We performed a comparison between Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall and Fortinet FortiGate-VM 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."The Intrusion Prevention System and the web filtering are both working well."
"The solution is stable."
"The solution is extremely reliable."
"It's very easy to set up, it's very easy to make policies and, for an organization, that means you don't need IT expert in firewalls. You just need to have somebody who knows a little bit of IT, and that's it. With other products, you need someone with a "Masters" degree in firewalls."
"We use the filtering feature the most. It has filtering and inbuilt securities. We can create customized rules to define which users can access a particular type of site. We can create policies inside the firewall."
"The wireless control is helpful."
"It is a safe product."
"Fortinet FortiGate has many valuable features, such as IDS, and intrusion detection. It has security features that are in part with the technologies that are available in the market."
"The people we deal with is a local partner in Cambodia and we can get good support from them."
"We find the product to be stable and reliable in terms of performance."
"Technical support has been quite helpful in the past."
"The central security management center and the content management center are very good."
"The most valuable feature is controlling the traffic and the logging. They have real-time logins for traffic logs. Troubleshooting was very easy for me."
"The blocking, based on the signal provided, is the solution's most valuable aspect."
"The solution offers sandboxing, which can be integrated at any time."
"When our customer needs some optimization, along with performance and security. If they want everything in one package, I recommend Forcepoint because they have everything."
"Operations have been flawless."
"The combination of SD-WAN and VPN capabilities is the most valuable feature."
"The product is easy to implement."
"The most valuable features are the SD-WAN and the web filtering applications control."
"The product's initial setup phase was easy."
"The most valuable feature is the WAN optimization."
"The best part about FortiGate-VM is its strong security."
"While the stability maybe isn't quite to the level of Cisco, it is a very cost-effective solution. It's cheap compared to Cisco."
"They need faster serviceability and more security features."
"The support is the main thing that needs to be improved."
"Scalability for Fortinet FortiGate needs to be improved. SD-WAN security for this solution also needs some improvement."
"The product does need better support in the cloud environment. It's not exactly cloud-native right now."
"The visibility of the network can be better. The GUI can be improved for better visibility of the network flow. Other solutions have better GUI in terms of network visibility."
"The renewal price and the availability could be improved."
"It could use more templates for third-party site-to-site VPN setups other than FortiGate and Cisco."
"To some degree, it's almost a question as to why some of this stuff isn't simpler. For example, for an AP deployment, while it's integrated, the number of steps that you have to go through in order to get the AP up, seems like a lot."
"When it comes to a complex deployment, the rules, firewall features, SD-WAN core features, and auto-scaling can cause the device to be not quite stable."
"They should have a GUI on the product itself, not a separate management tool to be used on the management server or on a server to be used to manage the file. It should be all in one device. The device should be controlled through its own GUI. They also have to improve the learning center and the documents as the documents don't really help."
"The initial setup of the Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall has areas that are difficult."
"Making this solution easier to use would be an improvement."
"The optimization is not really ready. If you want very good optimization, you have to add it to the network."
"The security features need to be improved."
"A VPN client feature is missing in our region, which we hope Forcepoint will address in future updates."
"The solution needs to build upon its network functionality. It needs to be a bit smarter."
"The product needs to focus on cloud-nativeness and pricing."
"It needs an Application Inspection."
"The interface of the solution could be improved."
"There are certain GUI features that should be present but are not."
"Now they do have the ability to pop up a command line, which is nice, however, the fact that you can't do everything within the GUI is probably a problem."
"We have had some stability issues."
"The management tools should be more user-friendly."
"The product does not have a good graphical interface."
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Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is ranked 25th in Firewalls with 41 reviews while Fortinet FortiGate-VM is ranked 9th in Firewalls with 113 reviews. Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is rated 7.6, while Fortinet FortiGate-VM 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 Fortinet FortiGate-VM writes "An easy-to-manage and configure tool that provides ample documentation to help with the setup phase". 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 Fortinet FortiGate-VM is most compared with Azure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks VM-Series, Fortinet FortiOS, OPNsense and Cisco Secure Firewall. See our Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall vs. Fortinet FortiGate-VM report.
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