WatchGuard receives Top Honors for UTM and SSL VPN

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Technologies, a global
leader of business security solutions, has announced that the company
has received two prestigious awards for its Unified Threat Management
(UTM) security appliance and for its high performance SSL VPN
offering. Presented by Network Computing and Computing Security
magazines, the WatchGuard XTM 8 Series, a high-performance
multifunction firewall appliance, received the top award of 'Unified
Threat Management Solution of the Year.' Adding to this cadence of
industry accolades, SC Magazine, the leading authority on IT
security, gave the WatchGuard SSL 560 a 5-star review as well as
their coveted 'recommended' designation in a group test of SSL VPN
appliances. The WatchGuard SSL 560 received 5-stars in all the review
categories: Features, Ease of use, Performance, Documentation,
Support, Value for Money, and Overall Rating. “As a leader of UTM and
VPN
solutions, WatchGuard is pleased to receive these two awards,” said
Eric Aarrestad, VP-Marketing, WatchGuard Technologies. “These
awards reiterate what so many of our customers and channel partners
say — WatchGuard solutions provide unparalleled protection and
functionality that simply cannot be beat in terms of performance,
capability and total cost of ownership.”

WatchGuard XTM 8
Series — UTM
Solution of the Year

Built for speed, the WatchGuard XTM 8
Series delivers 5Gbps firewall throughput, making it ideal for
demanding networks of 1,000 to 5,000 users. With full security
features activated, the XTM 8 Series achieves a
faster-than-line-speed 1.2Gbps throughput, which represents a major
leap forward for unified threat management appliances in delivering
high security without compromising network performance.

WatchGuard SSL VPN
Solutions — Making
Remote Access Easy

Nimble by design, the WatchGuard SSL
560 comes ready to go out of the box as an easy-to-install appliance
that almost anyone can set up and run. With its installation wizards,
the 'time to value' of the WatchGuard SSL 560 is measured in minutes.
Because of its comprehensive authentication technology, the
WatchGuard SSL 560 allows businesses the flexibility of defining user
databases on-board the appliance, or integrating with other
third-party authentication systems, such as LDAP, Active Directory,
or RADIUS.

To help road warriors, WatchGuard
provides Desktop Sharing and Remote Assist. This feature allows
administrators or business channel partners to initiate connections
to remote devices, such as laptops, from their helpdesk. They can
then take control of and diagnose remote user issues quickly and
easily, thus saving time and helping to keep road warriors productive
in the field. Leveraging WatchGuard's security heritage and
technology portfolio, the WatchGuard SSL 560 provides unmatched
security features for remote workers. With its deep device
examination, end-point integrity checking functionality, businesses
can easily create and enforce security policies to ensure connecting
devices have firewall protection and up to date anti-virus
definitions so that only healthy and policy compliant devices are on
the network.

Frost
and Sullivan awards WatchGuard