We performed a comparison between Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall and Fortinet FortiGate-VM 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.
"What I like the most is the configuration and that it's simple, and straightforward to maintain."
"Its stability is the most valuable."
"Anti-Spam web content filterinG."
"The license management is very valuable. You can get a new license each year, or you can enroll every two to four years. You can get the logs, and you will get the information on the risk in your network and the entire organization. With this information, you can take action on your actives, computers, or devices. You can bring your own device as an SSE."
"The interface is very good."
"The user interface (UI) is very, very good."
"The most valuable feature is the bundled subscription, which is IPS, TV and web filtering."
"It increases security posture and is helpful for firewall reporting, intrusion protection, web filtering, and SD-WAN implementation."
"The VPN is great."
"The most valuable feature is SD-WAN."
"The support is great. They also have very good categorization. It's very good. It captures a lot of threats."
"Forcepoint's stability is satisfactory, for the most part."
"The Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is a scalable product."
"It is stable and scalable. In addition, their support is great. When you ask them for something, they provide support, and if required, they also involve the R&D team to help you to resolve the issues in your configuration."
"One of the most valuable features is having the ability to cluster multiple firewalls even if they are different versions."
"The most valuable feature is the console management."
"The product can scale."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate-VM are the ease of use, IPS system, application filter, web filtering, and email security. Additionally, there is a migration tool that other vendors do not provide. We only need to upload the configuration file to the tool, and it converts everything, except the passwords, and gives us the new configuration, which we can directly upload on the firewall. This migration process takes a maximum of 15 minutes."
"The performance overall is very good."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the integration within the environment, with centralized reporting."
"Primarily, the VPN solution is most valuable. It allows you to have more flexibility in terms of what is there on the end-user device, and what is not there. You can check and make sure that they're current. It has more flexibility than just a straight VPN solution. It works really well. It has the features that 99% of people need."
"The functionality provided is very good."
"Fortinet is user-friendly."
"Operations have been flawless."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having more capabilities for troubleshooting VPN connections. For example, I do get some feedback about the current status, but I could use some history and logging of important events. The information is logged in our Syslog server, but I could use that information from the device. If they could provide a GUI to have some more insight on what's going with my VPN would be useful."
"In the next release, I would like to see the interface simplified to be more user-friendly."
"I think that the infrastructure for the VPN could be improved. The way that it is bundled also made it difficult to use and sell as it is too expensive."
"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 user interface could be improved to make it less confusing and easier to set up."
"In the balance between links feature normally you can just choose one option to balance. It would be better for the solution to have more than one option, preferably three."
"The feedback that I have received is that the performance could be better, and the user experience is not as good compared to a previous solution we used. It could be more user-friendly. Of course, it still works fine for our operations."
"Fortinet FortiGate needs to improve to be on par with its competitors, such as Palo Alto and Sophos. They are the market leaders. Fortinet FortiGate needs to improve its capabilities. However, we are happy with Fortinet FortiGate."
"You do need knowledge of the solution in order to set the product up properly."
"The optimization is not really ready. If you want very good optimization, you have to add it to the network."
"This solution would be improved with the inclusion of custom reporting."
"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."
"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."
"Its interface is complex when compared with a firewall like FortiGate. Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall needs a management console, whereas FortiGate doesn't need any console. When you have a few devices, a console is not really necessary. It's good to have a private console only when you have a lot of devices."
"The solution needs to build upon its network functionality. It needs to be a bit smarter."
"I have worked on some of the largest and smallest solutions that Fortinet sells and they all scale really well."
"The product is satisfactory. I haven't identified any features to improve, and based on the number of deployments I've handled with FortiGate-VM, there haven't been any complaints from the customer's side."
"The product has issues with integration. I would like to see better integration in future releases of the product."
"Not a ten because I think that Cisco is better."
"The technical support is not very responsive and is an area that needs to be improved."
"The price is sometimes very expensive."
"In terms of improvement, there have been some problems with the bandwidth of the security layer."
"The product does not have a good graphical interface."
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Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is ranked 31st in Firewalls with 39 reviews while Fortinet FortiGate-VM is ranked 9th in Firewalls with 113 reviews. Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is rated 7.6, while Fortinet FortiGate-VM is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall writes "Good URL filtering with helpful technical support and good scalability". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Fortinet FortiGate-VM writes "An easy-to-manage and configure tool that provides ample documentation to help with the setup phase". 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, whereas Fortinet FortiGate-VM is most compared with Azure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks VM-Series, Fortinet FortiOS, OPNsense and Netgate pfSense. See our Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall vs. Fortinet FortiGate-VM report.
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