WatchGuard Technologies Inc.

WatchGuard Technologies Inc. is one of technology leaders in the field of solutions on information security for business, providing protection of hundreds of thousands of companies worldwide. The WatchGuard company offers a line of wire and wireless UTM devices, devices for protection of content and e-mail and also the solutions for SSL VPN of remote access providing security blanket of network, applications and information on a row with flexible network management and control. All products WatchGuard have support in a type of a corporate online service of WatchGuard Live Security.

Hardware-software solutions of WatchGuard are high-performance devices for security of network. The family of the latest fayervol offered by the company in which the concept of Next Generation Firewall (Firewalls of new generation) is implemented represents the security gateway developed and optimized for needs of the organizations of any scale. NGFW represent multifunction solutions with an exclusive performance and the following feature set: firewalling, intrusion prevention (IPS) and control of applications.

The main objective of the firewalls developed by WatchGuard company based on Intel - compatible server platforms, with the protected Fireware XTM operating system to provide effective control and risk management, work-related modern network applications.

The hardware-software solutions WatchGuard Firebox, XTM and XCS are the integrated protection devices meeting all performance requirements, functionality and level of the provided protection for networks of any scale. Despite rather low cost, these systems combine advanced technologies, reliability and convenience of management. Besides, the product line of WatchGuard includes solutions on ensuring remote access of WatchGuard SSL VPN and firewalls of new generation WatchGuard NGFW - security gateway which is the multifunction productive solution providing firewalling, an intrusion prevention (IPS) and control of applications.

Performance Indicators

2010

Growth in sales of the solutions WatchGuard Technologies is mentioned in the following regions of the world (in comparison with the same period of 2009): China – 176.3%, India – 82.3%, Japan – 26.4%, Southern Europe – 21.3%, Canada – 19.4%, Latin America – 18.2%, Hong Kong / Taiwan – 18.2%. Record profit increase was promoted by several factors. First of all, the general sales increase of the solutions WatchGuard Technologies among the companies of small and medium business and also significant increase in interest from larger enterprises. It demonstrates that today practically all companies incline to use of multifunction means for security of corporate network.

The WatchGuard Technologies company offers seven additional services of security for the solutions WatchGuard XTM: Application Control, WebBlocker, Lock antivirus (Gateway AV), Reputation Enabled Defense (RED), spamBlocker, service of an intrusion prevention (IPS) and LiveSecurity.

History

2017: The license agreement with Bitdefender

The Bitdefender company announced on October 26, 2017 the license agreement for some checked technologies of protection against malware with WatchGuard Technologies, Inc., the developer of solutions of network security. WatchGuard and Bitdefender propose now completely integrated solution providing protection against malware on the gateway, which is specially developed for WatchGuard devices which blocks the known and unknown expanded threats, including viruses, trojans, spyware and ransomware (viruses encoders) in real time. Read more here.