We performed a comparison between Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall and WatchGuard Firebox based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Firewalls solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."All of the features of Fortinet FortiGate are useful and the security protection is good."
"The tool is a nice product and easy to handle. The software's user interface is also good. You can easily implement remote access in the solution."
"One of the valuable features is a standardized OS."
"The performance is good."
"The most valuable features are the enterprise modeling and the simple interface."
"The most valuable feature is the VDOM, which allows the customer to have multiple firewalls in a single campus."
"The most useful functionality of Fortinet FortiGate is the user interface, multiple engines, and their cloud with the latest integrations. Additionally, the Security Fabric tool is very good."
"It is user friendly, and has all the features you need."
"It is stable and scalable. In addition, their support is great. When you ask them for something, they provide support, and if required, they also involve the R&D team to help you to resolve the issues in your configuration."
"Technical support has been quite helpful in the past."
"The people we deal with is a local partner in Cambodia and we can get good support from them."
"It is a stable solution, and there are no issues so far."
"The initial setup is very easy."
"Forcepoint is a good, stable solution."
"I like the Firewall and the IPS."
"I found the initial setup process to be very simple and straightforward."
"The solution has increased productivity with our outside salespeople being able to connect into their computers and use those remotely."
"The throughput is great. It's perfect. We have no issues whatsoever. The management features are very powerful..."
"The solution simplifies my business. Normally, for administration, we are using NetApp System Manager on Window since it's easy to create new policies. In a short amount of time, you can create new policies based on new requirements. For example, in the last few months, many requirements changed due to the coronavirus, adding the use of new services, like Office 365, and eLearning tools, like Zoom."
"All of the features have been valuable. There's nothing on my M270 that I'm not using. If you have remote access, you can see how many users are coming from the outside world to be connected to the systems, through the virus systems that we have behind the firewall, in order to gain access to their files and do their work. We can also see how long they stay online and whether these connections are closed forcefully or for any other reasons, such as a glitch or some kind of misbehavior, to see if internet traffic is optimized and if that particular traffic is under company policies, concerning which websites were visited."
"HostWatch makes it so I can see, in real-time, activity in the event that there is something weird happening on the network. This simplifies my job."
"The GUI is easy and intuitive."
"Among the most valuable features is the ease of use — love the interface — of both the web interface and of the WatchGuard System Manager."
"The ease of use is most valuable. You can quickly train someone who hasn't seen a firewall in life. You can get people up to speed, and in a few months, they are able to manage this product very easily. It is a very user-friendly, scalable, and stable product. Its price is also spot-on."
"The initial setup and configuration are not intuitive and require training."
"The graphical user interface of Fortinet's FortiGate product does not function well with text-based interfaces."
"Fortinet could improve the windows opener or the virtual IP solutions for opening windows. The virtual IP settings need improvement as firewalls are trending in new development directions."
"Fortinet doesn't provide multiple virtual firewalls which would facilitate end users and customers."
"I don't like that anything more than very basic reporting is not included."
"Reporting is limited to providing an external appliance for improving the reporting capabilities of the FortiAnalyzer. It does not offer a central management and is also sold separably as an appliance."
"They need faster serviceability and more security features."
"The sniffing packets or packet captures, can be simplified and improved because it's a little confusing."
"They need to work on stability, it has not been the best in our experience."
"If I want to allow access to Facebook, yet not allow the user to access videos, then I am not able to do it with this product."
"They should have a local vendor who can provide support. Most of the support is overseas, so the time zones can be a problem."
"The endpoint protection capabilities of the product are an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The security features need to be improved."
"They need to improve their alerts."
"This solution would be improved with the inclusion of custom reporting."
"You do need knowledge of the solution in order to set the product up properly."
"There is room for improvement in the threat protection, data packet inspection, and performance of the solution. Generally, it's just a lower-end product. It does the job but doesn't do it very well."
"The only downside is that it is missing an API, that you can use to easily collect information from it."
"In terms of the reporting and management features — and this isn't necessarily a WatchGuard issue, this seems to be more of an industry-wide issue — you get reports, but a lot of times you don't know what you're looking at. You're so overwhelmed with the data. You're getting a lot of stuff that doesn't matter, so it takes time to parse through it, to actually get what you want to know."
"Websense is an application that monitors and filters internet traffic. Websense was derived from WatchGuard. But when you go to WatchGuard to actually implement that particular feature, you have to use some type of additional feature and you have to pay for it, unfortunately. I think it should be free or free in the WatchGuard box itself, as an option. It would be nice if they didn't charge us for that."
"The UI is not as user-friendly as the model that I had used before, which was from Check Point. The design of the Firebox UI is restricted and needs an experienced network guy to understand the format and settings."
"The pricing could be improved. It is definitely one of the more expensive products."
"There's always room for improvement, especially if the threats are getting more sophisticated and the IT department cannot sufficiently meet this kind of sophistication with their own knowledge and experience. Knowing that this solution can get up to the level of addressing a lot of these threats is something that everybody wishes for. If we look at the dark web and the lawful web, they are two opposites, and if these two good and bad collide in the world of the internet, you want the best possible product—especially if you cannot get to that point of knowledge. I am just an individual and end user, with limited knowledge of usage. That's why I say there's always room for improvement, from their side and also from mine, because by knowing exactly what they can achieve and the knowledge that they can get on an everyday basis, and the portion that is understandable to me, it's an improvement for them as well."
"It would be wonderful if the WatchGuard team develops nice products for threat intelligence."
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Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is ranked 25th in Firewalls with 41 reviews while WatchGuard Firebox is ranked 13th in Firewalls with 79 reviews. Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is rated 7.6, while WatchGuard Firebox is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall writes "Provides decent protection for the LAN but complicated interface". On the other hand, the top reviewer of WatchGuard Firebox writes "Offers a streamlined deployment, intuitive interface and robust security features". Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is most compared with Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention, Check Point NGFW, Sophos XG, Netgate pfSense and Cisco Secure Firewall, whereas WatchGuard Firebox is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, SonicWall TZ and Meraki MX. See our Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall vs. WatchGuard Firebox report.
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