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"Licensing is expensive compared to other solutions." "The cost is a big factor for us. This is why we are using it only in our restricted area. They are very much higher than their competitors in the market." "We paid about $7,000 for the Cisco firewall, plus another small Cisco router and the lead switch. It was under the combined license. It's a final agreement." "Watch out for hidden licensing and incredibly high annual maintenance costs." "I bought a license for three years and it was really affordable." "With AnyConnect, it depends on your license. It depends on the number of concurrent users you want to connect." "This solution might be expensive, but it is economical in the long run." "Some of our customers would be more likely to standardize on Cisco equipment if the cost was lower because a lot of people install cheap equipment." | "The big advantage of this solution is that we can select the right model for our requirements, which is not too expensive." "I believe the licensing fee is for one year, three years, and five years, or something like that. If you wants to increase the support level from a simpler level to platinum, I think that there's a cost. There are differences between every kind of support, but I don't know the numbers." "We would love to take other solution from Forcepoint, but unfortunately the price is too high. That's why we are not considering using Forcepoing for our proxy and DLB. They have a very good DLB, but the matter in the end is the cost." "Forcepoint is very expensive but it's really secure." "It is expensive." "The training that they offer to their end-customers. It's quite expensive, I believe it costs roughly $11,000" "Everything in Forcepoint comes with an individual license, which is kind of a problem. In our last meeting, they said that it may change at the beginning of 2021, and they will try to merge some licenses together. Customers will get more features than what they got previously. We will wait and see." "We have found the price could be reduced. It is a little expensive." More Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall Pricing and Cost Advice » | "The pricing and the licensing are pretty competitive at this stage. As a reseller, I would like to see the price come down a little bit so I can compete better against other firewalls because we do that all the time." "It's not too expensive." "It is an expensive solution and I would like to see a drop in price." "If you want to have all of the good features then you have to pay extra for licensing." "The pricing has improved with the newer generation of their Firewalls, but the price could always be lower." More Palo Alto Networks Threat Prevention Pricing and Cost Advice » |
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When you compare these
firewalls you can identify them with different features, advantages,
practices and… more » Top Answer: Cisco FW for peace of mind Top Answer: They provide DDoS protection and multi-factor authentication. That is a good option as it enables work-from-home… more » | Top Answer: The most valuable feature is the console management. Top Answer: We paid for a subscription license, vendor support, and the training. Top Answer: The interface is not user-friendly. We were told that we would receive training but it came late and we had already… more » | Top Answer: Arbor would be the best bid, apart from Arbor, Palo Alto and Fortinet have good solutions. As this is an ISP, I would… more » Top Answer: The most valuable features are that it's user-friendly, has interesting features, URL filtering, and threat prevention. Top Answer: We use four Palo Alto solutions in stand-alone mode and but it's hard to use when I use it in Panorama. Palo Alto's… more » |
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| Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Firewall, Cisco ASA NGFW, Cisco ASA, Adaptive Security Appliance, ASA, Cisco Sourcefire Firewalls, Cisco ASAv | Forcepoint NGFW, Stonesoft Next Generation Firewall, McAfee Network Security Platform, Intel Security Network Security Platform | |
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Cisco ASA firewalls deliver enterprise-class firewall functionality with highly scalable and flexible VPN capabilities to meet diverse needs, from small/branch offices to high performance data centers and service providers. Available in a wide range of models, Cisco ASA can be deployed as a physical or virtual appliance. Flexible VPN capabilities include support for remote access, site-to-site, and clientless VPN. Also, select appliances support clustering for increased performance, VPN load balancing to optimize available resources, advanced high availability configurations, and more. Cisco ASAv is the virtualized version of the Cisco ASA firewall. Widely deployed in leading private and public clouds, Cisco ASAv is ideal for remote worker and multi-tenant environments. The solution scales up/down to meet performance requirements and high availability provides resilience. Also, Cisco ASAv can deliver micro-segmentation to protect east-west network traffic. Cisco firewalls provide consistent security policies, enforcement, and protection across all your environments. Unified management for Cisco ASA and FTD/NGFW physical and virtual firewalls is delivered by Cisco Defense Orchestrator (CDO), with cloud logging also available. And with Cisco SecureX included with every Cisco firewall, you gain a cloud-native platform experience that enables greater simplicity, visibility, and efficiency. Learn more about Cisco’s firewall solutions, including virtual appliances for public and private cloud. | Forcepoint Stonesoft Next Generation Firewall protects enterprise networks with high-performance "intelligence aware" security supported by real-time updates. This enables Stonesoft to deliver the industry's best defense against advanced evasions, alone with complete next-generation firewall protection when and where you need it - at remote sites, branch offices, data centers, and the network edge. | Threats do not discriminate between application delivery vectors, requiring an approach that has full visibility into all application traffic, including SSL encrypted content, with full user context. Threat Prevention leverages the visibility of our next-generation firewall to inspect all traffic, automatically preventing known threats, regardless of port, protocol or SSL encryption. |
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| There are more than one million Adaptive Security Appliances deployed globally. Top customers include First American Financial Corp., Genzyme, Frankfurt Airport, Hansgrohe SE, Rio Olympics, The French Laundry, Rackspace, and City of Tomorrow. | California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) | University of Arkansas, JBG SMITH, SkiStar AB, TRI-AD, Temple University, Telkom Indonesia |
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Financial Services Firm17% Comms Service Provider14% Manufacturing Company10% Computer Software Company7% Comms Service Provider34% Computer Software Company22% Media Company5% Government4% | Comms Service Provider44% Computer Software Company22% Energy/Utilities Company11% University11% Comms Service Provider28% Computer Software Company22% Media Company6% Government6% | Financial Services Firm29% Comms Service Provider29% Aerospace/Defense Firm14% Healthcare Company14% Computer Software Company27% Comms Service Provider24% Government6% Manufacturing Company6% |
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Small Business35% Midsize Enterprise26% Large Enterprise39% Small Business28% Midsize Enterprise21% Large Enterprise51% | Small Business57% Midsize Enterprise24% Large Enterprise19% | Small Business25% Midsize Enterprise33% Large Enterprise42% |
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Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is ranked 20th in Firewalls with 18 reviews while Palo Alto Networks Threat Prevention is ranked 7th in Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software with 12 reviews. Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is rated 7.8, while Palo Alto Networks Threat Prevention is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall writes "Good console management, but the interface is not user-friendly and application filtering needs finer granularity". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Palo Alto Networks Threat Prevention writes "Enables us to control the amount of bandwidth an application is allowed to consume and is extremely scalable". Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate, pfSense, Cisco Firepower NGFW Firewall, Palo Alto Networks URL Filtering with PAN-DB and Darktrace, whereas Palo Alto Networks Threat Prevention is most compared with Darktrace, Cisco Stealthwatch, Vectra AI, Splunk User Behavior Analytics and Trend Micro TippingPoint NGIPS.
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