We performed a comparison between Check Point CloudGuard Network Security and Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two WAN Edge solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We use a lot of function on the IPS and it works well for us."
"It's very good and very stable for businesses. It works very well."
"It's very fast and easy to configure."
"The email protection and VPN features are the most valuable."
"I think that the UTM features are the most value, as it truly protects my infrastructure."
"The flexibility and ease of configuration are the most valuable features."
"Fortinet FortiGate has many valuable features, such as IDS, and intrusion detection. It has security features that are in part with the technologies that are available in the market."
"We have found it to be very reliable and that's why our teams and various users in our company use it as our main firewall every day."
"The easy management of the policies is great for us because we are a small team and having easy management is great and useful for us."
"Additionally, the centralized reporting and management, accessible through a single pane of glass, offer consistency and efficiency across multi-cloud environments."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is that you can start off with a simple firewall and expand it to UTM."
"Our clients choose CloudGuard as a natural progression of their solutions. They understand Microsoft and CloudGuard fits."
"Auto-scaling and zero touch are valuable features."
"The tool's most valuable features are threat prevention and protection mechanisms."
"Customers appreciate the CME plugin for automatically understanding assets within the cloud. This information appears in the manager, allowing users to tag the assets and adjust policies and rules accordingly."
"The tool's most valuable features are IPS and blades. These features are valuable for security."
"The most valuable feature is SD-WAN."
"Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is very simple, easy to use, and flexible."
"Technical support has been quite helpful in the past."
"The product's initial setup phase is easy."
"They offer templates that provide detailed reports categorized by user, device, and internal network access."
"I like the Firewall and the IPS."
"Forcepoint is a good, stable solution."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the support."
"I would prefer to have more detailed logs within the FortiGate products themselves rather than relying on a separate tool."
"The cloud management and automation capability could be improved."
"There is one big configuration file with no separations for the unique VDOMs. Maybe they could separate individual VDOM configuration files with the root VDOM configuration file referencing the individual VDOM config files."
"The cloud features and integration could be improved."
"They are doing good, but they can improve the distributor assignment. The availability of the product and the timeline of delivery are the main things. The distribution should be swift, and the distributor should not reach out to end customers directly. They should work as a distributor. There should also be one more local distributor. Currently, there is only one distributor in Pakistan, and the rest of them are in UAE. It is difficult to work with only one distributor. Sometimes, you don't get along with the same distributor, and that's why they should have one more distributor. Their licensing should also be improved. The activation or renewal of the product should be done from the date of renewal, not from the date on which the license expired."
"Improvement is needed in the Web Filter quotas to restrict users with allocated quotas."
"Some configuration elements cannot be easily altered once created."
"The debugging and troubleshooting has room for improvement."
"In the past year, I noticed that the challenging part, especially in the cloud, is upgrading to the next release of the firewall. Unlike on-premise upgrades, it's not as simple in the cloud. You need to recreate the machine, which makes the process more complex."
"Micro-Segmentation functionality for EAST-WEST traffic is not native and requires integration with a third-party OEM."
"There are some usability issues we'd like to see improved."
"As an administrator, I can say that among all of the Check Point products I have been working with so far, the Virtual Systems solution is one of the most difficult."
"It is somewhat problematic in the area of the cloud."
"I would like to see more focus on east-west traffic inspection and AWS."
"Check Point CloudGuard is not a feature-centric product because Check Point concentrates on security."
"A threat categorization system can be added to give users the authority to define vulnerable attacks and classify areas that can threaten the workflow system."
"You do need knowledge of the solution in order to set the product up properly."
"While they offer a comprehensive bundled solution, some users may prefer on-premise deployments for certain features, such as URL filtering."
"Forcepoint would be improved if there were more training available."
"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 ability to dynamically change policies could be improved."
"The security features need to be improved."
"The network interface could be better, and it could be cheaper."
"My team is looking for more throughput and better integration with our security framework."
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Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is ranked 3rd in WAN Edge with 119 reviews while Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is ranked 11th in WAN Edge with 40 reviews. Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is rated 8.6, while Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Check Point CloudGuard Network Security writes "The solution has good threat emulation, threat extraction, and reporting features". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall writes "Good URL filtering with helpful technical support and good scalability". Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is most compared with Azure Firewall, VMware NSX, Akamai Guardicore Segmentation, Cisco Secure Firewall and Palo Alto Networks VM-Series, whereas 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. See our Check Point CloudGuard Network Security vs. Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall report.
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