WatchGuard Network Security is the Go-To Network Security Source

WatchGuard Network Security provides a well-rounded suite of network security services. We use their firewall appliance to provide edge protection and their endpoint security on our internal systems to provide an additional layer of security. The WatchGuard Network Security firewall provides intelligent security proxies with features like gateway antivirus, DDOS protection, persistent threat detection, website filtering, and detection of malicious patterns of behavior. The fine level of granular control over application-based access control is also a very welcome addition to help with issues like critical data egress. Effective support of VLANs provides us the flexibility we desire to partition our internal networks. The management interfaces are excellent and help make complicated configurations much easier to track and understand. Clearly, a lot of thought has gone into the engineering of these systems. The endpoint protection is centrally managed via a cloud interface that lets us have multiple profiles that can be assigned on a per-device basis. Someone in engineering can have an endpoint profile that's different from someone in shipping, for example. A nicely integrated system designed to solve sticky problems easily.

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The unified security platform has obvious benefits but we have to date stayed on the legacy management because it avoids retraining and works very well in our environment. We plan to move to the cloud-based unified management platform this calendar year, but we are just not there yet.

The cloud-based endpoint security product has helped us have a centralized place to evaluate the security health of our end users' systems. The ability to have role-based profiles we can assign to specific user's machines means we can simplify our management significantly and gives us a high level of control and monitoring.