Cisco AnyConnect vs WatchGuard Network Security

• Autoconnections are seamless for the users. There's nothing for them to do once it's all setup.
• It recognizes security certificates for the PC and user, so you can easily lock down the connectivity to the specific users and/or machines you need for your environment.
• Unless the WIFI is extremely poor, the software can make the connection and allow your users to function on the VPN.

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• URL Filtering: Extremely effective for blocking of questionable content and protecting from phishing sites.
• Antivirus: Our clients have seen far fewer active threats when a WatchGuard Network Security Device is in place.
• Data Loss Prevention: A valuable tool for our clients who require more security when it comes to metadata and personal data leaving the network.

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• Next generation features are lacking.
• Split handling scenarios are limited.
• Sensitive to timeouts.
• Auto reconnect features does not work as expected.
• Auto mtu discovery does not work on some cases.
• Not a full featured solution on the client side.
• Detailed reporting is missing.
• Lack of multi device management.
• Application, url based dashboards needs to be enhanced.

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• Partner communications on technical issues. For example the undocumented feature of SDWAN hidden route. There is still no documentation on that.
• Too infrequent communications about high incidence technical support issues. We do not want to have to be encountering known issues and then having outages or problems that we then have to put in tickets about.
• Pay attention to your most highly technical partners, not just those that sell a lot of equipment. The highly technical partners can and do provide very usable feedback that can make the products better.
• WG wants partners to build relationships with people inside WG so we can drive solutions to problems, but too frequently, we get no response to emails sent to the proper internal resources about legitimate issues.

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• AnyConnect has allowed business operations to continue uninterrupted during the pandemic, which has been key to maintaining business continuity with customers and stakeholders.
• AnyConnect has played a part in allowing for downsizing of some physical office sites. At least 4 office buildings within the organization have now been sold as employees haven proven the ability to work effectively remotely indefinitely.
• AnyConnect has also facilitated globalization within the wider organization. Productive meetings with colleagues around the world at various times of day are possible with continuous access to company virtual resources.

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• Blocking bad websites has saved many of our clients from any infection which saves time and money from a business being down and needing files restored perspective.
• Automatic end user training has saved time not having to go onsite to do it ourselves.
• Traffic and Security Reports that we use with clients to show them employee usage, blocked security threats, and growth projections.

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