SEATTLE – August 15, 2014 — WatchGuard® Technologies, a leader in integrated security platforms, today announced that it has been named a "Leader" in Gartner's 2014 Unified Threat Management (UTM) Magic Quadranti for the fifth consecutive year. With award-winningii solutions like WatchGuard Dimension™, and new best-of-breed services, such as APT Blocker and Data Loss Prevention (DLP), the company continues to deliver innovative security solutions that help customers and partners secure networks around the world.
According to the report, "The Leaders Quadrant contains vendors at the forefront of making and selling UTM products that are built for midsize-business requirements. The requirements necessary for leadership include a wide range of models to cover midsize-business use cases, support for multiple features, and a management and reporting capability that's designed for ease of use. Vendors in this quadrant lead the market in offering new safeguarding features, and in enabling customers to deploy them inexpensively without significantly affecting the end-user experience or increasing staffing burdens. These vendors also have a good track record of avoiding vulnerabilities in their security products. Common characteristics include reliability, consistent throughput, and products that are intuitive to manage and administer."
"We're excited to be named a leader for the fifth consecutive year in this UTM report," said Dave R. Taylor, vice president of product and corporate strategy at WatchGuard Technologies. "WatchGuard's unique platform-oriented approach makes it simple for us to quickly respond to emerging threats by providing our customers and partners best-of-breed security modules integrated into a single, seamless, cloud-based console. And, our new visibility solution, WatchGuard Dimension, delivers a suite of big data reporting tools that instantly help isolate and distill key security threats."
WatchGuard's family of UTM and NGFW security appliances run on Fireware®, a complete security platform designed to run full versions of the leading security engines in every category. WatchGuard's best-of-breed security tools include DLP, APT, Intrusion Prevention, Reputation Enabled Defense, spamBlocker, Gateway AntiVirus, WebBlocker, Application Control and Packet Filtering. Fireware is built to take advantage of the latest processors and technology from Intel and Freescale, with no proprietary hardware required, making WatchGuard the highest performingiii, all-in-one network security platform.