We performed a comparison between Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway and Quad9 based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Internet Security solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Giving visibility to people's actions in the network, while keeping attackers out: across data centers, offices, branches, and the cloud."
"It has got a really good URL categorization database. It is simple to set up. It is also easy to use and quite intuitive. It has got a nice utility for troubleshooting."
"The customization and control of URL filtering and the integration with other Forcepoint solutions are great features."
"Real-time category protection."
"The antiviral sandboxing."
"The initial setup is easy. It's not difficult."
"Transparent Mode: Since we have multiple sites and roaming users, it has helped us in deploying the proxy to users without having to push any configurations to end users."
"The Forcepoint client software can be downloaded on a user's machine so that it can filter the sites from home or the office. That's one of the biggest features. We can use it for filtering our laptops for our users at any place."
"The most valuable feature of Quad9 is that it is a free solution."
"Setting up Quad9 is straightforward if you know what you're doing, and it's easy to use overall."
"I have been in contact with technical support several times, and I am not happy with them."
"The deployment is a bit complex and it requires expertise to deploy, which is something that should be improved and made easier to do."
"I'd like to see the solution improve the banded optimization to offer more bandwidth control, similar to what is on offer with Blue Coat."
"The technical support team's response time could be improved."
"I would suggest focusing on improving the GUI's stability, especially when implementing new filters or patches."
"The initial setup was complex."
"Reports in the sand-boxing, ease of deployment of sensors to ready to go server with one click of a button."
"Database synchronization failures"
"Quad9 could improve by having more free features, such as custom DNS filtering."
"It used to work fine for all the devices, but it started to slow and become non-responsive. I would have to reload the page two or three times before all the pages loaded. With OpenDNS, I only need to load the page once."
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Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway is ranked 3rd in Internet Security with 47 reviews while Quad9 is ranked 11th in Internet Security with 2 reviews. Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway is rated 7.8, while Quad9 is rated 6.0. The top reviewer of Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway writes "Simple to set up, reliable, and offers great reporting". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Quad9 writes "It's easy to use and set up, but I've faced performance problems ". Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway is most compared with Zscaler Internet Access, Cisco Umbrella, Symantec Proxy, Fortinet FortiProxy and Fortinet FortiGate SWG, whereas Quad9 is most compared with Cloudflare DNS, Google Cloud DNS, Cisco Umbrella, Verisign Public DNS and Neustar UltraDNS. See our Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway vs. Quad9 report.
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