We performed a comparison between Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall and Hillstone S-Series Network Intrusion Prevention System based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."There are great templates, so you don't have to customize them if you don't want to. You do have the option to custom create some folders and some reports, however, with what is there, you don't really need to go through extra effort, as they already give you a lot of predefined views of reports and so forth."
"Unified Threat Management (UTM) features."
"Secure, user-friendly, stable, and scalable network security solution. Installation is straightforward."
"The initial setup of Fortinet FortiGate was straightforward."
"Layer-3 firewall and routing are the most valuable features."
"I like that they have given me a solution at a fair price."
"The next-generation firewall is great."
"It's inexpensive compared to some of the other technology out there."
"The most valuable feature is controlling the traffic and the logging. They have real-time logins for traffic logs. Troubleshooting was very easy for me."
"It is a stable solution, and there are no issues so far."
"I have two offices, and I can route the internet of both offices using the same product. The connectivity is great."
"We like the scalability of Forcepoint because with the Forcepoint NGFW solution, we can scale anything. The solution has central management, so we can manage all the branches and devices centrally in one controller."
"I like the IPS. IPS is the master feature. I depend on the firewall and sandbox."
"It provides decent protection for the LAN, especially in run mode."
"The VPN is great."
"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."
"Setup is straightforward with the same reliability and scalability as the firewall series."
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"It could use better throughput on some of the smaller boxes for the branch offices."
"The solution could be more secure and stable."
"They sometimes hide some features and if you want to enable them, you have to go in the CLI, enable the feature and configure it through the CLI. Customers, typically, like everything to be done by the GUI."
"The monitor and the visibility, in this proxy, is very weak."
"The central management for the FortiGate Fortinet Firewall needs improvement. They have the manager to do the essential management for both SD-WAN and for the security policy. They should also improve the SD-WAN function."
"Its reporting can be improved. Sometimes, I don't get proper reports."
"There are mainly two areas of improvement in Fortinet FortiGate— the licensing cost and the timing of upgrading licenses for boxes."
"There can be more security in hybrid implementations. When a customer has a hybrid environment where some parts are in the cloud, we need a consistent security solution for such scenarios."
"Forcepoint would be improved if there were more training available."
"I would like to see more sizing in the next release, and the roadmap should be clear."
"Something that I've noticed that Forcepoint lacks, is the training that they offer to their end-customers"
"They should provide more details on potential cyber threats."
"They should have a GUI on the product itself, not a separate management tool to be used on the management server or on a server to be used to manage the file. It should be all in one device. The device should be controlled through its own GUI. They also have to improve the learning center and the documents as the documents don't really help."
"The interface is complicated. It's difficult to locate all the necessary menus and functions."
"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."
"When it comes to a complex deployment, the rules, firewall features, SD-WAN core features, and auto-scaling can cause the device to be not quite stable."
"Lack of tools to help educate end users"
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Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is ranked 31st in Firewalls with 39 reviews while Hillstone S-Series Network Intrusion Prevention System is ranked 28th in Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS). Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is rated 7.6, while Hillstone S-Series Network Intrusion Prevention System is rated 9.0. 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 Hillstone S-Series Network Intrusion Prevention System writes "Complements any firewall". 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 Hillstone S-Series Network Intrusion Prevention System is most compared with Darktrace and Arista NDR.
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