We performed a comparison between Check Point NGFW and Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall 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."Their interface is very easy to use, it is without bugs."
"FortiGate improved our security. It's one of the best hardware firewalls."
"Customers are more inclined towards FortiGate because of application control, web filtering, and anti-spam features. The support from the FortiGate team is good, and price-wise, it is affordable."
"This solution made it very easy to manage our bandwidth."
"It enables our organization to become more productive. Also, it protects our NEtWare from viruses and malware."
"It's very good and very stable for businesses. It works very well."
"The features that I have found most valuable are that it is good to use, and most importantly, the pricing. The customer especially likes the discount when they trade up or something like that."
"The solution can scale well."
"Everything is easily managed through their Smart Console dashboard. It's a very easy-to-understand dashboard that provides a detailed view."
"It secures my organization. With the application blade, I can make security as application based and the custom application is also very useful. With identity awareness blades we get insights on our local users who are accessing/passing through the respective rule as users. We also use the DLP, IPS, and VPN features."
"The most valuable feature is that we are protected against zero-day threats."
"Check Point has a lot of features. The ones I love are the antivirus, intrusion prevention, and data loss prevention. Apart from that, there is central management through which we can integrate all the firewalls and support them. It makes it easy to manage all the firewalls."
"In R80.10 and above, you can view logs in SmartConsole. You don't have to open another smart tracker to view logs. That is the improvement Check Point has done which makes it better because it is much easier to find logs. This saves time, approximately 40 to 50 a day in one shift."
"Its auditing features are good for checking who did what changes and when."
"By far, it's the best security solution one can adopt for their organization."
"One of the benefits that we have realized from using this product is that the user interface makes it easier to operate, compared to using the CLI."
"Next Generation Firewall's best feature is that it can be managed on one platform."
"Forcepoint's stability is satisfactory, for the most part."
"The Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is a scalable product."
"I don't have anything bad to say about the product. I absolutely love it."
"The blocking, based on the signal provided, is the solution's most valuable aspect."
"The solution offers sandboxing, which can be integrated at any time."
"They offer templates that provide detailed reports categorized by user, device, and internal network access."
"We like the scalability of Forcepoint because with the Forcepoint NGFW solution, we can scale anything. The solution has central management, so we can manage all the branches and devices centrally in one controller."
"I would like to see improvements in the product's application rules."
"It should have a better pricing plan. It is too expensive. It should also have a more granular view of the attack. I don't have FortiAnalyzer, and it is difficult for me to have a complete view when there is an attack on my server."
"The reports are very basic."
"They need faster serviceability and more security features."
"The routing capability on the FortiGate devices has room for improvement."
"The setup is pretty complex and not easy to implement."
"When we cluster the two Fortinet FortiGate boxes together we have some issues."
"I would like to see a more intuitive dashboard."
"No product is perfect and there is always room for improvement."
"All the advanced features of automation, especially the first installation of tunnels, need improvement."
"The solution could improve by keeping more up-to-date with technology. For example, if Amazon releases something in the security field, Check Point should have integration or adoption of this feature a bit faster than it is today. Sometimes we can hear a lot of the marketing information about an attractive feature, which we would like to have, but the feature will be released in two years. This timeframe should decrease."
"In our particular case, we have different web applications developed by the same organization, however, that requires a specialized protection element such as a WAF. Having this service or feature within the same solution would be very valuable."
"It would be nice to add more features to the WatchTower app to be able to perform certain administrative functions without the need for local access."
"There is a strong demand for security services that can be effortlessly integrated which would ensure that security measures can seamlessly adapt to the cloud infrastructure."
"In terms of what could be improved, I would say the application control and the visibility. I'd like granularity where you can have all the levels of policies that are defined, including the intel threat. It depends on what kind of intel threat the company has."
"For the next release, we would like to have better ruleset cleanup tools that are already included."
"They should have a local vendor who can provide support. Most of the support is overseas, so the time zones can be a problem."
"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."
"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."
"The optimization is not really ready. If you want very good optimization, you have to add it to the network."
"They need to increase the local support here. There are also some bugs or fixes on which they need to work. They very well know about these bugs. In terms of licensing, I would like them to either increase the number of features in a single license or make licensing more flexible."
"The solution needs to add an antivirus profile and anti-spyware profile, not just policies and VPN."
"A VPN client feature is missing in our region, which we hope Forcepoint will address in future updates."
"If I want to allow access to Facebook, yet not allow the user to access videos, then I am not able to do it with this product."
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Check Point NGFW is ranked 5th in Firewalls with 279 reviews while Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is ranked 25th in Firewalls with 41 reviews. Check Point NGFW is rated 8.8, while Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Check Point NGFW writes "Good antivirus protection and URL filtering with very good user identification capabilities". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall writes "Provides decent protection for the LAN but complicated interface". Check Point NGFW is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense and Sophos XGS, whereas Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is most compared with Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention, Cisco Secure Firewall, Sophos XG, Netgate pfSense and Darktrace. See our Check Point NGFW vs. Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall report.
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