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WatchGuard

Summary

WatchGuard is a business[1]. WatchGuard ranks in the top 4% of business entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (815 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • WatchGuard is in the country of United States[3].
  • WatchGuard is in the country of US[4].
  • WatchGuard's instance of is recorded as business[5].
  • WatchGuard's instance of is recorded as enterprise[6].
  • WatchGuard's headquarters location is recorded as Seattle[7].
  • WatchGuard's Commons category is recorded as WatchGuard[8].
  • WatchGuard's industry is recorded as computer security[9].
  • February 1, 1996 marks the founding of WatchGuard[10].
  • WatchGuard's official website is recorded as http://www.watchguard.com/[11].
  • WatchGuard's official website is recorded as https://www.watchguard.com/uk[12].
  • WatchGuard's product or material produced is recorded as software[13].
  • WatchGuard's legal form is recorded as joint-stock company[14].
  • WatchGuard's legal form is recorded as C5K7[15].

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

GLEIF Golden Copy — Level 1 entity data

  • Legal Entity Identifier (LEI): 549300NF8CWKO0JHET22[16]

  • Registered legal name: Watchguard, INC.[17]

  • Legal jurisdiction: US-TX[18]

  • GLEIF entity category: GENERAL[19]

  • Legal form (ISO 20275 ELF): C5K7[20]

  • Entity status: ACTIVE[21]

  • LEI registration status: LAPSED[22]

  • LEI first registered: 2018-05-30[23]

  • LEI last updated: 2023-08-04[24]

  • LEI next renewal: 2020-05-31[25]

  • Managing LOU: 5493001KJTIIGC8Y1R12[26]

  • Registration authority: RA000602[27]

  • Authority entity ID: 6558857[28]

  • Conformity flag: NON_CONFORMING[29]

Body

Founding

February 1, 1996 marks the founding of WatchGuard[10].

Operations

WatchGuard's headquarters location is recorded as Seattle[7].

Industry

WatchGuard's industry is recorded as computer security[9].

Ownership

WatchGuard's product or material produced is recorded as software[13].

Why It Matters

WatchGuard ranks in the top 4% of business entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (815 views/month).[2] WatchGuard has Wikipedia articles in 8 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[30] WatchGuard is known by 8 alternative names across languages and contexts.[31]

Related Entities

business computer security software United States

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . Crunchbase. crunchbase.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . watchguard.com. Retrieved . watchguard.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . National Software Reference Library. wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [16] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  2. [17] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  3. [18] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  4. [19] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  5. [20] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  6. [21] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  7. [22] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  8. [23] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  9. [24] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  10. [25] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  11. [26] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  12. [27] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  13. [28] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  14. [29] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [30] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [31] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 6w ago · Trivialist · 2026-08-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14750 → F2DA-39A9-98D7-49E0-C30A
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P14750]]: F2DA-39A9-98D7-49E0-C30A, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/269254|batch #269254]]"
  2. 15w ago · EMazzanti Technologies · 2026-06-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Headquarters location → Seattle
    Legal form → joint-stock company, C5K7
    Country → United States, US
    Instance of → business, enterprise
    + 12 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1|1 */ [[Property:P452]]: [[Q3510521]]"
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