Awards and Reviews

WatchGuard’s Michelle Welch, Mark Romano, Himanshu Verma, Bryce Hjalseth and Coletta Vigh have been recognized as CRN 2019 Channel Chiefs for their exceptional leadership, vision and commitment to the WatchGuardONE channel partner program.

WatchGuard has been awarded three honors at Info Security Products Guide’s Global Excellence Awards this year, including a Gold title for AuthPoint in the Authentication Solution (Multi, Single or Two-Factor) category.

WatchGuard was named “Security Vendor of the Year” at the Channelnomics Innovation Awards, a prestigious program recognizing leaders in the channel.

WatchGuard’s AuthPoint has been named the winner in the “Security – Network” category in CRN’s 2018 Tech Innovators Awards.

WatchGuard wins two 2018 Cyber Defense Global Awards: “Leader Unified Threat Management (UTM)” for Firebox M270, and “Leader Multi-Factor Authentication” for AuthPoint.

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.