South Africa's Duxbury Networking Adds WatchGuard and Cynet Product Lines
2026-06-21 15:49
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en.Wedoany.com Reported - Duxbury Networking has added two new product lines, WatchGuard and Cynet, to its cybersecurity business unit, aiming to help South African resellers offer clients more integrated and comprehensive security risk protection solutions. As cybersecurity procurement becomes increasingly fragmented, resellers face growing pressure to provide advice across multiple domains—including identity, endpoints, networks, cloud, SaaS, branch security, detection, and response—often with limited expertise.

Company CEO Graham Duxbury stated that this adjustment was carefully considered. He noted that cybersecurity is no longer a challenge that a single vendor can address; clients face broader risks and more complex attack surfaces, requiring resellers to have a product portfolio that reflects this reality. The company's goal is to provide partners with practical and trustworthy security options, helping them position their businesses with greater confidence.

WatchGuard offers Duxbury's partners a unified cloud management platform that integrates firewalls, endpoint security, MFA, SASE, and XDR, helping clients reduce tool sprawl and simplify daily security operations.

Cynet further strengthens Duxbury's security operations coverage by consolidating prevention, detection, response, and 24/7 MDR services into a single platform, particularly suited for clients who need stronger SOC capabilities without piecing together multiple security tools.

Together with existing vendor partners—including HPE Networking, Extreme Networks, Armis, and Versa—the expanded portfolio provides partners with more comprehensive security coverage, spanning identity and access management, endpoint security, XDR and MDR, firewall and branch security, network segmentation, SASE, email, network and SaaS security, OT and IoT visibility, as well as cloud and hybrid environment protection.

Chief Technology Officer Andy Robb stated that the expanded portfolio aims to help partners match clients' actual risks with appropriate control layers, rather than pushing the same product for every opportunity. He emphasized that the key is not which product to promote, but where the client's exposure lies. Different clients may need to address identity gaps, upgrade firewalls, or require better monitoring, fewer siloed tools, and incident response capabilities. Duxbury Cybersecurity provides partners with a structured approach to align the right controls with actual risks.

For channel partners, this change goes beyond adding brand labels. It offers resellers and MSPs a clearer methodology to translate clients' risk needs into tangible security business opportunities, covering assessment, control selection, managed services, and response. Duxbury also provides support including vendor positioning, technical guidance, client scenario mapping, and one-on-one portfolio consultation sessions. These services are particularly valuable for mid-market clients and managed service providers, whose security expectations often outpace their internal resources. Resellers that can first demonstrate to clients which control areas are most critical will have a better chance of earning trust and scaling their business.

Robb added that clients need more than just additional security products; they need to reduce capability gaps among existing tools, gain a deeper understanding of their overall environment, and have an efficient response model when incidents occur—this is where the value of a structured portfolio lies. Duxbury believes that cybersecurity remains one of the largest growth areas in the channel, but only partners that can help clients simplify complexity will truly seize the opportunity. The company's focus is on assisting resellers in turning clients' risks into clearer, more actionable security conversations.

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