For the fourth consecutive year, we received a Tech Cares Award from TrustRadius! This fourth annual award celebrates companies that have gone above and beyond to provide strong Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).

We are thrilled to share the exciting news that CRN has named two WatchGuard leaders to its prestigious annual Top 100 Executives of 2023 list. WatchGuard CEO Prakash Panjwani is once again named as one of CRN’s Top 25 IT Innovators of the Year, a list recognizing top executives for their ability to drive innovation for technology products, solutions, and services.

Rubrik is on a mission to secure the world’s data, and our position as an innovator has been reaffirmed in this 4th consecutive year being a Leader and furthest on Vision in the 2023 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Backup and Recovery Solutions. This recognition validates our commitment to helping customers achieve complete cyber resilience.

Gartner Hype Cycle for 2023 assesses the levels of maturity, adoption, and societal effects associated with emerging technologies in the field of Application Security. The 2023 report serves as a valuable resource for organizations seeking insights into the influence of security technologies on their applications. It also highlights the market leaders in the respective fields - Appknox being this year's leading vendor in mobile application security testing.

I am excited and humbled to share that Snyk has been named to the prestigious Forbes Cloud 100 list for the fourth consecutive year, coming in at #19. The full list was unveiled this morning. This recognition follows a number of significant company milestones, including being named a leader in both the 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Application Security Testing and The Forrester Wave™: Software Composition Analysis, Q2 2023 report.

The CrowdStrike Falcon® platform recently earned the SE Labs AAA award by delivering 100% attack detection with zero false positives in the Q2 2023 SE Labs Enterprise Advanced Security (EAS) test. The platform achieved perfect scores across every evaluation category. This year’s evaluation presented a unique challenge to testing participants. SE Labs tested solutions to a full kill chain attack, from initial contact through reconnaissance, data exfiltration and lateral action.

We’re excited to share that Forrester has named CrowdStrike a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: External Threat Intelligence Services Providers, Q3 2023. CrowdStrike received the highest ranking of all vendors in the Current Offering category, with the highest score possible in 16 criteria, surpassing all other vendors evaluated in the report.

Drata is KnowBe4’s preferred compliance automation platform for KnowBe4 customers. We have some big news. KnowBe4 has selected Drata as our exclusive GRC partner. What does that mean? As we transition KnowBe4 Compliance Manager (KCM) offering to a support-only model, we are encouraging all our current users to migrate to Drata for their compliance automation needs. After an exhaustive assessment of vendors in the market, we chose Drata for a few reasons. Here's what made Drata different.

We’re thrilled to announce that ManageEngine has once again been recognized as a Customers’ Choice in the 2023 Gartner Peer Insights ‘Voice of the Customer’: Security Information and Event Management (SIEM). This marks the fourth time that ManageEngine has been recognized as a Customers’ Choice, which we believe is a testament to our commitment to providing our customers with exceptional SIEM solutions.

For more than two decades, virtual private networks (VPNs) have been the go-to technology for enterprise remote access — and by extension, for enforcing remote access security. Even ubiquitous internet connections are often redirected via VPN to a central data center, where security enforcement occurs through various hardware appliances. From there, the traffic is forwarded onward to the internet. Of course, it must follow the same indirect path back on the response side.