WatchGuard Network Security nailed it!
January 23, 2024

WatchGuard Network Security nailed it!

Anders Gidlund | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review

Modules Used

  • WatchGuard Network Security

Overall Satisfaction with WatchGuard Network Security

We have a customer that needed full redundancy of their Internet accessess from two ISP and they would also like to make use of both the ISP's gigabit bandwith capacity. The solution was 2 Firebox M390 in a FireCluster setup hooked up to an Aruba VSF stack. The two WAN interfaces was combined in a SDWAN in addition to configuring them with failover. WatchGuard Network Security nailed it!
  • Active/Passive Cluster
  • Cloud Management
  • Intelligent Security features
  • High Speed Throughput
  • Awesome Red Paintjob, the best looking firewalls on the market.
  • LACP support in WatchGuard Network Security Gloud
  • Better sorting/fliltering of Firewall Policies
  • Certificate based authentication for mobile IPSec VPN
  • Support for Integrated Windows Authentication with IPSec VPN
  • A very professional image as a brand as heard by our customers
  • Ability to solve the technical challenges of our more demanding customers
  • A better margin for us, but a bit higher prices for the customer compared to other brands we have used.
  • The support levels as a subscription helps to get the important security features activated and used in addition to being very straight-forward to activate.
We have work with Infinigate in Sweden and in particular [...]. He has been very helpful and proved his skills. Everything has went smooth.
You get at pretty good overwiev over the customers and their devices/settings through a one-pane looking glass. WatchGuard Network Security Cloud is a really impressive and easy to use platform.
We have not had an oppurtunity to work with more than the Firewalls right now but regarding the FireCluster function it functions really well.
We have also worked a lot with Unifi and their cloud Unifi Cloud. It works well but it feels like a solution for a bit smaller businesses. Some customer have grown out of their Unifi solutions and there WatchGuard Network Security is ready to take over and fill a gap.

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

Its well suited for Enterprise networks but also for SMB's. Its in particular a go-to choice for customers with high capacity bandwidth demands and need for redundancy. A customer with many branch offices and no need for advanced networking functions would strongly benefit from managing all their devices in WatchGuard Network Security Cloud.

WatchGuard Network Security Feature Ratings

Identification Technologies
10
Content Inspection
10
Policy-based Controls
10
Active Directory and LDAP
7
Firewall Management Console
10
Reporting and Logging
10
VPN
7
High Availability
10
Stateful Inspection
10
Proxy Server
8