We performed a comparison between Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall and Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."The flexibility and ease of configuration are the most valuable features."
"I have found Fortinet FortiGate to be scalable."
"It's inexpensive compared to some of the other technology out there."
"I'm pretty happy with its reliability. It is also very scalable."
"The SD-WAN is the most valuable feature."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a stable solution."
"I like that they have given me a solution at a fair price."
"The solution has very good threat and content filtering switches."
"The Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is a scalable product."
"When comparing this solution to others this one has better reporting, user management, and is easy to use."
"The feature that we like the most about Forcepoint is that we know the technology and have confidence in it. We can have several functionalities to simplify operations and management. We can combine functionalities like log ownership to review the number of devices in the infrastructure."
"It provides decent protection for the LAN, especially in run mode."
"The initial setup is very easy."
"The most valuable feature is the console management."
"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."
"The solution offers sandboxing, which can be integrated at any time."
"It's very easy to use and configure. What is nice about Palo Alto is that even if you don't understand how to use it, you can just click on upload and upload everything that needs to be blocked."
"The most valuable features are the simplicity, transparency, and overall ease of management."
"We are currently using the URL filtering feature, which is the most popular."
"The initial setup was straightforward. It's quite easy. Deployment took one to two weeks."
"The most valuable feature of Palo Alto Threat Prevention for our company is the next generation firewall."
"I find the malware protection very handy."
"For those who want a next-gen firewall that's easy to configure and easy to operate, I think you should go for Palo Alto."
"You can scale the product."
"There are some problems that support cannot give you a logical reason as to why it happened. For example, I had a case where I was dealing with a WhatsApp application that was giving issues. Technical support gave more than one reason it could be giving issues, but none of them solved the problem. Eventually I solved the problem, but it was far from the solutions that support had given."
"The pricing could always be better."
"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."
"NGN, reporting and controls."
"The ease of use could be improved."
"To the best of my knowledge, Fortinet does not have a CASB solution and Fortinet does not have a Zero trust solution."
"The solution is very expensive."
"The support team for Fortinet FortiGate needs to be more customer friendly."
"I would like to see more sizing in the next release, and the roadmap should be clear."
"Making this solution easier to use would be an improvement."
"Something that I've noticed that Forcepoint lacks, is the training that they offer to their end-customers"
"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."
"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 initial setup of the Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall has areas that are difficult."
"The ability to dynamically change policies could be improved."
"Sometimes when you want to group a set of ports, and communicate with Palo Alto, you cannot group TCP and UDP ports together. This needs to be adjusted."
"The organization mail security solutions could be improved. There is no mail security solution available."
"Right now we are focusing on email. If Palo Alto can increase the features related to email filtering and the new malware, it would help us protect our systems."
"It's not so easy to set up a test environment, because it's not so easy to get the test license. The vendor only gives you 90 days for a test license; it's a tough license to get."
"The cost involves the price of the hardware, which is expensive. However, most of the Palo Alto solutions are expensive."
"The installation was complicated."
"Palo Alto Networks Threat Prevention could improve the commercial offing. Other solutions, such as Fortinet provide better commercial features."
"The pricing has improved with the newer generation of their Firewalls, but the price could always be lower. In comparison with other solutions, I believe they're quite competitive."
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Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is ranked 31st in Firewalls with 39 reviews while Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention is ranked 6th in Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS) with 24 reviews. Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is rated 7.6, while Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention is rated 8.8. 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 Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention writes "A good amount of granularity and advanced URL filtering capabilities". Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is most compared with Check Point NGFW, Cisco Secure Firewall, Sophos XG, Netgate pfSense and Darktrace, whereas Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention is most compared with Check Point IPS, Fortinet FortiGate IPS, Arista NDR, Trend Micro TippingPoint Threat Protection System and Darktrace.
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