WatchGuard Network Security Reviews and Ratings

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use WatchGuard Network Security Firewalls and Access Points. It is our first line of defense against malware an network intruders. The firewall also acts as our router and provides DHCP addresses for all end points. All access points are connected to the firewall which acts as the gateway. All access points, and vlans are managed directly from the firewall.

Likelihood to Recommend

Overall WatchGuard Network Security is fairly good. Their hardware is good and works fine. Their software will get the job done, but can be confusing at times. The biggest thing going against them is their price and need for licenses. You are required to have a license for the firewall to work at all and many features you would want to use for the firewall and access points require additional licenses. Additionally for about the same price you can get Fortinet firewalls and access points. Overall I do like WatchGuard Network Security an think they make good products, but for the price I don't think it is worth it. If they were to lower their prices I think they would have a big edge over their competitors.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it for VPN access to the network, and we also use AuthPoint from WatchGuard as 2 Step Authentication for the VPN access. I have multiple WatchGuard Firewalls at many clients. The above is at 1 of my law firms, but most, if not all, clients use VPN to access their network remotely.

Likelihood to Recommend

VPN access with two-factor authentication support. Being able to have multiple WAN connections for failover over Easy to setup and troubleshoot issues. Easy to update to the latest firmware.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are a small non-profit hospital with a main campus and 8 remote group homes. We need to have all group homes have 100% access to resources at our main campus. The group homes have small offices with approximately 10 endpoints. Since the group homes are typical single family residences in suburban neighborhoods, we need a secured WIFI connection. We replaced small consumer based routers with T20-W wireless firewalls. With the secured WIFI coupled with out of the box BOVPN, it is the perfect appliance for the small offices.

Likelihood to Recommend

We recently had an issue with our Microsoft patch management that resulted in severely high bandwidth usage. We reached out to Microsoft, for support, which was useless. WatchGuard Network Security helped us create a firewall rule to fix the image the same day. Customer support is US centric and quick to respond. Support team is very friendly and knowledgeable.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use WatchGuard Network Security to secure our business from outside threats and potential malware or unwanted files. We also recommend WatchGuard Network Security to ALL of our clients. We install and configure a lot of WatchGuard and we never have any issues. This is the baseline for our network security. One feature we really like is disabling websites based on region.

Likelihood to Recommend

We are an IT company, and we recommend WatchGuard Network Security to all of our clients who run businesses. Without WatchGuard Network Security, the business is at a major risk of malicious files or even compromise. This is a baseline for security, web blockage, and even spam blockage for all of our businesses. We believe that WatchGuard Network Security is straightforward to get our clients on board.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use WatchGuard Firebox for all our branch offices and head offices to Threat detection along with User Bases Content Filtering to ensure a safe and secure environment. We also like because of the Zero Secure trust policy that Watchguard offers us. The Ease of deployment and management is also a great was for us to environment on a Month to month basis.

Likelihood to Recommend

SMB space is perfect for the WatchGuard Network Security to ensure price point for functionality. It is able to check a lot of boxes when it comes to the SMB space and ensure that risks are minimized for the operations at hand.

It does have some room to grow when it comes to Larger corporations due to some limitations in functionality, robustness and overall market space when it comes to reputation to the customer.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use WatchGuard Network Security systems for managing our multiple firewalled networks. The granular security controls and straightforward UI make it easy to configure things as we need them. The site-site VPN functionality and point-site VPN clients enable our offices to collaborate effortlessly and enables WFH to be a nondisruptive option. A small team can manage everything due to its accessible UI options.

Likelihood to Recommend

As we're not a massive organization with a limitless IT budget, WatchGuard's solutions have made network security and management feasible for our small team. I could imagine at larger orgs it may be too simple for complex use cases, at least among the SKUs we utilize. It's a good balance of complexity for us, though.

The licensing is a maze to navigate, but that's industry standard at this point unfortunately.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

WatchGuard firewall appliance

mostly using it as a backup network security device because we have other brand appliances which have centrailized portal to manage devices and faster response UI

Likelihood to Recommend

when you have the primary fire wall installed and you need one as a failover firewall in each locations you work on

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

just a backup firewall, the stuff is cheap but just not as good as fortinet and sophos which have ai detection and other features that are so much better (NDR) watchguard is hard to implement for most of our cleints, the web portal is hard to access, mainly used for backup firewall, has all the basic features after all!

Likelihood to Recommend

its good as backup firewall, just set it up and then put it in place but lack features of enterprise firewalls like sophos and fortinet

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use this as our onsite firewall and for local network management as well as VPN for offsite employees.

Likelihood to Recommend

Networks under 250 devices where there are not a lot of IT staff or a dedicated network admin.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use WatchGuard to provide perimeter security for our office network. Having a comprehensive advanced security solution in place allows us to have one place to manage our security and assist us in preventing/reducing spam, phishing, and Ransomware from entering our network. Our firewall is one of multiple layers that we trust to protect our organization and our data.

Likelihood to Recommend

Well-suited for office networks. It may not be suited for smaller networks due to cost.