Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall Scalability
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Aamir Ejaz
Head of IT Department at Mana
Scalability is somewhat limited. While I rate it at five to six, I note that there are restrictions in the firewall manager and limitations when deploying for cloud environments. Since we are using it on-premises, it is difficult to utilize for cloud solutions as well.
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OusaidAbaz
Security Network Architect at Inmac
It's not a useful tool if your goal is to expand your architecture or platform.
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Mairajuddin Ahmed
Division Manager, Information Technology at Lonestar
In terms of scalability, it depends on the specific model being utilized. Basic models may have limitations and may need to be more scalable. However, mid to high-range firewall models, such as the Next Generation ones, are stackable and scalable. It means multiple branches can seamlessly run the same solution without encountering any issues.
In our organization, approximately 200 users utilize the solution. It is extensively and regularly used as our users rely heavily on URL filtering.
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Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall
September 2025
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Fadi Shehab
American Corner Administrator at Hashimite university
Forcepoint's firewall is highly scalable, which helps our organization handle increased traffic and services. Approximately 35,00 user networks are protected by the product.
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Ashish Choudhary
Co-founder | Product Manager | CEO @ ReDi at TRIAD Technologies
The scalability is very good. I would rate it eight or nine out of ten in terms of the ability to expand.
We have about 200 people using the solution at this time.
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Robson Giovanelli Silva
CIO at Content-ti
The number of users depends on the customer environment. Typically, there are up to 5,000 users.
At the moment, there are no plans to increase usage.
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Dharmendra Mishra
Associate Consultant at SoftwareONE
The solution scales well. If a company needs to scale, it can do so with ease.
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MuhammadRicky Anggoro Pratomo
Senior Network Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
We like the scalability of Forcepoint because with the Forcepoint NGFW solution, we can scale anything. However, I think there is room for more improvement in the auto-scaling feature in SD-WAN.
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Petr Pouzar
IT Consultant at M-COM s.r.o
It is a very scalable solution. If you don't have enough capacity, you can easily double or even triple it. If you need to add extra Forcepoint devices due to insufficient power, it's just a matter of expanding the cluster. Additionally, the physical boxes can be set up as a hybrid cluster, which means you don't necessarily need the same expensive appliances. You can purchase more affordable ones and integrate them into the Acris cluster. Forcepoint's physical appliances can share and distribute the network traffic between them.
We have enterprise-level as well as small-sized clients.
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Dino R
System Administrator at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I rate the solution's scalability a nine out of ten.
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reviewer1774215
Assistant Manager, Information Security at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
This solution is scalable.
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Robson Giovanelli Silva
CIO at Content-ti
We feel Forcepoint's scalability to be pretty easy and good. It works very well.
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IT Director at a comms service provider with 201-500 employees
This is a scalable product. We have approximately 300 users.
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Mohamed Abdel Hassanein
Managing Director at FORESEC
It is scalable. We have many customers, and some of them have from 500 to 1,000 users.
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Head of Infrastructure & Cloud Section at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Our projects are not very demanding in terms of performance. Therefore, we don't have any special requirements for scalability. We have some customers for whom we manage this kind of technology, and the scalability or performance is achieved by deploying a greater data appliance.
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Lipaz Hessel
Integration Manager at Gilat Satellite Networks
From the design that we took, it had the ability to scale up to 250 clients. That was good for what we needed but we failed with the first customer and could not complete the implementation for the second one.
In our environment, we had ten users.
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Security Product Manager at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
The Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is a scalable product.
I work with various types of users and organizations. We have maybe, starting with 20,000 users to 100 users.
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Product Manager at a computer software company with 1-10 employees
Forcepoint Next-Generation Firewall is a scalable solution.
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Anwar Sleem
Regional Director at Ceitcon
Adding users is very straightforward.
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IT Infra Head at a consumer goods company with 1,001-5,000 employees
This solution scales well and the performance is not degraded. We have 35 registered users in the organization.
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Team Lead Network Infrastructure at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
It is a scalable product. I know a customer who has deployed more than 4,000 firewalls in a single deployment.
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Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
We have around 50 users of this solution in our company.
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Technical Support Specialist Networks at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Scalability-wise, I cannot comment because we have not increased the number of firewalls or the number of nodes on our existing firewall. Although we have not implemented these changes, I know that it's very easy to increase the number of nodes and bandwidth, which means that it is very scalable, but from an on-premise point of view, we haven't done that.
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Managing Director at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees
A company would have absolutely no problem scaling this solution. If a team needs to build it out, they can do so quite easily.
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Senior Network Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
It can handle a lot.
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Senior Network Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
With the SD-WAN capabilities, it is very scalable. We have about 6,000 users.
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Arf-Wu
Manager at Readytech
Scaling this solution is difficult. We have approximately 100 users.
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AhmadAlshami
Senior IT Operations Manager at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
Yes, this solution is scalable.
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Sr. Network Engineer at a university with 201-500 employees
The solution isn't scalable. We have about 5,000 users, but they are never on it at the same time. Traffic just passes through.
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Bishoy-Habib
Security Pre-Sales Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
After three or five years, if you want to change the model with a bigger model because of the network expansion, I think they support that. Our clients are huge enterprise businesses.
reviewer898881
Security Specialist at a energy/utilities company with 51-200 employees
Scalability is fantastic. We are using an active-active cluster and there is no problem with adding another node. Currently, we have a two-node cluster, but there is no problem in adding a third node.
This solution protects approximately three hundred users.
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MarkEdward
Technical Support Engineer at MCS
It is scalable.
it_user972015
Information Security Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
The solution is very simple to scale. You just need to keep on adding devices. The firewall can cluster with multiple different models. Scalability-wise, this firewall will be the best firewall for an organization who is operating with a low budget. We typically implement for medium-sized to enterprise-level organizations.
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Ahmad Abdullah
Network Engineer at Click ITS
Scalability-wise, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.
Around 100 people in my company use the tool.
Vijay Bhaskara Maram
Network Engineer at Pyramid IT Solutions Pvt Ltd
The salability of Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is great.
We have three clients that are using this solution.
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Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall
September 2025
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