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DNS web content & security filter for business that blocks malware, ransomware and phishing + provides advanced web content control.

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Pros:

The platform is very easy to use, simple interface easy to navigate.

Cons:

I cannot seem to get it to show the same list of blocked attempts in the email. I can only get a block count by category along with a unique domain count.

WebTitan ratings

Average score

Ease of Use
4.3
Customer Service
4.5
Features
4.2
Value for Money
4.4

Likelihood to recommend

8.5/10

WebTitan has an overall rating of 4.5 out 5 stars based on 262 user reviews on Capterra.

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Nabila
Nabila
Human Resources Manager in Malaysia
Verified LinkedIn User
Investment Management, 10,000+ Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Safeguarded my web browser

5.0 3 years ago

Comments: For several years, WebTitan has supported us with a reliable web filtering tool that has served us well. We're confident that it's blocking and slowing traffic as we've set it up.

Pros:

Quite easy to set up, clients were quickly migrated from the old operation, and new clients were quickly onboard ed. The monitoring functions are simpler to set up, and the data is displayed in a far more appealing manner. The ability to stop advertisement domains is part of content filtering; sure, this doesn't capture every ad site, but it's enough to make a difference. The greatest thing is that there is no charge for assistance. Any proposal I've made has received swift feedback and resolutions.

Cons:

It's not as easy to install as I thought, but once it's up and running, it's a job well done. The impressive infrastructure, technologies, and support services, as well as the fact that it is cloud-based and has a strong product roadmap. We would not hesitate to suggest them to other businesses. Misclassified pages are also being blocked although they shouldn't be. The website could use some updating and improved organization.

Mark
General manager in US
Hospitality, 51–200 Employees
Used the Software for: 6-12 months
Reviewer Source

No IT staff - need to still monitor end clients this is for you

5.0 3 years ago

Comments: All positive - I love that we spoke to real people, no phone tag. They have been nothing but responsive when we installed and created our account. Very positive and I highly recommend them!

Pros:

We have used similar products but they kept changing the product and increasing the cost, they would have no customer support and you could not even email them. WebTitan has excellent support and service, they helped us set it up, configure it, and install it. They are super responsive on email their products works for exactly what we want it to do. It was the best solution for us to monitor some end clients without limiting the rest of the network or having something we could not easily access. For us it is the prefect product, something non-IT staff can set up monitor and use daily to limit risks by a completely open internet policy. This was exactly what we needed!

Cons:

My only gripe would be that the install for the OTA product is a little tricky to install. Not super hard but an app or something that is easy would have been preferred, so it kind of makes a one man band kind of set up. Of course, we could have installed it on the whole network but that was what we were trying to avoid a complex install that only our network people could really set up and deploy.

Henry
IT Manager in Singapore
Import & Export, 201–500 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

IT Manager

5.0 2 months ago New

Comments: I am generally satisfied with WebTitan, particularly its web filtering feature. It effectively blocks malicious and inappropriate sites, enhancing our network security. The management and deployment process is straightforward, especially when using Microsoft Intune. The intuitive interface and flexible policy settings make it easy to control internet access for different user groups. Real-time threat detection adds an extra layer of protection, ensuring our network remains secure. Overall, WebTitan has proven to be a reliable and efficient solution for our web filtering needs

Pros:

What I like most about WebTitan is its effective web filtering feature, which enhances network security by blocking malicious and inappropriate sites. Additionally, its ease of management and deployment via Microsoft Intune makes it a user-friendly and efficient solution

Cons:

What I like least about WebTitan is the unit pricing, which has been steadily increasing over the years. This rising cost makes it challenging to maintain budget predictability and can be a concern for long-term financial planning, despite the product’s overall effectiveness

Jesus
IT Manager in Spain
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Not works as announced

2.0 7 years ago

Comments: WCCP integration

Pros:

The top feature for us was the integration with Cisco ISR. It is really easy to switch on/off webtitan without affecting the user: Just an access list membership in wccp configuration does the trick.

Cons:

Integration with AD does not work. Unless you push some agent to the client, the product does not consistently work, neither by static IP nor by any other means.

TitanHQ Response

6 years ago

Hi Jesus, Thanks for your review of WebTitan. I'm disappointed to hear that the solution didn't deliver as it usually does with our other 7,500 customers. Our AD integration works very well when you use our agent - this has been developed further over the last two years. We should try again. I've asked your account manager to reach out. The product will work consistently for you once we get the set up sorted, Kind regards, Dryden Dryden Geary, Marketing Director, TitanHQ [email protected]

Jason
IT Specialist in US
Computer & Network Security, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: 6-12 months
Reviewer Source

Top Notch DNS Filtering

5.0 5 years ago

Comments: There was no pressure to purchase the software. The trial started out for a week and one email to rep to see if we could have more time and before we were off the phone it was extended to a month. While headquarters is not located in the USA, have had no issues getting a hold of a live person to talk to. Great company to deal with.

Pros:

Documentation is step by step. If it isn't in the documentation calling support quick and easy. Before purchasing the software I used the trial. To test support, called in and told them I was just evaluating the software and had questions. They didn't hesitate to answer any and all questions. Being able to talk to the ones that deal with the software daily and pick their brains was excellent.

Cons:

Honestly, nothing to complain about. Switched from another software DNS filtering that didn't work and spent more time troubleshooting, switching to WebTitan was a dream.

TitanHQ Response

5 years ago

Jason thanks a million for your kind WebTitan review and I'm delighted that our DNS filtering has been "Top Notch" for you. Cheers for the shout out for the support team - I'll pass on the good news, they'll be chuffed. Welcome on board! Dryden Geary, TitanHQ

Frank
IT Manager in US
Consumer Services, 51–200 Employees
Used the Software for: 6-12 months
Reviewer Source

Alternatives Considered:

Worth the Money.

5.0 3 years ago

Comments: We have increased productivity. We have been able to see this and track this since installing the software. The [SENSITIVE CONTENT] has also seen this and has recommended the software to several other vendors we have business relationships with.

Pros:

We were looking for something to protect users both remote and in the office while also increasing production by blocking time wasting sites. Webtitan is one of several we looked at and it fit what we were looking for. The product was simple to setup and is easy to manage. We have customized alerts for when a user accesses restricted sites and have created keys to allow 1 time use of the site or if we need to white listing a domain is very simple to use. We have all departments from Finance, Customer Service and CEO Executive all with their own security groups and restrictions. Webtitan also restricts access to malicious or suspicious sites which has come in handy a dozen times in the last several months.

Cons:

I have encountered zero issues with the software, or support team.

Jason
Senior Software Engineer in US
Computer Software, 2–10 Employees
Used the Software for: 1-5 months
Reviewer Source

Alternatives Considered:

WebTitan Handles Our Needs Perfectly

5.0 4 years ago

Comments: Content Filtering, Work Focus

Pros:

I was able to deploy on routers for complete coverage of all devices connected to our network. It also had provisions for deploying on Mobile Devices. The price was very competitive considering the number of features we have access to. They also had the ability to white-list which was a key feature that others I've tried struggled with. Their customer service were very friendly and spent a ton of time with me before and after signup to get things implemented and troubleshoot any issues I had.

Cons:

I had to setup Active Directory on my server to enable the capability of creating profiles unique to individuals. This is less of a problem with the WebTitan and more with my chosen method of deployment, but it was something I had to do to get full use of the features. Again, not their problem as a single router only sends traffic from one IP with no way to really know much about the client sending it.

Verified Reviewer
Verified LinkedIn User
Wholesale, 51–200 Employees
Used the Software for: 1-5 months
Reviewer Source

Great Spam Filter

5.0 5 years ago

Comments: In the past 3 months we used it, it's been great! It's greatly minimized spam emails that have gotten through and has really helped with any issues that spam emails can bring.

Pros:

It's great at what it does. Once you get all of the settings configured, it becomes very good at blocking spam so that it doesn't come in. By default it's pretty restrictive, but that's been helpful to start. We just lightly loosened it to the settings we needed.

Cons:

There's not a way to bulk add email addresses to the list of monitored emails. You have to add them one by one. Support told me that this is a coming feature.

Stan
Stan
VP Development in US
Verified LinkedIn User
Information Technology & Services, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: 1-5 months
Reviewer Source

Alternatives Considered:

As easy as advertised

4.0 3 years ago

Comments: It does the job.

Pros:

Most certainly the ease of deployment. Just change some DNS and/or DHCP settings and the firewall to use this DNS server instead of the "defaults" and you are started. Then a few checkboxes to decide what to filter.

Cons:

The reports are nothing to write home about, and since I do not plan on actively monitoring the DNS requests, the reports would be a nice way to get a weekly summary. Likewise with the "alert emails" -- these rapidly become noise and you have to turn them off.

Andrew
MD in France
Computer & Network Security, 2–10 Employees
Used the Software for: 6-12 months
Reviewer Source

Easy deployment and low maintenance.

4.0 2 months ago New

Comments: Fairly smooth and trouble free. On the few occasions we've had to call on technical support the response was very good, even when the miscofiguration was our end.

Pros:

Easy to setup and very transparent. Good logging.

Cons:

UI seems a bit klunky and dated. Easy enough to navigate though.

Verified Reviewer
Verified LinkedIn User
Education Management, 51–200 Employees
Used the Software for: 1-5 months
Reviewer Source

Promising, but Still Needs Some Additions

4.0 5 years ago

Comments: We use it as a content filter, and to help us identify if there seems to be malware on a device. I believe that we have been able to reduce the number of False-Positives from our previous solution, but we end up doing a lot more whitelisting, and I wonder at times if we're catching everything we should be.

Pros:

Our primary reason for changing to WebTitan was cost. We had be fairly happy with our previous solution, but they kept driving up the price, forcing us to look elsewhere on our limited budget, and WebTitan was willing to work within our price range. One of the things I have found that I like about WebTitan is in how it displays some reports. Within the web console, it is easy to see if blocks are in a series, or hit and miss throughout the day. It also gives an easy to see overview if the block count is due to a single piece of software trying to "phone home" at a single URL, or if there seems to, instead, be an effort by the user to get to prohibited content via a variety of URLs. Overall, easy to use solution that works off of categories, but still is easy to whitelist or blacklist given domains, etc.

Cons:

Two short-comings readily stand out for our needs/desires. 1) There is no "P2P" category. While there are legal and legitimate peer-to-peer websites and software, we want to block such activity, and limit access to such software as much as possible. Without the P2P category, we're left either with an overly restrictive policy blocking all download sites and then whitelisting a lot, or we stick with only blocking "illegal"/hacking/etc, and then blacklisting P2P sites that aren't caught in that as we find them. Neither is ideal. 2) The emailed reports are not nearly as helpful as the web console reports. I cannot seem to get it to show the same list of blocked attempts in the email. I can only get a block count by category along with a unique domain count. But without being able to see the domains along with timestamps, I have to keep going back to the console to decide if action is required or not.

abdul
IT Engineer in United Arab Emirates
Packaging & Containers, 501–1,000 Employees
Used the Software for: 1+ year
Reviewer Source

Easy administration of webfiltering

4.0 4 years ago

Comments: good in web filtering easy to use, users idl time reduced. Webtitan tec Support closure time needs to reduce.

Pros:

Management pane is one of the key feature I would say as best part in this product, easy to understand and ease of administration, accuracy on filtering is best,pulling out and drilling down on user's web access report saves lot of my time.cloud based hybrid solution gives us leverage of managing it from any where during this pandemic situation, OTG client helps us to manage users browsing even they are working from home. This is giving us an extra shield on our IT security.easy deployment across our infrastructure.

Cons:

More time taking to close Support ticket.support conversation hapends only thru email, no chat or no telephone calls from support team. More time taking to apply new policy to users.

Brian
CIO in US
Outsourcing/Offshoring, 501–1,000 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

WebTitan is a great product for companies that want very granular control over user web filtering

4.0 6 years ago

Comments: It fits all of my needs for web filtering across my organization

Pros:

I have incredible control over my users' web filtering and great reports that can be automatically generated and delivered. It's fairly easy to use from an administrative perspective and provides great flexibility. I currently have 350 seats over 4 offices with each office having slightly different web filtering needs and I have no problem accomplishing it with WebTitan.

Cons:

They don't really put out many software updates. I think the last one was from 9 months ago, now. They do keep up with definitions for categorizing websites, but actual software enhancements do not get pushed out very often.

Michael
IT Coordinator in Canada
Government Administration, 51–200 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Solid product that has the functionality we need to keep the bad stuff out.

5.0 7 years ago

Comments: Easy to use, yet does a great job in stopping most of the bad stuff through.

Pros:

The level of protection against the bad emails that are floating around. The software is easy to use and configure based on what our evolving needs are. Over the years of use, I'm happy we made the switch from the previous software to Spam Titan.

Cons:

I found that the factory defaults were perhaps a little too restrictive to begin with, which resulted in some false positives. However, tweaking the threshold values was relatively easy in order to make the false positives disappear and get the emails we wanted to receive.

Gregory
IT Director in US
Legal Services, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

We used it as our proxy server and it was helpful in looking at useless traffic.

4.0 7 years ago

Comments: A web proxy is a 'must have' piece of IT infrastructure today.

Pros:

Fairly easy to use - the interface is ok and similar to SPAMTitan. We were very satisfied with SPAMTitan and so we also then went with WebTitan. Both products are still being employed today. Because of WebTitan we banned music streaming which was killing Internet bandwidth.

Cons:

Not so much a complaint but observation: there has not been any update to the product in a long time. This may in fact be a good thing, but i wonder if also it might be a lack of commitment? The same is true for SPAMTitan.

Michael
IT consultant in US
Information Technology & Services, 2–10 Employees
Used the Software for: 1+ year
Reviewer Source

Alternatives Considered:

Webtitan

4.0 3 years ago

Comments: performs well good support

Pros:

functionality the cost was reasonable good support

Cons:

need to setup local dns proxy management of whitelist doesn't always work as expected

Sobek
IT Manager in UK
Construction, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Once set up all is working as it should.

5.0 7 years ago

Comments: A great web filter. It keeps our network safe from threats. We get blocking done to anything that can cause damage or anything that may be inappropriate.

Pros:

Good experience from end to end. The Sales and Engineers went above and beyond to support implementation and set up.

Cons:

Not quite as easy to set up as we'd like, but certainly well done once you get it going. The impressive platform, technology, and support services, alongside being Cloud-based and with an excellent roadmap for innovation. We would have no hesitation in recommending to other companies.

Daniel
IT Manager in New Zealand
Retail, 201–500 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Good & cost effective solution to manage & control your WEB internal users access including monitor

4.0 7 years ago

Comments: WEB filtering & content management

Pros:

Easy to administer , setup group and tailor WEB access to our corporate WEB user , do have good reporting tools and some protect ion where our users base can go on the internet.

Cons:

This software could benefit if it add option to restrict & control apps that can run on the internal network. This would offer better protection again malware that usually kick of an small application or script to download their malware payload

Daniel
Director of Technical Services Delivery in US
Information Technology & Services, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: 6-12 months
Reviewer Source

Better than I expected.

5.0 6 years ago

Comments: This is a great product and solution 10/10.

Pros:

Very simple setup, migrating clients from the old service was extremely quick and on boarding of new clients is just as quick. The reporting features are easier to configure and the information is presented in a much better format. Content filtering includes the ability to block ad domains, granted this doesn't catch every ad site but enough that it makes a difference. The best part is the free support. Tickets can be opened by a phone call or through a web portal. I've gotten rapid responses and quick resolutions to any request I've made.

Cons:

I've really been racking my brain on this one and I can't thing of anything I, my company, or my clients dislike about this solution.

Verified Reviewer
Verified LinkedIn User
Wine & Spirits, 201–500 Employees
Used the Software for: 1+ year
Reviewer Source

WebTitan is a good software, easy to use and configure

5.0 6 years ago

Comments: I think that this is a useful solution.
WebTitan gives security and control of the content of the network. It's good that my company cares about cybersecurity and implemented this solution.

Pros:

WebTitan is a good solution for filtering websites. Configuration is easy, usage is easy. This product has warning options when the user attempts to access unauthorized websites. In summary, a useful solution in companies.

Cons:

This product does not have as frequent updates as we would expect. I think it would be better if there were more frequent updates. I think it's a necessity in this kind of softwares.

keith
IT Systems Engineer in US
Medical Practice, 201–500 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Overall its been good

4.0 7 years ago

Comments: Filtering users from bad websites and ease of usage

Pros:

Its easy to use . Web filtering is easy to turn on and off. User imports are simple too. Customer support is been good.

Cons:

The reporting part is not nearly as good as Websense product was. Its not even close. . Also we cannot filter individual users for more than 1 ip address to bypass the filtering which is a big pain point for us.

Robert
Owner in US
Information Technology & Services, Self Employed
Used the Software for: 6-12 months
Reviewer Source

SpamTitan has cut-down on spam for me and many of my clients dramatically.

4.0 7 years ago

Comments: I resell it to my clients

Pros:

The interface is very clean and fast, though a bit outdated-looking. The spam digest reports look nice and contain enough info to be very useful.

Cons:

The cost is very high. Setting up custom filters is difficult. There should be quicker and easier ways for end-users to block messages from senders that change part of their address every time. Multi-factor authentication would be a plus. Would be nice to configure spam digest timing individually for each domain and possibly multiple digests per day. The Outlook add-in is very user unfriendly to install and configure and there seems to be no notifications of updates.

James
Network Administrator in Canada
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

We've been a WebTitan customer for 5+ years now. Great solution for our small office!

4.0 7 years ago

Pros:

- Visibility; reports, history etc - Support; fantastic response time and one on one help - Active Directory integration - Ease of set up and implementation - Quick method to white-list sites

Cons:

- Needs request reboots to keep things working well - Some HTTP 1.1 sites simply will not work, even via bypass

Steve
IT Manager in UK
Insurance, 51–200 Employees
Used the Software for: 1-5 months
Reviewer Source

Webtitan feedback

2.0 4 years ago

Comments: A hell of a lot of personal maintenance trying to get it working as expected.

Pros:

it is relatively inexpensive and initially easy to deploy.

Cons:

The licence key being on the config.ini which also managed dns forwarders and bypass ip is difficult to manage once the product it out. The licence key keeps changing so that you cannot audit them in a script. If you need to add a new dns forward, you have to script this which out changing the licence key. Currently our install is still not working as it should as bypass does not seem to be doing its job so we are relying on dns forward when we shouldnt have to. Any changes require scripting. If the licence key was not in the config.ini then ammendments would be easy to make, but i would not recommend this product unless you have a good powershell scripter. We have had various issues with the product that are hard to track until you stumble on them.

Dianna
Library Director in US
Libraries, 2–10 Employees
Used the Software for: 6-12 months
Reviewer Source

Blocks what needs blocking

4.0 2 years ago

Comments: I think the first year has a learning curve. After that, it isn't as hard to go through your program. I appreciate that it works in the back ground so I don't have to constantly observe the web sites used here.

Pros:

The best part of WebTitan is not having to worry that illegal sites are being looked up in our business.

Cons:

Soooo many sites are blocked, even IF they belong to allowed categories. I wish we could "ADD" sites to the allowed list directly from the email alerts. There are too many steps to get to the Add sites page. Plus, there are several times when an allowed page is blocked again.