We performed a comparison between Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall and Trend Micro Deep Discovery based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the ease of use and there are several operating systems that can include the hardware capacities. In the newer releases, the resources were more useful because they were included in the operating system."
"This is a quality product with ok support, and it is better than the competition we've tried."
"Fortinet FortiGate's most valuable features are ease of use, flexibility, and most of the configuration we can be done using the GUI. When we compare Fortinet FortiGate with other solutions the firewall policy are very easy to understand."
"Centralized monitoring, policy management, and virtualized appliances allow us to take control over our public and private infrastructure."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The SD-WAN feature is the most valuable. This feature evolved from link load balancing. It has helped us in terms of our uptime and privatizing applications whenever we experience an outage. The SD-WAN feature has been a plus for us. Two-factor authentication has allowed us to add more users in terms of remote working. We have two-factor authentication for remote workers to authenticate them before they get on the network."
"The pipe filter application is an outstanding feature."
"Good load balancing feature."
"Technical support has been quite helpful in the past."
"The most valuable feature is the console management."
"The central security management center and the content management center are very good."
"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."
"I don't have anything bad to say about the product. I absolutely love it."
"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 support is great. They also have very good categorization. It's very good. It captures a lot of threats."
"The HTML file sandboxing is very good."
"Initial setup is easy. It can be done by yourself."
"The performance and stability are great."
"The product's initial setup phase was not difficult."
"The platform provides all essential features for discovery and administration."
"I like the sales operations testing. and support."
"Trend Micro Deep Discovery is a very specific product for threat intelligence with smart protection."
"As a security product, managing threats is crucial for my clients."
"The solution is very expensive."
"They need to improve their technical support."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a stable solution. However, my issue is the performance only. When I use all the profiles, this affects the performance. From the beginning, I should have had a better sizing of the box."
"It would be nice if FortiGate incorporated some built-in endpoint protection features. I would also like a built-in SOC dashboard for managing multiple Fortinet firewalls."
"Some configuration elements cannot be easily altered once created."
"As far as wanting more scalability or things in the network diagram, it's going to cost you."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having more storage in the hardware for log data."
"The way everything is set up could be easier. Currently, people need a lot of experience and knowledge to administer it and to link it to devices."
"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."
"Management could be better. They can improve the management. I think all our customers can't accept firewalls that have standalone management. So, they prefer Fortinet or Palo Alto. But overall, inspection and other features are working fine."
"The network interface could be better, and it could be cheaper."
"You do need knowledge of the solution in order to set the product up properly."
"The solution's support could use improvement."
"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."
"The endpoint protection capabilities of the product are an area of concern where improvements are required."
"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."
"The solution needs to be able to integrate better with third-party infrastructure."
"Scalability becomes an issue when managing a higher number of customers."
"This solution could be improved with faster technical support and cheaper licensing prices."
"The stability of the solution could be improved. It should be 100% stable, but it's not there right now."
"The solution needs improvement in terms of pricing."
"I would like the ability to analyze all files in our internal network, at the same time on different operating systems. Not just three of them, but as many as possible."
"The solution could be more stable and offer more security."
"Some of the end users may not be technically proficient, so they occasionally face problems due to a lack of knowledge."
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Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is ranked 31st in Firewalls with 40 reviews while Trend Micro Deep Discovery is ranked 8th in Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS) with 22 reviews. Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is rated 7.6, while Trend Micro Deep Discovery is rated 8.4. 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 Trend Micro Deep Discovery writes "Good threat detection capabilities and offers flexibility for hosting options". 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 Trend Micro Deep Discovery is most compared with Darktrace, Trend Micro TippingPoint Threat Protection System, Arista NDR, Vectra AI and Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention.
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