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WatchGuard XTM [EOL] Valuable Features
it_user233817
Sr IT Security Consultant at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
I love the GUI and the ability to edit rules on the fly without needing to save a configuration. This makes for a very quick adjustment when needed. I also like the fact that you can save to a configuration file, so if there are a number of changes being made, it can always be rolled back to the previous save.
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Executive VP/Partner at To Solution, LLC
They provide excellent security and administration at a reasonable price. However, the multi-layer security of the products are the primary reason we use these appliances. Another valuable feature of the product is that the configuration interface and tools across any product is the same, making administration of the devices simple and consistent.
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Kenneth Conklin
Owner at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
The VPN to link my system to my clients, the gateway security features as my first defense layer to my client’s networks, and the firewall/NAT policy. I also love the alias feature as it allows me to configure items by common names instead of IP address.
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WatchGuard XTM [EOL]
March 2024
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AI
Akhtarul Islam
CEO at Aveata Limited
- Data loss protection
- Spam protection
- User email protection
AP
Alexander Padilla
Global Director MSS with 11-50 employees
Performance, Security Services integration, Management, Tools all included, VPN.
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Network Administrator at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees
- For the monitoring of the devices' operation, and network traffic, a monitoring software, "WatchGuard System Manager" is provided
- It has an online traffic monitor, which is an ultimate feature and valuable for troubleshooting
- Web/URL filter is strengthened by the WebSense filter
- The web based log analyzer called "WatchGuard Dimension," offers great information regarding network traffic
- The traffic analysis reports can be created in both granular and brief summary fashion, and extracts are useful for managerial information
GH
Gevorg Harutyunyan
Software Developer, Head of IT Department at a tech vendor with 1-10 employees
Packet filters and proxy policies are valuable features. They allow you to configure restrictions by domain name. These features are useful to block web pages which have multiple IP addresses, such as Facebook.
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Account Manager with 51-200 employees
The most valuable features of the WatchGuard product line that we appreciate and leverage the most is the UTM security suite. That front-line of defense is invaluable in providing protection for our network, and the networks of our customers.
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Senior Systems Engineer at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
I have found the GUI interface to be invaluable, as it is very intuitive and easy to manage. Additionally, with a little searching on the WatchGuard support page, you can easily find answers to most of your questions.
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Generalm4545
General Manager- IT & Automation - Serum at a pharma/biotech company with 1,001-5,000 employees
WatchGuard XTM is fairly basic. We use it as the perimeter firewall. The main point is to protect from attack software and hacking.
it_user498942
Deputy Head of IT Department at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
The proxy based policy in Policy Manager is the best feature. It helps me:
- Create many different firewall policies for different networks and services
- In tracking problems in the policy rule in the traffic monitor of Firebox System Manager
it_user229779
Head of Information Technology with 51-200 employees
- Firewall
- Policies
it_user292644
System Administrator at a logistics company with 501-1,000 employees
We are using WatchGuard's SSO feature to help us track user access. From there, we can drill down the reports, and we can the details we need such as what websites a user goes to, or which websites are accessed the most.
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Infrastructure and Security Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
I would say the security features in the product are very easy to configure and cover all aspects of computer security needed a mid-sized company.
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Project Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
The full UTM capabilities are very useful for a mid-size business.
View full review »it_user1266
Network Manager at a local government with 51-200 employees
Flawless. I have had my firebox for 3 years now and never had an issue with it. Rules can easily be configured and preset rules are very helpful for less experienced admins. Has many advanced features and could feasibly be setup as your primary network management tool. Performance logging and resource monitoring is powerful and intuitive.
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CL
Cari Lahoz
IT Manager at Concretemastersinc
I like the HostWatch because I can see what traffic uses the most bandwidth and I can block that site.
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SAP Specialist Engineer at a import and exporter with 51-200 employees
- Traffic management
- QoS
- Many others
DD
Dominique Den Hartog
Senior Support Engineer at Port-IT B.V.
With WatchGuard, we see some bugs in the IT system, and can easily fix it within a few days. It is easily resolved and that is a big benefit for us.
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President at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees
Monitoring of network activity is included in the box.
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Network & Voice Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
The web filtering s a good feature.
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Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
- The connections of the VPN
- The accessibility of the firewall from outside
- The stability of the machine
- A great security firewall that can be fully customized
- The anti-Spam feature
TZ
Thomas Zhang
IT Director at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees
VPN tunnel creation in WSM. Very easy to setup BOVPN tunnel between two sites by dragging and playing. Device configuration change method (editing configuration file offline, then pushing to device which gives the convenience of changing settings remotely when the network connection is being adjusted.
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Network & infra Manager at Vanguard Business Solutions & Consulting
- Drag and drop VPN is the most satisfying feature
- Easy to configure
MV
reviewer913587
Director at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
The most valuable features of the solution are the subscription services that come with the product:
- Intrusion Protection - This is pretty standard across all products.
- WebBlocker - It used to be called WebSense. For a decent-sized organization that's a $200,000 product, and we get a fully-implemented version of that inside our product.
- Data Loss Prevention - This feature is really good for sorting out the loss of credit card information or other valuable information.
- Application Control - This 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.
- Botnet protection - Protects against phishing attacks, which is really good.
- Geolocation services - Allows us to filter out Russian attackers (for example) so they'll never attack our political systems.
- APT Blocker - This is advanced malware protection
- Reputation Enabled Defense - Indicates that some websites are so infested that it's not even worth visiting them, and therefore saving the bandwidth of going through the detection process.
And with all of those services turned on, we're still achieving about a gigabit of internet performance, which is outstanding.
On top of that, they have a reporting system which can store data over a very long period of time. Not many other firewall vendors provide a reporting system, but if they do, like Fortinet does, then you've got buy that as an additional product and that can be more than twice as expensive as the initial investment in the firewall. And without reporting over a long-term period, you're just about wasting your time.
In addition, the rate of progress of introducing new features: There's a fantastic wireless solution that provides extreme levels of security, plus user tracking/monitoring if you're a retail mall or company. The features go on and on. They just keep on coming.
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Systems Engineer at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
- Price
- Functionality
- Device management
it_user229800
PRE-SALES MANAGER at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
- Lots of enterprise-grade features in SMB firewall
- Cost-price performance is at its best
it_user719133
systeembeheerder at a manufacturing company with 201-500 employees
Blacklist IP addresses of "hackers", SNMP status monitoring and the Central Management Software.
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instructor with 501-1,000 employees
VPN, routing, firewall, and accessibility are the most valuable features.
It is easy to set up and provides access to the centralized environment.
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Support Analyst at a logistics company with 501-1,000 employees
- Multiple VPN choice
- Application proxies
- VoIP
it_user229821
Third Line Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
- Nice user interface
- Ease of use
- Easy to set up
- Good range of subscription services
it_user229806
Network Administrator at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
- WatchGuard System Manager can work with multiple devices at once
- The Web UI is accessible from any OS platform
it_user1143
Network Manager at a tech company with 51-200 employees
Setup and configuration is straightforward with excellent management interface.Rule setup is simple and logical with integrated proxies and other features and does not require knowledge of cryptic languages.Features eight 10/100 interfaces and provides features like stateful packet inspection and intrusion prevention.Powerful VPN capability is provided with 600 Branch Office VPNs, 400 Mobile VPN (IPSec) Tunnels and 500 Mobile VPN (SSL) Tunnels.
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MaximilianoHuguenin
IT Security Analyst at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
It costs less than the SO works and others (like SonicWall, Cisco, and Barracuda) without increasing so much CPU use. But if you use, for example the SSL connections (using a certificate), the memory use will increase, but having a better product is less expensive than the SonicWall SSL inspection.
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March 2024
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