WatchGuard High Availability for M395 - 3-Year Subscription
Maintain uninterrupted network security and performance with WatchGuard High Availability for M395, a 3-year subscription designed to eliminate single points of failure.
- Access to: Advanced hardware redundancy and automatic failover for critical network security functions.
- Coverage for: Extended 3-year term ensuring sustained protection and operational continuity.
- Protection against: Network outages and security disruptions caused by hardware malfunctions.
- Entitlement to: Priority technical support and firmware updates for the duration of the subscription.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This 3-year subscription provides WatchGuard High Availability for the M395 security appliance, ensuring your network remains operational even if a primary device fails. It enables a secondary appliance to take over instantly, maintaining security policies and network connectivity without interruption.
Ideal for IT Managers and IT Professionals in SMB and mid-market organizations, this solution is designed for businesses that cannot afford network downtime. It integrates directly into existing WatchGuard M395 deployments, providing a critical layer of resilience for essential business operations.
- Redundant Network Security: Ensures continuous operation of firewall, VPN, and intrusion prevention services.
- Automatic Failover: Seamlessly switches traffic to the standby appliance upon primary device failure.
- Synchronized Configuration: Maintains identical security policies and settings across both appliances.
- Extended 3-Year Term: Provides long-term peace of mind and predictable operational costs.
- Business Continuity: Minimizes costly downtime and protects against data loss or service interruption.
This high availability solution offers essential business continuity for organizations prioritizing network uptime and security resilience.
What This Enables
Hardware Failure and Automatic Failover
Access to a standby appliance that automatically takes over all network security functions if the primary device fails. This ensures continuous network operation and prevents costly service interruptions.
critical infrastructure, business continuity planning, network resilience, 24/7 operations, essential services
Sustained Security Policy Enforcement
Coverage for maintaining consistent security policies and configurations across both primary and secondary appliances. This guarantees that security posture remains intact during a failover event.
compliance requirements, multi-layered security, network segmentation, threat prevention, data protection
Extended Operational Uptime
Protection against network outages caused by hardware malfunctions with a guaranteed 3-year subscription term. This provides long-term assurance of network availability and business continuity.
revenue generation, customer service delivery, operational efficiency, remote workforce support, cloud connectivity
Key Features
Active/Passive Failover Configuration
Minimizes network downtime by automatically switching to a standby appliance if the primary unit fails.
Synchronized Configuration and Policy Management
Ensures identical security settings are active on both devices, maintaining consistent protection during failover.
3-Year Subscription Term
Provides predictable costs and long-term assurance of continuous network security and availability.
WatchGuard M395 Compatibility
Integrates seamlessly with existing WatchGuard M395 firewalls for enhanced network resilience.
Business Continuity Assurance
Protects against revenue loss and operational disruption by keeping critical network services online.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require continuous network availability and robust security to protect sensitive data and comply with strict regulations like PCI DSS and SOX.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare providers must maintain constant access to patient records and critical systems, adhering to HIPAA compliance which mandates data availability and security.
Legal & Professional Services
Law firms and professional services depend on uninterrupted access to client data and communication channels, with strict confidentiality requirements and operational continuity needs.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Industrial operations rely on network uptime for production lines, supply chain management, and real-time data processing, where downtime can lead to significant financial losses.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is WatchGuard High Availability?
WatchGuard High Availability (HA) allows you to deploy two identical WatchGuard appliances in an active/passive configuration. If the active appliance fails, the passive appliance automatically takes over its role, ensuring continuous network operation and security.
What is covered by this 3-year subscription?
This subscription covers the licensing and support for the High Availability feature on your WatchGuard M395 appliances for a period of three years. It enables the failover functionality and ensures access to necessary software updates and technical assistance.
How does this prevent downtime?
By having a secondary, synchronized appliance ready to take over instantly, any hardware failure on the primary device results in minimal to no interruption of network traffic and security services. This is critical for businesses that cannot afford to be offline.
Deployment & Support
Deployment Complexity
Medium — IT-assisted
Fulfillment
Digital Delivery
License keys / portal provisioning
Support Model
Zent Networks Managed
Renewal, add-license, and lifecycle management included
Subscription Terms
Cancellation
Cancel anytime — no charge on next cycle
You may cancel this subscription at any time. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period. You will not be charged for the following billing cycle. Access remains active through the end of the paid term.
Returns
Subscription licenses are non-refundable
Digital software licenses and SaaS subscriptions cannot be returned once activated or provisioned. Contact a Zent Networks account manager if you have questions before purchasing.