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Webroot DNS Protection

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What is Webroot DNS Protection?

Webroot DNS Protection redirects web traffic away from unsafe or inappropriate web content.

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Improve security performance with Webroot DNS Protection.

Damith LowView profile
Software Engineer in Information Technology at AI Singapore (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In our organization we use Webroot DNS Protection to automatically prevent, protect, detect and block malware threats/attacks and other risks. Webroot DNS Protection is a secure, easy-to-use platform that provides an enterprise-grade security solution to protect your company's network, devices, email, and web traffic. Finally, it is the right security solution to meet the needs of our companies, including monitoring and controlling secure access to our website.

Pros

  • User-friendly interface makes setup and management easy
  • Easy to integrate with existing security solutions such as firewalls and antivirus programs.
  • Protects against unexpected threat attempts or attacks.
  • Generate detailed reports to gain insight into threats.

Cons

  • Integration with G-Suite, O365, Active Directory, SIS, etc.
  • Increase the number of third-party integrations.
  • It can be expensive to implement, depending on the size of the network.
  • It does not offer additional features and options beyond basic protection.

Most Important Features

  • It is a centralized platform.
  • Helps to apply web access policies.
  • DNS-based security.
  • Easy to implement.
  • Advanced DNS filtering to prevent malicious domains and IPs from reaching our network.

Return on Investment

  • It is a centralized platform, easy to use, completely affordable. It provides a completely positive return on investment by providing a higher level of security and better performance for our organization.

Alternatives Considered

DNSFilter

Other Software Used

DNSFilter, WebTitan DNS Filter, Cobot

Bang for your buck security product for small businesses

Incentivized
Verified User
Technician in Information Technology (11-50 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Webroot DNS protection secures the web traffic of a PC to add a further layer to the defence in depth approach. We found it difficult to sell more expensive products to our cheapest customers, and this was a good solution to that. We sometimes use Webroot's AV solution, which made it a comfortable upsell.

Pros

  • Easy to install with the AV client
  • managed from a web page
  • good choice of URL categories for blocking

Cons

  • No discount for using both the AV and the DNS filtering
  • Redirection is pretty slow
  • As Webroot is a company that caters to the SMB and customers looking for a cheap solution, the threat protection is not that great compared to some of its competitors

Most Important Features

  • Managed from the same GUI as the AV client
  • Bypass is a bit better designed than some competitors
  • Logging is found in the Web GUI and is fairly intuitive
  • MSP dashboard is a nice bonus

Return on Investment

  • Much reduced time spent on malware issues at small business customers
  • Slightly increased revenue as this fills a space that didn't used to exist in our stack
  • Customers satisfaction went up due to the added ability to block certain content quickly and easily

Alternatives Considered

Trend Micro Worry-Free Services Suite and N‑able DNS Filtering

Other Software Used

1Password, LastPass for Business, 3CX

Fantastic and easy to recommend

Incentivized
Verified User
Manager in Information Technology (201-500 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Webroot DNS Protection is a security product that uses DNS (Domain Name System) to protect an our network from malicious websites and other online threats. A job it does incredibly well.

To use Webroot DNS Protection in an organisation at the most basic implementation level, an administrator would first need to some configuration with the Webroot product on the organisation's DNS server. This could be done by changing the DNS server settings to point to Webroot's DNS servers, or by configuring a DNS forwarder to forward requests to Webroot's servers. Once configured, Webroot DNS Protection automatically blocks access to known malicious websites and other online threats. This is then used to help protect the organisation from malware, phishing, and other types of cyber attacks. Our main use cases for Webroot within the business is protecting employees from accidentally visiting malicious websites while browsing the internet and enforcing organisational policies regarding internet usage.

Pros

  • Enforcing organisational policies regarding internet usage, such as blocking access to certain types of websites (e.g., gambling, social networking, etc.)
  • Prevent malware infections
  • Protection from various phishing attempts

Cons

  • Further integration with other webroot products
  • Improved visual documentation
  • Better support desk

Most Important Features

  • Easy DNS protection
  • Reduced instances of virus Infection
  • Reduced instances of malware infection

Return on Investment

  • Easy migration from previous platform
  • Less infection reports since implementing
  • More internal support tickets raised for blocked websites

Alternatives Considered

McAfee Data Center Security Suite

Web Rootin’ the Right Way

Incentivized
Verified User
Employee in Corporate (501-1000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Webroot sits atop my internet queries to protect from harmful attacks and provides added assurance that no malware or the like will invade. Simple, easy to use and sleek at the top of the desktop. It’s important that my organization does not fall victim to phishing schemes (though they seem ever common in media these days), identity theft or any nature of wrongdoing and this constant protection is invaluable.

Pros

  • Identity theft protection
  • Firewall monitor
  • Phishing defense

Cons

  • Malware block could be better
  • Could impact speed for some older PCs
  • Sometimes buggy but usually fixed

Most Important Features

  • Content filtering
  • Phishing protection
  • Malware blocking

Return on Investment

  • Streamlined safety for org
  • Protection against dangerous attacks
  • Reduced IT service needs

Webroot DNS Protection - It is worth the look

Incentivized
Rob Morton
President in Information Technology at Convey2web LLC (1-10 employees employees)

Pros

  • Policies by IP, Groups, and even by device.
  • Cloud based, no hardware.
  • Protects at the domain which helps support our at workstation level protection.

Cons

  • Technology and SAAS platforms are always evolving.
  • Platform console ease of use.

Return on Investment

  • Network stability of our clients
  • Hard to prove ROI until you have had fallen victim to an attack that you were not prepared for.

Alternatives Considered

Comodo cWatch, Comodo Mobile Device Management (CMDM), Comodo Dome Shield, Comodo Dome Secure Web Gateway and SpamTitan

Other Software Used

Comodo cWatch, Comodo Advanced Endpoint Protection (AEP), Webroot SecureAnywhere