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We are honored to share that WatchGuard has been recognized with six awards in the 2022 TrustRadius Top Rated Awards! WatchGuard received the Top Rated award for Network Security with WatchGuard Firebox (2 awards), WatchGuard EDPR / Adaptive Defense 360 (1 award) and AuthPoint (3 awards). For the first time since it was added to the WatchGuard portfolio, our Endpoint solutions have received the Top Rated award in the XDR category.

Multi-factor authentication prompt bombing is the strongest proof that not all MFA solutions are secure. This social engineering technique has been generating a lot of interest in recent weeks as cybercriminal groups have deployed it successfully as in the case of the Lapsus$ attacks.

We are honored to announce that WatchGuard was named a Grand Globee Winner at the 2022 Globee Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, and Operations Awards! This annual awards program honors industry-wide individuals and teams that create great experiences for their customers. WatchGuard was recognized for its philosophy of technician enablement and continued upgrades to processes and applications to make the team even more effective in assisting customers.

Tech decision makers surveyed by Pulse admitted last year that nearly 3 out of 4 companies (71%) experienced a ransomware incident and at least 12% of these incidents involved payments. This shows that ransomware attacks are proving to be a lucrative business for malicious cyber actors as they constantly put organizations’ cybersecurity measures to the test in a host of different sectors where different IT architectures are used.

Teaching about password security in the early 2000s would usually start with a question to the audience: how many of you have up to 10 passwords to remember? How about 25? Anyone with more than 50? Today I usually start with “how many credentials do you believe to have still active? Less than a hundred?”

Zero-trust network architecture (ZTNA) provides a holistic view of business cybersecurity that secures your applications and environment when accessed by any user, device, or location. A comprehensive zero-trust model enables you to mitigate, detect and respond to threats.

According to Gartner, by 2025, 80% of enterprises will have adopted a strategy to unify web, Cloud services and private application access from a single vendor’s security service edge (SSE). We know that cybersecurity is a top priority for IT funding. Business owners and CISOs need to invest in security technologies in a way that will drive resilience and promote productivity among their – probably largely digital – businesses.