WatchGuard adds New Big Data Tools to Network Security

WatchGuard Technologies has announced a zero-install, public and private cloud-ready network security visibility solution. WatchGuard Dimension will come standard with the company's flagship Unified Threat Management (UTM) platform and provides a suite of visibility and reporting tools that instantly isolates and distills actionable security issues and trends, speeding network professionals' ability to set meaningful security policies.

Around the world, network security pros tell us they are drowning in logs of data and find it time consuming  or nearly impossible  to identify key issues on their networks and make proper policy decisions. In a recent report of the SANS Institute, only 10 per cent of the respondents felt confident in their organizations’ ability to analyze large data sets for security trends, even though 77 per cent are collecting logs and monitoring data from systems and security devices," said Dave R. Taylor, Vice-President of Corporate and Product strategy, WatchGuard Technologies.

WatchGuard Dimension is now available with WatchGuard's 11.8 launch of its XTM security platform. Other major highlights include the addition of WatchGuard Data Loss Prevention to the platform, an updated Web User Interface compatible with mobile devices, and tremendous new flexibility in the configuration of VPNs in today's more complex network environments.