WatchGuard Technologies has received the Frost & Sullivan Global 2010 Growth Leadership Award for Unified Threat Management (UTM).

The Growth Leadership Award is a prestigious recognition of WatchGuard's accomplishments in the UTM market; it is presented to the company that demonstrates excellence in capturing the highest annual compound growth rate for the last three years.

"It is a tremendous honor to be recognized by Frost & Sullivan as a UTM growth leader," said Eric Aarrestad, Vice President of Marketing at WatchGuard Technologies. "This award illustrates what so many of our customers and channel partners know – no other competitor beats WatchGuard solutions for protecting business networks, applications and data."

Frost & Sullivan summarizes that WatchGuard's excellence in product features, functionality and performance is a prominent factor in the company's strong growth rates.