WatchGuard Firebox Primary Use Case
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Petri Alhainen
Administrator at Sulbana Oy
We primarily use WatchGuard Firebox for security and connections. It's a web and endpoint, and we have different connections to associates and customers through internal networks, which is a big part of it.
View full review »We use WatchGuard Firebox for the site's firewall and VPN solution. The WatchGuard supports remote gateway and mobile VPNs. WatchGuard Firebox serves as the primary firewall for the site.
View full review »In Italy, small and medium-sized enterprises are prevalent, with fewer than 20 devices being used in most companies. As a result, we typically use entry-level routers such as the T25 or T45.
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WatchGuard Firebox
March 2024
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Reviewer843600
Director of Information Technology at a recreational facilities/services company with 201-500 employees
We have multiple sites. We're in the wine business. Our corporate office is where we have accounting and marketing. Our executives are based there as is IT, HR, and payroll. That's where we have the big M200. We have five wineries that we support. Each of the wineries has a WatchGuard on it and we connect them with the business office VPN.
We share files across our VPN and we also authenticate our users. Not all of our sites have file servers so we use the business office VPN to get them authenticated onto their machines. We also use that to go out and work on their machines if they have problems or we send files out to them and install software remotely, etc.
We also have 11 tasting rooms where we sell our wine, and each of those has a smaller WatchGuard in it. We support the computers that they use in the back office of the tasting rooms. We also support their iPads and the machines that they use to print off orders and FedEx labels and to do inventory stuff.
We have two hospitality sites where we will take our distributors to talk to them and educate them about the wine industry and what we're doing in the industry. We provide them with internet while they're there. Some of our people will go to these sites to do retreats and planning. We have WatchGuards there to support them so they can get back to the files they need and get authenticated.
We're using a whole variety of models. We've got a couple of M200s, multiple 30s and multiple 15s. We also have about 15 of the AP120s.
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Steve Rubin
President and Owner at Peak Communication Systems, Inc.
We use it in my company and for my clients as well. We sell Internet access, so we use them as a firewall to hopefully protect our clients. We work with one of our partners, who is a certified WatchGuard engineer, and have come up with a fairly good plan to get these completely fired up and working. That makes a huge difference.
We're now up to the 7 Series. We've gone through WatchGuard 3 Series, 5 Series, and 6 Series. So, we've gone through several different versions over the years.
View full review »At a specific client location, we are using the WatchGuard Firebox M470 to control all of the security protocols, routing, VLANs, and traffic. We have a 1GB internet circuit coming into the M470 firewall, and SFPs going out to the Netgear M4300-96X modular switch. From this switch, it goes out to the Netgear GS110 devices through SFPs.
View full review »I used WatchGuard Firebox for small configurations and to give Active Directory access to some users so they could bypass the firewall. I also used the solution as a VPN.
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JasonGiles
IT Manager at WTS Media (Wholesale Tape & Supply)
It's our main firewall. We have over 120 hosts that flow through it.
View full review »The utilization of the WatchGuard Firebox system is as follows: the head office, located in Barbados, has two remote offices in New York and Toronto that utilize Cisco for their VPNs, which are running to these two locations for the branch offices. The email system has three locations for redundancy, two in the UK in Purley and London, and one in Toronto, Canada. Employees who work from home, access the office through mobile VPNs.
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Rony Ariesman
Network Administrator at PT Lautan Luas Tbk
We use the solution as an internet gateway. With its help, we can establish the connection between our company's HQ and branch.
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ITManagedf70
IT Manager at a engineering company with 11-50 employees
It's our primary firewall. It's also our UTM device, so we have multiple security layers enabled on it.
We're using an M270 firewall with version 12.5.
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JimWarren
IT Manager at Horizon Forest Products LP
We use it for our firewall as well as for our branch office VPNs.
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Peter Galgano
Owner at a construction company with 51-200 employees
It's a perimeter device and I use it as a DNS server for my domain, but I'm not the typical user for this type of device. I'm a hobbyist when it comes to this type of product and I use it in a small office environment.
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Samson Huynh
IT Support at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
We use the product for added security layers, allowing us to control and manage our network traffic effectively.
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FelixCheung
IT Director at Wise Ally Holdings Limited
The purpose is to enhance the application control and internet access control of our company in our office and factory.
View full review »We have had some difficulty introducing the brand on the market because, in Angola, we have another brand with a more aggressive approach than WatchGuard. The end users prefer other brands like Sophos and Check Point over WatchGuard Firebox. We will soon be an expositor of WatchGuard Firebox. We have some customers that use Panda Security just for endpoints. We have some customers that use WatchGuard Firebox directly or indirectly.
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Mohamed Y Ahmed
Technical & Pre-Sales Manager at GateLock
We are a solution provider and WatchGuard is one of the product lines that we implement for our customers. I am the person in the company that is responsible for WatchGuard products.
We do not use this product in my organization. I'm enabling partners and providing training for them on how to use this technology and how to sell it.
I assist customers with implementing PoC installations in different environments.
My client that recently implemented WatchGuard Firebox is running an ERP that is used by clients that are in different countries from around the world. They are using Firebox to protect the ERP from outside threats. Essentially, they need to protect the perimeter because users come to the server from different environments.
This solution protects the cloud-based server from incoming and outgoing traffic. In this regard, it acts as a web application filter for the server.
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Hiro Amano
IT Manager at Yamazen Inc
Our primary use case is for firewalls.
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Zachary Russ
Lead IT Systems Engineer/Solutions Architect at Queensland Aboriginal and Islander Health Council
WatchGuard Firebox is used as the core firewall. It's also used for routing purposes. As a software, it's also used as a VPN access for external clients.
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Sanjeeb Mohanty
Global Head ICT (CITP & MIE) at The Aga Khan Academies
We run education organizations. We have students and staff working on campus. We wanted to be protected within the campus as well as outside the campus.
I am using WatchGuard Firebox XTM 850, and I have its latest version.
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HalChernoff
Enterprise Architect at a wellness & fitness company with 10,001+ employees
The primary use case is protection for my network from external access. We also use it for some VPN, but mostly it's for protection. It's mixed usage on about a dozen different connections, a dozen different workstations, and access points.
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ITManage3d45
I.T. Manager at a construction company with 201-500 employees
We use them as our firewall in every location. It's extensively used and our locations for it are ever-expanding. Right now, we have 14 locations with them. We have everything from the M300 to the T50-W to the T30-W.
View full review »We primarily use the solution to secure our networks in branch via SSL and VPN. We also use it for our web pages hosted on our servers. This product handled everything UTM.
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reviewer1230873
Network Administrator at a retailer
We have four locations and at every one of them we use WatchGuard. We use them as firewalls and for UTM. They provide protection in terms of detection and prevention. And we also use them for site-to-site VPN, as well as for direct connect, VPN to AWS, and to AWS using VLAN tagging.
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John Giacco
Network Administrator at Peace Bridge
It is a firewall. I have two M400s. They act as security for the Internet, like a border between us and the Internet.
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Joseph Redmond
Woodworker at Creative Woodworking NW
I use it for protecting my network and for routing. Also, if my network connection goes down with CenturyLink, it automatically switches over to my Verizon cellular.
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Richard Marcin
Sr. Systems Administrator at a individual & family service with 201-500 employees
Production business use at multiple interconnected locations.
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Kelly Carlisle
Manager IT at a hospitality company with 501-1,000 employees
WatchGuard Firebox is our edge firewall.
Currently, we are using the M470 and we have used many models in the past.
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AllenHillstrom
IT Manager at a performing arts with 51-200 employees
We use it both for VPN tunnels and as a firewall.
Our company runs group homes. There are 140 or so sites and employees are traveling to those sites on a daily basis. They use the VPN tunnels going back to the main office to access the file servers. We also have about 12 remote locations connected by WatchGuards on both ends to create a VPN tunnel, with SD-WAN to allow traffic to go between those two sites, both for the file servers and for the phone system.
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Joseph Jansen
IT Specialist at Art Students League
We really don't use the firewall too much, we use it more as a VPN. We've got several different networks that we're joining through WatchGuard.
View full review »We use this for our network, mainly for the configuration of rules, such as VPN connections, remote access connections, and application web filtering. I'm a security engineer and we are customers of WatchGuard.
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reviewer2028789
Ingénieur - Traitement des eaux /Mécanique de procédé at a pharma/biotech company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Our primary use cases for WatchGuard Firebox are routing and VPN, including the integrated firewall. We do not use the SSO system or any other router features.
View full review »Our primary use case for this solution is a primary firewall.
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reviewer1998435
Partner & Head of IT Strategy at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
We are WatchGuard partners, and we also use it on our own. We are using it for general firewall purposes and vulnerability management. We are also using some of the additional security stacks such as intrusion detection and so on.
We are one version behind the latest version. We have it on-prem at the moment, but some of our customers have private cloud solutions.
View full review »It's mainly an internet gateway that is used for internet gateway protection and remote access.
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RajeshV1
Chief Executive Officer at esupport Solutions Pvt ltd
We provide the solution to our customers. It's primarily used for security.
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Dirk Emmermacher
Network Administrator at Niedersächsischer Turner-Bund e.V.
We use it to protect our web stations and service.
We established a branch office VPN to our branch office. Since last month, we have added Mobile VPN tunnels to our headquarter.
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Jason Markle
IT Director at a healthcare company with 51-200 employees
We're a hospital and we use it for developing our incoming and outgoing policies, and we also use it for VPN.
View full review »My company uses WatchGuard Firebox for the data centers that work in our office. My company has websites and web applications, because of which we use WatchGuard Firebox for system security.
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Rick Phillips
IT Manager at INSULATION DISTRIBUTORS, INC
Our primary use case is VPN connectivity between 50 locations and our headquarters.
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Wandile Ntshalintshali
IT Officer at a manufacturing company with 1-10 employees
My primary use case is for my network security even when I am out of the office.
View full review »I mainly use Firebox for SSL, VPN, internet proxy, site-to-site tunnels, and intrusion protection.
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reviewer1019298
ICT Manager at a maritime company with 11-50 employees
We primarily use WatchGuard Firebox like a typical firewall, to protect ourselves from outside and inside threats.
I have the WatchGuard Firebox M270, deployed on-premise.
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Scott Morin
Owner / CEO at Midwest Technology Specialists LLC.
Our primary use cases are for the firewall and for limited routing for small to medium-sized businesses.
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John Rhines
Network Administrator at Advanced Software Designs
We use it to keep people out and we use it for a VPN.
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Mohamed Y Ahmed
Technical & Pre-Sales Manager at GateLock
I'm deploying the WatchGuard Firebox for many of my clients, and they all stay satisfied with the product. The primary reason as a common request from most of the users is to protect the environment from the outside network attacks. It is popular because of its security layers dependencies and its great performance.
The proxy policy and packet filtering templates make it very clear while I am configuring the Firebox for customers. Also, the variety of actions that are designed per kind of packet payload are dependent on the protocol's payload.
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Prepress759b
Prepress/Systems Manager at a printing company with 51-200 employees
We use it as a firewall. It protects us from security threats and uses a VPN tunnel.
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Jon Leib
Information Technology Specialist at a healthcare company with 51-200 employees
The primary use case is it is a firewall solution. One of the major selling points was that WatchGuard does adapt in real-time as new threats are discovered, and they push out fixes in real-time.
A lot of our servers have been migrated to the cloud, so it is really our primary solution right now.
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Marlon Sealey
I.T. Co-ordinator at National Lotteries Control Board
We use them for perimeter security and also to manage virtual LANs.
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Alexey Shcherbatyi
Network Administrator at Abona Deutschland GmbH
We are using WatchGuard Firebox for defense of our internal infrastructure.
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Tyson Swank
Computer Programmer at Crestwood Inc
We have a web server on the optional network. Then, on the trusted side, we just run all our computers out through the Internet. We don't do anything too elaborate with it.
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AlanRogers
Owner at Thermioninc.com
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reviewer690582
COO/CTO at a pharma/biotech company with 11-50 employees
Intellectual Property protection for our and our clients' data. We strategize for deployments of new products into Federal and State healthcare formularies.
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FlorianBUIS
Infrastructure Administrator at CFA-INSTA
I'm a system administrator and we have a partnership with WatchGuard.
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Roman Laminin
Technical Consultant at Rainbow Security
This device is for Unified Threat Management (UTM). Our primary uses for this solution are as a firewall, antivirus, anti-spyware, web-blocker, and APT blocker.
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reviewer1574610
Manager
We are using it for firewalling and providing wireless network connectivity for access points. It is a standard product for our infrastructure.
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reviewer1339503
Network Admin at a manufacturing company with 51-200 employees
It's our external firewall and VPN solution.
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reviewer1082562
Information Systems Administrator at a logistics company with 51-200 employees
We're using WatchGuard Firebox for multi-factor authentication (MFA), layer three switching, and to segregate our industrial network from our corporate network.
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reviewer1046019
Technical Support at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees
Actually, we do not use WatchGuard Firebox, we just sell and sometimes deploy and install it for the customer. We usually set up a few basic policies then give it to them to continue on.
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Greg Holeman
VP at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It's our firewall for the internet.
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Greg Selby
Network Engineer at Vanderburgh Police Department
It's our perimeter firewall.
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Reviewer93465
System Analyst at a transportation company
We use it to prevent any unnecessary stuff from getting into our network. It's for the usual security features. We do utilize the VPN and there are quite a few people on the VPN right now.
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Santosh Thorwat
IT Head at Patil Group
We use WatchGuard Firebox for network security in our offices.
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Christian Watt
Engineer/Technician/Owner at Paramount technologies
We use this solution as an edge firewall and layer-3 routing internally.
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Paal
CFO at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees
This was an upgrade from WatchGuard XTM 505. We have and are using many different WatchGuards between locations for (among other things) VPN between firewalls. We are using this Watchguard as an endpoint firewall at an office location.
View full review »We use Watchguard as a firewall and a VPN.
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reviewer1333353
Principal at a consumer goods company with 1-10 employees
We just use it as a secondary WiFi device. We're a small office and we needed to set up a WiFi device for a few of our employees.
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reviewer1753128
IT Technician at a real estate/law firm with 11-50 employees
WatchGuard Firebox is our daily firewall. It gets used on a regular basis.
It is deployed locally. We are using its latest version.
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reviewer1229901
VP IT at a real estate/law firm with 51-200 employees
It's our primary edge firewall at the home office. We have two M470s running Active-Passive. We have about 100 users in total here. Everything runs through the firewall, so the users run the gamut from analysts to accountants to executives.
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reviewer1046019
Technical Support at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees
We are not currently using this solution. Rather, we are reselling, and I have implemented these systems.
The most recent one I implemented was an M200 model that was being used as a gateway firewall to control their internet usage, primarily for URL filtering.
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WatchGuard Firebox
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about WatchGuard Firebox. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
767,496 professionals have used our research since 2012.