Awards and Recognition

WatchGuard has been recognized with three awards in Network Products Guide’s 2019 IT World Awards, including Gold security product awards for WatchGuard Cloud and Firebox M270, and Gold for Corey Nachreiner in the “CTO of the Year” category.

WatchGuard’s Firebox M270 has been recognized as the Best SME Security Solution at the 2019 SC Awards Europe.

WatchGuard’s dedication to partner enablement earned the MSSP Ally of the Year award in Channel Partner Insight’s 2019 MSP Innovation Awards program.

CRN has named four members of WatchGuard’s leadership – Michelle Welch, Shari McLaren, Coletta Vigh and Maria Pinto – to its Women of the Channel list for 2019. Welch has also been recognized in CRN’s 2019 Power 100.

For the fourth year in a row, CRN has recognized WatchGuard Technologies in its annual Mobility 100 list, naming WatchGuard as one of the “30 Coolest Mobile Device Management And Security Companies” of 2019.

WatchGuard’s Firebox M270 with Total Security Suite has finished at the top of its class with an outstanding review from SC Labs’ SIEM and UTM-NGFW products group test.

WatchGuard AP125 earned a prestigious Editor’s Choice Award from Technology Reseller Magazine for its industry-leading security, high performance and scalability.

CRN has once again recognized WatchGuard with a prestigious 5-Star rating in its annual Partner Program Guide for 2019.

WatchGuard has been recognized with Cyber Defense Magazine 2019 InfoSec Awards in three impressive categories, including Editor’s Choice for Security Company of the Year!

For the fourth year in a row, CRN has named WatchGuard to its annual Security 100 list, recognizing WatchGuard as one of the 20 Coolest Network Security Vendors again for 2019.

WatchGuard once again earned high praise at the 2019 Cybersecurity Excellence awards, receiving Gold for the Multi-Factor Authentication category and Silver for the Network Security and Best Cybersecurity Company categories.

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.