We performed a comparison between Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall and McAfee StoneGate [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."The solution is very, very easy to use."
"We use a lot of function on the IPS and it works well for us."
"Consolidated our network environment at all locations, but mainly at our datacenter."
"Fortinet FortiGate is user-friendly and affordable."
"The application control features, such as Facebook blocking and Spotify blocking, are the most valuable."
"Whenever we raise a complaint with FortiGate, their response and resolution times are minimal."
"It is a one box solution, which covers most of the edge device’s requirements."
"What's most important is the ease of use."
"I don't have anything bad to say about the product. I absolutely love it."
"The simplicity of the solution is its most valuable asset. It's very user-friendly."
"Forcepoint is a good, stable solution."
"The Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is a scalable product."
"Forcepoint is a complete package because it has network and systems applications. Other firewalls are only for the network."
"I found the initial setup process to be very simple and straightforward."
"Technical support has been quite helpful in the past."
"They offer templates that provide detailed reports categorized by user, device, and internal network access."
"We did not have issues with scalabiliy."
"It works well with a highly-active cluster."
"The cloud features and integration could be improved."
"The solution's framework needs to be frequently updated in order to have a stable solution."
"They should make the rule sets more understandable for the end user. When you're trying to explain to somebody how a computer network is secured, sometimes it's difficult for an end user or customer to understand. If there was a way to make the terminology more accessible to the end user, the set up could be easier. They should translate the technical jargon to an easily relatable and understandable conversation for the end user, the customer, that would be brilliant. Particularly in an environment where the IT structure is audited regularly, there's always pressure from the auditor to up the standards and up the security and you get your USCERT's that come out and there's a warning about this and the customer will want to lock out so much and when you apply it they run into issue where they can't search the internet or print to their remote office. Of course they can't print to your remote office, they just locked it up. They should make the language more understandable for the customer. If there's a product out there that made the jargon understandable to John Q. Public, I would buy that."
"Technical support needs to be improved."
"The price of FortiGate should be reduced because there are some other leading products that are cheaper."
"FortiLink is the interface on the firewall that allows you to extend switch management across all of your switches in the network. The problem with it is that you can't use multiple interfaces unless you set them up in a lag. Only then you can run them. So, it forces you to use a core type of switch to propagate that management out to the rest of the switches, and then it is running the case at 200. It leaves you with 18 ports on the firewall because it is also a layer-three router that could also be used as a switch, but as soon as you do that, you can't really use them. They could do a little bit more clean up in the way the stacking interface works. Some use cases and the documentation on the FortiLink checking interface are a little outdated. I can find stuff on version 5 or more, but it is hard to find information on some of the newer firmware. The biggest thing I would like to see is some improvement in the switch management feature. I would like to be able to relegate some of the ports, which are on the firewall itself, to act as a switch to take advantage of those ports. Some of these firewalls have clarity ports on them. If I can use those, it would mean that I need to buy two less switches, which saves time. I get why they don't, but I would still like to see it because it would save a little bit of space in the server rack."
"There are some tiny bugs that sometimes affect the operations. In the past revision of it, there was a bug. Because of the bug, we had to downgrade the version. It happened only with the last revision."
"This product could be improved with Active directory integration and better handling in IPsec and GRE Tunnels."
"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."
"They need to improve their alerts."
"The network interface could be better, and it could be cheaper."
"Forcepoint is a little difficult to configure compared to its competitors."
"The initial setup of the Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall has areas that are difficult."
"The interface is complicated. It's difficult to locate all the necessary menus and functions."
"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."
"The solution's support could use improvement."
"After some experience with the solution, we had to do some redesign, but generally, we were happy with the product."
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Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is ranked 31st in Firewalls with 39 reviews while McAfee StoneGate [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Firewalls. Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is rated 7.6, while McAfee StoneGate [EOL] is rated 7.0. 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 McAfee StoneGate [EOL] writes "The HA cluster had issues during deployment, but the solution gives us better application control than with our previous solution". 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 McAfee StoneGate [EOL] is most compared with .
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