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Forcepoint Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) Reviews & Product Details

Connecting and protecting distributed enterprises and government agencies is more important than ever before. Defending your people and critical assets starts at the new edge. Forcepoint Next-Gen Firewall combines true enterprise-class SD-WAN, advanced intrusion prevention, and seamless integration with cloud-based SASE security to keep your people and data safe—all at global scale. Forcepoint Next-Gen Firewall provides: - Proactively detect and discover advanced threats - Keep people and data safe with a human-centric approach to SASE security - Protect distributed enterprises and government agencies using secure branch networking and SD-WAN

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Product Description

Forcepoint Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) is a network security solution that combines advanced threat protection, deep packet inspection, and integrated security management to safeguard networks across distributed environments while ensuring high performance and reliability.

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Kimberly Cook

Value at a Glance

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Return on Investment

13 months

Perceived Cost

$$$$$

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Usman S.

Systems Infrastructure Officer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

8/2/2021

"Simple software with excellent scalability."

5/5

What do you like best about Forcepoint Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW)?

The easiness of the user interface and VPN client authentication is great. Overall, our system feels more secure than before since the installation of this product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Forcepoint Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW)?

Seemed their was a knowledge gap for tech who was assisting us. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Forcepoint Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW):

You may go for this product undoubtedly, it will enhance the decision-making of your organization with better security levels. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Forcepoint Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) solving and how is that benefiting you?

Our management has become seamless with forcepoint Next-Generation Firewall. Downtime's have decreased with its advanced clustering for networks and firewalls and our administrators can now rapidly map business processes into strong and accurate controls. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

SATHEESH J.

IT Manager

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

10/28/2021

"Good"

5/5

What do you like best about Forcepoint Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW)?

User-friendly, efficient in working with applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Forcepoint Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW)?

Sometimes connectivity was very slow, even though the network is exemplary. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Financial Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

10/28/2021

"Needs Improvement"

4/5

What do you like best about Forcepoint Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW)?

* Handles both Firewall and IPS

* Setup as high availability and load balancer

* Good local support Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Forcepoint Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW)?

* Only handles IPSec VPN and is not capable of SSL VPN

* For VPN connection, easy setup of MFA Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Seshu A.

Network Manager

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

8/18/2021

"Forcepoint firewall"

4/5

What do you like best about Forcepoint Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW)?

policy configuration & sd wan configuration along with the centralized policy control Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Forcepoint Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW)?

support knowledge of technician need to improve Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Telecommunications

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

7/28/2021

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"Effective,Efficient and Improved"

4/5

What do you like best about Forcepoint Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW)?

There are many features of forcepoint next gen firewall which makes it marvellous.

1. Cost efficient.

2. Zero touch deployment.

3. Fastest way of responding to incident

4. Zero downtime for upgrade

5.resiliency management.

There are many more but I will sum up with there 5. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Forcepoint Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW)?

It has has lack of cloud security features specially toward google cloud and CASB integration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Transportation/Trucking/Railroad

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

2/16/2021

"ForcePoint NGFW Review"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Forcepoint Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW)?

Ease of use of the user interface

Each firewall being able to be configured independently or as a group

VPN client authentication is fast and easy

Setting up a new device is quick and simple Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Forcepoint Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW)?

Online knowledge base is not easy to find answers for assistance Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Forcepoint Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW):

Try it and you will like it. These firewalls do everything you could need and more. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Forcepoint Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) solving and how is that benefiting you?

Issues with VPN connectivity timeouts before they should be timed out.

Configuration with Netlink and Multilink interfaces.

The firewall is easy to manage once you learn it and can do a multitude of things including SDWAN. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Government Administration

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

8/25/2021

"It is user friendly fw."

4.5/5

What do you like best about Forcepoint Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW)?

Management of a ngfws. We can easily manage our ngfws under single console and it ECA feature is best. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Forcepoint Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW)?

Not showing user logout option button. How to logout from SMC Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

8/13/2021

"Best Firewall for SDWAN Solution"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Forcepoint Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW)?

SDWAN Features are best on Forcepoint NGFW Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Forcepoint Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW)?

Application identification is not of utmost on NGFW Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Government Administration

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

2/18/2021

"Solid Next Gen FW"

4/5

What do you like best about Forcepoint Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW)?

The SMC management interface is easy to manipulate. Thick client drag and drop is nice. Support/TAC is decent. NGFW product is quite reliable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Forcepoint Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW)?

it took way too long for the SMC WebUI to get added to a LTS release. It is there now and I look forward to upgrading to this version. When using it as a VPN concentrator automatic Renewal of Gateway Certificates doesn't support ECDSA certs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.