We performed a comparison between Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall and Palo Alto Networks URL Filtering with PAN-DB based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."Its stability is the most valuable."
"The base firewall features are quite valuable to us."
"The CLI is robust and powerful, enabling rapid, consistent changes via SSH."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is URL filtering."
"The main benefit is the grouping of our security monitoring."
"The technical support is great."
"Fortinet has a very good solution for Secure SD-WAN. One very good feature is that they have robust and simple FortiOS through which they provide all solutions. That's their strength. There's not much complexity involved with the Secure SD-WAN solution of Fortinet as compared to Cisco's solution, which has a lot of flexibility but complexity also comes with that flexibility."
"Whenever we raise a complaint with FortiGate, their response and resolution times are minimal."
"The people we deal with is a local partner in Cambodia and we can get good support from them."
"We find the product to be stable and reliable in terms of performance."
"When comparing this solution to others this one has better reporting, user management, and is easy to use."
"One of the most valuable features is having the ability to cluster multiple firewalls even if they are different versions."
"I like the Firewall and the IPS."
"Forcepoint is a complete package because it has network and systems applications. Other firewalls are only for the network."
"The most valuable feature is controlling the traffic and the logging. They have real-time logins for traffic logs. Troubleshooting was very easy for me."
"The solution offers sandboxing, which can be integrated at any time."
"Being able to manage blacklists and whitelists easily is very useful, especially for internal access and limiting outbound access."
"The initial setup is easy."
"The tool blocks URLs."
"Palo Alto Networks URL Filtering with PAN-DB is easy to use, easy to operate, and easy to edit."
"The Palo Alto solution has improved our organization by providing threat protection across a variety of internet connections. Our company also gets valuable insights regarding threat analysis."
"Prohibited URLs can be listed by category."
"The most valuable feature is that the product can do everything in a single device, including the firewall, rules, and the PBL. It also has good routing and switching."
"It's allowed us to have better visibility and protection from threats."
"The support costs and licensing are sometimes so expensive."
"The command line is complicated, and the interface could be better."
"Stability and technical support are the two major issues I have found with Fortinet."
"Reporting is limited to providing an external appliance for improving the reporting capabilities of the FortiAnalyzer. It does not offer a central management and is also sold separably as an appliance."
"The room for improvement is about the global delivery time period. Usually I need to wait for almost one month to deliver it overseas. So if you can shorten the deliver time it'd be great."
"It would be good if they had fewer updates."
"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 support team for Fortinet FortiGate needs to be more customer friendly."
"The initial setup of the Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall has areas that are difficult."
"Forcepoint would be improved if there were more training available."
"My team is looking for more throughput and better integration with our security framework."
"They should have a GUI on the product itself, not a separate management tool to be used on the management server or on a server to be used to manage the file. It should be all in one device. The device should be controlled through its own GUI. They also have to improve the learning center and the documents as the documents don't really help."
"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."
"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."
"I would like to see more sizing in the next release, and the roadmap should be clear."
"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."
"For hosting sites like Blogspot, they host sites that should be in different categories, but get lumped together in general. There needs to be more granularity or multiple categorizations."
"Support needs to be enhanced."
"One way Palo Alto can improve is by offering sandboxing. I don't know if they currently offer a sandboxing feature together with the firewall or not. They should provide secure sandboxing with the firewalls."
"Performance monitoring could use improvement."
"We have had some challenges with making Palo Alto Networks URL Filtering with PAN-DB work with ELK stack."
"The solution is a bit expensive."
"An area for improvement would be the technical support, which can be slow."
"It is an expensive solution and not everyone has the budget for it."
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Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is ranked 25th in Firewalls with 41 reviews while Palo Alto Networks URL Filtering with PAN-DB is ranked 17th in Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS) with 8 reviews. Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is rated 7.6, while Palo Alto Networks URL Filtering with PAN-DB 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 Palo Alto Networks URL Filtering with PAN-DB writes "Provides regular updates with an auto download option; prohibited URLs can be listed by category ". Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is most compared with Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention, Check Point NGFW, Sophos XG, Netgate pfSense and Cisco Secure Firewall, whereas Palo Alto Networks URL Filtering with PAN-DB is most compared with Check Point IPS, Fortinet FortiGate IPS, Zscaler Cloud IPS, Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention and Trend Micro Deep Discovery.
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