We performed a comparison between Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall and Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."This solution made it very easy to manage our bandwidth."
"Customers are more inclined towards FortiGate because of application control, web filtering, and anti-spam features. The support from the FortiGate team is good, and price-wise, it is affordable."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the APIs. They are the most widely known."
"The CLI and GUI do a good job of putting a lot at your fingertips."
"I like several features that this product has, such as antivirus and internet navigation inspection. It is also simple to use."
"The most valuable feature is the VDOM, which allows the customer to have multiple firewalls in a single campus."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a scalable solution."
"We use a lot of function on the IPS and it works well for us."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the support."
"When comparing this solution to others this one has better reporting, user management, and is easy to use."
"One of the most valuable features is having the ability to cluster multiple firewalls even if they are different versions."
"The initial setup is very easy."
"The Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is a scalable product."
"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."
"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 most valuable feature is the console management."
"The most valuable features are that it's user-friendly, has interesting features, URL filtering, and threat prevention."
"The most valuable features are the simplicity, transparency, and overall ease of management."
"It's very easy to use and configure. What is nice about Palo Alto is that even if you don't understand how to use it, you can just click on upload and upload everything that needs to be blocked."
"The most valuable feature of Palo Alto Threat Prevention for our company is the next generation firewall."
"I like the solution's interface."
"One of the most valuable features is the anti-malware protection."
"I find the malware protection very handy."
"Everything has been okay with the solution. We are using all of the features."
"It needs more available central management."
"Fortinet FortiGate needs to improve the logging and reporting. Additionally, the next-generation application's policies should be improved. When they were released they had bugs."
"NGN, reporting and controls."
"The updates Fortinet provides are sometimes unstable."
"I would like to see a more intuitive dashboard."
"It should provide better visibility over the network and more information in the form of reports for the end users. Its installation should also be easier."
"One area for improvement is the performance on the bandwidth demands for smaller devices, as well as better web filtering."
"Fortigate's hardware capacities could be improved."
"The security features need to be improved."
"We feel the product's technical support could be better, as this relates to the solution itself, to the installation of the product, and to having a proper understanding of the case."
"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."
"The solution needs to build upon its network functionality. It needs to be a bit smarter."
"They need to work on stability, it has not been the best in our experience."
"Forcepoint is a little difficult to configure compared to its competitors."
"The optimization is not really ready. If you want very good optimization, you have to add it to the network."
"Forcepoint would be improved if there were more training available."
"It's not so easy to set up a test environment, because it's not so easy to get the test license. The vendor only gives you 90 days for a test license; it's a tough license to get."
"Mission learning techniques should continue to expand and detect unknown threats on the fly."
"The cost involves the price of the hardware, which is expensive. However, most of the Palo Alto solutions are expensive."
"We are attempting to improve the use of URL filtering beyond threat protection."
"The solution needs to improve its local technical support services. There is no premium support offered in our market."
"The application’s pricing and dashboard need improvement. It could be user-friendly."
"The documentation needs to be improved. I need better information about how to configure it and what the best practices are."
"I think they can use some improvement on FID."
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Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is ranked 25th in Firewalls with 41 reviews while Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention is ranked 7th in Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS) with 24 reviews. Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is rated 7.6, while Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention is rated 8.8. 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 Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention writes "A good amount of granularity and advanced URL filtering capabilities". Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is most compared with Check Point NGFW, Sophos XG, Netgate pfSense, Cisco Secure Firewall and Darktrace, whereas Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention is most compared with Check Point IPS, Fortinet FortiGate IPS, Arista NDR, Trend Micro TippingPoint Threat Protection System and Darktrace.
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