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."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."
"The most important feature, in my opinion, regarding Check Point Application Control is the granularity and the great variety of applications and sub-applications recognized."
"The ability to be able to do dynamic rate limiting on specific applications has been a valuable feature."
"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."
"The tool's most valuable features are VPN access, website defense, and maintenance."
"Its initial setup is very simple and straightforward."
"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."
"The automatic updates of new applications and signatures guarantee protection at all times without the need to apply a change manually."
"Zero-trust and threat-hunting services are most valuable."
"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."
"We have witnessed an ROI as it has helped with security measures."
"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."
"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."
"Custom applications for internal applications must be defined frequently."
"I would like this layer to be faster to install in the future."
"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."
"The whitelisting approach should only be on very specific applications. In which only a server should access a certain application and nothing else. If you miss something, you will have to always be investigating why it doesn't have access or why an application is not working."
"There are many aspects we do not like about the solution and there are a lot of alternatives available on the market. Some of the settings are buried deep within the solution making it a challenge to navigate. It would be helpful if it was more intuitive. Additionally, there can be some settings that are in multiple places, this leaves the user not knowing what settings are needed to be modified for the wanted result. I have lost confidence because I do not know if I change a setting or if it is going to have the desired result I intended it to do."
"The initial setup was a bit difficult."
"I recommend network upgrades in the next release to meet most company demands and daily changes."
"There should be more reports available on different subjects."
"The licensing can be a bit expensive."
"The time they take to classify an application once they find that it is unknown can be better."
"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."
"The control software is currently only available for Windows, which can be a little annoying for Linux users."
"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."
"They could expand the amount of applications that are on the list, but it's pretty intensive anyway, so it's pretty good."
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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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