We performed a comparison between Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall and Trend Micro Deep Discovery based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."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."
"The most valuable feature is the bundled subscription, which is IPS, TV and web filtering."
"Its administrative panel is very intuitive and simple. It is simpler than the other solutions that we had. As an administrator, we are always looking for the easiest solution to manage network policies. We are able to filter everything on our network and also use the VPN feature, which is important these days when people are working remotely during COVID."
"Fortigate represents a really scalable way of delivering perimeter network security, some level of layer 7 security, WAF, and also a way to create a meshed ADVPN solution."
"It increases security posture and is helpful for firewall reporting, intrusion protection, web filtering, and SD-WAN implementation."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a security device. It can optimize security on the networks of a company. It actually protects the company from attacks from outside. With FortiGate, you can categorize the users. You can create a group of users that can access all of the websites for their work. You can limit other users' access."
"The most valuable features are the enterprise modeling and the simple interface."
"The wireless control is helpful."
"The most valuable feature is the console management."
"I found the initial setup process to be very simple and straightforward."
"It is a scalable solution."
"When our customer needs some optimization, along with performance and security. If they want everything in one package, I recommend Forcepoint because they have everything."
"The support is great. They also have very good categorization. It's very good. It captures a lot of threats."
"When comparing this solution to others this one has better reporting, user management, and is easy to use."
"The most valuable feature is SD-WAN."
"It is a stable solution, and there are no issues so far."
"The most valuable feature of Trend Micro Deep Discovery is its complete end-to-end visibility of threats."
"Deep Discovery is scalable and compatible with other products. It's crucial to have that compatibility because it's an integral part of our security solution. It integrates smoothly. The interface is user-friendly, so administration is simple."
"The most valuable feature is that the user can customize images of virtual machines in the sandbox functionality. The other vendors only use images that were created by the vendor but not the customer, end-user or partner. This helps to detect advanced threats and attacks."
"The product is very easy to install."
"The performance and stability are great."
"The solution has extension-based features that help it to analyze the environment. The environment can have different platforms like Windows, Linux, and Mac. The tool will give a report which can confirm the analysis of the issues. You can also get clear information on threats or suspicious files."
"There is no downtime or server vulnerability with this solution."
"The HTML file sandboxing is very good."
"The graphical user interface of Fortinet's FortiGate product does not function well with text-based interfaces."
"It could use better throughput on some of the smaller boxes for the branch offices."
"You do need some IT knowledge in order to effectively work with the solution."
"I would like to see better pricing in the next release, as well as a simplification of the installation."
"Its reporting capabilities can be improved. It should have some out-of-the-box reporting capabilities and some degree of customization. The basic reporting that it currently has is not sufficient to create more usable reports. It needs some sort of out-of-the-box reporting. They try to make customers purchase FortiAnalyzer for this kind of reporting, which is an additional cost. Other firewall vendors, such as SonicWall and Sophos, provide this sort of reporting without any additional cost."
"Cisco Meraki products are rising very quickly in the cloud and the connected era. Meraki products offer much better ROI, upgradability, and manageability."
"To the best of my knowledge, Fortinet does not have a CASB solution and Fortinet does not have a Zero trust solution."
"Fortinet needs to overhaul its documentation."
"The interface is complicated. It's difficult to locate all the necessary menus and functions."
"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."
"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."
"The security features need to be improved."
"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."
"They should provide more details on potential cyber threats."
"The ability to dynamically change policies could be improved."
"Forcepoint is a little difficult to configure compared to its competitors."
"The stability of the solution could be improved. It should be 100% stable, but it's not there right now."
"The scalability is sometimes limited."
"The product's scalability feature needs to be improved, as it is an area in the product with certain shortcomings."
"Trend Micro Deep Discovery is a very expensive solution, making it very hard to sell."
"The solution needs to be able to integrate better with third-party infrastructure."
"The solution should support multiple platforms in Windows, Linux, and Mac. Customers can have different software types. The virtual environment should be able to install and analyze them. The tool also gives only a minimum level of extension support. It may not be able to extract files and give details about them. I would also like to see third-party product integration in the tool. The solution's current integration is only with Trend Micro products only."
"I would like to see integration with third-party tools to improve the visibility of the dashboards."
"Trend Micro can improve the pricing in general. There is nothing else they can add or improve in the solution."
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Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is ranked 25th in Firewalls with 40 reviews while Trend Micro Deep Discovery is ranked 6th in Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS) with 23 reviews. Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is rated 7.6, while Trend Micro Deep Discovery 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 Trend Micro Deep Discovery writes "Good threat detection capabilities and offers flexibility for hosting options". 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 Trend Micro Deep Discovery is most compared with Darktrace, Trend Micro TippingPoint Threat Protection System, Arista NDR, Vectra AI and Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention.
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