WatchGuard Technologies
WatchGuard® Technologies, Inc. is a global leader in unified cybersecurity. Our Unified Security Platform® approach is uniquely designed for managed service providers to deliver world-class security that increases their business scale and velocity while also improving operational efficiency. Trusted by more than 17,000 security resellers and service providers to protect more than 250,000 customers, the company’s award-winning products and services span network security and intelligence, advanced endpoint protection, multi-factor authentication, and secure Wi-Fi. Together, they offer five critical elements of a security platform: comprehensive security, shared knowledge, clarity & control, operational alignment, and automation. The company is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, with offices throughout North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, and Latin America. To learn more, visit WatchGuard.com.www.watchguard.com
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Oct 21, 2026
Marc LaliberteHOST
So if you're not familiar, Ryan is the CISO at New Charter Technologies.
Marc LaliberteHOST
He just attended WatchGuard Impact Conference here with us here in Nashville.
Marc LaliberteHOST
And as a fellow nerd in the CISO world, We thought it'd be great to have you on to talk about just trends that you're seeing in New Charter across your customers, across the MSP space, and really just get our finger on the pulse of what's going on from your neck of the woods.
Marc LaliberteHOST
That sounds good.
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Marc LaliberteHOST
well hey everyone thanks again for listening as always if you enjoyed today's episode don't forget to rate review and subscribe if you have any questions on today's topics or if you want to suggest a future episode topic You can reach out to us on Blue Sky.
Marc LaliberteHOST
I'm at itsmark.me. Corey is at SecAdept.
Marc LaliberteHOST
Both of us are at WatchGuard underscore technologies.
Marc LaliberteHOST
Thanks again for listening, and you will hear from us next week.
Jerry BellHOST
Upgrade Archibus, lest someone steal your conference room booking.
Jerry BellHOST
Nine, an MSP admin mistyped a Bing search for the WatchGuard VPN client.
Jerry BellHOST
The result they clicked on was a fake WatchGuard site.
Jerry BellHOST
It asked for the VPN server username and password.
Jerry BellHOST
It rejected the first try.
Jerry BellHOST
After the second try, it sent the real signed client from WatchGuard's own servers.
Jerry BellHOST
Anyone who finishes both tries hands over a working login and their security tools see a clean installer.
Jerry BellHOST
Give your staff a bookmark link to the real download.
Robert DuttHOST
He replaces John Jopchogger, who will remain an Acronis shareholder.
Robert DuttHOST
Panjwani is a familiar name in the cybersecurity business, particularly for anyone who's followed WatchGuard over the years.
Robert DuttHOST
He spent roughly a decade as WatchGuard's CEO, helping transform the company from a firewall-focused vendor into a much broader security platform provider.
Robert DuttHOST
That included expansion into endpoint security, extended detection and response, and managed detection and response.
Robert DuttHOST
Before WatchGuard, Panjwani also served as CEO of SafeNet, and that background is particularly interesting given the direction Acronis has been taking.
Robert DuttHOST
The company's been steadily bringing together data protection, cybersecurity, infrastructure management, and service automation.
Robert DuttHOST
The objective is to give MSPs more of the capabilities they need through a single platform, reducing the number of separate tools and management environments they need to operate.
Robert DuttHOST
For MSPs, there are several things worth watching here.
Corey NachreinerHOST
Welcome back to the 443 Security Simplified.
Corey NachreinerHOST
I'm your host, Corey Nachreiner, the CISO of WatchGuard Technology, and as you can tell, this is a special episode coming from the WatchGuard Impact Conference in Nashville, Tennessee.
Corey NachreinerHOST
You might also notice our co-host Mark is not here, 'cause he's probably downstairs speaking right now.
Corey NachreinerHOST
But I do have a pleasure to introduce Andrew Morgan, founder of the Write of Boom.
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Andrew MorganGUEST
Yeah.
Andrew MorganGUEST
You can't fail.
Corey NachreinerHOST
[laughs] I think every company, you know, like even us at WatchGuard, if we're having good quarters and good revenue, we get to try new things.
Corey NachreinerHOST
If we have bad quarters, we have to wait a little.
Joe SmolarskiGUEST
[rock music]
Robert DuttHOST
There you have it, Joe Smolarski, CEO of WatchGuard Technologies.
Robert DuttHOST
Thanks to Joe for joining us, and of course, thank you for listening.
Robert DuttHOST
Few things that stood out for me from that conversation.
Robert DuttHOST
Full details and links in the show notes or the blog post.
Robert DuttHOST
Later today on in the channel, WatchGuard CEO Joe Smolarski joins us to discuss the changing security challenges facing MSPs in the age of AI and how WatchGuard is responding to those challenges.
Robert DuttHOST
And if you haven't heard it yet, yesterday's in the channel features Checkmark's channel chief John Cosimore.
Robert DuttHOST
We discuss how AI-assisted coding is accelerating software development, why traditional application security practices are struggling to keep up, and what it means for MSPs who may increasingly find themselves responsible for securing customer applications and AI-generated code.
PhilippaHOST
He knows all about the mindset and techniques at work in identity theft.
PhilippaHOST
And Ollie Venn is a cybersecurity expert from WatchGuard Technologies.
PhilippaHOST
He'll be talking us through the defenses organizations can use to protect their people's personal details and their businesses.
PhilippaHOST
[music] Welcome, both.
Philippa LambHOST
He knows all about the mindset and techniques at work in identity theft.
Philippa LambHOST
And Oli Venn is a cybersecurity expert from WatchGuard Technologies.
Philippa LambHOST
He'll be talking us through the defences organisations can use to protect their people's personal details and their businesses.
Philippa LambHOST
Welcome both.
Corey NachreinerHOST
into this mesh network
Marc LaliberteHOST
But the benefit of that is like providers like WatchGuard or like other services out there, we can near instantaneously patch a vulnerability across the entire exposed surface like immediately versus if it's something that you as a systems administrator manage, you have to become aware of the vulnerability.
Marc LaliberteHOST
You have to get a copy of the the resolution, the firmware that fixes it.
Marc LaliberteHOST
You have to test that firmware.
Corey NachreinerHOST
So if 90% haven't even patched, 90% still have not even done any compromise assessment to see if they're affected by this, which is highly likely.
Corey NachreinerHOST
with how long this exploit has been around.
Corey NachreinerHOST
I will say, by the way, I think WatchGuard has released some tools.
Corey NachreinerHOST
And there's definitely a crapload of indicators of compromise in Mandy and in Google's report.
Ryan DavisGUEST
Is that going to upset you or is that actually add to the benefit, right? And so I think that's really where we're focused right now is this, where are the places where we need to have a human in the loop, right, to make sure that the AI is doing the right thing, the thing that we would expect AI to do.
Ryan DavisGUEST
But where can we also offload something that is repetitive and routine? And when I was talking with Corey over at WatchGuard, so much of their investigation of phishing emails is mostly automated at this point, right? That's a perfect example of of the technology being put to use that that I don't think is going to have any detriment to the end user.
Ryan DavisGUEST
And I think as the technology gets better, as we as humans train it to do the things that we expect as humans, it'll continue to improve.
Ryan DavisGUEST
But you've got to kind of keep an eye on that on that balance as to.
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