We performed a comparison between Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall and Splunk User Behavior Analytics based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."The most valuable feature is the web filter."
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"Fortigate is very scalable to serve our customers' needs. We have scaled already from fifty to more than a hundred instances of Fortinet FortiGate. Around 20 staff are required for deployment and maintenance, mostly engineers."
"Whenever I need something, Fortinet improves and updates the software for me."
"The security on offer is very good."
"FortiGate is on the cheaper end, and it offers good value."
"The security features are about the best that I've seen anywhere."
"Fortinet FortiGate's ease of management is the most valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature is the console management."
"The VPN is great."
"The support is great. They also have very good categorization. It's very good. It captures a lot of threats."
"It is a stable solution, and there are no issues so far."
"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."
"One of the most valuable features is having the ability to cluster multiple firewalls even if they are different versions."
"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 product is at the forefront of auto-remediation networking. It's great."
"The most valuable features are its data aggregation and the ability to automatically identify a number of threats, then suggest recommended actions upon them."
"This intelligent user behavior analytics package is easy to configure and use while remaining feature filled."
"Because of some of the visualizations that we utilize, we are able to understand strange, unusual traffic on our networks."
"The most valuable features are the indexing and powerful search features."
"It is a solution that helps test and measure customer satisfaction."
"This is a good security product."
"Splunk is more user-friendly than some competing solutions we tried."
"I think that the infrastructure for the VPN could be improved. The way that it is bundled also made it difficult to use and sell as it is too expensive."
"I would like to see better pricing in the next release, as well as a simplification of the installation."
"There were quite a few problems with the stability of the system."
"They need to improve their technical support."
"Sometimes you do need to know some CLI commands, so it's a bit harder for technicians or new people that don't know it."
"The solution's framework needs to be frequently updated in order to have a stable solution."
"The logging details need to be improved."
"I would like some automated custom reporting."
"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."
"Forcepoint would be improved if there were more training available."
"They need to improve their alerts."
"The solution's support could use improvement."
"Next Generation Firewall's configuration could be improved."
"The interface is complicated. It's difficult to locate all the necessary menus and functions."
"The solution needs to build upon its network functionality. It needs to be a bit smarter."
"This solution would be improved with the inclusion of custom reporting."
"In the future I would like to see simplified statistics and analytical threats."
"There are occasional bugs."
"The solution is much more expensive than relative competitors like ArcSight or LogRhythm. It makes it hard to sell to customers sometimes."
"I'm not aware of any lacking features."
"We'd like the ability to do custom searches."
"The initial setup was complex because some of the configurations that we required needed customization."
"We want to have an automated system for bot hunting that enables us to detect anomalies predictively based on historical data. It would be helpful if Splunk included process mining as an alternative option. We have a threat workflow, but it would be useful if we could supplement that with some process mining capabilities over time."
"It could be easier to scale the solution if you are using it on-premise, not in the cloud."
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Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is ranked 25th in Firewalls with 40 reviews while Splunk User Behavior Analytics is ranked 2nd in User Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) with 17 reviews. Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is rated 7.6, while Splunk User Behavior Analytics is rated 8.2. 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 Splunk User Behavior Analytics writes "Easy to configure and easy to use solution that integrates with many applications and scripts ". 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 Splunk User Behavior Analytics is most compared with Darktrace, Microsoft Defender for Identity, IBM Security QRadar, Cynet and Varonis Datalert.
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