We performed a comparison between Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall and ShieldX based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."It enables our organization to become more productive. Also, it protects our NEtWare from viruses and malware."
"Security solution with a straightforward and quick setup. It's a stable and scalable product."
"I am "headache free" that I don't have to categorize all the websites and that security has been pre categorized by the people, and that the services are getting updated. At least one part of my problem is over."
"It has improved our organization with control data."
"The most valuable feature is the bundled subscription, which is IPS, TV and web filtering."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the APIs. They are the most widely known."
"This solution has solid UTM features combined with a nice GUI."
"The initial installation is very straightforward."
"The most valuable feature is the console management."
"I like the IPS. IPS is the master feature. I depend on the firewall and sandbox."
"The support is great. They also have very good categorization. It's very good. It captures a lot of threats."
"Next Generation Firewall's best feature is that it can be managed on one platform."
"I have found that Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is easy to use, highly secure, and the main VPN tunnel is created automatically which is a benefit."
"Technical support has been quite helpful in the past."
"Forcepoint is a good, stable solution."
"I found the initial setup process to be very simple and straightforward."
"It has helped us tighten our security posture. Now, staff can only access things that they should be accessing."
"...It takes the exact same policies that you would apply to your on-premise environment and enables you to simply apply them to the cloud. It becomes one policy for both on-prem and for the cloud."
"ShieldX has been designed from the very beginning to work well in cloud environments. It understands autoscaling, automation, and auto-configuration. These are the things which are important in today's operating environment."
"The UI was also one of the huge selling points. My web development manager was blown away with the detail and the granularity that you can get out of the UI. It is a very strong and informative UI, with the amount of data it provides."
"We were able to see what devices are talking to each other, giving us more visibility."
"The Adaptive Intention Engine is fantastic. It allows us to develop security policies using the language of our internal customers. It's machine-learning applied to security workflows. That allows us to much more easily construct the policies that will protect those workflows."
"The most valuable feature is the automatic scaling. With its microservices, it scales both up and down, depending on traffic and throughput."
"The performance and speed are aspects of the solution that could always be improved upon."
"Its customer service could be better."
"I don't really have anything negative to say as far as Fortinet firewalls are concerned. If anything, they can support a user a little bit better. They can stop being so time-sensitive about how much time the support call has taken, and they can help you do it yourself."
"The support is the main thing that needs to be improved."
"Pricing for it is a bit high. It could be cheaper."
"The support team for Fortinet FortiGate needs to be more customer friendly."
"It claims it does DLP, but the degree and level of controls are very basic."
"There were quite a few problems with the stability of the system."
"Something that I've noticed that Forcepoint lacks, is the training that they offer to their end-customers"
"The company should update the URL filtering database. They need to enhance the URL filtering and make it easier to customize."
"The endpoint protection capabilities of the product are an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The security features need to be improved."
"You do need knowledge of the solution in order to set the product up properly."
"The network interface could be better, and it could be cheaper."
"They should provide more details on potential cyber threats."
"The interface is complicated. It's difficult to locate all the necessary menus and functions."
"With any kind of tool like ShieldX, where you're in the cloud instead of a traditional firewall, you're using CPU resources in those environments to provide the protection. So there's a cost associated with CPU resources. I'm pressing upon them to make the product much more efficient and use less CPUs to do the same thing."
"I would like better reports and in-depth reporting."
"We are having some issues with their LDAP and integrating it with the Active Directory. We can't seem to set it up."
"There should be a bit more customer care, with regular review meetings on it or regular reports. It would be nice to have a quarterly or biannual review of what ShieldX has blocked."
"They need to be consistent in performance and capabilities over time, given the fact that this is new and I want to see where this goes in the next year or so. As the vendor continues to evolve and add future functionality, we want to make sure that we are still keeping up with the integrations, etc. Time will be the key factor here. The proper support for some of the latest technologies, Docker containers, etc. They need to keep up with threat landscape, so we will see how the security get layered. This is what we are going to be keeping an eye on."
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Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is ranked 31st in Firewalls with 40 reviews while ShieldX is ranked 46th in Firewalls. Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is rated 7.6, while ShieldX is rated 9.2. 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 ShieldX writes "Proactively monitors, blocks, and reports what it has blocked; and self-updates meaning there is zero maintenance". 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 ShieldX is most compared with .
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