WatchGuard® Technologies has been acknowledged in the 2025 GigaOm Radar Report for Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) as a Leader and an Outperformer. The report evaluates vendors based on their innovation, execution, and deployment models, aiding IT and security professionals in determining optimal solutions.
In the latest evaluation, WatchGuard was noted as an Outperformer due to its wide range of innovative features, consistent release schedule, and ambitious roadmap execution. This assessment underlines the company's effectiveness in providing an integrated endpoint security solution that combines prevention, detection, and investigation within a streamlined platform, a crucial factor as organisations face evolving cybersecurity challenges.
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Andrew Young, Chief Product Officer at WatchGuard Technologies, commented on the recognition: “Our customers already know they get elevated protection from our innovative endpoint capabilities like the Zero-Trust Application Service, and it’s exciting to see that reflected in the latest GigaOm EDR Radar report.”
He further stated that being recognised as both a Leader and an Outperformer demonstrates their commitment to simplifying security with advanced and unified defences through an easy-to-use platform.
Advanced AI and zero-trust features
Additionally, investigations are accelerated through intuitive natural-language analysis
The 2025 GigaOm Radar Report differentiates WatchGuard in the Innovation/Platform Play quadrant, highlighting its AI-driven signal correlation, default zero-trust enforcement, supply chain risk mitigation through XDR integration, and the GenAI Telemetry Assistant.
These capabilities offer tangible benefits, such as halting unknown malware pre-execution, reducing attack surfaces with uniform policies, and enhancing endpoint AI-powered detection and containment. Additionally, investigations are accelerated through intuitive natural-language analysis.
WatchGuard's Advanced EPDR solution
WatchGuard's Advanced EPDR solution received recognition in the report, particularly for its Zero-Trust Application Service, a feature shared across its EPDR product range. This service pre-classifies applications before execution, preventing unknown and zero-day threats.
The company's incident-centric model aligns closely with the MITRE ATT&CK framework, consolidating alerts into comprehensive timelines that provide entity context and root-cause evidence. AI-driven aggregation reduces alert noise, allowing analysts to address a singular incident effectively.
Zero Trust and Endpoint Protection demonstrations
To further illustrate the impact of Zero Trust and Advanced Endpoint Protection, WatchGuard is conducting roadshows worldwide.
These sessions, scheduled over the upcoming weeks, aim to educate about safeguarding the "everywhere workforce," countering AI-driven threats, and employing WatchGuard's AI-powered detection and the GenAI Telemetry Assistant.
WatchGuard® Technologies, a pioneer in unified cybersecurity for managed service providers (MSPs), announced that it has been recognised as both a Leader and an Outperformer in the 2025 GigaOm Radar Report for Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR).
The GigaOm Radar Report for EDR evaluates vendors across innovation, execution, and deployment models to guide IT and security pioneers in solution selection.
WatchGuard’s strength
In the 2025 report, GigaOm recognised WatchGuard as an Outperformer “due to its delivery of an extensive array of innovative features, consistent release cadence, and execution against an ambitious roadmap.”
This recognition highlights WatchGuard’s strength in delivering a precise and powerful endpoint security solution that unifies prevention, detection, and investigation in a single, intuitive platform, an increasingly vital capability as organisations face evolving cyber threats.
Latest GigaOm EDR Radar report
“Our customers already know they get elevated protection from our innovative endpoint capabilities like the Zero-Trust Application Service, and it’s exciting to see that reflected in the latest GigaOm EDR Radar report,” said Andrew Young, Chief Product Officer at WatchGuard Technologies.
“Being named both a Leader and an Outperformer underscores our commitment to simplifying security while delivering the industry’s most advanced and unified defenses through an intuitive, easy-to-use platform.”
AI-driven signal correlation
The 2025 GigaOm Radar Report recognised WatchGuard as a Leader and Outperformer in the Innovation/Platform Play quadrant and recognised its AI-driven signal correlation, default zero-trust enforcement, supply chain risk mitigation through XDR integration, and GenAI Telemetry Assistant.
These advanced capabilities deliver real-world impact for organisations and MSPs, helping them stop unknown malware before execution, shrink their attack surface with unified policies, enforce AI-powered detection and containment at the endpoint, and accelerate investigations with intuitive, natural-language analysis.
WatchGuard’s Advanced EPDR solution
The report assessed WatchGuard’s Advanced EPDR solution and recognized it for its Zero-Trust Application Service, a capability also included in WatchGuard’s EPDR product, which classifies all applications before they can run, stopping unknown and zero-day threats before execution.
WatchGuard’s incident-centric model consolidates related alerts into a single MITRE ATT&CK-aligned timeline with entity context and root cause evidence. AI-driven aggregation and correlation reduce noise, so analysts triage one incident rather than many alerts.
The GenAI Telemetry Assistant turns natural-language questions into optimised telemetry queries, accelerating investigations, reducing false positives, improving efficiency, and helping organisations and MSPs scale.
Real security for the real world: Zero Trust and Advanced Endpoint Protection
To showcase the impact of Zero Trust and WatchGuard's Advanced Endpoint Protection capabilities, hands-on roadshows are being held across the globe over the next several weeks.
This fall’s sessions focus on protecting the “everywhere workforce,” defending against AI-driven threats, and applying WatchGuard’s AI-powered detection and GenAI Telemetry Assistant.
