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 interface is very good."
"The wireless control is helpful."
"I like several features that this product has, such as antivirus and internet navigation inspection. It is also simple to use."
"It is useful for protecting and segregating the internal networks from the internet. Most of our customers also use the FortiGate client to connect to their offices by using the VPN client, and of course, they usually activate the antivirus, deep inspection, and intrusion prevention services. They are also using it for web filtering and implementing various policies dealing with forwardings, NAT, etc."
"Customers want to load balance more than eight lines or six internet lines. FortiGate is the only solution that can accomplish this."
"The security features that they have are quite good. On top of that, their licensing model is quite nice where they don't charge you anything for the SD-WAN functionality for the firewall."
"Advanced routing (RIP, OSPF, BGP, PBR). It gives you a seamless and simple integration into a large network."
"The initial setup of Fortinet FortiGate was straightforward."
"Forcepoint's stability is satisfactory, for the most part."
"They offer templates that provide detailed reports categorized by user, device, and internal network access."
"It provides decent protection for the LAN, especially in run mode."
"The most valuable feature is SD-WAN."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the support."
"Technical support has been quite helpful in the past."
"Next Generation Firewall's best feature is that it can be managed on one platform."
"One of the most valuable features is having the ability to cluster multiple firewalls even if they are different versions."
"The most valuable features are network security, VLAN, network protection, and encryption are very valuable to us."
"I find the simplicity to be most valuable."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate-VM are the ease of use, IPS system, application filter, web filtering, and email security. Additionally, there is a migration tool that other vendors do not provide. We only need to upload the configuration file to the tool, and it converts everything, except the passwords, and gives us the new configuration, which we can directly upload on the firewall. This migration process takes a maximum of 15 minutes."
"It is very useful to make lists for rules and prepare firewall rules."
"The EPM bundle is a good feature."
"The user interface is the most valuable aspect of the solution."
"We like FortiGate-VM's IPS features and its ability to create multiple virtual firewalls."
"Its technical support is excellent."
"Compared to some other products, the DLP is not at par for the moment."
"I don't like that anything more than very basic reporting is not included."
"The support is the main thing that needs to be improved."
"Fortinet FortiGate needs to improve the protection, it did not prevent us from being attacked. Additionally, Fortinet FortiGate could provide more features for WAF devices. I should not have to purchase two solutions, it would be a benefit to combine these features into one solution."
"The support costs and licensing are sometimes so expensive."
"I would like to have logs, monitoring, and reporting for a month without extra fees."
"The feature which gives us a lot of pain is ASIC architecture."
"The logs need to be better. They need to be more visible and easier to access."
"The company should update the URL filtering database. They need to enhance the URL filtering and make it easier to customize."
"Configuration is not easy because it has an old-fashioned interface. The configuration interface is highly complex, and it's been the same for years. They have to change the interface."
"The solution needs to build upon its network functionality. It needs to be a bit smarter."
"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."
"They need to improve their alerts."
"A VPN client feature is missing in our region, which we hope Forcepoint will address in future updates."
"Something that I've noticed that Forcepoint lacks, is the training that they offer to their end-customers"
"The endpoint protection capabilities of the product are an area of concern where improvements are required."
"If I could add one feature, it would be free security profiles."
"The price is sometimes very expensive."
"The user interface could be improved."
"The solution can improve by adding separate interfaces for proxy and flow-based usage."
"Improvements are needed for the responsive UI and JIT traffic reporting."
"The graphical user interface should be enhanced."
"The product's initial setup phase is a bit complex."
"The costs could be lowered."
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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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