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WatchGuard® Technologies, a global leader of business security solutions, today announced its foray into the messaging and content-security markets with the launch of the new WatchGuard XCS (Extensible Content Security) platform. As a comprehensive platform for business email and Web 2.0 content security, the WatchGuard XCS platform combines innovative cloud-based security, data-loss prevention and advanced messaging-security technologies into a single, easy-to-use appliance that defends businesses against phishing attacks, identity theft, viruses, malware, data loss, and other forms of network, application and data threats.“Next-generation threats are becoming more sophisticated and stealthy. Because of this, businesses today face unprecedented risk and exposure from email and web-related threats,” said Joe Wang, CEO, WatchGuard Technologies. “By combining WatchGuard’s state-of-the-art multifunction firewall appliances with the new XCS line of messaging and content-security solutions, businesses gain a complete, multifaceted and multi-layered defence architecture that is highly effective, extremely efficient and easy to manage.”
According to market research, the estimated total addressable market for messaging and web content security is US$6.8 billion for 2010, and is expected to grow at 11.2 per cent per year. Similar in size, the addressable market for WatchGuard’s current family of multifunction firewall and SSL VPN solutions is US$4.7 billion with a compound annual growth rate of 9.9 per cent. With today’s launch of the WatchGuard XCS platform, WatchGuard nearly doubles its reach to an addressable market of US$11.5 billion, which is expected to hit US$15 billion by 2012.
Similarly, the growth of email and web-related threats is expected to increase exponentially. WatchGuard security analysts predict that messaging and web-based content threats will increase by a 3x factor in 2010. Contributing to this, WatchGuard security analysts predict that polymorphic viruses, botnets and blended threats will propagate in new ways, fuelled by social networking, collaboration applications and other Web 2.0 venues.
“With the expected growth of new messaging and web-based threats, businesses should review and evaluate their security posture to make sure that they have capable, flexible and scalable protection against these new threats,” said Brian Burke, Programme Director, Security Products, at IDC. “By embracing holistic security architecture, businesses can reduce their risk and exposure to these new forms of threats.”
WatchGuard Extensible Content Security (XCS) – Comprehensive Protection for All Business Sizes
The WatchGuard XCS platform provides “defence-in-depth” protection by combining advanced email-inspection technologies with data-loss prevention capabilities and IP reputation to combat spam, viruses, malware and other forms of blended threats. Designed to address a wide range of business needs, the WatchGuard XCS platform tackles email-security needs of businesses up to 1,000 users with the WatchGuard XCS 170, 370 and 570 series, and for larger enterprise organisations (10,000 or more users) that require advanced messaging and content protection, WatchGuard offers the WatchGuard XCS 770, 970 and 1170 series of appliances.
All of these appliances share best-in-class quality detection for maximum coverage and accuracy, as well as rapid-response capabilities for zero-day threat outbreaks, and automatic updates to protect against new forms of crimeware, spyware, rootkits, mobile malware and other malicious attacks.
Additionally, all of the WatchGuard XCS appliances can take advantage of WatchGuard’s revolutionary in-the-cloud security technology, ReputationAuthority. With 99.99 per cent accuracy, ReputationAuthority eliminates up to 98.3 per cent of spam email before it ever gets to a business network. Given that spam email is a major carrier of viruses, phishing attempts and blended threats, WatchGuard’s defence-in-depth architecture with ReputationAuthority, pre-screens and eliminates this unwanted traffic, better protecting business networks, applications and data.
Pricing and Availability
The WatchGuard XCS appliances will be available from WatchGuard channel partners around the world within 30 days. More information is available at www.watchguard.com.
About WatchGuard Technologies, Inc.
Since 1996, WatchGuard® Technologies, Inc. has been the advanced technology leader of network-security solutions, providing mission-critical security to hundreds of thousands of businesses worldwide. The WatchGuard family of wired and wireless unified threat management (UTM) appliances and WatchGuard SSL VPN remote-access solutions provide extensible network security, unparallelled network visibility, management and control. WatchGuard products are backed by WatchGuard LiveSecurity® Service – an innovative support, maintenance, and education programme. WatchGuard is headquartered in Seattle, Washington and has its Asia Pacific regional headquarters in Singapore, with other offices in Hong Kong, Mumbai, Seoul, Shanghai, Sydney and Tokyo. To learn more, visit www.watchguard.com.
WatchGuard, Firebox, LiveSecurity, BorderWare, SteelGate and ReputationAuthority are either registered trademarks or trademarks of WatchGuard Technologies, Inc. in the United States and/or other countries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
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