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 stability and scalability of this solution are satisfactory. Its SD-WAN, VPN, and URL filtering features are very useful."
"Good anti-malware and web filtering features."
"Fortinet FortiGate's reliability is valuable."
"The most valuable feature is the VDOM, which allows the customer to have multiple firewalls in a single campus."
"The multi-tenancy feature is most valuable. It integrates very well with FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer."
"Fortinet FortiGate is easy to use. Anyone can easily maintain it."
"The features that we have found most valuable are the SSL VPN and the User Portal."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are it is one of the most mature firewalls in the UTM bundle."
"The VPN is great."
"The blocking, based on the signal provided, is the solution's most valuable aspect."
"I have found that Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is easy to use, highly secure, and the main VPN tunnel is created automatically which is a benefit."
"The most valuable feature is SD-WAN."
"The initial setup is very easy."
"Technical support has been quite helpful in the past."
"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."
"The central security management center and the content management center are very good."
"Fortinet is user-friendly."
"The most valuable features are site-to-site connections and UTM."
"High network throughput while providing leading edge network security technology for a competitive price."
"The VM it's very quick for deployment. If we need to have a POC for a customer, if we don't have any hardware physically at our premises, at our store, in our office, we can download the VM from Fortinet and install all the VM to their environment in order to run it. If we have a customer that says "let's start tomorrow" we are able to do that in a way that's not possible with a hardware version."
"The technical support is very good."
"The configuration, graphical interface and command line are easy to use."
"The most valuable feature is geofencing, where we can block all access from all non-domestic locations."
"The standard features, including the filtering, are quite good. All the basic features are pretty useful for us."
"In the next release, I would like to see the interface simplified to be more user-friendly."
"Cisco Meraki products are rising very quickly in the cloud and the connected era. Meraki products offer much better ROI, upgradability, and manageability."
"There are some license issues. Not every feature must have a separate license. There must be some of kind synergy between the license so we don't have to pay for every individual license that we would like to have."
"I would suggest that Fortinet add sandboxing to their solution."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a stable solution. However, my issue is the performance only. When I use all the profiles, this affects the performance. From the beginning, I should have had a better sizing of the box."
"They should make the rule sets more understandable for the end user. When you're trying to explain to somebody how a computer network is secured, sometimes it's difficult for an end user or customer to understand. If there was a way to make the terminology more accessible to the end user, the set up could be easier. They should translate the technical jargon to an easily relatable and understandable conversation for the end user, the customer, that would be brilliant. Particularly in an environment where the IT structure is audited regularly, there's always pressure from the auditor to up the standards and up the security and you get your USCERT's that come out and there's a warning about this and the customer will want to lock out so much and when you apply it they run into issue where they can't search the internet or print to their remote office. Of course they can't print to your remote office, they just locked it up. They should make the language more understandable for the customer. If there's a product out there that made the jargon understandable to John Q. Public, I would buy that."
"There are some tiny bugs that sometimes affect the operations. In the past revision of it, there was a bug. Because of the bug, we had to downgrade the version. It happened only with the last revision."
"I think there could be more QoS features"
"The solution's support could use improvement."
"The security features need to be improved."
"Its management center should be easier to use. The management interface of Forcepoint is unique and a little bit different from some of the firewall solutions on which people might have worked before. Sometimes, the customers say that it is not very friendly, and we help them with how to use this management interface. It just takes a little bit of time, and after some time, it gets easy to manage or use. It is quite similar to Palo Alto, Fortinet, and legacy Juniper solutions. Their support should be faster. We have received complaints that they are not responding fast, which is not good for the vendor and us."
"While they offer a comprehensive bundled solution, some users may prefer on-premise deployments for certain features, such as URL filtering."
"The optimization is not really ready. If you want very good optimization, you have to add it to the network."
"They need to work on stability, it has not been the best in our experience."
"In larger companies with extensive infrastructure, retrieving logs for a longer period of time can sometimes take a bit longer than desired."
"The initial setup of the Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall has areas that are difficult."
"In the next release, we would like to see full integration with VMware NSX virtualized networks."
"The technical support is not very responsive and is an area that needs to be improved."
"The solution's web-filtering configuration could be better."
"The price is problematic."
"The product is satisfactory. I haven't identified any features to improve, and based on the number of deployments I've handled with FortiGate-VM, there haven't been any complaints from the customer's side."
"It has a monitoring tool, but it could be improved."
"The licensing needs to be improved. We need longer licensing periods, especially for POCs and trials. It should be for six months. Right now, it's too short of a timeframe."
"We have encountered certain issues with the bandwidth in respect of the security layer."
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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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