We performed a comparison between Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall and WatchGuard Firebox 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 most valuable features are simplicity, management, and that it's constantly evolving."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is URL filtering."
"The most valuable features are that it is very simple to configure and to manage."
"Web filtering and two-factor authentication are great features."
"Whenever I need something, Fortinet improves and updates the software for me."
"The VPN is the most valuable feature."
"The UTM feature is quite good. FortiAP is easy to deploy because both Fortigate and FortiAP are under the same brand. Otherwise, you need to do more work on the configuration."
"The solution is scalable."
"Forcepoint's stability is satisfactory, for the most part."
"Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is very simple, easy to use, and flexible."
"I don't have anything bad to say about the product. I absolutely love it."
"I like the IPS. IPS is the master feature. I depend on the firewall and sandbox."
"One of the most valuable features is having the ability to cluster multiple firewalls even if they are different versions."
"Forcepoint is a complete package because it has network and systems applications. Other firewalls are only for the network."
"The support is great. They also have very good categorization. It's very good. It captures a lot of threats."
"The solution offers sandboxing, which can be integrated at any time."
"It is a scalable solution."
"The set up was quite straightforward and we handled it in-house. It took a few hours to deploy the product."
"Two of the functionalities we use most are the traffic monitoring and the full panel dashboard. Those are two things that are very useful for us... In addition, it provides us with layered security. It allows us to determine what types of access, to which networks, we want to allow or deny."
"The most valuable features are the VPN and web blocker security."
"WatchGuard has a very easy VPN and branch office VPN setup, so we use those pretty extensively."
"Because we bought two firewalls... we need a central place to manage the policies and deploy them to both devices. It's good that it provides a system management console that is able to manipulate and manage policies in one place and deploy them to different locations."
"There are many fantastic features."
"Firebox's best feature is the access portal."
"At first glance, the interface for the device is very confusing."
"The security of Fortinet FortiGate could improve."
"The inability to scale the FortiAnalyzer to match our growth necessitates the purchase of new hardware."
"It claims it does DLP, but the degree and level of controls are very basic."
"One area for improvement is the performance on the bandwidth demands for smaller devices, as well as better web filtering."
"The support system could be improved."
"The central management for the FortiGate Fortinet Firewall needs improvement. They have the manager to do the essential management for both SD-WAN and for the security policy. They should also improve the SD-WAN function."
"It could use more templates for third-party site-to-site VPN setups other than FortiGate and Cisco."
"They need to improve their alerts."
"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."
"The network interface could be better, and it could be cheaper."
"My team is looking for more throughput and better integration with our security framework."
"The security features need to be improved."
"You do need knowledge of the solution in order to set the product up properly."
"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."
"Its interface is complex when compared with a firewall like FortiGate. Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall needs a management console, whereas FortiGate doesn't need any console. When you have a few devices, a console is not really necessary. It's good to have a private console only when you have a lot of devices."
"We use WatchGuard to manage our failover for internet. If a primary internet goes down, it does a failover to the secondary the internet. However, what it doesn't do so well is that if the primary internet has a lot of latency but it's not completely down, it doesn't do a failover to the backup in a timely manner."
"It would be wonderful if the WatchGuard team develops nice products for threat intelligence."
"We would like to see granular notification settings and more advanced filtering in traffic monitoring."
"In WatchGuard Firebox, the antivirus and malware detection systems are areas with shortcomings that require improvement since they are the most important elements of a cybersecurity tool."
"If they could make the traffic monitoring easier that would be great. I don't use it that frequently, but I would like to see some improvements in the ease of use of that component, so it makes more sense. I know it's a technical component so there's going to be some difficulty trying to make that easier."
"One other shortcoming is that there is no backup for it. We really haven't figured out how we might solve that problem. We may want to put a duplicate in... With WatchGuard, we just have the one box. If that were to fail, we'd probably be really hurting."
"The next release should have better software and configuration systems that can also be used on Linux."
"I would like to see more simplified management of the firewall... It's a complicated system to use."
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Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is ranked 25th in Firewalls with 41 reviews while WatchGuard Firebox is ranked 13th in Firewalls with 79 reviews. Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is rated 7.6, while WatchGuard Firebox 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 WatchGuard Firebox writes "Offers a streamlined deployment, intuitive interface and robust security features". 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 WatchGuard Firebox is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, SonicWall TZ and Meraki MX. See our Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall vs. WatchGuard Firebox report.
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