iTWire Wednesday, 14 April 2021 12:59 Soft Solutions offers WatchGuard subscriptions Shares Auckland-headquartered Soft Solutions has introduced pay-as-you-go subscriptions for WatchGuard firewalls in New Zealand. Soft Solutions has been working with WatchGuard Technologies since 2019, and is the first distributor in New Zealand to offer WatchGuard's pay-as-you-go subscription billing. This zero-upfront subscription model means customers – including managed security service providers – can scale their WatchGuard services up or down as required. "The concept of monthly billing for software has been with us for a few years but for hardware it's been a different story," said Soft Solutions managing director Chris Fitzgerald. "More and more enterprises today need flexibility in their technology infrastructure and COVID only accelerated this trend with companies having to provide security for a distributed workforce and handle rapid fluctuations in the number of staff working remotely.