We performed a comparison between Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall and IBM Security Network IPS based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."It works very well. It has a lot of different functionalities. Its cost is also fine for our customers."
"The most useful functionality of Fortinet FortiGate is the user interface, multiple engines, and their cloud with the latest integrations. Additionally, the Security Fabric tool is very good."
"The most important features with FortiGate are the web filter and application controls. We can control our internet usage and use the web filter for application purposes."
"The pricing is great and very reasonable."
"The response is very quick and they can visually resolve our problems in a short period."
"It has very easy management and an amazing ETM configuration."
"The most valuable feature is the FortiManager for centralized management."
"The most valuable features are the policies, filtering, and configuration."
"The solution offers sandboxing, which can be integrated at any time."
"The initial setup is very easy."
"I like the IPS. IPS is the master feature. I depend on the firewall and sandbox."
"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."
"The Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is a scalable product."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the support."
"One of the most valuable features is having the ability to cluster multiple firewalls even if they are different versions."
"It is a stable solution, and there are no issues so far."
"The initial setup is simple."
"The most valuable feature is its simplicity."
"The price of FortiGate should be reduced because there are some other leading products that are cheaper."
"The UI could be improved."
"There are just some services that aren't available. For example, the Ethernet or point-to-point protocols. They could add these services to their product offering - especially services for ISPs."
"I would prefer to have more detailed logs within the FortiGate products themselves rather than relying on a separate tool."
"I could not configure sFlow from the FortiGate graphical user interface. I realized that the sFlow configuration is available only from the CLI, and discovered that sFlow is not supported on virtual interfaces, such as VDOM links, IPsec, or GRE."
"It should be more stable. There should be full integration within Fortinet products themselves as well as with other third-party products. Especially when you're not dealing with SIEM and the correlation of the security box, we want Fortinet to be able to share that information with as many other products as it can."
"A sandbox would be good in order to be able to inspect the emails containing spam and be able to validate the emails that contain malware, prior to delivering to the customer."
"It would be ideal if they had some sort of GUI interface for troubleshooting and diagnostics."
"You do need knowledge of the solution in order to set the product up properly."
"Forcepoint is a little difficult to configure compared to its competitors."
"The network interface could be better, and it could be cheaper."
"The security features need to be improved."
"They need to work on stability, it has not been the best in our experience."
"Forcepoint would be improved if there were more training available."
"We feel the product's technical support could be better, as this relates to the solution itself, to the installation of the product, and to having a proper understanding of the case."
"The interface is complicated. It's difficult to locate all the necessary menus and functions."
"I'd like to see more integration with other tools and technologies."
"In the future, I would like to see a hybrid option so that we can work both on-premises and in the cloud."
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Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is ranked 31st in Firewalls with 40 reviews while IBM Security Network IPS is ranked 24th in Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS) with 4 reviews. Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is rated 7.6, while IBM Security Network IPS is rated 7.2. 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 IBM Security Network IPS writes "User-friendly and has a good blocking feature but is quite expensive". 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 IBM Security Network IPS is most compared with Darktrace, Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention and Cisco Secure Network Analytics.
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