We performed a comparison between Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall and Splunk User Behavior Analytics based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."There are lots of features and most of them are deployed for internet security. Users are protected if they accidentally go to some malicious sites."
"Our security improved from being able to put in rules and close off unwanted traffic."
"I have found Fortinet FortiGate to be scalable."
"The IPS is good. It protect my network from attackers."
"I like Fortinet's cloud management. It allows me to manage all my devices in different branches for three cloud accounts. Even though I use on-prem devices, I can manage everything on the cloud."
"It is a one box solution, which covers most of the edge device’s requirements."
"Easy to use support and licensing portal as well as activation process."
"The stability of the solution is excellent, as it is with other Fortinet products."
"I like the IPS. IPS is the master feature. I depend on the firewall and sandbox."
"It provides decent protection for the LAN, especially in run mode."
"The blocking, based on the signal provided, is the solution's most valuable aspect."
"The simplicity of the solution is its most valuable asset. It's very user-friendly."
"It is a scalable product. I know a customer who has deployed more than 4,000 firewalls in a single deployment."
"The product's initial setup phase is easy."
"Forcepoint is a complete package because it has network and systems applications. Other firewalls are only for the network."
"The most valuable feature is the console management."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to search through a large amount of data."
"The most valuable features are its data aggregation and the ability to automatically identify a number of threats, then suggest recommended actions upon them."
"This intelligent user behavior analytics package is easy to configure and use while remaining feature filled."
"We are really pleased with Splunk and its features. It would be practically impossible to function without it. To provide a general overview of the system, it's important to note that the standard log files are currently around 250 gigabytes per day. It would be impossible to manually walk through these logs by hand, which is why automation is essential."
"It's easily scalable."
"The solution appears to be stable, although we haven't used it heavily."
"The product is at the forefront of auto-remediation networking. It's great."
"Because of some of the visualizations that we utilize, we are able to understand strange, unusual traffic on our networks."
"It can be a little bit more user-friendly in terms of policy definition and implementation. It seems a little bit complicated, and it could be simplified."
"There are SD-WAN network monitoring, SD-WAN features, Industrial Databases, Internet of Things, Detection, etc., however, we do have not licenses for those features. We thought that if you bought a product, you should have all of the features it offers. Why should you need to make so many extra purchases to enable features? They should have one price for the entire offering."
"Fortinet FortiGate is not very easy to use. The navigation could be improved to make it easier to use."
"NGN, reporting and controls."
"My only complaint about FortiGate is a lack of QinQ VLAN tunneling. I haven't found this feature in any Fortinet product. You can do this on all Cisco routers, including the smaller models. However, QinQ isn't available on the biggest, most expensive Fortinet units. They still don't have that. I think now we're on software version 6.0, and they still haven't found a solution for QinQ. It isn't a dealbreaker, but that's my main complaint."
"The stability of Fortinet FortiGate could improve."
"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."
"FortiGate should have a better way of detecting and managing the system memory because otherwise if the memory is too low, a system restart is required."
"The optimization is not really ready. If you want very good optimization, you have to add it to the network."
"While they offer a comprehensive bundled solution, some users may prefer on-premise deployments for certain features, such as URL filtering."
"The network interface could be better, and it could be cheaper."
"They need to work on stability, it has not been the best in our experience."
"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."
"They need to improve their alerts."
"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."
"The endpoint protection capabilities of the product are an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The initial setup was complex because some of the configurations that we required needed customization."
"The price of Splunk UBA is too high."
"I would like improved downward integration with other tools such as McAfee and other GCP solutions."
"We'd like the ability to do custom searches."
"In the future I would like to see simplified statistics and analytical threats."
"It could be easier to scale the solution if you are using it on-premise, not in the cloud."
"Currently, a lot of network operations need improvement. We still need people to handle incidents. Our vision is to leverage status and convert it directly from the network devices. It would be ideal if we could take action using APIs and API code and remove manual processes."
"The ability to do more complicated data investigation would be a welcome addition for pros, though the functionality now gives most people what they need."
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Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is ranked 25th in Firewalls with 40 reviews while Splunk User Behavior Analytics is ranked 2nd in User Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) with 17 reviews. Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is rated 7.6, while Splunk User Behavior Analytics 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 Splunk User Behavior Analytics writes "Easy to configure and easy to use solution that integrates with many applications and scripts ". 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 Splunk User Behavior Analytics is most compared with Darktrace, Microsoft Defender for Identity, IBM Security QRadar, Cynet and Varonis Datalert.
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