We performed a comparison between Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall and Fortinet FortiOS 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 CLI and GUI do a good job of putting a lot at your fingertips."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the different types of profiling. It has been the most effective for me. The WAF and the antivirus profile are the most effective in network protection."
"It's super reliable. I don't think I've ever had a reliability issue with it."
"This is a quality product with ok support, and it is better than the competition we've tried."
"Good anti-malware and web filtering features."
"The web filtering facility and application control are the most valuable features from the point of view of our clients. The VPN feature is also quite popular amongst our clients. Two-factor authentication is one of the good features in Fortinet. These features are important for the current scenario of security. Security has become a necessity nowadays. With cyber-attacks becoming more common, protecting an organization's data is one of the major tasks. It is also very stable and scalable, and it is very straightforward to configure. Their technical support is also good."
"The reporting you receive out of this appliance is excellent. You will not need an external management system."
"The pricing is great and very reasonable."
"One of the most valuable features is having the ability to cluster multiple firewalls even if they are different versions."
"Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is very simple, easy to use, and flexible."
"I have two offices, and I can route the internet of both offices using the same product. The connectivity is great."
"It is a scalable solution."
"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."
"When comparing this solution to others this one has better reporting, user management, and is easy to use."
"The VPN is great."
"Technical support has been quite helpful in the past."
"Firewall and overall management are valuable features."
"The stability of Fortinet meets our requirements and I'm satisfied with it."
"It's easy to use."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiOS are user-friendliness, ease of use, and threat prevention."
"FortiOS allows us to set up alarms for blocked websites and SSL verifications. When someone tries to access a blocked site, the solution sends a notification to the IT manager's mailbox."
"The product is scalable and easily expands."
"I have found the most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiOS is the low maintenance."
"The solution provides good firewall and antivirus protection."
"Monitoring and reporting could be better."
"The debugging and troubleshooting has room for improvement."
"If they could extend their fabric towards other vendor environments for integration, that would be great."
"The process of configuring firewall rules appears excessively complex."
"Quality control on their firmware versions needs improvement. When they introduce new firmware, there tend to be bugs."
"I think they need to improve more in order to be a competitor with the leaders of the field."
"The sniffing packets or packet captures, can be simplified and improved because it's a little confusing."
"The solution lacks multi-language support."
"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."
"Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall could change its interface, allowing standard or direct connect modes to be configured."
"The ability to dynamically change policies could be improved."
"Management could be better. They can improve the management. I think all our customers can't accept firewalls that have standalone management. So, they prefer Fortinet or Palo Alto. But overall, inspection and other features are working fine."
"We feel the product's technical support could be better, as this relates to the solution itself, to the installation of the product, and to having a proper understanding of the case."
"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 build upon its network functionality. It needs to be a bit smarter."
"Next Generation Firewall's configuration could be improved."
"I would like to see smaller and more frequent updates."
"FortiOS could provide a more detailed analysis of the network and connected devices."
"The product needs a feature that allows users to create another site on a VPN."
"Could be improved by supporting an allocation of quota base management regarding user data."
"For monitoring purposes, we don't have any option to monitor the ISP link."
"SD-WAN configuration could be easier."
"The support could be improved, Fortinet's response time is very slow. Setting up the VPN could be made much easier, especially when deployed with Azure."
"There are some features for FortiGate using FortiOS that can only be enabled via a command line. These aren't very advanced features they have been part of FortiOS for quite some time but they still aren't accessible from the graphical user interface. It makes it a little bit harder than it should be for us to manage the solution. That's my main concern with the user interface. Another concern we have is some elements for the user interface, if they're not properly configured, it could lead to hardware and performance degradation."
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Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is ranked 31st in Firewalls with 37 reviews while Fortinet FortiOS is ranked 15th in Firewalls with 73 reviews. Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is rated 7.6, while Fortinet FortiOS 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 FortiOS writes "Provides effective filtering features, good stability but initial setup is moderately challenging". 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 FortiOS is most compared with Fortinet FortiManager, Fortinet FortiWeb, Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection and Darktrace. See our Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall vs. Fortinet FortiOS report.
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