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."The tool's most valuable features are VPN access, website defense, and maintenance."
"It ensures that the health of each application can handle the set tasks and projects without any challenges."
"The most outstanding feature is the Check Point APK wiki."
"The best value we have is their actionable reports on user analytics, events, and activity that are extracted from their database."
"Its initial setup is very simple and straightforward."
"The most valuable feature of Check Point Application Control is VPN access and the ability to lock out sites we do not want users to have access. The reporting monitoring software in Check Point Application Control is fantastic. For example, log filtering is beneficial."
"We love Check Point Application Control for its granular control and to be able to apply policies between groups, hosts, and networks depending on the need."
"This product logs & monitors event traffic for each application, giving us better visibility."
"I found several features valuable in WatchGuard Application Control such as the HTTP Proxy, DNSWatch, VPN, and HTTPS Content Inspection."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is traffic management."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Zero-trust and threat-hunting services are most valuable."
"We expect applications to be updated regularly."
"At the moment I don't see the need to add new features. That said, you always have to be one step ahead."
"The initial setup was a bit difficult."
"We would like the product to be a bit more user-friendly in general."
"Seeing the capabilities and features that we are using today, we can say that we could expect an additional feature that could allow us to integrate this management and even security with APIs."
"One of our continued challenges is having a more accurate, real-time view of how our bandwidth is actually being used at any given moment."
"SD-WAN functionality can be added."
"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."
"The control software is currently only available for Windows, which can be a little annoying for Linux users."
"I believe there is room for improvement in policies, with the potential to enhance the margins further."
"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."
"They could expand the amount of applications that are on the list, but it's pretty intensive anyway, so it's pretty good."
"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."
"The licensing can be a bit expensive."
"There should be more reports available on different subjects."
"The solution needs to improve the interface. I'm not able to easily find things using it."
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Check Point Application Control is ranked 2nd 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 , whereas WatchGuard Application Control is most compared with . See our Check Point Application Control vs. WatchGuard Application Control report.
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