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By WatchGuard
New AI-powered security workforce capabilities, modern firewall innovations, and frictionless secure access help MSPs scale security operations and combat increasingly automated threats.
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By Pedro Costa
Organizations today face a common challenge: networks are growing, wireless connectivity is supporting more users and devices, and security threats continue to evolve. At the same time, IT teams are expected to deliver stronger protection, better performance, and greater visibility without increasing operational complexity. To help organizations meet these demands, WatchGuard is introducing three new additions to its Network Security portfolio: Firebox T175, Prime Security Suite, and AP340 Wi‑Fi 7.
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By WatchGuard
Former Sophos and SonicWall channel leader joins WatchGuard to accelerate a frictionless partner experience and unified go-to-market strategy.
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By Iratxe Vazquez
Security teams have spent years improving their ability to detect and respond to cyber threats. More visibility, better tools, and richer telemetry have helped organizations identify suspicious activity across users, devices, applications, and infrastructure. But the nature of the challenge is changing. Modern attacks are rarely defined by a single event.
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By Adam Winston
Every vendor this year says the same thing: AI is transforming cybersecurity. True, and not useful. Here is the useful version. AI is doing two things at once. It is compressing the time between a vulnerability being found and being exploited, which is the part everyone talks about. And it is quietly installing a brand new attack surface inside your clients' businesses, which is the part nobody is selling against yet.
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By Matthew Terry
HTTPS protects communications between users and the services they access by encrypting data in transit. That makes it much harder for someone to intercept and read that information. But there is a trade-off: encryption can also prevent security controls from seeing what is inside the traffic they are supposed to protect. Your Firebox may know that a user is connecting to a website or service. Without HTTPS inspection, however, it may have limited visibility into what is actually being exchanged.
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By WatchGuard
Lower network volume masks broader probing, greater evasion and persistent TLS exposure.
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By Corey Nachreiner
Cybersecurity teams have spent years preparing for malware, ransomware, and high-volume attacks. Yet the latest WatchGuard Global Threat Report reveals a more nuanced and potentially more dangerous reality: attackers are becoming quieter, more evasive, and increasingly reliant on stolen credentials, legitimate tools, encrypted communications, and long-known vulnerabilities. For MSPs and IT leaders, the challenge isn't simply understanding these trends.
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By Tracy Hillstrom
If you've glanced at a vulnerability tracker lately, the numbers look alarming. The Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST) now projects roughly 66,000 CVEs will be published in 2026; up from a February forecast of 59,427 and closing in on 70,000 by some counts. That would follow a record 2025, which finished at roughly 48,000 disclosed CVEs, itself a sharp climb from about 40,000 the year before. It's tempting to read that curve as a sign that software is getting worse. It isn't.
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By The Editor
Guest post by Neil Holme, Founder and CEO of Impact Business Technology, a WatchGuard partner. The cloud environments MSPs manage change every week. Clients adopt new SaaS applications, AI tools, and collaboration services, making it difficult to track what is in use, how it is configured, and which access permissions remain active. Exposure grows without a clear warning sign until an incident occurs. The cloud is also the fastest-growing attack surface an MSP manages.
Hear directly from some of the industry's most influential MSP leaders as they share their perspectives on the future of managed services and the evolving cybersecurity landscape. From AI and security services to profitability, customer expectations, and business growth, discover how leading MSPs are adapting to change, navigating new challenges, and preparing for what's next.
Live from Nashville, Joe Smolarski announces big innovations to the WatchGuard Unified Security Platform, including: Agentic AI, Shadow AI, T175, Network management and more.
Vince Hwang announces new innovations to the WatchGuard Unified Security Platform.
This week on the podcast, we cover a few takeaways from Microsoft's recent Digital Defense Report. Before that, we discuss the recent Citrix Netscaler zero-days that were potentially under active exploit for weeks before disclosure before reviewing an interesting a bug bounty report on a Microsoft internal tool that was exposed externally.
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30,000+ devices compromised. 7,000+ crypto wallets targeted. Roughly $10M stolen. And that’s only one story. This week on The 443: Security Simplified, Marc Laliberte and Corey Nachreiner unpack a new wave of security incidents where identity, access, and AI collide. They cover: WaterPlum activity spanning 100+ countries More than 7,000 cryptocurrency wallets impacted, worth roughly $10M ShinyHunters’ claimed theft of 3 TB of FBI-related data An AI agent reportedly accessing Australian government health data beyond its intended permissions.
This week on the podcast, we cover yet another rogue AI security incident that Australia's Prime Minister disclosed in front of the United Nations last week. Before that, we discuss an FBI alert on WaterPlum, a North Korean threat actor targeting IT professionals. Then, we cover the FBI themselves becoming a victim of cyberattack, this time by ShinyHunters.
Most MSP client reviews cover what got installed. The endpoint agent was deployed, the firewall rules were tuned, and the tickets were closed inside the SLA. Meanwhile, boards, insurers, and auditors are asking for something more: a clear account of the business's current security and compliance risks. The partner who can provide that answer earns client trust and increases credibility.
This week on the podcast, we break down how a heap overflow in an image-decoding library nobody thinks about became a pull request inside OpenAI's internal monorepo. Three researchers chained it with an OpenAI single sign-on flaw to hijack employee ChatGPT and Codex accounts in under 72 hours; and had an AI write the exploit for them. Before that, we cover the actively exploited maximum-severity authentication bypass in Cisco's Identity Services Engine. Then we close with RatHat, a new Android malware that enables Wireless Debugging, reads its own pairing code from the screen, and asks a commercial AI assistant where to tap.
Artificial intelligence is no longer a future consideration for MSPs because it is already reshaping how leading providers run their businesses, protect their clients, and create new revenue streams. Separating real business value from hype requires a clear-eyed, practitioner-driven perspective.
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By WatchGuard
Ransomware is one of the most talked about and publicized security threats in the modern era. What started as a few high-profile attacks caused by a handful of malware variants has developed into a virulent threat landscape in which increasingly unskilled attackers are able to execute highly effective ransomware campaigns against organizations of all sizes and levels of complexity. Small-to-midsize businesses disproportionately fall victim to ransomware, as they often lack the technical skills and tools needed to prevent infection.
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By WatchGuard
Risk-based authentication both enhances security and user experience by allowing you to rank the resources you want to protect based on risk level and type of user. This gives you the power to create rules that are unique to the security structure in your organization, therefore enabling more flexibility or higher protection only when necessary.
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By WatchGuard
Cyber attacks grab headlines almost daily. WatchGuard's award-winning network security platform not only provides one of the most complete suites of unified security controls on the market today to detect and prevent these attacks, but our strategy of sourcing the best scanning engines to integrate with our built-in defenses boosts security in critical attack areas. Take a closer look at the WatchGuard security platform's all-star team of best-in-class threat management services.
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By WatchGuard
In this eBook we provide you with suggestions on how to start providing some basic but vital security services that will improve the security posture of your customers while increasing your Average Revenue (ARPU), such as endpoint security set-up and monitoring.
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By WatchGuard
If you are in the retail or hospitality industries, it's important to know exactly how your network security solution maps to PCI DSS standards. This white paper presents a straight-forward review of PCI requirements and how the WatchGuard platform delivers the capabilities you need to ensure mandates are met.
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By WatchGuard
The coronavirus pandemic has exposed business continuity inadequacies at many organizations, and highlighted the slow pace of progress in digital transformation. This new reality necessitates a departure from a traditional network-centric security model that assumes every device and user within the network should be trusted. In this eBook we will explore how the dynamics of COVID-19 have impacted security, outline the importance of a zero-trust approach, and discuss how WatchGuard can help your business deliver the security you need during these trying times.
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By WatchGuard
Respected PCI-Qualified Security Assessor Coalfire recently completed a technical assessment of the WatchGuard Threat Detection and Response (TDR) solution, validating it for PCI DSS anti-malware use cases. Download the whitepaper to learn more!
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By WatchGuard
The coronavirus pandemic has exposed business continuity inadequacies at many organizations, and highlighted the slow pace of progress in digital transformation. This new reality necessitates a departure from a traditional network-centric security model that assumes every device and user within the network should be trusted.
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WatchGuard has deployed nearly a million integrated, multi-function threat management appliances worldwide. Our signature red boxes are architected to be the industry's smartest, fastest, and meanest security devices with every scanning engine running at full throttle.
For 25 years, WatchGuard has pioneered cutting-edge cybersecurity technology and delivered it as easy-to-deploy and easy-to-manage solutions. With industry-leading network and endpoint security, secure Wi-Fi, multi-factor authentication, and network intelligence products and services, WatchGuard enables more than 250,000 small and midsize enterprises from around the globe to protect their most important assets including over 10 million endpoints.
The WatchGuard Difference:
- Intelligent Protection: Effective protection against today’s vast number of evolving threats requires multiple services working intelligently together. Prevent, detect, and instantly respond to cyber attacks with automated policies.
- Simplified Management: Managing security across your organization has never been simpler. Use out-of-the-box tools to quickly and easily deploy, configure, and maintain your security with the granularity of your choice.
- Actionable Visiblity: Monitor and report on the health of your IT infrastructure. Actionable visibility tools enable you to proactively identify threats, while providing corrective action against known issues.
In a world where the cybersecurity landscape is constantly evolving, and new threats emerge each day, WatchGuard makes enterprise-grade cybersecurity technology accessible for every company.