Once again this year, WatchGuard has been named a Grand Trophy Winner in Info Security Products Guide’s Global Excellence Awards. WatchGuard took home eight total awards for ISPG’s 2018 awards program, including Gold in the Advanced Persistent Threat Detection and Response category for WatchGuard APT Blocker. We’re proud to have so many of our products and services … [Read more...]
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Reducing Total Cost of Ownership for Managed Security Service Providers
WatchGuard’s investment towards enabling MSSP Partners includes continued enhancements to our program, products, and ecosystem. Managed service providers often deploy and manage products from a variety of solution vendors, including within their customers’ IT ecosystems as well their own environments. Managing these multiple products together and integrating them with custom … [Read more...]
Configuration Management to the Rescue: Patching and S3 Buckets
I recently wrote a two-part series of articles for Dark Reading on the technical and organizational challenges that make patching hard in large organizations like Equifax. The same types of issues factor into the recent rash of AWS S3 Bucket breaches I examined in a prior Secplicity blog post. In each of these scenarios, someone in the organization is responsible for updating a … [Read more...]
The Black Swan in Security Statistics ~ Zero Day Malware
Using a risk model based on security statistics is a valid and useful approach to defending against cyber attacks. A company can decide that if one type of attack is affecting a large percentage of companies, then chances are, they may be next. The company can take steps to defend against that attack. However, sometimes past statistics are not enough and can be … [Read more...]
Serve Good Guys Top-Notch Wi-Fi and Bad Guys a Slice of “Keep it Moving” Pie
WatchGuard recently released the AP420, a high-density indoor 802.11ac Wave 2 access point with a unique twist: it contains a dedicated 3rd radio for continuous WIPS (Wireless Intrusion Prevention System) security protection and RF scanning. Where other enterprise-grade 4x4 Multi-User MIMO (MU-MIMO) access points focus only on serving up speedy Wi-Fi to users, the AP420 does … [Read more...]