We performed a comparison between Check Point CloudGuard Network Security and Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two WAN Edge solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Fortinet FortiGate is easy to use."
"Our project needs to link two sides through the internet. One of these was in Cairo and the other in another city. We used FortiGate as the integrating solution between the two locations, i.e. the Fortinet 30E & 100E."
"The solution is stable."
"FortiGate is on the cheaper end, and it offers good value."
"The solution is very, very easy to use."
"I really like the captive portal feature for our guest network. It has nice VLAN features in terms of separating our network. The anti-virus is also good."
"The most valuable features are that it is very simple to configure and to manage."
"The features that we have found most valuable are the SSL VPN and the User Portal."
"The endpoint VPN is super stable. The routing is also very good. We tried a competing product first, but we could not make it work. We came across CloudGuard. The network routing across different virtual networks in Azure and AWS was way ahead of any of the other technologies. That helped us be able to cover the whole network using one single cluster."
"CloudGuard Network Security provides unified security management across hybrid clouds as well as on-prem. It's very important because when I have unified security, I have better control of the situation. If there's an attack or something like that, we can react faster. It's easier for everyone in the organization to work with the Infinity platform."
"The most valuable feature of Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is the increased mail protection including spam."
"We primarily secure our network using CloudGuard Network Security's next-generation firewall features, including anti-spam, IPS, and URL filtering. Our chosen package for the go-to-market strategy is NGTP. For customers seeking more features, we provide options to upgrade to the tool's advanced packages."
"The central management feature is a big plus, allowing us to manage both local and cloud gateways from one platform."
"It offers remarkable flexibility in how we configure and utilize the resources."
"The solution could improve to have a DLP feature."
"We have unified management. It is one of the advantages of this product."
"Forcepoint is a complete package because it has network and systems applications. Other firewalls are only for the network."
"Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is very simple, easy to use, and flexible."
"I found the initial setup process to be very simple and straightforward."
"The product's initial setup phase is easy."
"The central security management center and the content management center are very good."
"The blocking, based on the signal provided, is the solution's most valuable aspect."
"The most valuable feature is SD-WAN."
"One of the most valuable features is having the ability to cluster multiple firewalls even if they are different versions."
"One issue that I have had is that sometimes I need to monitor the traffic, so I need to filter it according to the user and which user is using it the most. I experience a bottleneck most of the time, particularly at the peak time when the number of contracts and users are at maximum."
"Its filtering is sometimes too precise or strict. We sometimes have to bypass and authorize some of the sites, but they get blocked. We know that they are trusted sites, but they are blocked, and we don't know why."
"Improvement is needed in the Web Filter quotas to restrict users with allocated quotas."
"There are SD-WAN network monitoring, SD-WAN features, Industrial Databases, Internet of Things, Detection, etc., however, we do have not licenses for those features. We thought that if you bought a product, you should have all of the features it offers. Why should you need to make so many extra purchases to enable features? They should have one price for the entire offering."
"It needs more available central management."
"I would prefer to have more detailed logs within the FortiGate products themselves rather than relying on a separate tool."
"There could be more integration between the logging and analytical platforms to make it more seamless and integrated."
"The security of Fortinet FortiGate could improve."
"The memory and hard disk capability could be strengthened."
"If you compare the GUI with the Palo Alto and Forcepoint in the Cisco, they're very easy. Check Point, due to its design, is a little bit complex. They should make the GUI easy to use so that anyone can understand it easily, like Fortinet's GUI. Many companies end up using Fortinet because the GUI is very easy, and there's no need for training. They just deploy the box and do the configuration."
"CloudGuard functions just like any other firewall. It functions very well. The only thing that could maybe be improved would be to integrate some tools that are not integrated with the SmartConsole, like the SmartView Monitor that we need to open on a different application to access."
"With the incorporation of a lot of AI and machine learning, they can build some sort of a matrix for low-level threats or low-level things that require attention. There can be automation of those tasks so that we don't have to take more time and effort. There should be machine learning to eliminate level-one types of tasks."
"Greater automation would reduce the need for manual configuration and management."
"This application can be more integrated with web application firewalls. Better integrations would provide more granularity, which would be helpful for focusing on the application itself and preventing attacks. It would be good to include the cross-domain search. If you have multiple firewalls that are managed on the same platform and you want to check who is using some particular objects or where a specific ID is being used, it should provide an option for this kind of search instead of having to check one by one on each firewall."
"Check Point has a history of moving fast with software release and upgrade cycles which are difficult to keep up with at times."
"It needs to cover additional kinds of infrastructure, like containers and serverless options. It's somewhat limited in that area."
"While they offer a comprehensive bundled solution, some users may prefer on-premise deployments for certain features, such as URL filtering."
"They need to work on stability, it has not been the best in our experience."
"The solution needs to add an antivirus profile and anti-spyware profile, not just policies and VPN."
"Something that I've noticed that Forcepoint lacks, is the training that they offer to their end-customers"
"The optimization is not really ready. If you want very good optimization, you have to add it to the network."
"Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall could change its interface, allowing standard or direct connect modes to be configured."
"The interface is complicated. It's difficult to locate all the necessary menus and functions."
"The network interface could be better, and it could be cheaper."
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Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is ranked 4th in WAN Edge with 119 reviews while Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is ranked 13th in WAN Edge with 40 reviews. Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is rated 8.6, while Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Check Point CloudGuard Network Security writes "The solution has good threat emulation, threat extraction, and reporting features". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall writes "Good URL filtering with helpful technical support and good scalability". Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is most compared with Azure Firewall, VMware NSX, Cisco Secure Firewall, Akamai Guardicore Segmentation and Palo Alto Networks VM-Series, whereas 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. See our Check Point CloudGuard Network Security vs. Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall report.
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