Watchguard Network Security Firewall
April 07, 2023

Watchguard Network Security Firewall

Alessandro Odazio | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Modules Used

  • WatchGuard Network Security

Overall Satisfaction with WatchGuard Network Security

The WatchGuard Network Security firewalls are the core of our infrastructure. They are used to allow VPN access to all internal reources, to manage IPSec connections to remote offices, to provide a realiable and strong internal filtering policies between subnets and to protect trusted networks from an untrusted networks by filtering traffic according to a specified security policies.
In addition, they provides, with very low false positives (after a learning period) the first line of protection against multiple threats (spam, viruses, botnet, IDS).
  • VPN users policies by security groups
  • IDS
  • IPSEC performances
  • spam,botnet, anctivirus
  • The user interface for WatchGuard Firebox has room for improvement
  • The reporting area has room for improvements
  • The log inspection has room for improvement
  • Extremely easy IPSec and user SSL vpn management
  • Easy integration with Windows domain controllers
  • Strong threats detection capabilities
We currently work with a high skilled partner able to support us about the correct strategies.
The unified security platform allows to check and control fro a single entry point

Do you think WatchGuard Network Security delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with WatchGuard Network Security's feature set?

Yes

Did WatchGuard Network Security live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of WatchGuard Network Security go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy WatchGuard Network Security again?

Yes

Watchguard network security is well suited in the policies definition area: it allows very fine and granular policies per user, network interface, protocol, service.... but it can be tricky to identify a specific issue by watching the logs or the traffic traversing the interfaces. This area has room for improvement.

WatchGuard Network Security Feature Ratings

Identification Technologies
8
Visualization Tools
4
Content Inspection
9
Policy-based Controls
10
Active Directory and LDAP
9
Firewall Management Console
8
Reporting and Logging
6
VPN
10
High Availability
10
Stateful Inspection
10
Proxy Server
9