We performed a comparison between Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall and VMware SD-WAN based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN) Solutions solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It is a scalable solution."
"Technical support has been quite helpful in the past."
"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."
"The support is great. They also have very good categorization. It's very good. It captures a lot of threats."
"Forcepoint is a complete package because it has network and systems applications. Other firewalls are only for the network."
"I don't have anything bad to say about the product. I absolutely love it."
"I like the Firewall and the IPS."
"The initial setup is very easy."
"I love the solution because of its many features like cluster and cloud VPN."
"The most valuable feature is load balancing."
"They make use of a combination of different internet lines, which improves quality."
"VMware SD-WAN is scalable."
"If one circuit crashes, we are able to switch to a second circuit without any disruption in connection."
"VMware has been chosen by many of our customers who do not want to do a lot of complex routing in their environment and want a very easy-to-use solution. The most valuable features are simple troubleshooting, Dynamic Multipath Optimization (DMPO), and cybersecurity."
"It's scalable."
"The biggest feature is called D.M.P.O., or Dynamic Multipath Optimization, which is one of the technologies that they use to deliver or ensure data integrity."
"This solution would be improved with the inclusion of custom reporting."
"The security features need to be improved."
"Making this solution easier to use would be an improvement."
"Next Generation Firewall's configuration could be improved."
"In larger companies with extensive infrastructure, retrieving logs for a longer period of time can sometimes take a bit longer than desired."
"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."
"They should provide more details on potential cyber threats."
"My team is looking for more throughput and better integration with our security framework."
"The initial setup of VMware SD-WAN was simple. However, it took six days to complete."
"There is room for improvement in the pricing."
"The solution needs improvement on security features and should include two firewalls. Cloud VPN can’t support any link. The solution needs to also improve the availability of centralized internal management. It needs to have debug detection and Deep Packet Detection features as well. The documentation for VMware is also hard to find."
"Its integration with the security systems would be a nice implementation. They can also consider using a management platform for both network and security operations. This would be a great improvement."
"The initial setup could be simplified for beginners."
"VMware SD-WAN can improve on the security features."
"I would like to see more features added to increase visibility."
"If you don't have an Internet connection, you can’t control it."
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Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is ranked 12th in Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN) Solutions with 37 reviews while VMware SD-WAN is ranked 3rd in Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN) Solutions with 50 reviews. Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is rated 7.6, while VMware SD-WAN is rated 8.2. 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 VMware SD-WAN writes "To fully utilize cloud vendors' hardware networking, Microsoft and VMware support everything". Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate, Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention, Check Point NGFW, Cisco Secure Firewall and Sophos XG, whereas VMware SD-WAN is most compared with Cisco SD-WAN, Fortinet FortiGate, Meraki SD-WAN, Cato SASE Cloud Platform and Versa Unified Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) Platform. See our Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall vs. VMware SD-WAN report.
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