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."The most important features with FortiGate are the web filter and application controls. We can control our internet usage and use the web filter for application purposes."
"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."
"We use a southern institution that's audited for IT security and the reporting that automatically comes off the unit makes it much easier to meet compliance standards and makes it easier as far as the amount of time that has to be spent to compile that information. If you get your reporting set up correctly when you initially set it up, you just select the one you want and hit print. The auditing trail on it is the best feature."
"The FortiGate controls the user's activities and maximizes my bandwidth use overall."
"The scalability of Fortinet FortiGate is good."
"The pricing is excellent. It's much less expensive than Cisco."
"The interface is very user-friendly and I like it very much."
"Fortinet FortiGate is easy to use."
"The security posture assessment with two-factor authentication has saved more time and commercial costs by avoiding deploying having to deploy another solution."
"What gives me the most value is undoubtedly the security that the anti-bot and anti-virus blades provide."
"SmartCenter and SmartLog are the best platforms to manage firewall rules. SandBlast Zero-Day is very useful when encountering any security leaks."
"It is easy to use, and its management is the best. Check Point has a great unified management solution for firewalls and security products."
"Everything can be managed from a single dashboard nowadays."
"The solution provides better stability and some interesting features such as the ease of throughput expansion."
"The QoS blade is very good for controlling traffic such as Windows patches, mail traffic and other stuff."
"Check Point offers excellent security."
"The most valuable feature is the console management."
"The Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is a scalable product."
"It is a scalable product. I know a customer who has deployed more than 4,000 firewalls in a single deployment."
"The simplicity of the solution is its most valuable asset. It's very user-friendly."
"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."
"Forcepoint is a complete package because it has network and systems applications. Other firewalls are only for the network."
"I don't have anything bad to say about the product. I absolutely love it."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the support."
"Its filtering is sometimes too precise or strict. We sometimes have to bypass and authorize some of the sites, but they get blocked. We know that they are trusted sites, but they are blocked, and we don't know why."
"Fortinet FortiGate can be integrated with different platforms. They have integrations in place, but I can't say they're 100%."
"The support team for Fortinet FortiGate needs to be more customer friendly."
"I could not configure sFlow from the FortiGate graphical user interface. I realized that the sFlow configuration is available only from the CLI, and discovered that sFlow is not supported on virtual interfaces, such as VDOM links, IPsec, or GRE."
"The way everything is set up could be easier. Currently, people need a lot of experience and knowledge to administer it and to link it to devices."
"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 performance could be a bit better. Right now, I find it to be lacking. Having good performance is very important for our work."
"Technical support could be better. You don't always get the level of help you need right away."
"The predefined reports are few and it would be nice to increase them since the logs are excellent."
"There should be better integration with our current NAC solution to increase the granularity of policies that we implement."
"The user interface for management could be improved."
"It could greatly improve our customer experience by centralizing management."
"Their technical support can be better. In addition, when we need to use it in a government environment, we face a lot of legal issues related to different types of certifications. It would be better to improve it for these issues. Check Point doesn't have a SOAR system. They work with Siemplify, but it is an integration with another vendor. It would be great if Check Point has an integrated SOAR system."
"The perimeter antivirus can be improved. It's not as good as other leaders."
"In the future, some of the features that I would like to see would be the ability to integrate environmental solutions such as the metaverse or blockchain so that we can see them also in applications directly and on mobile devices or natively."
"Initially, we faced a few challenges with firmware. Later this was addressed with jumbo hotfixes."
"The company should update the URL filtering database. They need to enhance the URL filtering and make it easier to customize."
"The solution needs to build upon its network functionality. It needs to be a bit smarter."
"The initial setup of the Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall has areas that are difficult."
"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."
"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 endpoint protection capabilities of the product are an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The solution needs to add an antivirus profile and anti-spyware profile, not just policies and VPN."
"I would like to see more sizing in the next release, and the roadmap should be clear."
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Check Point NGFW is ranked 5th in Firewalls with 277 reviews while Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is ranked 25th in Firewalls with 40 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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