We performed a comparison between Darktrace and Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Cisco, TitanHQ and others in Email Security."Defender for Office 365 has helped eliminate having to look at multiple dashboards and that is the aspect I like most about it. It is simpler, effective, and convenient. The users like the process efficiency."
"Microsoft Defender for Office 365 has improved my organization's security. It makes it easier to manage the infrastructure without the help of third-party applications."
"The basic features are okay and I'm satisfied with the Defender."
"The solution is very easy to use. All you have to do is to assign the license to the end-user and it's done. The customer will only have the feature activated, and the solution will monitor the emails to determine if they are a threat or not."
"Does a thorough job of examining email and URLs for malicious content."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Defender for Office 365 is the ease of use."
"Defender helps us prioritize threats across our organization."
"The two main features that prove most beneficial for us are URL scanning and attachment scanning."
"We are able to detect a lot of things, actually, and see what is happening in our network."
"One member of staff is enough for deployment and maintenance because Darkforce is AI-driven. It does a lot of things by itself."
"The main valuable feature is that we don't need a lot of analysts. With few analysts, we have all the network monitored, 24/7."
"The platform has many modules, and each module examines a different situation in the behavior."
"I find the complete portfolio to be excellent."
"I find it very good in the way that they show the past events, including the attack history."
"The product can scale."
"I particularly like Antigena and the analytics around the real-time monitoring of our network. I also like its reporting because it has got a seven-day reporting period within the system. Every time you run the reports, it gives you the data about the previous seven days. I like that because it is in real-time. I enjoy reading those reports and getting a very clear and decisive idea of what's happening on my network on a real-time basis. I like the actual real-time monitoring of spoofing and things like that. I also like the user monitoring as well as the network logging capabilities."
"The initial setup is very easy."
"The support is great. They also have very good categorization. It's very good. It captures a lot of threats."
"I have two offices, and I can route the internet of both offices using the same product. The connectivity is great."
"Next Generation Firewall's best feature is that it can be managed on one platform."
"We like the scalability of Forcepoint because with the Forcepoint NGFW solution, we can scale anything. The solution has central management, so we can manage all the branches and devices centrally in one controller."
"I don't have anything bad to say about the product. I absolutely love it."
"When comparing this solution to others this one has better reporting, user management, and is easy to use."
"Forcepoint's stability is satisfactory, for the most part."
"Microsoft security solutions work as expected. They are constantly updating the solutions to make them better. At the same time, the changes can impact a customer's environment, and we need to adjust settings. Sometimes we aren't aware of the changes, and nothing is pushed from the backend automatically."
"The GUI is sometimes slow to fetch the device report and could be improved."
"I'd like some additional features any product can give me to protect our environment in a better way."
"The product must provide better malware detection."
"One area for improvement is support, in terms of being able to reach them and, especially, technical support for configuration."
"There needs to be an improvement in integrating the product to work across multiple operating systems, and to have better support for non-Microsoft file types."
"It would be better if it were more scalable. It depends on the architecture, but we would like to make it more scalable for both data centers."
"The XDR dashboard has room for improvement."
"The interface and dashboards could be improved for ease-of-use."
"The solution would benefit from automation. Currently, you have to know what you are searching for."
"Darktrace is a closed technology, meaning we know very little about how it works, including the architecture, which is significant. As a result, when we implement the system and find we're getting many false positives, we have minimal insight into why it's happening and what we can do to fix it. We don't know how the solution is configured, the criteria for threats to be determined, or the product's inner workings. We understand that they have to ensure privacy and their copyright, but we want to see some documentation or public research into the security Darktrace provides."
"Darktrace could expand into EDR (endpoint detection and response) and combine it with its network detection."
"Darktrace requires numerous configurations. It would be beneficial if the configuration could be made simpler."
"It should be easier to access the Darktrace portal and its documentation. Only the customer can access their portal and support. It could be cheaper."
"The initial setup is more complex and time-consuming than some solutions."
"I'd love them to see maybe covering the cloud a bit more."
"You do need knowledge of the solution in order to set the product up properly."
"Something that I've noticed that Forcepoint lacks, is the training that they offer to their end-customers"
"My team is looking for more throughput and better integration with our security framework."
"They need to improve their alerts."
"The security features need to be improved."
"I would like to see more sizing in the next release, and the roadmap should be clear."
"The optimization is not really ready. If you want very good optimization, you have to add it to the network."
"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."
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Darktrace is ranked 12th in Email Security with 66 reviews while Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is ranked 25th in Firewalls with 41 reviews. Darktrace is rated 8.2, while Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Darktrace writes "Great autonomous support, offers an easy setup, and has responsive support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall writes "Provides decent protection for the LAN but complicated interface". Darktrace is most compared with CrowdStrike Falcon, Vectra AI, SentinelOne Singularity Complete, Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks and ExtraHop Reveal(x), whereas Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate, Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention, Check Point NGFW, Sophos XG and Sangfor NGAF.
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