took part in many valuable conversations, sessions and partner exchanges. Both also joined interviews during the event – with more content, videos and insights to be published by Airlock in the coming days.

And last but not least: the Airlock mascot officially got a name during the event – meet Airbert.

Looking ahead

The Airlock Partner Event 2026 once again highlighted how much potential lies in strong ecosystems built on trust, openness and shared responsibility.

We are grateful for the invitation, the open exchange and the recognition of our joint work – and we are already looking forward to many more success stories with Ergon, Airlock and our customers in the future.

What is Airlock Microgateway?

Airlock is a well-established security solution by Ergon, designed to protect modern applications and APIs with strong identity and access controls. The Airlock Microgateway extends this approach into cloud-native and Kubernetes environments, enabling fine-grained access control, secure authentication flows and consistent enforcement of security policies close to the application.

For organisations running distributed, containerised workloads, the Microgateway provides a powerful foundation for Identity Security without adding unnecessary complexity to application architectures.

To make adoption and operations easier, Airlock Microgateway is available as a Managed Service on Servala – the Sovereign App Store by VSHN. This allows organisations to consume Airlock Microgateway in a fully managed, cloud-agnostic way while keeping control over data, governance and platform choices.

Learn more about the service on Servala.