Best Small Business Security Solution

SC MAGAZINE US EXCELLENCE AWARD for “BEST SMALL BUSINESS SECURITY SOLUTION”

Seattle, WA – February 17, 2005 – WatchGuard Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: WGRD), a leading provider of network security solutions, today announced that its Firebox X line of integrated security appliances received the US Excellence Award for “Best Small Business Security Solution” in the SC Magazine Global Awards 2005 program.

The award was announced during the SC Magazine Global Awards ceremony held yesterday evening at the RSA Conference and Exhibition in San Francisco. Other finalists for the award were security appliances from Aventail, Cisco, Cyberguard and Sophos. 

The SC Magazine Global Awards is considered to be one of the leading awards programs for the information security industry. This year’s awards were among the most competitive with more than 1,000 product and service nominations from around the world and nearly 300 companies participating. The awards recognize not only achievement and technical excellence, but also professional accomplishments and the important role that information security professionals play in helping to shape the industry. WatchGuard Firebox X integrated security appliances offer firewall, VPN, deep application inspection for proactive protection from viruses, worms and intrusions, signature-based gateway antivirus for e-mail, spam blocking, web filtering, authentication and high availability capability. Firebox X is the first integrated security appliance with full model upgrade capability that allows users to upgrade to any higher model in the line and/or increase port density simply by applying a software license key. With this capability, customers can scale existing Firebox X security appliances simply and economically without costly and time-consuming hardware replacements. As their security needs change, customers activate model upgrades via a software license key and obtain all the performance and functionality of any higher model in the line just as if they had purchased it originally.

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