We performed a comparison between Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall and Sophos XG 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."Security management tool that's easy to integrate and easy to work with. No issues found with its stability and scalability."
"The most valuable feature is the VDOM, which allows the customer to have multiple firewalls in a single campus."
"It's very fast and easy to configure."
"The solution is very, very easy to use."
"Fortinet FortiGate's ease of management is the most valuable feature."
"Centralized monitoring, policy management, and virtualized appliances allow us to take control over our public and private infrastructure."
"The user interface is relatively easy. The devices are easy to deploy and figure out when you have experience with other security appliances."
"User-friendly and affordable security solution that's recommended for SMB customers. This solution has good technical support."
"The initial setup is very easy."
"When comparing this solution to others this one has better reporting, user management, and is easy to use."
"They offer templates that provide detailed reports categorized by user, device, and internal network access."
"The product's initial setup phase is easy."
"We find the product to be stable and reliable in terms of performance."
"The Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is a scalable product."
"The people we deal with is a local partner in Cambodia and we can get good support from them."
"The simplicity of the solution is its most valuable asset. It's very user-friendly."
"The solution is very easy to use and straightforward."
"We created and configured a VPN for connecting our remote sites and also to make it more secure and reliable. We also like its two-factor authentication features."
"The stability has been excellent."
"The most valuable feature is the central dashboard"
"I like the fact that it can self remove malware and do updates on the cloud via Sophos Central."
"Sophos XG is easy to use."
"The most valuable feature is the Intercept X. It is the advanced features that are used for malware detection, and antivirus."
"I like the dashboard, the interface, the management console, and the remote login."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by adding enhancements to FortiMail, FortiSOAR, and FortiDeceptor."
"Lacks training for new features."
"To some degree, it's almost a question as to why some of this stuff isn't simpler. For example, for an AP deployment, while it's integrated, the number of steps that you have to go through in order to get the AP up, seems like a lot."
"Tunnel flapping was one of the major things I had seen wherein your internet link remains but your VPN tunnel is down. However, since I got a fix from the TAC team, I have not noticed it, but the customer complained a few times that they couldn't access the internet because of this problem."
"I would like reporting to be improved and should offer a lot more tools to monitor the products."
"Bandwidth usage in reporting could be improved for Fortinet FortiGate."
"There are some problems that support cannot give you a logical reason as to why it happened. For example, I had a case where I was dealing with a WhatsApp application that was giving issues. Technical support gave more than one reason it could be giving issues, but none of them solved the problem. Eventually I solved the problem, but it was far from the solutions that support had given."
"The price of FortiGate should be reduced because there are some other leading products that are cheaper."
"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."
"Management could be better. They can improve the management. I think all our customers can't accept firewalls that have standalone management. So, they prefer Fortinet or Palo Alto. But overall, inspection and other features are working fine."
"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."
"They should provide more details on potential cyber threats."
"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."
"They should have a local vendor who can provide support. Most of the support is overseas, so the time zones can be a problem."
"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."
"In larger companies with extensive infrastructure, retrieving logs for a longer period of time can sometimes take a bit longer than desired."
"The program is rather expensive."
"Scalability could be improved. It could be better."
"The two main areas where this product needs improvement are routing and reporting."
"Data traffic analysis could be better. I think Fortinet products like FortiAnalyzer are very effective in analyzing data traffic. I think it's better than Sophos. It could also be more stable."
"The UTM itself needs improvement. When you're navigating it seems like it takes forever to load anything. The hardware is okay. It's just the software that could be more responsive."
"In the product, the area revolving around SD-WAN has certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"Inability to investigate incidents, there is no tracking."
"I would like to have remote access to clients using a static IP for a certain period of time."
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Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is ranked 25th in Firewalls with 41 reviews while Sophos XG is ranked 6th in Firewalls with 192 reviews. Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is rated 7.6, while Sophos XG is rated 8.2. 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 Sophos XG writes "Easy to use and deploy with an improved pricing structure in place". Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is most compared with Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention, Check Point NGFW, Netgate pfSense, Cisco Secure Firewall and Darktrace, whereas Sophos XG is most compared with Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Sophos XGS, SonicWall TZ and Sophos UTM. See our Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall vs. Sophos XG report.
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