We’re thrilled to share that Cyber Defense Magazine has once again awarded WatchGuard with seven wins at this year’s Global InfoSec Awards! The judges of this coveted awards program selected the 2023 winners based on three key areas of excellence including nominees’ understanding of tomorrow’s threats, today, provision of cost-effective solutions, and innovation in new and novel ways that help to better mitigate cyber risk and stay ahead of the next breach.

The industry analyst firm Gartner has named Trustwave as a Representative Vendor in its 2023 Market Guide for Digital Forensics and Incident Response Retainer Services. This distinction comes on the heels of Trustwave being named a Representative Vendor in Gartner’s 2023 Market Guide for Managed Detection and Response (MDR).

In 2011, Bitsight invented the security ratings industry. As the market leader, we are still the standard in how organizations quantify, manage, and monitor cyber risk. Today, that universal metric is used by entities from national governments to global enterprises to Fortune 500 companies to interpret cyber risk. And now, we’re disrupting the industry once again. Waves of change are constantly disrupting companies of all sizes around the world, particularly when it comes to cybersecurity.

Today I’m excited to share the latest milestone in our growing partner ecosystem: Vanta has joined the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Independent Software Vendor (ISV) Accelerate Program. ‍ The AWS ISV Accelerate Program is a co-sell program for AWS Partners who provide software solutions that run on or integrate with AWS. Vanta’s acceptance into the program enables us to work in close collaboration with the AWS sales team to meet customer needs and provide better outcomes. ‍

We are excited to announce that KnowBe4 has been named a leader in the Spring 2023 G2 Grid Report for Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) for the PhishER platform for the eigth consecutive quarter! Based on 177 G2 customer reviews, KnowBe4’s PhishER platform is the top ranked SOAR software. PhishER has the highest market presence score among SOAR products with a score of 97 out of 100, with 98% of users rating it 4 or 5 stars.

The U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is taking proactive measures to protect the nation’s transportation system by issuing new cybersecurity requirements for airports and aircraft operators. These emergency actions from TSA are part of the plan to increase the cyber resiliency of critical infrastructure and prevent their degradation or disruption.

We are honored to announce that Corelight’s Open Network Detection and Response (NDR) solution has been chosen by the esteemed Black Hat Network Operations Center (NOC) to help defend their networks at Black Hat events worldwide. It’s a testament to the capabilities of our platform and the open source technologies that power it. We are honored to be among the distinguished vendors chosen to provide best of breed solutions for the NOC.

We’re delighted to announce that Mend.io has achieved Amazon Web Services (AWS) Security Competency status. This designation recognizes that Mend.io has demonstrated proven technology and deep expertise to help customers achieve cloud security goals. It reinforces Mend.io’s position as a trusted member of the AWS Partner Network (APN), which has already been established since we achieved AWS DevOps Competency status.

Gartner has recognized Cloudflare in the 2023 “Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Security Service Edge (SSE)” report for its ability to execute and completeness of vision. We are excited to share that the Cloudflare Zero Trust solution, part of our Cloudflare One platform, is one of only ten vendors recognized in the report. Of the 10 companies named to this year’s Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ report, Cloudflare is the only new vendor addition.

We’re thrilled to share that the Business Intelligence Group has named WatchGuard’s George Grinnell an “Executive of the Year” winner and recognized WatchGuard’s Mark Allan Marra with a win in the “Manager of the Year” category as part of its 2023 Excellence in Customer Service Awards! Business Intelligence Group has also honored WatchGuard’s Customer Support team as a finalist in the “Organization of the Year” category.