Displaying items by tag: WatchGuard Technologies

COMPANY NEWS:  New executives bring breadth of cybersecurity and channel expertise to support WatchGuard’s partner-first mission.

GUEST RESEARCH:  More than two-thirds (69%) of Australian managed service providers and resellers forecast that their customers will increase their investment in cybersecurity in the new financial year with 51 per cent citing that generative AI will unlock new opportunities for work.  That’s according to a survey of 84 respondents conducted by WatchGuard Technologies at the recent Leader Expo events in Sydney and Melbourne.

COMPANY NEWS:  A new addition to WatchGuard’s ThreatSync family for unified visibility, alert correlation, and orchestrated threat response — accessible to any organization

COMPANY NEWS:  WatchGuard Technologies, a global leader in unified security, today announced that it has appointed Kyocera Australia as a second Platinum Partner in Australia and New Zealand.

GUEST OPINION:  Pushed into the mainstream as a result of the global pandemic, working from home has become a standard feature in many workplaces.

COMPANY NEWS:  Partners highly rate WatchGuard for delivering a top partner experience, programs and enablement, and sales engagement.

GUEST RESEARCH: WatchGuard Technologies, a global leader in unified cybersecurity, today announced the findings of its latest Internet Security Report, detailing the top malware trends and network and endpoint security threats analysed by WatchGuard Threat Lab researchers. Key findings from the data show increasing instances of remote access software abuse, the rise of cyber adversaries using password-stealers and info-stealers to thieve valuable credentials, and threat actors pivoting from utilising scripting to employing other living-off-the-land techniques to initiate an endpoint attack.

COMPANY NEWS: WatchGuard Technologies, a global leader in unified cybersecurity, today announced the release of its 2024 Cybersecurity Predictions. WatchGuard’s latest annual batch of predictions covers the most prominent attacks and information security trends that the WatchGuard Threat Lab research team believes will emerge in 2024, including malicious prompt engineering tricks targeting large language models (LLMs), managed service providers (MSPs) doubling down on unified security platforms with heavy automation, “Vishers” scaling their malicious operations with AI-based voice chatbots, hacks on modern VR/MR headsets, and more.

COMPANY NEWS:  Amid rising customer demand for MDR, the new offering allows MSPs to offer 24/7 threat detection and response services to customers without the burden of building and managing an in-house SOC.

Security specialist WatchGuard Technologies has acquired CyGlass Technology Services, a cloud and network-centric threat detection and response provider.

GUEST OPINION: Despite high levels of awareness and significant investments in security measures, ransomware remains one of the biggest security challenges faced by organisations around the globe.

COMPANY NEWS: WatchGuard Technologies, a global leader in unified cybersecurity, announced today it has hired HoJin Kim as the company's new senior vice president and chief revenue officer. In this role, HoJin will lead WatchGuard's worldwide sales organisation and be responsible for driving revenue growth, scaling and expanding the global sales organisation, and driving the adoption of WatchGuard's Unified Security Platform framework within the MSP community.

GUEST OPINION: Just as the COVID pandemic changed working patterns for most businesses, it also had significant implications for the higher-education sector.

GUEST OPINION: As businesses come to terms with the long-term impacts of the COVID pandemic, many are changing the way they think about workplaces.

GUEST OPINION: Effectively securing an organisation's IT infrastructure from cyberthreats is a complex task, yet there is one simple step that can make an immediate difference: installing software patches.

GUEST OPINION: As the days lengthen and temperatures rise, the thoughts of Australian workers turn to end-of-year holidays. With travel possible once more, many are planning trips away to catch up with family and friends.

COMPANY NEWS: WatchGuard Technologies, a global leader in unified cybersecurity, today announced that its AuthPoint multi-factor authentication (MFA) solution has earned a Performance Verified certification from Miercom, an independent testing and certification service. Evaluating AuthPoint against competing solutions across a wide range of categories, Miercom found that WatchGuard's MFA solution offered greater functionality at a lower cost, easier setup and administration, and a better end-user experience.

GUEST OPINION: It's easy for vendors to focus all their efforts on larger resellers but supporting smaller ones to flourish and grow is just as important.

GUEST OPINION: Like them or loathe them, passwords remain an important component of IT security within all businesses. Used to secure everything from email servers and databases to cloud resources and remote networks, they’ve been part of the IT landscape since business computing was first introduced.

Security vendor WatchGuard Technologies has agreed a deal with Vector Capital to make a large new equity investment in the business, acquire interests held by certain other investors, and become the company's majority shareholder.