Overview
What is WatchGuard Network Security?
WatchGuard Network Security is a network security and firewall software. WatchGuard includes secure Wi-Fi, multi-factor authentication, and network intelligence products and services designed for SMB’s.
Great Product
Good option for small and mid size businesses.
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Great Product for the Price!
WatchGuard Network Security gets the job done
Need a firewall? Then Buy WatchGuard. Hands down the best I've used
WatchGuard Network Security
Powerful and Great Security Solution
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Good Firewall
All in one Network security solution
WatchGuard is solid and stable, effective and capable.
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Popular Features
- Policy-based Controls (427)8.787%
- Firewall Management Console (421)8.686%
- Content Inspection (415)8.585%
- Reporting and Logging (418)8.080%
Reviewer Pros & Cons
Pricing
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Entry-level set up fee?
- No setup fee
Offerings
- Free Trial
- Free/Freemium Version
- Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Product Demos
Tutorial: Get Started with a WatchGuard Firebox
Features
Firewall
A firewall is a filter that stands between a computer or computer network and the Internet. Each firewall can be programmed to keep specific traffic in or out
- 8.6Identification Technologies(395) Ratings
Policy-based visibility and control over applications, users and content
- 7.5Visualization Tools(391) Ratings
Visualization tools present administrators with data on applications traversing the network, who is using them, and the potential security impact.
- 8.5Content Inspection(415) Ratings
Inspecting permitted application traffic by means of threat prevention, URL filtering and data filtering
- 8.7Policy-based Controls(427) Ratings
Firewall policy controls enable administrators to create firewall policies controlling what data is allowed to traverse the firewall
- 8.5Active Directory and LDAP(361) Ratings
Integration with Active Directory and LDAP directories
- 8.6Firewall Management Console(421) Ratings
Either command-line or web-based interface for centralized control and management
- 8Reporting and Logging(418) Ratings
Custom and summary reports, and log files enabling analysis of security incidents, application usage and traffic patterns
- 8.9VPN(411) Ratings
VPN's implement encryption and anonymize IP addresses
- 8.6High Availability(371) Ratings
Built-in capacity to prevent exposure if primary firewall stops working
- 9Stateful Inspection(388) Ratings
Stateful inspection analyzes packet headers and contents of packets
- 8.9Proxy Server(280) Ratings
A proxy server changes your IP address and masks the origin of your network traffic
Product Details
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- Tech Details
- Downloadables
- FAQs
What is WatchGuard Network Security?
WatchGuard Network Security Features
Firewall Features
- Supported: Identification Technologies
- Supported: Visualization Tools
- Supported: Content Inspection
- Supported: Policy-based Controls
- Supported: Active Directory and LDAP
- Supported: Firewall Management Console
- Supported: Reporting and Logging
- Supported: VPN
- Supported: High Availability
- Supported: Stateful Inspection
- Supported: Proxy Server
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WatchGuard Network Security Technical Details
Deployment Types | On-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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Operating Systems | Windows, Linux, Mac |
Mobile Application | No |
Supported Countries | Global |
Supported Languages | English, Spanish, French, German, Japanese |
WatchGuard Network Security Downloadables
- WatchGuard M290 & M390 Datasheet: UTM performance, ideal for small and midsize organizations with up to 250 users looking for a rack-mounted solution.
- WatchGuard M590 & M690 Datasheet: UTM performance, ideal for growing midsize organizations with up to 1,000 users.
- WatchGuard M4800 & M5800 Datasheet: Typically deployed at the corporate headquarters, these appliances serve as the “hub” appliance, responsible for managing and securing all communications between the head office and all remote employee and small business sites.
- WatchGuard Total Security Suite Brochure
- WatchGuard Network Security Case Study
- WatchGuard Corporate Brochure
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Reviews and Ratings
(813)Attribute Ratings
- 9.9Likelihood to Renew34 ratings
- 9.6Availability3 ratings
- 9Performance3 ratings
- 9.3Usability116 ratings
- 7.5Support Rating28 ratings
- 8.2Online Training3 ratings
- 9.1In-Person Training4 ratings
- 9.5Implementation Rating263 ratings
- 9Configurability2 ratings
- 9Product Scalability3 ratings
- 9Ease of integration2 ratings
- 10Vendor pre-sale2 ratings
- 10Vendor post-sale2 ratings
Reviews
(1-25 of 446)Watchguard Review
- Security
- Application Control
- Traffic managment
- Logs
- Bandwidth meter
Great Product
- Firewall rules with auto-ordering
- Bandwidth consistency
- Branch Office VPN
- Centralized appliance (Dimension) at no cost is a great solution to consolidate reports from several appliances
- No possibility to negate terms in rules such as "allow everything from x.x.x.x/yy except x.x.x.z"
- Mixing rules of pure firewalling with those concerning VPN SSL ends up in something not pleasant and not easily readable, should have a dedicated tab for VPN SSL rules, as the one for IPSEC VPN rules
- No proxy support for SFTP or FTPS (I know it's quite hard to achieve that)
- The embedded rule for NTP has never been corrected to remove TCP for port 123
Good option for small and mid size businesses.
- Function as a router.
- Enforce FW rules.
- Port Monitoring.
- IPS
- Configuration
- UI/Dashboard
- Traffic Monitor.
Proven Opinion, Confirmed
- Easy Configuration
- Offline Configuration
- Easy to Deployment
- Ready-made configuration
- Policy Filtering Arrow Up Arrow Down
- Search by Policy
Great Product for the Price!
- Easy to configure
- Configuration is extremely flexible
- Great security features.
- Would be nice to see more AI driven traffic monitoring
- Would be nice to be able to detect suspicious traffic within the network
- Cloud management is lacking
WatchGuard Network Security gets the job done
- VPN
- Support
- Policies
- Proxies
- Clear Network Monitoring tool
- Simpler way to access logs from users without WatchGuard Network Security Dimensions
- Allow ports to be altered from within a policy instead of having to create a new one or edit the one used.
- Make logging option on the front page as a tickbox to avoid having to go to second tab and then clicking the logging button and then ticking the log feature.
- Support
- Web Proxies
- Traffic Management
- Policy Management
- Ability to find where network alias objects are in use
WatchGuard Network Security
- The connection between offices
- The VPN connection
- and security blocking on the Internet and intranet and web services
- Review of incoming emails within the internal network, and a better detail of what happens with emails that enter and leave.
- In Dimension better granulation or detail how to see the information
- APs can be viewed locally and Managed locall
Powerful and Great Security Solution
- Internet packet filtering.
- Application policy control
- navigation control through proxy.
- Botnet Detection
- Intrusion Prevention
- Should improve control of who or what consumes the bandwidth.
- must improve to know which devices are connected to the network.
- DNS detection improve the captured data.
WatchGuard
- simple and intuitive configuration
- excellent monitoring management via real-time logs, host watch etc.
- device management via dimension and/or WatchGuard Cloud is excellent
- possibility of managing bidirectional communication on sslvpn (openvpn) connections so as to be able to exploit this channel to route traffic to the remote peer.
Good Firewall
- Firewall
- Network Switching and routing
- dhcp and dns
- traffic routing
- training
- documentation
- local user database management
- ad authentication
All in one Network security solution
- Security
- User management
- Authpoint Configuration
- resend token function
- Escalate quickly
- work from a position of information.
- Answering calls quickly and efficiently
- Quickly asking about urgency of issues
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- Great interface.
- Excellent support.
- Works as needed.
- N/A
great product
- url filtering
- intrusion prevention
- DOS monitroing
- interface could be better
Experience with WatchGuard products
- Easy Configuration
- High degree of protection against attacks
- Long Life time
- Best support team
- Increased global settings changes across many devices
- Expand DDOS protection
- More integration systems
Great for SMBs
- VPN, Mobile VPN
- Proxies
- WebBlocker
- Traffic management
- Reporting
- TDR EOL
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- Web Filtering
- DNS Filtering
- Geofencing
- Web filtering exceptions need to be entered twice due to the format
- The quantity of policies can get to be large
- had some glitches in the web ui though I generally prefer the WSM
The right value!
- Training
- Partner Program
- Demo/NFR Units
- Network Switches are not in the portfolio
- The wireless devices are nice, but don't seem to fit our stack for the pricepoint.
- At least in my situation, Authpoint is difficult to sell when compared to other identity providers.
WatchGuard Security Services and Firebox
- A complete MFA solution to secure workstations, servers, and firewalls
- Cloud based management
- A subscription service that's worth our clients money and our time
- Cloud management + on-prem sync
- MFA for requiring domain credentials
- Ability to turn poe on and off
WatchGuard Systems Security
- Protection from DOS attacts
- Secure VPN access from remote locations
- Reliable Branch Office VPN even if one site has Dynamic IP
- UI (both through WSM and Web Interface) could be more user friendly
Loving my WatchGuard
- Geo Blocking allows me to use a VPN and only allow Geo Specific access.
- IPS - gives me peace of mind that the baddies are not on my network.
- with Traffic monitoring, I can easily troubleshoot connectivity issues.
- I cannot think if anything that I could improve upon.
WatchGuard appliances
- Management
- Warranty/Support
- Subscriptions
- Network throughput on smaller appliances
- More rack mount options
Best Firewalls for the $$
- Easy to setup and manage
- IP/Content blocking
- Remote monitoring
- Cost
- VPN setup was a little confusing at first
- DNS Server limit
- SSO
- They are quick to provide solutions to zero-day exploits.
- They quickly replace warranted hardware.
- Technical support will continue to provide good service, even when there is not a fast solution.
- There have been occasions where a basic functionality such as having two DHCP servers was not supported and required a feature request to address the issue.
- There are somewhat limited routing functions in the devices that we use.
- The secondary units sold in a cluster cannot be repurposed as a stand-alone unit. This lowers the cost but limits any future uses.