WatchGuard Technologies, a global leader of business security solutions, has won the 2011 "Customer Value Enhancement Award, Unified Threat Management".
The “Frost & Sullivan Award” for Customer Value Enhancement is presented each year to the company that demonstrates excellence in implementing strategies that proactively create value for their customers.
The award has a focus on improving the return on investment, recognising WatchGuard's commitment to enhancing its value to customers.
"For a long time, industry analysts have considered WatchGuard to be a top competitor in the UTM market, and this prestigious award further solidifies that leadership position," said Eric Aarrestad, Vice President of Marketing at WatchGuard.
"WatchGuard's success is due to its unparalleled ability to deliver the greatest customer value through its security products and services," he added.
WatchGuard's focus on customer value has propelled the company's growth in recent years, as the company has achieved record revenue growth in consecutive quarters.
Frost & Sullivan has highlighted the UTM market’s continuing growth, but competitors face difficult challenges, as evidenced by new threats, increasing competition and elevated customer expectations.
By enhancing their value to customers, Frost & Sullivan acknowledges that UTM vendors can advance their position in the marketplace by offering products, features and services that present the strongest value proposition to customers.
Rockford IT, one of only 14 WatchGuard Expert Partners in the UK, was thrilled by the news. Tom Sykes, Rockford’s Managing Director, comments; “It’s great to hear of WatchGuard’s news. We have always known of WatchGuard’s commitment to delivering a strong UTM solution and giving great value for its customers as a result. It is nice to hear that this has been recognised and we can proudly say we provide these great solutions to many of our happy customers.”
WatchGuard's line of extensible threat management (XTM) security solutions consolidate essential security functions, such as stateful packet firewall, VPN, anti-spam, anti-spyware, anti-virus, content filtering and intrusion prevention in one easy to manage appliance. The consolidation of these requisite security functions simplifies the security and compliance goals by reducing costs and time to deploy and manage. Due to their extensible and customizable design, customers can select security functions that best meet their network and IT environment.
WatchGuard has developed next-generation firewall capabilities that are essential to protect against new forms of attack.
WatchGuard offers several services, features and products that further enhance customer value. For example, the WatchGuard Reputation Enabled Defense is a cloud-based security service that eliminates network threats before they ever get the chance to hit a corporate network, which increases customer productivity while reducing risk. Adding to this, WatchGuard offers features and products that promote user connectivity and secure mobility, as well as advanced security features, such as VoIP security, in order to enhance and protect IT investments.
For more details on WatchGuard’s products visit www.watchguardservices.co.uk/purchase-firewall or call Rockford IT on 0333 101 6000.