We performed a comparison between Check Point NGFW and Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall 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 multi-tenancy feature is most valuable. It integrates very well with FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer."
"The product is easy to use and is stable. The SV1 functionality is a benefit."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is security. They are known for efficiency and are on the top of Gartner Quadrant reviews. Fortinet FortiGate has an easy-to-use platform with a good graphical interface. The configuration is simple and the solution provides an overall good layer of security."
"This version is stable. I don't have any issues with this solution, in our environment, it works well."
"Good performance, stability, and virtual domain ability."
"Whenever I need something, Fortinet improves and updates the software for me."
"Fortinet FortiGate's ease of management is the most valuable feature."
"The most important features with FortiGate are the web filter and application controls. We can control our internet usage and use the web filter for application purposes."
"The features that are important include: IPS, sandbox, SandBlast, Anti-Bot, and URL filtering."
"Objects search and tracker logs are useful."
"Apart from it having very good features, I personally like the vulnerability assistance via report management which detects host and network vulnerability."
"It's enabled us to move away from basic LAN to LAN segmentation to a more powerful user separation approach."
"There is a lot of legacy traffic from other vendors that has been migrated to Check Point which has resulted in a lot of stability in our environment."
"The most valuable feature is the central management system through the Security Management Server. Apart from that, the graphical user interface helps us to do things easily."
"Its usability is the best for me. As compared to Palo Alto, Juniper, or Cisco firewalls, Check Point firewall has the best user interface for management, reading logs, looking for some objects, and looking for policies."
"The way in which a computer is immediately isolated if it starts behaving badly and I get a notification of an infected computer is also extremely nice and a great feature."
"Technical support has been quite helpful in the past."
"The VPN is great."
"We find the product to be stable and reliable in terms of performance."
"One of the most valuable features is having the ability to cluster multiple firewalls even if they are different versions."
"It is a scalable product. I know a customer who has deployed more than 4,000 firewalls in a single deployment."
"I have two offices, and I can route the internet of both offices using the same product. The connectivity is great."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the support."
"The Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is a scalable product."
"I think they need to improve more in order to be a competitor with the leaders of the field."
"The stability could be a bit better."
"It needs more available central management."
"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 would prefer to have more detailed logs within the FortiGate products themselves rather than relying on a separate tool."
"I have to say that the initial setup was complex. The deployment took a few days to get set up. Initially, we were using an IPVanish. We switched to this tool since we thought it would be easier. But it turns out it wasn't easier to set up and run."
"There are just some services that aren't available. For example, the Ethernet or point-to-point protocols. They could add these services to their product offering - especially services for ISPs."
"Fortinet needs more memory to save the log files. We need it to save the logs on the hardware and not in the cloud. I know this feature is available in FortiCloud, but if we need this log locally, it is not available."
"Our SAM rule is also not working to block the IP address which we don't allow in our organization so we have to create a traditional rule base block which is a time-consuming job for me and my team."
"It could be easier to manage the licenses on blades and contracts."
"The technical support is really poor. We have to wait for approximately 48 hours sometimes for a simple solution."
"The smart consoles could be improved."
"For the next release, we would like to have better ruleset cleanup tools that are already included."
"It would be best if the security management server console access is simpler for ease of management."
"One thing to improve is the VSX gateway. It is quite complex to work with VSX and they are quite easy to break if you aren't familiar with them."
"It is a bit expensive according to the required blades but it is a platform that is worth having as security in a corporate."
"You do need knowledge of the solution in order to set the product up properly."
"The solution's support could use improvement."
"The company should update the URL filtering database. They need to enhance the URL filtering and make it easier to customize."
"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."
"Next Generation Firewall's configuration could be improved."
"They need to increase the local support here. There are also some bugs or fixes on which they need to work. They very well know about these bugs. In terms of licensing, I would like them to either increase the number of features in a single license or make licensing more flexible."
"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."
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Check Point NGFW is ranked 5th in Firewalls with 279 reviews while Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is ranked 25th in Firewalls with 41 reviews. Check Point NGFW is rated 8.8, while Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Check Point NGFW writes "Good antivirus protection and URL filtering with very good user identification capabilities". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall writes "Provides decent protection for the LAN but complicated interface". Check Point NGFW is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense and Sophos XGS, whereas Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is most compared with Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention, Sophos XG, Netgate pfSense, Cisco Secure Firewall and Darktrace. See our Check Point NGFW vs. Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall report.
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