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Most IT teams face the same challenge: threats don’t stop when the workday ends. Alerts come in after hours, resources are stretched thin, and a single missed response can turn into a costly incident. Partners who deliver managed services often feel that pressure even more, balancing multiple customers and security tools while trying to prove value every day.

Managing security shouldn’t mean juggling a dozen tools, agents, and spreadsheets. WatchGuard is cutting through the noise with two major updates designed to give managed service providers (MSPs) the simplicity and control they’ve been asking for: expanded PSA integrations and the new WatchGuard Agent.

WatchGuard is proud to announce that we have been named a Market Leader in four critical categories by the Top InfoSec Innovators Awards 2025: Cybersecurity Service Provider, Endpoint Security, Managed Detection and Response (MDR), and Zero Trust Platform.

WatchGuard has been named a Leader in the 2025 SPARK Matrix: Network Detection & Response (NDR) by QKS Group, recognizing our continued focus on delivering advanced, accessible, and high-impact security for midsize enterprises and managed service providers. The SPARK Matrix report delivers a detailed analysis of the global NDR landscape, evaluating vendors across technology excellence and customer impact.

What makes you, you? Is it your physical representation, your memories, your choices, your relationships? In the physical world, identity is deep and layered. But online, all of that is stripped away. To a computer, you are not your story. You are a login. You are a password, a cookie, or a session. You are a code sent to your phone. That is the entire test of your existence in the digital realm. Which means if someone else holds those same fragments, the system will treat them as you.

Agentic AI is transforming cyber threats from phishing and deepfakes into nonstop zero-day exploits and automated ransomware. Most organizations will struggle to keep pace, but the same AI power can drive autonomous defenses that ultimately shift the balance back to the defenders.

I have never been one to jump on most technology bandwagons early; I am very pragmatic about what technology can do rather than what it promises. This extends to generative AI. I was not the first to play with ChatGPT and Gemini when they came out in the early 2020s. Maybe it’s because I work in fields that use machine learning very effectively. Even though I was aware of the leap Google made in 2012, I wasn’t eager to dive into the new wave of AI when it first appeared.

Cybercriminals are taking stealth to new levels. According to WatchGuard Technologies’ latest Internet Security Report, evasive malware attacks jumped 40% in Q2 2025, driven by a sharp rise in threats delivered over encrypted connections. While Transport Layer Security (TLS) encryption is essential for protecting users, attackers are increasingly exploiting it to conceal malicious payloads and evade traditional detection methods.

The virtual private network (VPN) has been the default way to connect remote employees to company resources for over two decades. In its time, the VPN was a breakthrough ‒ creating encrypted tunnels back to the corporate network and giving road warriors a way in. But today's workplace looks very different. Employees access SaaS applications directly from the Internet. Teams are distributed around the world.