Awards and Reviews

CRN has recognized WatchGuard Director of Product Management Himanshu Verma as one of its “100 People You Don’t Know But Should” in the IT channel for 2018.

WatchGuard Wi-Fi Cloud has been selected as a CyberSecurity Breakthrough Awards 2018 winner for one of the program’s marquee awards – "Wi-Fi Security Solution of the Year.”

WatchGuard’s Firebox T35-W has won the Gold honor for Best New Security Hardware in the 10th Annual 2018 Golden Bridge Awards.

WatchGuard Total Security Suite earned the “Highly Commended” distinction for ‘Most Innovative Managed Service Solution: Security’ at the 2018 Managed Services & Hosting Awards.

WatchGuardONE was included in CRN’s 2018 Cloud Partner Program Guide, a list of leading technology vendors with cloud-focused partner programs.

Channelnomics has named WatchGuard Technologies “Security Vendor of the Year” and awarded WatchGuard Total Security Suite the prestigious title of “Best Network Security Offering (Highly Commended)” in the inaugural Channelnomics Security Awards program.

WatchGuard’s AP420 with Secure, Cloud-Managed Wi-Fi has been awarded the Miercom Certified Secure accreditation in recognition of its superior performance compared to leading Wi-Fi solutions evaluated in an in-depth competitive security assessment.

SC Media’s Reboot Leadership Awards 2018 honored WatchGuard Technologies CIO Wayson Vannatta in the “CIO/C-Suite” category, and recognized WatchGuard Senior Security Analyst Marc Laliberte in the “Threat Seeker” category.

For the second year in a row, WatchGuard Technologies was featured as one of Washington State’s Best Workplaces, a prestigious list compiled based on employee feedback and sentiment.

WatchGuard’s AuthPoint multi-factor authentication service won a Developers’ Choice Award from HostingAdvice.com for delivering an easy-to-implement, enterprise-grade MFA solution at prices accessible to any business.

WatchGuard was voted a ChannelPro 2018 Readers’ Choice Awards winner, taking home the Bronze medal for Best Security Hardware Vendor.

WatchGuard was recognized with three honors in Network Products Guide’s 13th Annual 2018 IT World Awards, winning Gold in the Security Hardware category once again for the WatchGuard Firebox M370.

IT Pro honored WatchGuard’s Firebox T55-W with five stars and recognized the security appliance with its prestigious Editor’s Choice Award for offering a remarkable range of easily configured security features and providing excellent value.

WatchGuard Firebox T15 earned five stars from IT Pro’s expert product review team and was awarded with a prestigious Editor’s Choice recommendation for being the perfect, super-strength network security appliance for small businesses.

WatchGuard’s Coletta Vigh and Michelle Welch have been honored by CRN as part of its 2018 Women of the Channel. This also marks the third consecutive year that Vigh has earned a spot on CRN’s prestigious Power 100 list.

CRN recognized WatchGuard as one of the “30 Coolest Mobile Security and Device Management Vendors” as part of its 2018 Mobility 100 list of influential vendors that are bringing innovative mobile products and services to market.

WatchGuard was recognized as MSSP Ally of the Year at the Channelnomics MSP Awards 2018. These awards honor vendors that provide successful, effective and channel-friendly partner programs that offer significant support and innovative technologies.

WatchGuard was named a Leader in the Security Company of the Year category, WatchGuard CTO Corey Nachreiner won Editor’s Choice for CTO of the Year, and the Firebox M470 and Firebox T35 were recognized as Most Innovative in the Firewall and Unified Threat Management categories, respectively.

Once again, WatchGuard has been awarded five stars by CRN in their annual Partner Program Guide, recognizing the strongest and most successful partner programs in the channel today.

For the third year in a row, WatchGuard has been recognized as a top network security vendor by CRN's Security 100 list as one of its 20 Coolest Network Security Vendors.