GoGuardian Admin vs. WatchGuard DNSWatchGO

GoGuardian Admin took the pressure off of IT to deal with filtering and gave control to the building admin. No longer does IT have to check if the website is appropriate or if the building principal wants to allow it. They take care of it on their own! Put ownership of internet use back on the building admin instead of IT, since it was always a classroom management problem, not a technology problem.

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We have a lot of salesman that everyday have to connect to the office from remote, different places. the problem was that vpn is not safe anymore, with DWatchGuard DNSWatchGO they can connect without vpn and in safe mode, all the traffic is control by dns request so the bad site request are immediately block and the network is safer. Sometimes a category can be faulty, some good website are mark as "bad", so until WatchGuard DNSWatchGO fix the category you cannot use the website. or you have to make a rule to enable the website.

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• Web Filtering
• Chromebook Livefeed/Monitoring
• GoGuardian Admin technical support is fantastic, and is always available
• Ease of creating individual policies based on Google Admin Console OU

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• protect from phishing, ransomware
• content filtering
• no vpn needed
• cloud based

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• The system cannot inform our team about cyber bullying or harassment.
• Students can still play some games if those games are loaded to a Google Site.
• There are times when a Chromebook that hasn't been restarted in a while will not show up online. This is problematic as students do not restart as much as they should.

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• cost of service

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Does what we need it to do and more in a very cost-effective manner. Relatively easy to use and great customer support. They are quick and clear and will walk you through things in real time.

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We really need an extra layer of protection for our laptops. Choosing the DNSWatchGo makes sense as we have Watchguard firewall. If we had another brand of firewalls we would probably use anther product instead!

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GoGuardian support is the best in the business. Within seconds of the business day I can chat with a human being about any issue.

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GoGuardian is the industry leader in this space. We have been a client for six years and have never had an issue with the product or support. We've investigated other options, but have found the feature set, ease of use, and reliability is unmatched.

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At the time we were looking for a DNS based protection solution we had also tried "Blue Shield Umbrella". Both programs had similar behavior, but the main reason we eventually decided to go with DNSWatchGo was the fact the we have WatchGurd firewalls. So deploying DNSWatchGo was easy as we just copied the Application Control settings from our firewalls to the DNSWatchGo setup. Also Watchguard firewalls already have the DNSWatch service for the PCs that are connected to them while inside the company network, so it makes sense to equip them with the same shield while outside the company network.

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• It has allowed us to deploy thousands of devices for home and on-premises use successfully. Without this cloud filtering, we would be stuck.
• The theft recovery piece has allowed us to get our assets back from students that have left the district or that have misused them.

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• easy to mange
• you can have control over external pc or cellphone

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