TitanHQ WebTitan Reviews

It is a web filter. We use it to keep people from streaming in our main office. Everything goes through our main office, and we don't want it to be clogged so that nobody can get to it. We have to limit the streaming capabilities of the users and access to any inappropriate sites.

The way I use it is that I log into their portal and make changes to the filter. There isn't any hardware. Basically, it goes by DNS settings. So, the DNS server goes out to WebTitan and says, "Is this okay to go to?" If WebTitan says yes, they get their webpage. There is no hardware other than our DNS server that interacts with the service.

It helps us to make sure that our internet connection is clear without everybody watching the news or any kind of videos online. The whole idea was to keep the lines open.

It is keeping our lines open, and we don't have to increase bandwidth to support people who are watching the news and videos on YouTube, etc.

It protects our staff when they're remoting into our server to use services. However, when they're out on their own, they're not protected with WebTitan.

It doesn't require installing an agent or software on individual workstations, which is very important for us. I don't have to go around every single machine and/or push updates out because of this product. The product improves on its own without having to go to workstations, which is an ideal thing because it doesn't tie up staff's time to upgrade the machines. I don't need to upgrade the software to make WebTitan work. I wish all products were that way.

It is easy to use. It does what it is supposed to do. We never had a problem with them. It is also pretty easy to deploy. Once you set it, you can just forget it.

The customization options provided by WebTitan are easy to understand. It is self-intuitive, but at the same time, if you have a question about something, you can just text them or email them, and they get right back to you.

It works for us, and I have no real complaints about it. It is self-intuitive, but it could have intuitive help where you don't have to email somebody asking how you do something. They might already have it, but I've never used it.

I have been using this solution for about six years.

As far as I know, it has never been down because we always have people saying that they need to get into a webpage for a couple of days. So, we open it up for them. After they do their task, we shut it again.

I'm not sure about that. I know it does other things, but we just never got into it. We only use it for web filtering.

We have about 50 endpoints. It is just a single office. It is not corporate-wide. We also have a school, but we use a different product over there.

It is being used extensively, and right now, I'm satisfied with its usage. I'm sure we could utilize it further but not at this time. There are so many other fires going on because of COVID. So, it is on the back burner.

They always had the answer. I would rate them a 10 out of 10.

Positive

We didn't use any other solution previously.

It was pretty straightforward if I remember right. I don't remember sweating over anything. We plugged in our information, and it was up and running. It took a few days at the most.

I took care of its implementation. We probably had somebody either on the phone or sending us instructions on exactly what we needed to do.

It hardly requires any oversight after it has been installed. You more or less set it and forget it. You go in only when you have to modify it. You make quick modifications, and you're done. It is important to us that it doesn't require much attention. The less attention a product needs, the better for us.

I am sure we have seen an ROI. We have 700 of our people trying to get into our system, and we don't want that pipe clogged. So, it is doing its job as far as I can tell.

I don't know about the cost. I usually just get the bill, and I just confirm that we use it and approve it. They go, and they pay it. I'm happy that it works.

For licensing, if I remember right, we told them how many users we have, and they told us the price, which we okayed. There were no add-ons. There might be a slight increase like everybody else, but there weren't any add-ons.

If I remember right, I did look at other solutions. The deciding factor was its simplicity. You log in, make changes, and log out. They're implemented within five minutes.

I am not sure if it reduced viruses, ransomware, phishing, and/or malware attacks because we implemented it about six years ago, and I never really thought about looking for that. We were fairly lucky with viruses. Usually, the viruses are outside. Where we use it is our corporate office, and most viruses show up outside of the corporate office.

I would rate it a nine out of ten.

As a library, we are required to have a filter on our public computers because we receive E-Rate funding. If children use our computers, the usage has to be filtered. 

I set up the usage filters. There were items on that list that were not going to harm children, things like shopping for a used pickup truck. You can filter all of those things and I chose not to filter some. But the whole idea is to block usage so that patrons can't access pornography or any images that would be harmful to children.

If someone is doing research and they're being blocked, and if we feel that it's a legitimate use, we can get them into the site they're looking for.

It's easy to use. The user interface is absolutely fine. I've had no problems with it at all.

One issue that they have just solved is that there's a new interface for paying bills. I had an issue when I tried to pay with our debit card last year, but with the new payment interface, they have solved that.

I have been using TitanHQ WebTitan for about a year.

I've not encountered any stability issues.

It covers our five public computers, a circulation desk computer used by staff, and my laptop. 

Our computer usage is down due to the pandemic. Staff usage really hasn't changed very much, but our staff is not on the web Googling things we shouldn't.

I have not used their technical support. I haven't had any problems with the solution.

We did not have a previous solution. We have only received E-Rate funding for two years. We were in their non-compliant category, which you're allowed to be in during the first year of funding. We had this set up about a year ago, before we went into our second year of E-Rate funding.

I'm in a library directors' forum and I was looking at what other library directors said about their products. Big libraries are using products that are on their servers. We don't have our own server, so this was the solution that I thought would be the least expensive for us.

It was also going to be easy to set up compared to other solutions, which saved time for our tech who is a contracted service.

It was very easy for my tech to set up. In fact, he's the one who recommended it. It didn't take him long to get it going. He was familiar with the product, having set it up before. It was very easy for him.

There are lots of products out there, and most of them are a lot more expensive. Overall, I'm very happy with WebTitan. It has been a great solution for a very small library.

I haven't seen any problems come up. I have only been blocked once when I was working on my laptop and I was trying to do something with the federal government. But other than that, there haven't been any problems. 

We use it for all of our customer-facing desktop clients so that we can control and restrict access, versus using MAC address restrictions and the like. The roaming version is the one that we use most, versus at the firewall level.

We have a lot of employees that use common hardware but they log into each one. Because we have customers who need to be served quickly, we're not into a group policy situation, where we have too many policies or restrictions. We want the desktop clients to be something that employees can log into quickly, without going through security settings.

WebTitan gives us a fast solution that's on the hardware for all users, making that hardware instantly available to them. And it allows us to track, monitor, and control their internet usage, since everything that we do is SaaS or cloud-based. It allows us to restrict access and have visibility. It just fits as a really good solution for us. It's always on the hardware that our employees use, so that multiple employees can go into it. For each of them, it still applies that security and that DNS level of control by category, with the ability to monitor and block and allow access as needed, remotely, which is great.

Our employees don't notice WebTitan, which is the way we want it to be, until they go to something that they shouldn't be going to. It's nice that it's not too invasive, robust, or more than what we need. The way it helps our organization is that we get the control we want, without it limiting us on the things that we have to do, or changing the nature of how an employee works. An employee can walk up to another computer and they don't have to go through a whole verification process. We all live in a world where we don't have enough employees. The last thing you want them to do is say to a customer, "Excuse me while I wait to log in, and my credentials load up, and it's going to take me two minutes." Two minutes, when a customer is standing there looking at you, is a lot of time.

Because we've continuously used a product like this—we went from the Cisco Umbrella products to the TitanHQ WebTitan products—we haven't seen a reduction in viruses, ransomware, phishing, or malware attacks because protecting us from them is what we expect a product like this to do. The whole intent is to limit sites that would put us more at risk. It should deliver on that and limit risk exposure through content monitoring, by category or individual sites. That's why we contract for it and we expect it to do that.

A benefit of WebTitan is that it reduces the costs associated with web filtering. Our other option is to have the IT people that we contract with handle that function and have a higher level of restriction. WebTitan is an affordable solution for what we want it to do. Knowing your conditional use—and stressing that it has a conditional use—it works well for what it is.

We pay for our contracted IT services on a monthly retainer plus hourly. Versus what we pay them, I suppose WebTitan saves us thousands of dollars per year. I have WebTitan installed on approximately 50-plus pieces of hardware. If we had another application used in conjunction with Azure, and group policies and the maintenance associated with that, it would be hundreds of dollars per month just for the maintenance, and it would be thousands of dollars per year, as we use it across multiple locations in our company.

It helps the level of service we provide to our customers in the sense that employees expect to have access to the internet. The last thing you want in a customer service-type position is employees who have their noses in their phones. It makes a bad impression. You want to grant the right amount of internet access to the right sites, without it being a distraction and without forcing them to go to their phones. It's a battle because you want to give them everything and because people are inclined to use their own phones. But it's a good solution for its intended use. With WebTitan, our employees aren't distracted as much. That's key. You want to give them internet, but you want it to be the internet you want them to have.

The monitoring abilities of the product are the most valuable for us. As you deploy it, you can adapt it. As you monitor, if employees go to things that you don't like, or to things that you need to allow, the ability to monitor and see how much is necessary—where they're getting shot down or blocked—is helpful.

What's nice is that it has content restrictions by categories, but you can dial down to blacklist particular sites. That monitoring solution is key, allowing us to see which applications or which websites they're going to, and whether or not they're time-wasters. We want to be flexible but we don't want to be stupid. For example, we want to make sure that we're blocking email clients universally. We feel those are a big risk, as are streaming sites and the like. Monitoring is key because the internet evolves. Content restrictions are great, and it's great that WebTitan updates them, but it's important that you're seeing where the employees are inclined to go.

The interface is a little dated and a little awkward at times. That's a minor problem. It's workable.

And while I really liked how they set me up, by telling me not to assign it to my own email and to use an admin email so that we could have other users, a weakness was around their communicating to me all the things that are possible, and probably realizing that they fit a niche in a business. It's a solid product and I'd like to do more with it. I'd like to integrate all these things, but time is a problem.

I've used different vendors and it's evolved over the years. TitanHQ is the third or fourth vendor that we have had and we've been with them for a couple of years now.

I've never had an issue with the solution. It seems to be up all the time.

It protects employees at the level we want it to. We key it to employees where we feel that that restriction is necessary. We don't put it on everyone's hardware.

TitanHQ's technical support was prompt and helped me through to a solution. The issue had to do with redundant licenses. When we were replacing equipment, we wanted to make sure that we didn't all of a sudden blow up to 100 licenses being used, when we only have 50 clients. We wanted to remove any occurrences of dual licenses so that we weren't going to be charged. They were super responsive about how to remove it from our old devices so it was easy enough for me to get it done.

One other time I contacted them about something small, about a website that I was trying to get whitelisted and they helped me quickly.

I've always found them to be responsive. I prefer email or chat. I ask a question and they respond back. That's the way I want it to go.

If it was urgent—and I've never really had an urgent issue—at worst, I'd turn blocking off intermittently. If I felt that it was dragging our business or causing some delay, I would just turn the product off and then turn it back on when I felt that the situation had resolved itself. But I've never been in those circumstances.

I rate their technical support a solid eight out of 10. You always have to wait a little bit. No one is going to be at your beck and call. There's a time zone issue because I'm in the Pacific Northwest and they're in Europe. But that still hasn't been a problem. I've always found them to be responsive at the level I need them to be.

Positive

We used Cisco Umbrella, but TitanHQ as a company is a lot easier to work with. It seems like there are actually people behind their product, versus people who just auto-respond if you need help. TitanHQ is a real company with real people who are actually trying to help you do what you need to do. There are people to help you if you need it.

WebTitan was a solution that was similar to what we had before, at a much more affordable price, with a better support team, and a more responsive sales team, top to bottom. Their email communication is better. I'm being updated about things when they're rolling them out. That didn't happen with Umbrella. My view of a given product is certainly colored by my experience with similar products and where they failed me.

I felt Umbrella went too far and started changing, certainly when it comes to the cost versus the product. And our conditional use was too much. That's one of the reasons we selected WebTitan. 

If I had to pick a single reason that Umbrella lost me, it was that their renewal process, even using a reseller, was a pain. I couldn't get anyone to sit there and renew it with me. Don't make it hard for people who want to buy your product to buy your product. Umbrella lost me through that whole process, not to mention when I got their quote. 

I wear a lot of hats. The last thing I need is three different resellers coming up to me for this product and for that product. It's frustrating because not all resellers represent all products. Even if a product didn't meet all my needs, but met the majority of my needs, because of time constraints, and because this is not my only responsibility, the last thing I want to do is change a vendor. I'd be willing, sometimes, to pay a higher cost just not to change. There might be minimal benefit when considering the time that is required to get that transition to happen. And it's not always about cost or money. And it's not always about features. It might be just the right combination of features, cost, and time commitment, since the one thing I can't back is time.

WebTitan was the closest to what Umbrella used to be before Umbrella changed. That, again, was related to time. I wanted to roll out a product relatively quickly. Once a product is removed and you need that product replaced, you need it quickly. I wanted a product that was the closest to what I was familiar with, giving me the features that I felt I needed, and WebTitan fit that quickly.

I was able to contract it and get it up within a couple of weeks. I was paying for two services concurrently and I was so frustrated with that reseller that I was able to move WebTitan forward. So far, it doesn't take much of my time, which I like.

The initial setup wasn't too bad. We have gone through some equipment rotations and there are probably easier ways to do it than the way we did it, but I find their team to be really helpful, so it wasn't too complex.

Regarding not needing to install an agent, if you're using the roaming client, it works well when it comes to installing it. But how important is it to me to be at the firewall level? There are a multitude of products out there that offer that solution. For content monitoring and DNS monitoring, it's not key that it is that way. The roaming client is for whatever network you're on. That's what's good about it and what I like about it.

COVID kicked us all in the pants and as a result, we didn't buy hardware for a couple of years. But we just replaced every desktop and we were able to reinstall it and bring it back up on all of the new hardware that we brought in over the last two or three months. We initially put WebTitan on one set of clients, and now we've worked it into another set of clients. There were no issues.

I tend to roll it out myself with my staff. We have multiple locations, versus rolling it out uniformly, all in one place. If we have an issue, I'd have to be the one to support it. It could go faster, but we choose to not go faster. We didn't have an implementation schedule. We did it over the course of a couple of months. We took Umbrella off and put WebTitan on, so they ran concurrently for a while. That way, we didn't change the world too fast for anyone.

For us, our 50 desktop clients are a lot, while for other people they might not be. Our employees are not all simultaneously logging on at the same time, so we do roll it out at particular times. We don't want our employees to be shocked by this. We used Umbrella for years, so the expectation wasn't too different. This was just another vendor.

The amount of oversight required after WebTitan has been installed is, honestly, almost zero. When employees need to go outside of what WebTitan allows, they will tell you. You can go into it and observe as much as you want, but it's good to live in ignorant bliss sometimes. No complaints, no problems. The genius in all DNS filtering is that, if you go by category, you're safe to a certain degree, the employees will tell you if there's something they need to see.

We don't allow the employees to bring their devices, with some exceptions, onto our network, other than our wireless network, which is mostly a guest network. If employees really want to go to something that is restricted, it tends to be for personal needs, not professional. But if they can make a case for it, we can go into WebTitan and make those changes almost immediately. It doesn't take much maintenance. It's as much as you want it to be.

We're a small company so we don't really track ROI at this level. My belief in a product is probably more of a ratification than the ROI of the product. 

Still, you want to look to the horizon and say, "Look, I just don't want to have these risks. I need to do something to control them before they get to my desktop or software solution at the client level." That's where web content filtering comes in. That's what is important, but it can be a tough sell. 

You can feel good about a product, but you can't quantify why you feel good about it. If I increase your sales by $10,000, that's quantifiable. If I reduce a security risk, that's not quantifiable. You can feel good about that, but it's an expense. We've been fortunate. We haven't had any recent incidents, so it's hard to quantify the ROI on it.

I contracted the product myself and that's what I like. The billing is simple. It's on the company credit card. And by doing it myself, rather than through a reseller, I was able to develop the relationships.

I'm not an IT professional. I'm a general manager who wears a lot of hats, with some IT experience. The customization options provided by WebTitan are not at an easy level for me, but I have a moderate knowledge base and I can use them. They're understandable. We contract out for our IT assistance and we get billed for every inquiry I make. I can have them assist me if I need to, but that's one of the things we like about WebTitan, that it's understandable. It's easy to deploy. It does what we need it to do, without being too broad, too deep, or too restrictive. It fits that nice niche between what you need and "not too much."

Another reason we like this product is that we don't have Azure. If we had Azure, we could implement more group policies. Back in the day, there were terminals that did nothing other than help people. Effectively they were sophisticated cash registers. If employees were logging into Azure every time with their credentials and whatever else is needed, there would be a delay in the service they give. Since we use cloud-based services, we already have a secondary level for them to get into the applications they need. We don't need that so broadly on a client, when it is basically just used for printing something out, for data entry into our application, and selecting some of our car rental products.

It's the product that's just right for us, for what we want to do. WebTitan provides the level of protection that we need, without it being onerous. I emphasize that point, but that's what it does very well for us.

Its capabilities are probably more than we need, and I'm probably not using it to the degree that I could. If I was less busy, and I could spend more time learning about the product, I could roll more features out myself, or with our contracted IT people, and we could have an even more robust instance. Should I be educated more about more of the things it can do? Sure. But is it the only thing I'm dealing with today? No.

We're a franchise and we're on the large side of franchises in the car rental world. But a lot of franchises don't have dedicated IT support. If you're looking for a solution that offers a low price point for web filtering and DNS content filtering, which everyone needs in our industry, WebTitan is a good choice. More people who are in small businesses like this can benefit from it.

It's one thing to have desktop security to resolve issues as they happen. Web filtering takes your staff away from the areas of the internet they shouldn't be in. My staff is here 24 hours a day while I'm here from eight to 12. And there are 50 of them, and one of me. Without a solution like this, that is capable and robust, but without being burdensome... It's a solution that fits the needs of a business of this size.

It's a great product and it could be for all sizes of business. That's a key: As your business changes or grows, you don't like to think about the things that can happen without a solution like this. If WebTitan stopped selling this product tomorrow, I'd find another vendor who would do the same thing, but I probably wouldn't be able to replace everything it has. It's easy to use. It scales up to any size of organization. I've never found it to lag. For someone who can't know all the things that they should know in this area, this is a product they should have, to make sure that their business is safe and secure. If you have a lot of employees, with everything on the internet now, you need to know what's happening. It's a perfect solution in that sense.

I researched a lot of products before I picked up WebTitan and I'm glad that I did.

Our use case is about protecting our infrastructure. We also restrict certain user profiles, so as a productivity tool it blocks access for general browsing.

We get two overall benefits: security and productivity.

For security, it is, maybe, a little bit restrictive. But it suits us that we have time to unblock websites. It can be a little bit tricky in that sometimes you need to understand how web frameworks work. You might unblock a website, but there could also be content delivery networks or different frameworks that come from a website, and they need to be blocked as well. It takes a little bit of understanding. But we're happy that it's overly restrictive because we can actually see that WebTitan has saved us a good number of times, occasions when we would have had some type of malware payload delivered, but we have seen that it was blocked.

We've absolutely seen a reduction in malware attacks by using WebTitan. We have confirmed evidence. We can see the blocks of malicious websites. If somebody opens up an attachment and there's a link in it, it's blocking the link. It has done its job. The benefits outweigh the hassle of configuring and maintaining it.

In our company, productivity might stop if there were, for example, a big sporting event coming up. In a manufacturing environment, we don't want people to be tuning into the sporting event. The profiles we have in manufacturing cut their access down to the bare-minimum, essential websites.

The basic functionality of blocking access to websites has proven very beneficial.

We have never really fully come to grips with the customization options provided by WebTitan. It is a little bit tricky and what happened was that we got it working the way we needed it to work and we just left it at that. But WebTitan do provide all the assistance and support that you need to get it going.

For security, it's very restrictive. For us, it blocks a lot, even too much, so we have had to create exceptions. A new implementation takes a bit of time to train it up, to put in all the exclusions, but once you have that done, it's just a matter of adding things as they come up.

I've been using WebTitan for eight to 10 years. 

It's extremely stable. I would say it's flawless. We did have some concerns that, if it did fail, all internet access would stop for our people because the proxy wouldn't be there. That concern has subsided over the years because it's proven that it doesn't really fail.

We've had to scale up and it's scaled now. We have it on a VM, so we had to add virtual resources, but that was fine. The product itself scales okay. 

We currently have 1,500 users and they represent a mix of remote and on site, but they are primarily on site. We don't really need to differentiate between those groups of users because users VPN in, so it's the same model regardless of whether people are on site or remote.

You find out how good a company is through the support that it provides, and over the years, their support has been great. We've only had one or two issues and they were caused due to our site growing. The on-prem appliance wasn't sized for our requirements as a result and there were some knock-on issues.

They were timely and resolved things fast. It was easy to work with them and the communications were clear. We also have a level of trust in them because they have offices here in Ireland, so we have a good relationship with their people.

Positive

In the past we had Websense Content Gateway and we had McAfee Web Gateway. We were on Websense, then we went to McAfee Web Gateway and we went back to Websense, but it still wasn't any good. They were really at varying levels of "awful." When we moved to WebTitan, it just did what we needed.

The other solutions were just awful to configure and were very limited with what you could do, in terms of the reporting. That was 10-plus years ago, and those products certainly have evolved a lot in a decade.

We did our configurations back in the early days, so maybe it has improved since then, but some assistance on how to configure it might help, some pre-made assistance on how to configure and deploy. But it's good. It's a good tool.

We did it on a trial basis and phased it in. There were three of us involved, although we had one engineer whose project it was, and it took a month or two. Then we started migrating users over to it. We took a cautious approach.

After the initial deployment, it's straightforward. You forget about it really, and it's only when users request that a website be unblocked that you have to work on it. We might have one or two requests a week to unblock a website. In terms of oversight, it's just reviewing the logs periodically to see what's happening. There's no maintenance.

The solution hasn't reduced our costs associated with web filtering because we're still using advanced threat protection and we're using URL filtering there as well. WebTitan is part of our suite of defenses. We have protection in place on the client-side as well as on the network, including intrusion detection. It's part of a toolset. I wouldn't say that if you get WebTitan you can get rid of some other things.

But the cost-saving part is in respect to the cost of a breach. It has saved our having to respond to something nasty getting on-premises.

The pricing is good. It's a substantial cost, but they've held their prices over the years, which has been good. 

It's a little bit restrictive when it comes to growth because at one stage they were selling additional blocks of 500 and you could end up paying for more than you needed. But overall, it's been fine. I can't complain, given what we get out of it and what we pay for it. 

Evaluate from the start, whether you want the on-prem or cloud version. It depends on what industry you're in, and on what your requirements are. We shy away from cloud-based, because there is just too much farce, as a tightly-governed company and with GDPR, et cetera. We've only seen that things have settled down on that front in the last couple of years. Now, there is some solid framework and guidance on how to do this stuff right. By that I mean that the solution holds onto people's browsing history, and that is quite sensitive data.

This issue has nothing to do with the actual product. Companies need to decide for themselves which approach is best for them, understanding that there could be a lot of lengthy policies and procedures and approvals required before you actually even use the product. And that would be true regardless of any proxy software you're considering. 

So you need to look at what the right approach is for you, from the start, based on your requirements. I believe the transition from on-prem to cloud is easy. 

Overall, I would rate WebTitan at nine out of 10. It dropped a few points with how restrictive it is and because of the issues in getting it configured. But I add a few points back based on the fact that it has saved us numerous times, and that the support and the reporting are quite good.

We use it for DNS Web filtering.

It has improved our functionality. It allows us to be more secure on the Internet by protecting our end users from phishing and compromised sites.

All our laptop users' DNS requests are directed back here. This is very important. We are in the gambling industry. Obviously, where there is money, hackers will want to try to infiltrate you. So, we are more exposed.

It is very important for our organization that WebTitan doesn’t need to install an agent or software on individual workstations. That reduces the cost of just supporting it.

It is pretty straightforward to understand and use the customization options provided by WebTitan.

There have been a couple times where there were false positives. I don't know if this is anything that they can improve on. This is just something that happens as we go along. Since we fall under a category, such as gambling, there are a lot of people accessing these types of sites. Sometimes, the solution misidentifies it and blocks that site. Currently, when we run into this issue, we just submit it through the application or portal. Within five minutes, it is whitelisted or recategorized on their back-end.

I have been using it for two years.

It is a very stable, great product. I wouldn't have renewed them for a second year if there were issues. They replaced Cisco Umbrella, which I think is the industry standard for DNS Web filtering. The solutions are very comparable.

It is very scalable. We are using the web version, and I am sure their web hosting service could scale as much as we need.

I used the technical support team for onboarding. They were very helpful.

I would rate their technical support as nine out of 10.

It is a set it and forget it type of thing. So, I haven't had a need to contact their tech support since being onboarded. 

Positive

Originally, we were using Cisco Umbrella. They are basically a similar product, but we decided to go with WebTitan because the pricing was a lot better and provided almost the same functionality. WebTitan was substantially less, about half the price. Therefore, we went with WebTitan and have been happy with it so far. 

The implementation of it was easy. Its interface and usage are a lot more user-friendly than Cisco Umbrella.

We went with the DNS virtual proxy server. We just had to set and spin those up, which took about half an hour.

I did the deployment. 

I am currently maintaining the solution. It is pretty much a set it and forget it type of thing unless I have an end user who runs into one of those false positives, then I have to whitelist it.

WebTitan’s Web filtering has helped improve the quality of service that we offer to customers, which is pretty important. On a scale of one to 10, I would rate it as an eight because it makes life easier for our users.

I went straight to WebTitan. I was looking for a replacement for Cisco Umbrella and WebTitan seemed to fit the bill. I didn't know about them beforehand, but I did a lot of research on the Internet. Also, a lot of people recommended WebTitan. So, I did some comparisons and it literally fit almost the exact same functionality. It was a pretty easy choice.

We don't use WebTitan on-the-go (OTG) since we don't have that many remote users to worry about.

I would rate the solution as nine out of 10.

Our use case is that when we take laptops off-prem they will still have DNS filtering on. Regulators suggested that we needed something along these lines for when laptops go off-prem. That was the main driver.

When folks are traveling it has enabled us to keep them secure. It protects all our staff. We use it for everybody, whether they're remote, domestic, or traveling.

The web filtering is the most valuable feature. The OTG client was the determining factor. The DNS Proxy 2.06 for helping to support the filtering of users in Azure Active Directory has been fine. We haven't had any issues.

Also, we've been able to customize it pretty easily. We started using it out-of-the-box, but we tweaked some things for our purposes and everything was pretty easy to change.

Sometimes it has been a little cumbersome to get the whitelisting just right. But that would be the only thing I've had any problems with.

I have been using TitanHQ WebTitan for about two years.

We've only had a few outages where WebTitan has had an issue, but I think those have been global. Every once in a while their DNS will go down, and, of course, we have problems as a result. But we've only had two instances that I can remember since we implemented it. They were items that they fixed and some of them were fixed before we even knew there was a problem.

We've expanded since we implemented it and there have been no problems.

If we increase users we will increase our usage of the solution.

For the couple of cases I've had, they've been great. They got back to us and had things fixed pretty quickly. I had some issues where they just emailed me the answer and we were done.

Positive

We had tried another solution, Webroot DNS Protection, but it did not have the OTG client so we had to can it and go to WebTitan. We also run Proofpoint Email Protection, which rewrites the URL links and it works well with WebTitan.

The initial setup of the solution was pretty straightforward. TitanHQ helped with the server installation. Of course, we did it all remotely because everybody was working from home at the time. They also helped with onboarding one or two clients, and after that we were on our own. I had some issues later and they came right back in and told me what I was doing wrong.

We were able to reuse old hardware for our installation. We put the local one on a virtual, so that aspect had no effect on the cost of our setup. We had the capacity.

It's been a while since we did the setup, but if I remember correctly it took a few hours. I would remember if it had taken a very long time. Our implementation strategy was, of course, to set up the VMs first for the filtering that uses local. Then we started putting it on laptops. We rolled out a couple, and then we rolled out en masse. It required two of us, IT geeks, to implement it.

It requires very little oversight after it has been installed. I don't even pay attention to it most of the time, until I get a hit. That's important because I don't want a baby I have to take care of. I want it to do what it's supposed to do and then give me reporting.

It is an added cost, because it is another layer, but it's pretty economical. The ROI comes from the fact that it has rerouted some folks when they were going where they shouldn't have gone.

The pricing fits our needs.

I can't think of very much that needs improving in the solution. It's serving our purpose, although I know we're only using just a portion of what it can offer. It's easy to implement and easy to use.

We use this product to stop cyberattacks and make life easier for staff members concerned with breaches to the code of conduct.

Previously, we used Cisco Umbrella and suffered a cyberattack due to one of the websites that a member of staff had visited. The malware was placed on our systems and an exec almost provided access information to a well-known group of cyberattackers.

This product has improved our organization firstly because there are fewer worries for staff in relation to breaking the code of conduct. The WebTitan Content Filter has been the best product I have implemented! It is highly granular, easily modified, and technical support is quick to respond, very polite, thorough and will follow up with the customer to ensure all is working properly.

We have been very happy with the WebTitan Web Filter since deploying it. It’s given us a 360-degree view of internet use in the company, allowing us to manage internet usage and minimize non-work related browsing and access to unsafe sites.

The web content filter is the most valuable feature.

WebTitan Gateway is a Web security and content filtering solution that offers best of breed malware protection, highly granular browsing policy controls, and comprehensive reporting while seamlessly integrating into your existing network. WebTitan Gateway is delivered as a software appliance, run on your own hardware or in your virtual infrastructure.

WebTitan is highly scalable, functionally rich, and easy to deploy and manage. It is designed to provide the best possible protection for your organization.

The Oauth1 protocol has a lot of issues with authentication and it made it very difficult to initially authenticate with the API. 

Another thing that we dislike so far is the fact that it can sometimes take hours for the policy changes to take effect.

We have been using TitanHQ WebTitan for just over one year.

Previously, we used Cisco Umbrella.

The cost could be lower, though it is not currently prohibitive for larger companies.

I would suggest doing your homework with respect to pricing.

We looked at various enterprise Wi-Fi security solutions, which was a list provided by an expert, before choosing WebTitan Cloud for Wi-Fi. I was really taken aback by the price point, features, and functionality we were going to get with WebTitan Cloud for Wi-Fi.

Other solutions didn’t have all the features and functionalities we wanted; they could do some of what we now do but at a higher cost.

For the most part, it does its job without causing me any problems. I don't have to waste time trying to fix things.

We are an MSP and we have customers that we need to protect with a web filter. We are doing a trial of WebTitan with one of our big customers.

One of the benefits of being a partner with TitanHQ is the relationship we have. They share what they have regarding all their components and we participate in the development of the platform. That's important for us because we have some customers with specific use cases, and we have to implement protection for them.

We need to white-label their product because we are an MSP. For some of our customers we do all the administration, but sometimes we need to share administration with customers. We need to customize the platform for various clients and think we can do that with WebTitan.

Also, for some of our clients we offer a full solution, where we administrate and create policies. There are times when a client user will create a ticket and we need to search in WebTitan. It's possible to search by user, IP, or by machine and very quickly see if the user really has been attacked or not. Sometimes they will say that someone tried to access a categorization site, but it could be that the client's site has a proxy. With the filters, we can see that we need to permit that proxy in the policies we have created.

And while we haven't tracked data regarding a reduction in attacks, I believe the solution is good for that. The solution makes it more difficult for pirates and attackers. And in terms of a reduction in the cost of web filtering, we don't have numbers but we have to protect our clients from a possible breach. They have a reputation to maintain, so doing so is important to us. There is a cost to a breach.

Among the valuable features of WebTitan are

• the ability to white-label it, which is important for us
• the fact that it is fully a cloud platform
• the ability to integrate with Active Directory.

The fact that we can do customizations in terms of what users see, in different languages, is also important because we are in Portugal and our customers speak Portuguese. We also have some clients in Spain.

They also have good documentation, with simple steps, to implement customizations. That process is very easy.

Another feature we use is WebTitan OTG (on-the-go) because WebTitan works with Windows 10 but we have some customers using Windows 7, so we have three or four machines with OTG.

There are some customizations that, for now, cannot be done with WebTitan, but we will talk with them they will try to add those customizations. We have spoken with TitanHQ in the last month about improvements in functionality because we have used other similar platforms and have a different view of things. We have some concerns about the search and the filters. We need to quickly search which users can or cannot access a particular site and why.

But TitanHQ is trying to improve these things, based on some tickets we have opened, and I think they will do so as soon as possible.

I have been using WebTitan for three months.

We had a brief problem during the migration, but we talked to TitanHQ and they resolved it quickly.

In the way we manage the solution, I don't see any problem with its scalability.

Collaboration between us, as an MSP, and TitanHQ is good. We had some problems with the platform recently when were migrating from the old platform, and they have done all they can to help us develop resolutions. They also share their concerns. The support is quick and that is good for us. The relationship is good.

Positive

We need to move from Umbrella which we have used for the last year, because of some of the requirements of Cisco Umbrella. We had to pay a fee and they changed the partner relationships. We need to quickly move to another solution and WebTitan is the solution we are testing.

The initial setup was very easy. The documentation is good so you can see what you need to do step-by-step. It's very quick. It took us about one hour.

It's good that you don't have to install an agent when deploying WebTitan, although I wouldn't have a problem if it needed an agent. Still, it's good that we don't need to deploy an agent on 100 or 1,000 machines. With WebTitan, you just need to change the DNS and the DHCP so it's quick.

For rolling out WebTitan to users our strategy, as always, was to test it on some control machines and, after that, deploy it for everyone. In our case, we had a short amount of time to migrate from Umbrella to WebTitan. It had to be done in a week. If we had a month we would have done a more progressive migration from five users to 10 and, after that, the whole company.

We needed two people for the deployment.

The platform doesn't require a lot of modification or oversight. We just need to react quickly when a client's requirements change and they need us to block or permit access. But after deployment, we don't have to work much with the platform.

We did it ourselves.

The pricing of WebTitan is good. It's the right price. We paid more and more for Cisco Umbrella.

The price is right, the support is good, and the platform does what we need it to do. It seems like the right solution and I would recommend it.

Once they resolve our problems, it will be a 10 out of 10, but for now it's an eight.