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WatchGuard Secure Wi-Fi Cloud

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What is WatchGuard Secure Wi-Fi Cloud?

The vendor says WatchGuard Wi-Fi Cloud is where you take your access points to unlock their full potential. With a Secure Wi-Fi license, you get patented WIPS security, compliance reporting including PCI, Wi-Fi vulnerability assessment reporting, and every enterprise-grade WLAN feature you’ll need…

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Peter Johnson
Owner
Schwartz IT GmbH & Co. KG (Computer & Network Security, 11-50 employees)
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Alfred Da Silva
System Administrator
Pcs Group (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees)
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Product Details

What is WatchGuard Secure Wi-Fi Cloud?

The vendor says WatchGuard Wi-Fi Cloud is where you take your access points to unlock their full potential. With a Secure Wi-Fi license, you get patented WIPS security, compliance reporting including PCI, Wi-Fi vulnerability assessment reporting, and every enterprise-grade WLAN feature you’ll need to take your access points into the toughest environments – with features like live floorplan views, hotspot 2.0, application firewall, and role-based access with 802.1x. WatchGuard Wi-Fi Cloud has everything you need to enable a Trusted Wireless Environment, claims the vendor.

Unlock the rest of the power of the Wi-Fi Cloud with a Total Wi-Fi license and gain easy-to-customize, engaging captive portals with authentication options including Facebook, Twitter, SMS, email, and a powerful location-based analytics engine equipped with customizable reports for automated delivery to your inbox.

Take Wi-Fi Cloud for a test drive: www.watchguard.com/wifidemo

WatchGuard Secure Wi-Fi Cloud Features

  • Supported: Patented WIPS Security Protection
  • Supported: Scalable Cloud Management
  • Supported: Intelligent Network Visibility and Troubleshooting
  • Supported: Guest Engagement and Marketing ROI
  • Supported: Location-Based Analytics
  • Supported: Mobile Web App

WatchGuard Secure Wi-Fi Cloud Screenshots

Screenshot of WatchGuard Wi-Fi DiscoverScreenshot of WatchGuard Wi-Fi AnalyzeScreenshot of WatchGuard Wi-Fi EngageScreenshot of WatchGuard Wi-Fi Manage

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WatchGuard Secure Wi-Fi Cloud Technical Details

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October 18, 2021

WatchGuard Secure Wi-Fi Cloud review

Verified User
Administrator in Information Technology
Hospital & Health Care Company, 51-200 employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
WatchGuard Secure Wi-Fi Cloud is a great product to manage the Wireless network across the whole organization. For us, it addresses the multiple location management issues that we always had. The ability to manage from one location that is secure is really important to us. Secure WiFi Cloud makes it easier to manage all our Wireless clients.
Pros and Cons
  • Ease of Management
  • Secure
  • Wi-Fi Reporting
  • Better Access Points from WG
  • Map Feature
Likelihood to Recommend
WatchGuard Secure Wi-Fi Cloud is well suited to environments with multiple locations that need a centralized management location. WatchGuard Secure Wi-Fi Cloud is not needed for a single location with less than 15 Access Points needed.
Most Important Features
  • Security
  • Reporting
  • Troubleshooting
  • Ease of management
Return on Investment
  • Less time spend on setting up Wi-Fi on client devices
  • Addressed our Security Concerns
  • Less time spent on Wireless Configurations
Alternatives Considered
WatchGuard Secure Wi-Fi Cloud offers the cloud management solution unlike Ubiquiti which needs a controller that you need to setup, configure, update, and maintain. Also Security is offered with Secure Wi-Fi cloud.
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February 21, 2020

WatchGuard Secure Wi-Fi; The WiFi Police

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Information Technology and Services Company, 51-200 employees
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
I have deployed WatchGaurd Secure Wi-Fi for multiple customers who have sites numbering from ten to hundreds. The cloud-based portal is the element that ties management of these deployments together. Being an MSP, this centralized solution is invaluable; along with the ease of configuration, deployment, and management.
Pros and Cons
  • Ease of configuration of your Wi-Fi solution.
  • Full security feature set including IPS, and policing.
  • Event monitoring is second to none. Easy to troubleshoot any issue.
  • As far as a native VLAN configuration, VLAN 0 is used while mostly all other vendors use VLAN 1 as the default (native) VLAN. Minor detail, but keeps configuration standard across the board.
  • The policing feature is powerful, but at times too powerful and needs to be modified a few times before getting the solution where you need it to be. Different levels of policing would be nice, with the option of creating your own and/or modifying an existing template.
Likelihood to Recommend
The WatchGuard Secure Wi-Fi Cloud works well in any scenario. With the number of AP model options, this solution can work at a coffee shop all the way up to a multi-tenant facility with thousands of users.
Return on Investment
  • The ROI for every customer we have deployed this solution has been within months. This is especially seen with customers who resell their Wi-Fi service.
  • Due to the stability of the solution, our NOC spends less time troubleshooting issues and outages which in turns gives them time to focus on other customer issues.
  • Due to the success of these deployments, our company continues to resell this product and has received higher discounts during the sale process which in turn have increased our profit margins.
Alternatives Considered
WatchGuard Secure versus the Mojo Networks is the same being that they both use the same platform.
Versus the Fortinet solution- it has a stronger security suite, but as far as functionality, they are about equal.
Versus the Meraki solution- it has a stronger security suite, and costs less, but about the same when it comes to cloud-based management.
Support Rating
10
The support team is great! I have never had an issue getting the support I needed. They make it a point to stick with the issue until it's resolved to the customer's satisfaction. They do not make you feel like you need to hurry up and close the ticket. They make sure the solution is working as designed.
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