We performed a comparison between Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall and Rapid7 InsightIDR based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."This product is definitely scalable."
"Web filtering and two-factor authentication are great features."
"The features that we have found most valuable are the SSL VPN and the User Portal."
"Our security improved from being able to put in rules and close off unwanted traffic."
"The most valuable feature is the interface, which is very user friendly. We are utilizing most of the features, like content filtering. The firewall is powerful."
"The multi-tenancy feature is most valuable. It integrates very well with FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer."
"It has improved our organization with control data."
"It does a lot for you for intrusion protection and as an antivirus. The threat management bundle is worth the money. You don't need another company to monitor your web traffic for you. You can do everything yourself on the firewall. You restrict your own black list for people on the firewall. You don't need to pay some other company for another product to do that for you. The firewall can do that for you. So, it's an easy-to-use product for people to be independent. They don't need to rely on other vendors to do what the firewall can do. They can do everything."
"The initial setup is very easy."
"The blocking, based on the signal provided, is the solution's most valuable aspect."
"The most valuable feature is the console management."
"It provides decent protection for the LAN, especially in run mode."
"One of the most valuable features is having the ability to cluster multiple firewalls even if they are different versions."
"They offer templates that provide detailed reports categorized by user, device, and internal network access."
"The most valuable feature is controlling the traffic and the logging. They have real-time logins for traffic logs. Troubleshooting was very easy for me."
"I like the IPS. IPS is the master feature. I depend on the firewall and sandbox."
"Rapid7's reporting is more robust than Tenable's."
"During simulations or demonstrations, the tool generates alerts, providing details such as the specific application, its origin, and potential threats. For instance, it can identify if an application belongs to a known ransomware group. The system rates the threat, offering a clear detection ratio, such as 97 out of 100. It not only identifies threats but also illustrates the associated behaviors, helping us understand the potential risk to a particular endpoint."
"I like the tool's user analysis feature."
"I like that it's a cloud-based solution."
"The solution's initial setup is easy."
"I rate Rapid7 nine out of 10 for affordability"
"Log search allows us to dive deep into aggregated logs and query all event types at once."
"InsightIDR’s ability to process millions of transactions per day, and to notify me of the most critical ones, is priceless. InsightIDR has the alerts tuned, and has the ability to quickly drill down to determine the threat level."
"From a reporting perspective, there's room for improvement. They're providing FortiAnalyzer through which one can get some enhancements, but the visibility and reporting still need slight improvement."
"The support from Fortinet FortiGate could improve. They are not easily accessible when we need them. They could improve their response time."
"One issue that I have had is that sometimes I need to monitor the traffic, so I need to filter it according to the user and which user is using it the most. I experience a bottleneck most of the time, particularly at the peak time when the number of contracts and users are at maximum."
"Some features of Fortinet FortiGate are actually fee enabled that are inconvenient for deploying in production. Other issues relate to isolation with Cisco products and your server."
"In the next release, I would like to see the interface simplified to be more user-friendly."
"With the reports, you can see it, and you can get good feelings so upper management can go, "Oh, wow. That looks pretty." However, it's very basic."
"I feel that the reporting needs to be improved."
"I would prefer to have more detailed logs within the FortiGate products themselves rather than relying on a separate tool."
"The company should update the URL filtering database. They need to enhance the URL filtering and make it easier to customize."
"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."
"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 optimization is not really ready. If you want very good optimization, you have to add it to the network."
"You do need knowledge of the solution in order to set the product up properly."
"Something that I've noticed that Forcepoint lacks, is the training that they offer to their end-customers"
"They need to improve their alerts."
"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."
"The reporting is the weakest aspect. There needs to be multi-level grouping for events (for example, group by user and destination). Right now, we can do a group by user and a separate table or group by destination. But I'd be more interested in where a person was logging into instead of who was logging in or where he was logging in."
"Inability to get access to compliance reports within the solution."
"The ability to tune the collector for custom logs would greatly help."
"Needs a better ability to customize the check within the console."
"Rapid7 doesn't integrate well with all our security tools from various vendors, so we plan to switch. Many of our solutions work with Rapid7, but some do not. We are already searching for a replacement already."
"Lacks a mobile application."
"The solution needs improvement in threat intelligence. Increasing the depth of intelligence to help users understand more about threats is a possibility. My suggestion is to expand access to other websites or resources."
"InsightIDR's integration with other solutions could be improved. Also, I'd like more control from the portal over what's happening on the endpoint side. For example, when I see an attack on an endpoint, I want to be able to stop it from the portal."
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Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is ranked 25th in Firewalls with 40 reviews while Rapid7 InsightIDR is ranked 10th in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 29 reviews. Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is rated 7.6, while Rapid7 InsightIDR 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 Rapid7 InsightIDR writes "An affordable product that is easy to use and has many advanced features and default templates". Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is most compared with Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention, Check Point NGFW, Cisco Secure Firewall, Sophos XG and Netgate pfSense, whereas Rapid7 InsightIDR is most compared with Darktrace, Microsoft Sentinel, Splunk Enterprise Security, Rapid7 InsightVM and IBM Security QRadar.
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