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Forcepoint ZTNA vs FortiSASE comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Forcepoint ZTNA
Average Rating
7.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
ZTNA (19th)
FortiSASE
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
5.3
Number of Reviews
18
Ranking in other categories
Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) (6th)
 

Mindshare comparison

Forcepoint ZTNA and FortiSASE aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Forcepoint ZTNA is designed for ZTNA and holds a mindshare of 1.5%, up 0.3% compared to last year.
FortiSASE, on the other hand, focuses on Secure Access Service Edge (SASE), holds 7.6% mindshare, up 7.2% since last year.
ZTNA Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Forcepoint ZTNA1.5%
Cloudflare One10.8%
Fortinet FortiGate9.7%
Other78.0%
ZTNA
Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
FortiSASE7.6%
Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks11.8%
Cato SASE Cloud Platform9.8%
Other70.8%
Secure Access Service Edge (SASE)
 

Featured Reviews

AR
Business Development Management at a computer retailer with 501-1,000 employees
You can add multiple features on a single agent, but it's an expensive product, and its marketing approach should be more aggressive
Forcepoint ZTNA isn't well-known in the market. Right now, it's a novice, so an area for improvement in it is making the product known. Forcepoint should create more awareness about Forcepoint ZTNA because a distributor like me still needs to promote it more to customers. Forcepoint has to capitalize on, focus on, or highlight its overall approaches to Forcepoint ZTNA marketing, such as SASE or SSE, to sell the whole bundle rather than as a standalone product. Today, most customers move to the cloud, so the whole SSE or SASE approach makes better sense. Forcepoint needs to look at the whole picture. I suggest being more aggressive in marketing to boost customer awareness of Forcepoint ZTNA.
LK
Head Vice President, Delivery at Gehnax Technologies LLP
Implementation complexity challenges are addressed and bundled solution offers significant ROI
For other solutions such as FortiAnalyzer and FortiSIEM, integration is easy, but it's not straightforward due to license complexity. As FortiSASE is new in the market in India, if you want to use a Delhi data center, you need a separate license, and if you have a different kind of firewall, you cannot transfer your license from one box to another box. FortiSASE implementation is too complex where other products take two to three months or maximum four months to implement, FortiSASE took more than double that time. The product appears to have been launched without being tested properly in real market conditions. While testing may have been done in lab environments, real-time scenarios seem to be missing from this solution. The SPA licenses are limited to the box UTM, UTM make and model. If someone has a UTM currently and plans to upgrade or downgrade in the coming year after procuring the SPA license for three years, they cannot transfer those licenses to another box, which is a challenge that needs improvement.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"What I like about Forcepoint ZTNA is that you could use it as a starting point because you have one agent that allows you to add more features. Other technologies require one agent per solution, so you'll end up with multiple agents."
"I find Fortinet to be competitive with its firewalls."
"The most valuable aspect of Fortinet solutions, such as FortiSASE, is that it provides value for money; you can get all the benefits and values, not at the level of leaders such as Palo Alto, but for much lower prices."
"The product can scale."
"It is easy to integrate with Fortinet."
"FortiSASE can operate in a cloud environment with client certificates for authorizations and access control using features like PostCheck."
"It's very stable."
"The integration with the company's existing security infrastructure enhanced our security posture since it was a straightforward process."
"The technical support from Fortinet is highly commendable, and I rate it as nine out of ten."
 

Cons

"Forcepoint ZTNA isn't well-known in the market. Right now, it's a novice, so an area for improvement in it is making the product known. Forcepoint should create more awareness about Forcepoint ZTNA because a distributor like me still needs to promote it more to customers."
"They need to have more concise or precise ways to come up with the return on investment for convincing or presenting this to customers."
"FortiSASE is an expensive product and the cost is indeed high."
"The main concern is that if the client is using another firewall, they cannot establish a private channel with the Cisco cloud."
"I do not recommend FortiSASE for everyone."
"FortiSASE is a work in progress. One area where there is room for improvement is the ability to use FortiSASE on an endpoint that doesn't have the client on it. Other solutions do that by building a VPN tunnel from their on-prem router into the SASE environment. FortiSASE doesn't have that feature yet, but it is on the roadmap for Q3 of this year. I've seen it in their development environment."
"They are trying to improve the features of FortiSASE, however, many FortiSASE gates still cannot connect. While connectivity from outside to inside is okay, inside to outside is not."
"Areas of FortiSASE that could be improved or enhanced in future releases are related to being more open to supporting third-party integrations."
"There were some difficulties with updating, and the solution is expensive."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Ninety percent of the feedback I received from company partners is that Forcepoint ZTNA is an expensive product."
"I can only speak about the pricing for education users because we get discounts. Other users aren't going to get the same price, but FortiSASE is competitive with the other products out there. All the solutions came in at the same price, so it just came down to the product that works best for us."
"On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive, I rate the solution's pricing a three out of ten."
"I rate the product's price a six on a scale of one to ten, where one is low price and ten is high price."
"I rate the product price an eight on a scale of one to ten, where one is high price, and ten is low price."
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Computer Software Company
13%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Construction Company
7%
 

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Small Business11
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise5
 

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for FortiSASE ?
The pricing, licensing, and setup costs of FortiSASE are very advantageous if you are already a Fortinet customer. If you have FortiGate, the Fortinet firewall, it will be a very good solution for ...
What needs improvement with FortiSASE ?
Areas of FortiSASE that could be improved or enhanced in future releases are related to being more open to supporting third-party integrations. FortiSASE needs to ensure compatibility with other th...
What is your primary use case for FortiSASE ?
FortiSASE is typically used by customers with two major concerns: many branches or stores and sometimes remote workers or roaming users. These customers also have cloud applications, as many enterp...
 

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