WatchGuard; simple yet effective next generation firewall appliances that are worth every penny!
August 01, 2019
WatchGuard; simple yet effective next generation firewall appliances that are worth every penny!
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Overall Satisfaction with WatchGuard Network Security
WatchGuard is being used internally at my organization to protect my technical assets, internal systems and client information. For nearly 10 years I have sold and supported WatchGuard appliances to clients while employed at other IT support companies in my area, as well as when I went out on my own and started my own IT consultant business. I only recommend WatchGuard as I feel the value of services beats any other competitor.
- Extremely easy to manage multiple devices, efficiently with minimal effort
- Clear easy to use logging/reporting via WatchGuard Cloud and WatchGuard dimension
- Managing subscriptions and services as a reseller makes it easy to offer, sell and deploy
- The WatchGuard XCS line of product was extremely powerful, but the SpamBlocker services on the current WatchGuard product subscription lacks featureset and deep spam analysis
- As more services are pushed to the cloud, I would have liked to still see improvements and added features to the on premises WatchGuard gateway wireless controller. WatchGuard wifi cloud is great, but the on premises is still valued.
- WatchGuard has given my company a solid revenue stream
- With the ability to sell WatchGuard and to prove its use-cases, I am confident in saying I can protect any clients network no matter how big or small.
I purchase all of my WatchGuard devices from Interwork Technologies, and the staff there are extremely helpful in processing orders and getting hardware out quickly.
Although most of my clients do not have on premises servers to protect like Mail Servers, Application or Databases that need to be public facing, I feel the security suite options are very generous to offer what they do. Being able to select basic security suite and total security suite does demonstrate value and justifies the price of each subscription that is sold.
I have always found that the WatchGuard device software has been way easier to understand traffic flow, policy management and how its services operate. The System Manager and WebUI have come a long way, and I feel that competitors are lacking those components.