Our company experience with WatchGuard
January 19, 2024

Our company experience with WatchGuard

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with WatchGuard Network Security

We have used WatchGuard technologies for perimeter security in our corporate infrastructure.
The problem was about protecting the traffic for our data.
We needed to separate the traffic for back office users (sensitive data) and for the technicians (general purpose data) without losing performance and security.
We also used the captive portal features with WatchGuard access points for managing guest traffic with mobile devices.
  • Policy configuration
  • Vendor knowledge base
  • Monitoring tools
  • Security profile configuration
  • Logging tools configuration (dimension)
  • Single sign on integration with 3rd party services
  • Upselling of technologies already used by our customers
We have only used standalone appliances
WatchGuard is slightly less intuitive to configure in comparison to Fortinet FortiGate appliances

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?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of WatchGuard Network Security go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy WatchGuard Network Security again?

No

It is quite easy and intuitive to get a basic working configuration but in some cases, it is slightly challenging to make a granular configuration in the security profiles.
Some settings are nested in comparison to other technologies such as Fortinet and it takes much time to achieve the same result in terms of quality.

WatchGuard Network Security Feature Ratings

Identification Technologies
7
Visualization Tools
5
Content Inspection
6
Policy-based Controls
6
Active Directory and LDAP
3
Firewall Management Console
8
Reporting and Logging
6
VPN
7
High Availability
7
Stateful Inspection
7
Proxy Server
Not Rated