We performed a comparison between Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway and Quad9 based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Internet Security solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Most valuable features are content filtering and monitoring."
"I like the product's scalability and stability."
"Ease of updating the latest hotfixes and patches on the appliance."
"The critical role is web URL filtering."
"The tool categorizes the user profiles which is very comfortable."
"The policies are category-based, so knowledge of another content URL is not compulsory."
"Secure Web Gateway's most valuable features are firewall blocking and anti-malware scanning."
"For the most part, the solution, when set up correctly, works fine."
"The most valuable feature of Quad9 is that it is a free solution."
"Setting up Quad9 is straightforward if you know what you're doing, and it's easy to use overall."
"Ease of use could be improved."
"The initial setup can be complex."
"The deployment is a bit complex and it requires expertise to deploy, which is something that should be improved and made easier to do."
"It has a problem with tablets and the iPhone. It's not filtering on these platforms. It filters on Windows but not iOS or Android."
"Reports in the sand-boxing, ease of deployment of sensors to ready to go server with one click of a button."
"What's missing in Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway is a specific level of micro-control on protocols or devices, for example, where you can control a particular user or user device."
"The Sandbox solution should be integrated with the NIST to handle whatever new vulnerabilities or new sites are identified as potential threats."
"The performance issues in the product are an area of concern where improvements are required."
"Quad9 could improve by having more free features, such as custom DNS filtering."
"It used to work fine for all the devices, but it started to slow and become non-responsive. I would have to reload the page two or three times before all the pages loaded. With OpenDNS, I only need to load the page once."
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Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway is ranked 4th in Internet Security with 47 reviews while Quad9 is ranked 11th in Internet Security with 2 reviews. Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway is rated 7.8, while Quad9 is rated 6.0. The top reviewer of Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway writes "Simple to set up, reliable, and offers great reporting". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Quad9 writes "It's easy to use and set up, but I've faced performance problems ". Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway is most compared with Zscaler Internet Access, Cisco Umbrella, Symantec Proxy, Fortinet FortiProxy and Fortinet FortiGate SWG, whereas Quad9 is most compared with Cloudflare DNS, Google Cloud DNS, Cisco Umbrella, Verisign Public DNS and Neustar UltraDNS. See our Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway vs. Quad9 report.
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