I had been a vendor of firewall services for many years prior to deploying WatchGuard technology. I evaluated and was not impressed with SonicWALL, or Untangle. I was deploying pfSense on boxes and found that the WatchGuard platform was perfect in size, and the software seemed to match all of the features of pfSense. The reason for switching ultimately came down to additional customer service and availability of support.

We compared our existing solutions to WatchGuard.

I was looking for another solution to replace my SonicWALL when WatchGuard offered me a free instructor led certification course.

I also did a PoC with Kaspersky and Bitdefender. We chose WatchGuard because of their great features.

Cisco, CheckPoint, Fortinet, Palo Alto.

• Fortinet
• HP

I didn’t select this device.

Because we are an IT solutions provider, we looked into a few different options before deciding to proceed with WatchGuard. We looked at continuing with SonicWall, Cisco, Adtran, etc. WatchGuard was the best fit for our company as well as our clients.

Previously, I wanted to use Juniper as my firewall. However, after consulting with the vendor and reviewing the product ranking and features, we finally chose WatchGuard for our solution.

We chose it based on “medium price with high quality and security that its features can use.” So we chose it for the frontend firewall and we have another for the backend firewall.

We also looked at a Fortinet 100D.

Yes of course, there were multiple UTM machines like Sophos, CybeRoam and others but non were up to WatchGuard standards.

• Fortinet
• Cisco

• Fortinet
• Cisco

We considered Juniper.

We did look at SonicWall and Fortinet, but we finally choose WatchGuard.

We told different vendors about our previous configuration, and what they suggested was the best solution they could offer with a low cost

Yes, Dell SonicWall.

I compared XTM with Cisco ASA firewalls, but Cisco isn’t as easy as XTM to handover.

We evaluated a number of different brands, including Fortinet and Sophos.

The vendor in my country came with this product, and at the time we needed a firewall, but didn't have the budget, and this was a good product with an excellent price. This was the reason to bought this firewall.

Yes. SonicWall, but the web interface takes a lot of time to find the right option.

We evaluated other solutions such as Cisco from its extensive stock of solutions.

We also looked at SonicWALL.

We also looked at an option from Sophos.

• Sonicwall
• Sophos

I like the Sonicwall interface experience better, the VPN configurations, and Active Directory (LDAP) integration for SSO.