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."FortiGate firewalls are user-friendly, and I like the security profiling features."
"Fortinet FortiGate has many valuable features, such as IDS, and intrusion detection. It has security features that are in part with the technologies that are available in the market."
"I have found Fortinet FortiGate to be scalable."
"The pricing is great and very reasonable."
"The application control features, such as Facebook blocking and Spotify blocking, are the most valuable."
"Fortinet FortiGate is stable. It's used across all the countries, this is the way most multinationals run their system."
"FortiGate's web and URL filtering are unlike any other firewall I've used. The functionality of URL filtering in those solutions is problematic because everything is encrypted, and firewalls can't break that encryption protocol. Fortinet has an SSL proxy, so the encryption is done before the packet ever leaves the FortiGate. The URL filter is definitely one of the most helpful features."
"The virtual firewall feature is the most valuable. We have around 1,500 firewalls. We did not buy individual hardware, and the virtual firewalls made sense because we don't have to keep on buying the hardware. FortiGate is easier to use as compared to Checkpoint devices. It is user friendly and has a good UI. You don't need much expertise to work on this firewall. You don't need to worry much about DCLA, commands, and things like that."
"Check Point's Quantum helps our clients in their overall cybersecurity practice."
"The Check Point appliances are considered NGFW devices and can process both the ASA and FTD requirements on a single instance, removing the requirement for an expansion SSD module and/or additional hardware."
"With the outstanding capabilities of Check Point, we managed to have stable site-to-site VPNs with all our partners and with every other vendor's devices."
"While not being cheap, their pricing models are competitive."
"The management of the firewall and advanced routing is great."
"The Check Point API let me make 100 net rules in just 10 minutes, which saved us time."
"The most valuable features for us are identity awareness, IDS and IPS, and application control."
"The Blades work fine and the performance optimization is great."
"It is a scalable product. I know a customer who has deployed more than 4,000 firewalls in a single deployment."
"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."
"One of the most valuable features is having the ability to cluster multiple firewalls even if they are different versions."
"It provides decent protection for the LAN, especially in run mode."
"The simplicity of the solution is its most valuable asset. It's very user-friendly."
"When comparing this solution to others this one has better reporting, user management, and is easy to use."
"Forcepoint's stability is satisfactory, for the most part."
"They offer templates that provide detailed reports categorized by user, device, and internal network access."
"Currently, FortiGate is providing SSL VPN. But they're missing some features that are available in Palo Alto's SSL VPN."
"Usually, we sell the bundle with the UTM or threat management piece with IPS, IDS. Other providers, such as Palo Alto, are ahead in terms of safe functionality. So, for me, delivering truly safe service is probably something that still needs to be improved."
"The solution lacks multi-language support."
"It needs to improve its ISP load balancing."
"I think that the infrastructure for the VPN could be improved. The way that it is bundled also made it difficult to use and sell as it is too expensive."
"The reports are very basic."
"The web-cache feature which was previously on the FortiGate device, but was deleted with the recent upgrade should be returned. It was a very valuable feature for us."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve the user interface. There should be more functionality and options through the GUI."
"I feel the only thing that I see as a possible improvement in Check Point software is the lack of ability to create "static discard routes" which makes it difficult for NAT ranges to be advertised via BGP to neighbors."
"The software licensing model is too complicated with all the various tiers of SKUs (i.e. per software blade). They need to simplify this for easier purchasing and renewing."
"Technical support could be improved."
"Check Point needs to work on hardware problems also."
"The predefined reports are few and it would be nice to increase them since the logs are excellent."
"I really want to see geo-blocking as a feature of NGFW."
"The tool’s architecture could be improved a bit."
"The pricing could be better."
"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."
"My team is looking for more throughput and better integration with our security framework."
"The ability to dynamically change policies could 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."
"Making this solution easier to use would be an improvement."
"I would like to see more sizing in the next release, and the roadmap should be clear."
"It's a complicated firewall. Until you come to know the firewall inducers, most people don't like the firewall because the components for the firewall are a little bit complex. User-friendliness is a little bit tough. It needs to be user-friendly when creating policies, and pushing policies. Committing takes more time compared to Palo Alto."
"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."
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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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