Application Control is fantastic with over 2,500 applications and the granularity that we can either allow people to view but not be able to log on to Facebook; or view it and log onto it if they're in the marketing department, but not play Facebook games. There are all sorts of different options like that. So it's highly granular.

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it_user932004

Senior Support Engineer at Port-IT B.V.

Oct 24, 2018

We have used technical support for WatchGuard many times and overall, we are satisfied with it. They are always listening and there is a good reaction time to our findings. When there are issues, they really try to resolve them.

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Cari Lahoz

IT Manager at Concretemastersinc

Dec 13, 2018

I like the hostwatch because I can see what traffic uses the most bandwidth and I can block that site.

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Generalm4545

General Manager- IT & Automation - Serum at a pharma/biotech company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Mar 14, 2019

WatchGuard XTM is fairly basic. We use it as the perimeter firewall. The main point is to protect from attack software and hacking.

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Akhtarul Islam

CEO at Aveata Limited

Mar 26, 2019

After installing the product, we achieved awareness of our data protection needs and email misuse.

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WatchGuard XTM [EOL] Cons review quotes

it_user719133

systeembeheerder at a manufacturing company with 201-500 employees

Aug 15, 2017

The VPN errors are not helpful when troubleshooting.

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MaximilianoHuguenin

IT Security Analyst at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Sep 12, 2017

Syslog (Dimension) is focused on presentation, but needs more focus on utility like SonicWall syslog (GMS/Analyzer).

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it_user404835

President at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees

Jan 29, 2018

The initial setup is neither simple nor complex. If you know the base in networking and how the firewall works, you will be able to figure it out.

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reviewer913587

Director at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Aug 13, 2018

WatchGuard doesn't have a product that allows them to get into the data center. And that's just because there is no hardware to do the job. The software could do it, but there's no hardware that allows that to happen at the moment. So it doesn't scale as well as some other products, that's for sure.

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it_user932004

Senior Support Engineer at Port-IT B.V.

Oct 24, 2018

Sometimes we have had issues with stability of the product.

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Cari Lahoz

IT Manager at Concretemastersinc

Dec 13, 2018

The setting policies need improvement. It needs an easier way to do static NAT and check on what policy is being used for that specific traffic.

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Generalm4545

General Manager- IT & Automation - Serum at a pharma/biotech company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Mar 14, 2019

One huge issue with WatchGuard XTM is that I'm not getting reports in a readable format. Readable means, I don't want Excel online. We repeat auditing when we trigger the report or setup calendar. That functionality is what we are looking for from WatchGuard XTM here.

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Akhtarul Islam

CEO at Aveata Limited

Mar 26, 2019

I would like them to improve the product's overall protections. This would be good for all product users.

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