Seattle – February 3, 2014 – WatchGuard® Technologies, a leader in integrated security platforms, today announced it is enhancing its real-time network security visibility solution, WatchGuard Dimension™, which has already helped drive record financial results for the company in Q4 2013. The new enhancements extend Dimension’s capabilities to support Microsoft’s Hyper-V virtualization platform, in addition to VMware, and also increase scalability, availability and visibility.
“The global response we’ve seen from customers using Dimension with our XTM family of unified threat management (UTM) platforms has been unprecedented,” said Scott Robertson, Asia Pacific vice president at WatchGuard Technologies. “In record numbers, customers are using this cloud-based visibility tool to get key insights into security threats and critical trends in their environment. Although this product has been on the market for less than six months, we’re moving quickly to make new enhancements in response to enthusiastic feedback from users.”
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| The Executive Dashboard in WatchGuard Technologies’ new WatchGuard Dimension visibility has already become an additional revenue stream for managed security services providers. The reports allow MSSPs to provide customers with an immediate snapshot of the top users, threats and compliance issue facing their company. |
“I find the new FireWatch interface in Dimension invaluable to help pinpoint issues and identify problematic users. I love the ability to drill into protocols or categories with ease. I can also expand time frames to see if this is a one off or long occurring issue,” said Tim O’Leary, IT Manager at Civica Pty. Limited Australia.
Frank Dickson, principle analyst at Frost & Sullivan, understands the value Dimension brings to the market as well and said, “We did a survey of more than 12,000 information security professionals and 56 percent reported that their organization has too few information security workers. WatchGuard Dimension is a tool designed to make life easier for security professionals, especially those in the resource constrained mid-market, so they can more quickly distill key information security data into actionable policy creation.”
WatchGuard Dimension is delivered as a free virtual appliance for XTM customers, which simplifies set up. The latest update includes faster access and increased scalability with external and shared database support. It also improves visibility with dynamic hostname resolution, and native language support for key countries will be available toward the end of Q1.
For complete information on the latest upgrades to Dimension or to test-drive the tool, click here.
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