We performed a comparison between Check Point Application Control and WatchGuard Application Control based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Control solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It also helps us implement changes very quickly and make people more focused on work."
"This product logs & monitors event traffic for each application, giving us better visibility."
"We can easily switch from a classical firewall to a next-gen firewall using application security."
"We can combine Application Control with Identity Awareness and URL Filtering to create security policies for users/groups based on characteristics about security, productivity and network bandwidth."
"It improved the performance outcome for all our verticals due to more automation in system security, which helped in the identification and blockage of malware-affected applications and widgets."
"The tool's most valuable features are VPN access, website defense, and maintenance."
"It has many important features that have greatly helped the company and the IT department."
"The product offers easy-to-install policies and makes it simple to troubleshoot application-related traffic."
"It's user-friendly. And if you are using a WatchGuard device and you want to test that side of the software, it's quite easy to get the license to test it."
"I found several features valuable in WatchGuard Application Control such as the HTTP Proxy, DNSWatch, VPN, and HTTPS Content Inspection."
"It does the job of what it says it does. We set it to what we want it to block and then it blocks it."
"Zero-trust and threat-hunting services are most valuable."
"The most valuable feature is the category control."
"The solution is very stable. We've never had any problems with stability. Once a year we do a reboot just as a precaution. The solution never stops running otherwise."
"Centralization is a crucial feature for me as it allows me to have all sites and customers accessible under a single click, not limited to just one."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is traffic management."
"The whitelisting approach should only be on very specific applications. In which only a server should access a certain application and nothing else. If you miss something, you will have to always be investigating why it doesn't have access or why an application is not working."
"Most of the business applications stopped working, we don't know why and we have already escalated to the top level but we still haven't gotten any corrective action on this. They always take logs but after that, there is no resolution."
"I would like to have a periodic update of the applications, perhaps based on a predefined calendar."
"The set performance monitoring systems are complex to interpret and scale down their operations."
"They are expensive products due to the fact that we have to buy blades for each solution that we want to integrate into our corporate."
"We would like the product to be a bit more user-friendly in general."
"They need to improve the graphical interface."
"Something important to mention is the improvement at the support level. It could be more advanced."
"There is no message displayed for the user on the desktop informing them that access to a web page has been blocked by Application Control."
"The control software is currently only available for Windows, which can be a little annoying for Linux users."
"There should be more reports available on different subjects."
"I believe there is room for improvement in policies, with the potential to enhance the margins further."
"They could expand the amount of applications that are on the list, but it's pretty intensive anyway, so it's pretty good."
"The solution needs to improve the interface. I'm not able to easily find things using it."
"The licensing can be a bit expensive."
"What could be improved in WatchGuard Application Control is its price. It could be cheaper. You always want the best price for any solution, but for security products, pricing is usually on the higher side."
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Check Point Application Control is ranked 1st in Application Control with 34 reviews while WatchGuard Application Control is ranked 5th in Application Control with 9 reviews. Check Point Application Control is rated 8.8, while WatchGuard Application Control is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Check Point Application Control writes "Reliable, reduces management requirements, and lessens manual interventions". On the other hand, the top reviewer of WatchGuard Application Control writes "Reliable with good blocking capabilities for enhanced security". Check Point Application Control is most compared with VMware Carbon Black App Control and Ivanti Application Control, whereas WatchGuard Application Control is most compared with . See our Check Point Application Control vs. WatchGuard Application Control report.
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