We performed a comparison between Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall and Rapid7 InsightIDR based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."I am "headache free" that I don't have to categorize all the websites and that security has been pre categorized by the people, and that the services are getting updated. At least one part of my problem is over."
"This solution made it very easy to manage our bandwidth."
"It's very easy to set up, it's very easy to make policies and, for an organization, that means you don't need IT expert in firewalls. You just need to have somebody who knows a little bit of IT, and that's it. With other products, you need someone with a "Masters" degree in firewalls."
"The base firewall features are quite valuable to us."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the analytics."
"The Fortinet FortiGate local partners were good. I did not have direct contact with Fortinet support."
"From the firewall perspective, the rules and policies are very sufficient and easy to use."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the different types of profiling. It has been the most effective for me. The WAF and the antivirus profile are the most effective in network protection."
"It provides decent protection for the LAN, especially in run mode."
"Next Generation Firewall's best feature is that it can be managed on one platform."
"The solution offers sandboxing, which can be integrated at any time."
"I found the initial setup process to be very simple and straightforward."
"It is a stable solution, and there are no issues so far."
"Forcepoint is a complete package because it has network and systems applications. Other firewalls are only for the network."
"The VPN is great."
"Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is very simple, easy to use, and flexible."
"Intelligent alerting to avoid the common problem of alert fatigue associated with traditional SIEMs."
"The solution's initial setup is easy."
"The incident case management is the most valuable feature. Even though there's always something I find I would like to add to that feature, the ability to quickly sort through all the logs, network and endpoint data, etc., and add it to an incident case as part of the investigation, is nice. Having it automatically timeline that additional data into the original incident timeline, and correlate it to other notable events and activities on the network, results in a huge improvement in our overall confidence that we've quickly traced down the right source of an issue."
"We were able to identify criminals attempting to login from China and put a stop on their IP locations."
"I have seen that Rapid7 InsightIDR provides security to the networks and endpoints in the company."
"I like that it's a cloud-based solution."
"The log aggregation and storage provided by InsightIDR has shown no issues with scalability; aggregating over one hundred millions events daily."
"Enables the use of honey pots, honey users, and honey files to monitor for suspicious patterns."
"As far as wanting more scalability or things in the network diagram, it's going to cost you."
"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."
"The firmware needs improvement because there are bugs when a new release comes through. Sometimes, the configuration changes, and it's a bit harder to see where the fail is. The first time that you have the firmware, it tends to have some issues, and it's better to wait a bit to update the equipment."
"The performance could be a bit better. Right now, I find it to be lacking. Having good performance is very important for our work."
"The security of Fortinet FortiGate could improve."
"The feature which gives us a lot of pain is ASIC architecture."
"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."
"Fortinet currently has many products bundled with FortiGate including the basic firewall and load balancer, and I think that that they need to have separate product portfolios for each of these specialized services."
"The security features need to be improved."
"They need to work on stability, it has not been the best in our experience."
"While they offer a comprehensive bundled solution, some users may prefer on-premise deployments for certain features, such as URL filtering."
"They should provide more details on potential cyber threats."
"The initial setup of the Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall has areas that are difficult."
"They need to improve their alerts."
"In larger companies with extensive infrastructure, retrieving logs for a longer period of time can sometimes take a bit longer than desired."
"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."
"It takes time for the product's support team to resolve issues, making it an area of concern where improvements are required."
"One of the things that could be better is digital forensics. It is there, but it can be better. They could provide more on the endpoint detection level."
"Inability to get access to compliance reports within the solution."
"Lacks a mobile application."
"The main problem lies in the processes within the client's operating systems."
"One thing that springs to mind is easier API integration with ITSMs. We are evaluating a new ITSM and I would like to have InsightIDR create a ticket when an attack is identified, and the ticket would be closed in InsightIDR when the ITSM resolution is completed. This would take out the "single point of failure" we currently have, if the email recipient is somehow absent, in recording the risk appetite for the incident and the actions taken to mitigate or not."
"The solution's XDR agents cannot compete with the XDR solutions out there yet."
"Customised alert recipients need to be added to allow better first-line action and quicker response. Configurable honeypots would be a welcome addition."
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Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is ranked 25th in Firewalls with 40 reviews while Rapid7 InsightIDR is ranked 10th in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 29 reviews. Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is rated 7.6, while Rapid7 InsightIDR is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall writes "Provides decent protection for the LAN but complicated interface". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Rapid7 InsightIDR writes "An affordable product that is easy to use and has many advanced features and default templates". 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 Rapid7 InsightIDR is most compared with Darktrace, Microsoft Sentinel, Splunk Enterprise Security, Rapid7 InsightVM and IBM Security QRadar.
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