WatchGuard® Technologies has achieved notable success in the recent MITRE ATT&CK® Enterprise Round 7 (ER7) Evaluation. The company’s endpoint security solution demonstrated exceptional performance, merging effective threat prevention with minimal detection noise.
This achievement provides Managed Service Providers (MSPs) an efficient method to offer top-tier security services on a broad scale.
WatchGuard's Performance Highlights
In the Windows “Hermes” scenario, WatchGuard's technology delivered comprehensive detection and effective prevention of adversary techniques, maintaining low alert levels and avoiding disruption of legitimate processes.
These results underscore WatchGuard's focus on delivering consistent security outcomes, which bolster MSPs' service capabilities.
Meeting Security Needs Without Compromise
WatchGuard’s solution reduces workload by yielding fewer alerts and requiring less manual intervention
According to Andrew Young, WatchGuard's chief product officer and senior vice president of product management, “Security teams and MSPs need protection that works without slowing down their business.”
He emphasizes that WatchGuard’s solution reduces workload by yielding fewer alerts and requiring less manual intervention, enabling faster response times.
Insights from the MITRE ATT&CK Evaluation
The MITRE ATT&CK assessment confirmed WatchGuard's capability to detect and prevent every malicious activity tested while surfacing essential insights.
Over two complete attack scenarios, the system generated merely three high-fidelity alerts, helping MSPs enhance their service delivery by reducing investigative noise.
Key Performance Metrics
- 100% Attack Visibility: Comprehensive detection across the evaluation.
- 100% Threat Prevention: Complete prevention of malicious activities.
- Zero Operational Friction: No interruption to legitimate processes and a minimal number of alerts.
Advantages for MSPs
The evaluation indicates that WatchGuard provides thorough visibility of attack paths and robust protection
The evaluation indicates that WatchGuard provides thorough visibility of attack paths and robust protection without the typical drawbacks of security tools.
This efficient security delivery mechanism means MSPs can offer enhanced customer service outcomes, reduce unnecessary escalations, and optimize analyst resources.
Unified Security Platform
Neil Holme, founder and CEO of Impact Business Technology, a WatchGuard MSP, attests to the benefits, stating, “We've relied on WatchGuard’s endpoint security for years... WatchGuard turns EDR from reactive to proactive.”
This endorsement reflects WatchGuard's strategy in creating a safer, more efficient security landscape for its partners through its Unified Security Platform® architecture.
WatchGuard® Technologies now announced that its endpoint security solution delivered outstanding performance in the latest MITRE ATT&CK® Enterprise Round 7 (ER7) Evaluation.
The results highlight WatchGuard’s ability to combine strong threat prevention with low-noise detection, giving Managed Service Providers (MSPs) a reliable and efficient way to deliver high-quality security services at scale.
WatchGuard’s commitment
In the Windows “Hermes” scenario, WatchGuard achieved comprehensive detection and flawless prevention across the evaluated adversary techniques while maintaining exceptionally low alert volume, no blocked legitimate processes, and minimal operational friction.
These independently validated results reinforce WatchGuard’s commitment to predictable security outcomes that strengthen partner service delivery and drive real-world value.
Security teams and MSPs need protection
“Security teams and MSPs need protection that works without slowing down their business,” said Andrew Young, chief product officer and senior vice president of product management at WatchGuard Technologies.
“These results prove that full protection doesn’t require more workload. With WatchGuard, you get fewer alerts, fewer manual interventions, and faster response times, which is exactly what our partners count on to deliver reliable and scalable security services.”
MITRE ATT&CK evaluation
The MITRE ATT&CK evaluation showed that WatchGuard detected and blocked every malicious step tested, surfacing only the most actionable insights.
Across two full attack paths, WatchGuard generated just three high-fidelity alerts, helping MSPs reduce noise, streamline investigations, and strengthen service delivery.
Key results from the evaluation
- 100% Attack Visibility
- 100% step detection across the entire evaluation1
- 96% sub-step detection2 (27/28 covered)
- 100% Threat Prevention
- 100% prevention of all malicious actions3
- Zero Operational Friction
- Zero legitimate activity blocked
- Only three high-fidelity alerts
Real-world benefits
These outcomes demonstrate that WatchGuard delivers full attack-path visibility and dependable protection without generating alert storms, blocked false positives, or customer-impacting disruptions common with many security tools. This combination of proven security efficacy and low operational burden strongly differentiates WatchGuard in the endpoint security market.
For MSPs, the real-world benefits include stronger customer outcomes, fewer unnecessary escalations, faster response cycles, and more efficient use of analyst resources.
WatchGuard’s Unified Security Platform® architecture
"We’ve relied on WatchGuard’s endpoint security for years," said Neil Holme, founder and CEO of Impact Business Technology, a WatchGuard MSP. "MITRE ER7 simply confirms what we already knew: WatchGuard turns EDR from reactive to proactive. Anything unknown is untrusted. Every alert comes with the confidence that the response has already been initiated. No guesswork. Just better protection.”
Empowered with WatchGuard’s Unified Security Platform® architecture, the MITRE ER7 performance underscores how WatchGuard enables partners to scale services while reducing complexity and increasing profitability.
MITRE ATT&CK® ER7 Evaluation
For more information on WatchGuard’s performance in the MITRE ATT&CK® ER7 Evaluation, visit WatchGuard’s MITRE ER7 results page.
- Result from MITRE Detections Evaluation for both the initial and configuration change runs in the Windows scenario
- Result from MITRE Detections Evaluation for the run with configuration changes in the Windows scenario
- Result from the MITRE Protection Evaluation
