WatchGuard Named Leader and Outperformer in the 2025 GigaOm Radar for EDR
WatchGuard® Technologies has been recognized as both a Leader and an Outperformer in the 2025 GigaOm Radar Report for Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR). Out of more than 25 vendors evaluated, WatchGuard is recognized as a top Innovator and ranked highly for the core EDR capabilities.
The GigaOm Radar Report for EDR evaluates and highlights leading endpoint detection and response (EDR) vendors, providing IT decision-makers with the insights they need to choose the best solution for their business. In its latest Radar Report, which evaluates EDR market categories and solution deployment types based on critical criteria, GigaOm distinguished WatchGuard as an Outperformer, “due to its delivery of an extensive array of innovative features, consistent release cadence, and execution against an ambitious roadmap.”
This recognition highlights WatchGuard’s strength in delivering a precise and powerful endpoint security solution that unifies prevention, detection, and investigation within a single, easy-to-use platform. This capability has become critical as organizations confront increasingly sophisticated threats.
“Our customers already know they get elevated protection from our innovative endpoint capabilities like the Zero-Trust Application Service and it’s exciting to see that reflected in the latest GigaOm EDR Radar report,” said Andrew Young, Chief Product Officer at WatchGuard Technologies. “Being named both a Leader and an Outperformer underscores our commitment to simplifying security while delivering the industry’s most advanced and unified defenses through an intuitive, easy-to-use platform.”
What GigaOm Says About WatchGuard
The report highlights strong scores for WatchGuard Advanced EPDR (AEPDR) across several decision criteria, including:
- Zero-Trust Application Service: this unique service, included at no charge with WatchGuard AEPDR, prevents the execution of any unknown or malicious application by autonomously classifying 100% of processes before running. By classifying every single process before it runs, organizations are confident that they don’t have to worry about suspicious files entering their networks.
- Strong MITRE ATT&CK support: security analysts get enriched telemetry, mapped to the MITRE ATT&CK framework, that combines IoAs, extended events, CAPA insights, threat intelligence, and attack graphs. This enables rapid correlation and deep dives into attack tactics and techniques. This visibility enables faster, more accurate investigations and responses, providing real-time security against attacks.
- AI-driven proactive threat hunting: our AI-powered AEPDR includes a generative AI assistant that enables natural language queries across the telemetry data. With WatchGuard AEPDR, security teams can continuously monitor endpoint activity, empowering them to detect and investigate even the most subtle signs of potential breaches, ensuring no threat goes unnoticed.
- Unified cloud-native architecture: our endpoint services use a cloud-based console, lightweight agent, and collective intelligence to stop malware and ransomware across Linux, macOS, and Windows.
WatchGuard Excels in Innovation
As the threat landscape continues to evolve, it is critical that our business does too. This is why innovation is central to our approach to endpoint security. WatchGuard’s ‘Leader’ ranking in the GigaOm Radar Innovation/Platform Play quadrant is driven by:
- AI-powered signal correlation, which correlates data from endpoint, identity, and network signals to enhance detection, providing a comprehensive view and enabling faster, more accurate responses, to deliver cross-product visibility and orchestrated response.
- Zero Trust by default leverages advanced AI models and expert rules to classify activity as trusted, suspicious, or malicious. It enforces Zero Trust policies by default (blocking unknown applications until classified) and provides continuous protection ‒ even when the device is offline.
- Supply-chain risk mitigation and XDR integration continuously monitor application behavior throughout its lifecycle using zero trust principles, generic threat signatures, and behavioral engines, reducing attacker entry points.
- GenAI Telemetry Assistant provides multilingual, LLM-powered conversational access to enriched endpoint telemetry, speeding up (not replacing) analyst-led security investigations with more accurate, intuitive insights.
Why WatchGuard’s Endpoint Security Solution Matters for MSPs: Proven Outcomes
- Prevention: The Zero-Trust Application Service attests 100% of executable pre-execution to stop unknown malware and ransomware before they run.
- Attack Surface Reduction: Close entry points with a broad set of built-in controls and policy-driven safeguards to make endpoints less exposed. Unified multi-tenant policies cut tool sprawl and friction.
- Detection and containment: AI-powered models enable context-aware behavioral detection with autonomous on-device enforcement. Endpoint Access Enforcement halts lateral movement by denying inbound peer connections from non-compliant endpoints.
- Investigation and Response: Signals consolidate into one attack story to speed investigation and response; ThreatSync Core extends it to XDR correlation. GenAI Telemetry Assistant accelerates analyst-led investigations with natural-language telemetry queries.
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