Name: WatchGuard DNSWatchGO
Rating: 9.4 (16 reviews)
Author: WatchGuard Technologies

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WatchGuard DNSWatchGO provides DNS-level protection and content filtering that keeps the user's business safe from phishing, ransomware, and other attacks even when a user is outside of the network, without requiring a VPN.

DNSFilter headquartered in Waltham offers DNS-Based Content Filtering & Threat Protection.

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WatchGuard DNSWatchGO

Web Content Filtering Solutions comprise appliances and software for censoring or preventing access to restricted web content deemed offensive or inappropriate.

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WatchGuard® Technologies, Inc. is a global leader in unified
cybersecurity. Our Unified Security Platform® approach is uniquely
designed for managed service providers to deliver world-class security that
increases their business scale and velocity while also improving operational
efficiency. Trusted by more than 17,000 security resellers and service
providers to protect more than 250,000 customers, the company’s award-winning
products and services span network security and intelligence, advanced endpoint
protection, multi-factor authentication, and secure Wi-Fi. Together, they offer
five critical elements of a security platform: comprehensive security, shared
knowledge, clarity &amp; control, operational alignment, and automation. The
company is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, with offices throughout North
America, Europe, Asia Pacific, and Latin America. To learn more,
visit WatchGuard.com.

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We have deployed DNSWatchGo on all our company laptops. The main reason for doing this is to add another protection layer for are remote users, when they are not behind our firewalls, that protect their systems when they are within the company premises. As the protection of our firewalls can only help them when they are local or connected to our network via VPN, we need a replacement for the protections our Watchguard firewalls are providing to our company laptops, when they are online outside the company network.

Category based application control
IP based filtering of IPs that have been flagged as suspicious on the Watchguard databases
Protection from phishing and other threats

While DNSWatchgo offers the same categories as Application Control offers on the Watchguard firewalls, the WebBlocker categories are not offered.
Reporting is minimal and could use massive upgrades.
The identification of registered clients is flawed. It seems that the same clients are registered multiple times on the management platform, thus unnecessarily consuming licenses.

DNS based filtering.
Works with the need for a connection to our company network.
Protections from phishing and zero day attacks.

As the pandemic has pushed as to buy more laptops the need for an extra protection layer was bigger than ever. DNSWatchGo has cover this need.
Having the same rules as the Application Control on Watchguard firewalls has minimized the implementation effort required for setup DNSWatchGo.
Having DNSWatchGo installed allowed us to unblock internet access for laptop users when they are not connected to our company network.

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DNS based filtering.
Protections from phishing attacks.
Protection from zero day attacks.

Nothing really unexpected happened.
All worked just as expected.
We are happy about this!

We just hope Web Blocker categories will be added to DNSWatchGo.
More and better reports are a must! We expect them yesterday!
Better identification of clients where DNSWatchGo is installed, so that no duplicate entries are found on the installed client list.

As already said the most important factor for us that lead us to choose DNSWatchGo, was the fact the we already had Watchguard firewalls. DNSWatchGo and Watchguard firewall just pair very well together.
Yes, DNSWatchGo has terrible reporting and we are missing the Web Blocker categories that we have on the Watchguard Firewalls but not on DNSWatchGo, but it's a one way decision if you have Watchguard firewalls. Maybe that's why Watchguard seems to not be very active with adding new features to DNSWatchGo!

With WatchGuard DNSWatchGO we can have DNS security and content filtering so we can be sure that employee can connect without ransomware or other attacks that can be dangerous.

protect from phishing, ransomware
content filtering
no vpn needed
cloud based

dns level security
content filtering
no vpn required

easy to mange
you can have control over external pc or cellphone

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WatchGuard DNSWatchGO

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What is WatchGuard DNSWatchGO?