Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

We’re excited to deliver innovative improvements across the WatchGuard Endpoint Security portfolio, now available to customers and partners. Security teams face two realities at once: stealthier threats and noisier operations. This update focuses on outcomes, stronger prevention against fileless and living-off-the-land attacks, and faster, clearer investigations that reduce alert fatigue and mean time to respond (MTTR).

Digital identities are under siege. The latest Osterman Research white paper offers a sobering discrepancy between maturity and reality. The study surveyed 126 US based professionals responsible for identity security across organizations with more than 500 employees. The findings reveal a growing gap between perceived maturity and actual readiness to combat identity-led threats.

AI is no longer just a future concern. It is deeply embedded in both offense and defense. With new exploits surfacing, massive open-source model use, and attackers growing more creative, the risks we warned about are now very real.

When I talk to customers about AI these days, I usually get two very different reactions. Some lean forward, excited about the promise: fewer alerts, faster response, maybe even lights-out SOC operations someday. Others lean back, uneasy about the risks: does this mean attackers will be able to run thousands of hacks at once, automatically? The truth is, both reactions are justified. We are at the start of a shift toward agentic AI. This is not the same as today’s AI copilots that wait for prompts.

With hybrid work, cloud applications, and distributed teams now the standard, organizations face a critical challenge: how to deliver secure, seamless access to both cloud-hosted and private applications without relying on outdated remote user VPNs or complex hardware.