We performed a comparison between Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall and Netgate pfSense based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Firewalls solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable features of the solution are SD-WAN, filtering testing applications, web filtering, and the new VPN."
"The most valuable features are the policies, filtering, and configuration."
"The secure web gateway module and the application control module are valuable. HA operations are very easy."
"The threat prevention is the solution's most valuable aspect."
"FortiGate is very simple to manage and easy to use."
"The payment function for applications is good."
"The dashboard I have found the most valuable in Fortinet FortiGate."
"Anti-Spam web content filterinG."
"When our customer needs some optimization, along with performance and security. If they want everything in one package, I recommend Forcepoint because they have everything."
"The Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is a scalable product."
"I like the IPS. IPS is the master feature. I depend on the firewall and sandbox."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is SD-WAN."
"Technical support has been quite helpful in the past."
"When comparing this solution to others this one has better reporting, user management, and is easy to use."
"Next Generation Firewall's best feature is that it can be managed on one platform."
"Routing, load balancing, Traffic Limiter and queues. Since this company relies on an Internet connection, having these features is a must."
"It is a better firewall than others and it has better features."
"At our peak time, we have reached more than 5,000 concurrent connections."
"The gain in performance and security from configuring the VPN connections was significant."
"For everyday tasks, we just get alerts. It's anything that's suspicious, including from our Netgate. So, it's part of how we maintain cybersecurity in our school. This is working alongside our endpoint security solution."
"The initial setup is easy."
"The ability to perform packet captures on the command line and via the GUI is useful for diagnosing problems."
"I like pfSense's security features."
"The room for improvement is about the global delivery time period. Usually I need to wait for almost one month to deliver it overseas. So if you can shorten the deliver time it'd be great."
"The command line is complicated, and the interface could be better."
"Their software support needs improvement. I would prefer to have better support for bug fixes. Sometimes, we open a ticket, and it is very difficult to get a solution. Specifically, we are not at all happy with their support for load balancing."
"Some of the software stability could improve."
"The pricing could be a bit better, especially when you consider how they have the most basic offering priced."
"The security of Fortinet FortiGate could improve."
"They've become quite expensive."
"The ease of use could be improved."
"The security features need to be improved."
"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."
"Its management center should be easier to use. The management interface of Forcepoint is unique and a little bit different from some of the firewall solutions on which people might have worked before. Sometimes, the customers say that it is not very friendly, and we help them with how to use this management interface. It just takes a little bit of time, and after some time, it gets easy to manage or use. It is quite similar to Palo Alto, Fortinet, and legacy Juniper solutions. Their support should be faster. We have received complaints that they are not responding fast, which is not good for the vendor and us."
"In larger companies with extensive infrastructure, retrieving logs for a longer period of time can sometimes take a bit longer than desired."
"Forcepoint would be improved if there were more training available."
"The initial setup of the Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall has areas that are difficult."
"If I want to allow access to Facebook, yet not allow the user to access videos, then I am not able to do it with this product."
"Forcepoint is a little difficult to configure compared to its competitors."
"The user interface can be improved to make it easier to add more features. And pfSense could be better integrated with other solutions, like antivirus."
"Their support could be better in terms of the response time."
"Other solutions provide more scope for growth. For instance, we can have only 10 to 20 employees on VPN, but other solutions can support more users. We also have more capabilities to increase the performance of the solution."
"Ultimately, we'd like something stronger, and something that can handle threats better in real-time."
"The hotspot and the portal feature in this solution are not stable for WiFi access. We use it at least once or twice every day and it crashes. Some modules can be better by improving detection and having new updates. Additionally, we have some issues with clustering and load balancing that could improve."
"pfSense is not user-friendly. I hope to have something to make the interfaces more user-friendly."
"ClamAV AntiVirus can cause some crashes. That service should be improved."
"The usage reports can be better."
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Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is ranked 31st in Firewalls with 39 reviews while Netgate pfSense is ranked 1st in Firewalls with 128 reviews. Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is rated 7.6, while Netgate pfSense is rated 8.6. 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 Netgate pfSense writes "User-friendly, easy to manage the firewall, rule-wise and interface-wise". Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is most compared with Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention, Check Point NGFW, Cisco Secure Firewall, Sophos XG and Darktrace, whereas Netgate pfSense is most compared with OPNsense, Sophos XG, Sophos UTM, KerioControl and Cisco Secure Firewall. See our Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall vs. Netgate pfSense report.
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