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 best value we have is their actionable reports on user analytics, events, and activity that are extracted from their database."
"Being able to choose specific applications in our policy rule base in order to better manage access and bandwidth utilization has had a significantly positive impact on our environment and saved a lot of management time."
"One of the greatest capacities and the benefits it gives us is the ability to control applications based on defining access or denial policies in specific applications, groups, or category profiles."
"They have an excellent support team. They are fast and it is easy to escalate any situation."
"With Check Point Application Control we can say we improved our legacy and have made them more secure. Now we are able to allow specific applications on respective service and we are allowed those respective services only."
"The automatic updates of new applications and signatures guarantee protection at all times without the need to apply a change manually."
"It ensures that the health of each application can handle the set tasks and projects without any challenges."
"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."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is the category control."
"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."
"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."
"We have witnessed an ROI as it has helped with security measures."
"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 guides used today are a bit complex, and we need efficient and simple access to them so that any administrative or technical person can solve, analyze, and configure each of the rules and identities seamlessly."
"It's important that there is the option to validate the policies before applying them."
"Check Point is a fairly complete security vendor, however we would like to have a better SLA for technical support issues."
"Something important to mention is the improvement at the support level. It could be more advanced."
"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 one feature that could be improved would be the ability to see implicit rules that are defaulted on the policy."
"Check Point Application Control needs to ensure that they release up-to-date security patches regularly. It should release better documentation so end-users can use the product without depending on the support team."
"More and more product specifications should be infused with new incumbent features in the market to stay relevant and concurrent with the organization's needs."
"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."
"I believe there is room for improvement in policies, with the potential to enhance the margins further."
"There should be more reports available on different subjects."
"The control software is currently only available for Windows, which can be a little annoying for Linux users."
"The time they take to classify an application once they find that it is unknown can be better."
"They could expand the amount of applications that are on the list, but it's pretty intensive anyway, so it's pretty good."
"The licensing can be a bit expensive."
"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 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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