WatchGuard Technologies, Inc

WatchGuard Technologies, Inc.

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Type	Privately held company
Industry	Network security
Founded	1996
Headquarters	Seattle, Washington
Key people	Prakash Panjwani CEO Richard Barber, CFO Corey Nachreiner, CTO
Products	Unified threat management (UTM), Extensible Threat Management (XTM), Firewalls, Next-Generation Firewall, Email and Web Content Filtering, Antivirus, Intrusion-prevention system, Antispyware, Antispam, Application Control, VPN, Web filtering
Number of employees	470 (2016)
Website	www.watchguard.com

WatchGuard Technologies is a provider of integrated network security firewall products and services to small and medium organizations and distributed enterprises. WatchGuard competes in the Unified Threat Management (UTM) and Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) space against Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, Fortinet, Cyberoam, Check Point and Juniper among others.

Products and Services

• Next-Generation Firewall:

WatchGuard's Next Generation Firewall appliances provides Intrusion Prevention Service, Application Control, Data Loss Prevention, APT Blocker and Support Service Subscription.

• Unified Threat Management:

WatchGuard's Unified Threat Management appliances provides Intrusion Prevention Service, Application Control, Gateway AntiVirus, spamBlocker, WebBlocker, Reputation Enabled Defense, Data Loss Prevention, APT Blocker and Support Service Subscription.

• Secure Wireless:

WatchGuard's access points and management appliances extend security to the WLAN with a range of wireless access points for indoor and outdoor use, and can configure and manage all wired and wireless networks from one console.

• Secure Email Gateway:

WatchGuard’s Secure Email Gateway (XCS) delivers defense-in-depth for email and web, including data loss prevention and protection from email and web-based threats including spam, viruses, compromised websites, blended threats, and network attacks.

• Virtual Solutions:

WatchGuard’s virtual security solutions provide deployment options for businesses of all sizes and service providers who serve traditional traditional gateway firewalls or can integrate virtual security with messaging and application servers.

WatchGuard’s products are only sold through their partner channel. The WatchGuardONE Channel Partner Program provides resellers with training, communication tools, and marketing opportunities.

External links

• Official company website
• WatchGuard Security Center