Our use cases involve deploying the Forcepoint solution, which includes installing the SMC server, management server, log server, as well as physical appliances and designing the clustering of Forcepoint.
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Forcepoint NXGEN - Future firewall
What do you like best about the product?
Forcepoint NGFW provides ultimate UTM security to the organisation perimeter network. IT comes with SD wan capablities which seamless network flow and security over the internet. We can monitor and control firewall via signle console. In consolve we can add different versions and different models of firewall which is additional feature.
What do you dislike about the product?
Contact to the Management server with firewalls sometimes fails that we need to do again and again via OTP.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Forcepoint firewall is best SD-WAN and firewall solution. We can implement this as a router with SD-WAN and Firewall by adding multiple ACL's.
We can manage centralised logs of all the firewall in internal server or we can assign dedicated log server to all the firewalls.
We can manage centralised logs of all the firewall in internal server or we can assign dedicated log server to all the firewalls.
Improvement of system resource usage
What do you like best about the product?
Forcepoint SASE Platform is a product in which the dashboard may experience some glitches. Its performance is solid.
What do you dislike about the product?
Forcepoint SASE Platform Provides security characters there is room for improvement in terms of connectivity and system resource usage.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Forcepoint SASE Platform solve the problems of safeguarding our network against cyber threats. Its NGFW security features ensure that our valuable business data remains protected.
Provides hybrid cluster setup and highly stable solution
What is our primary use case?
What is most valuable?
Forcepoint is a good solution because it has a central server that serves as a management console. You can manage 100s of firewalls from this single console. Additionally, a key advantage is that Forcepoint provides VPN services as part of its basic subscriptions. It is not necessary to pay extra to use VPN services.
What needs improvement?
There is certainly room for improvement. In larger companies with extensive infrastructure, retrieving logs for a longer period of time can sometimes take a bit longer than desired.
In bigger companies with a larger volume of logs; it takes more time to retrieve them due to the increased amount of data.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been working with Forcepoint for about two years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
It is a very stable solution. If you set everything well, if your policy is well designed, it's stable.
Overall, I would rate the stability a nine out of ten.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
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.
How are customer service and support?
The customer service and support are quite good. They are very educated. I never had a case that I wasn't able to solve successfully. So, they are reliable.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup is very easy because all you need to do is create a USB disk, which you can obtain from the management server. You configure it once. After that, you just connect the physical server to Ethernet, insert the USB disk, and turn it on. Everything else will be done. You configure it for the first time on the management server and then install it on the FlashDesk. After that, you simply connect the physical server to Ethernet, insert the USB disk, and turn it on. That's it. And everything else will be taken care of.
What about the implementation team?
If you do a simple installation, just the physical setup, it's a matter of hours. For a single installation, for a small business or company where you have around 150 users on the network edge, one engineer is enough. Therefore, the time to deploy the solution depends on the size of the installation.
Moreover, some maintenance is required for the solution. One person or one administration is enough for maintenance.
What other advice do I have?
I would recommend the solution. Overall, I would rate the solution a nine out of ten because there are disadvantages like only some logs for enterprises. It takes a bit longer for it.
Best in Industry Firewall for Cyber Attacks
What do you like best about the product?
User-friendly and easy to configure and understand. Easy to detect vulnerabilities and fix. Comparing to other legacy products this is very updated according to the industry need.
What do you dislike about the product?
It would be better if documents or troubleshooting steps can be provided and updated regularly. To make ease to create support requests and to use trial versions easily.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It helps to implement effective security architecture to prevent cyber attacks. Especially my organization iqvia recenlty strated exploring it in our Azure Cloud.
Good software but scope to improve
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to use, good UX and VPN workflow. Overall it is as per my need and suits us. Also centeralized control is the feature which we liked the most.
What do you dislike about the product?
For the first time configuration, it is still a bit tricky. Expecting a better documentation
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Enhancing security at multiple layers for our systems and applications. Easy to trace down the exact issue by referring logs
Facepoint provides best security for product
What do you like best about the product?
Facepoint provides very flexible functionality integrated with the cloud and is better cost-effective.
What do you dislike about the product?
Its installation and configuration is little hard
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Its gving good security for our products and protect our datas
Excellent software
What do you like best about the product?
It has an easy user interface, is very efficient while working with applications, cost-efficient, and has zero downtime for upgrade. Most importantly VPN client authentication is really fast and easy.
What do you dislike about the product?
What I feel is some UI need more enhancement and one more thing is it doesn't shows user logout button, it creates issue sometimes. Otherwise everything is pretty good.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
For me it is helping me for VPN connections and management purposes.
I had a good experience using
What do you like best about the product?
Its protecting my system and softwares from Viruses. More trustable firewall to use, give us complete protected environment from DDOS attack and all kind of vulnerabilities
What do you dislike about the product?
nothing, its working fine and fulfilling mu needs to secure system.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Its protecting my system and softwares from Viruses. More trustable firewall to use, give us complete protected environment from DDOS attack and all kind of vulnerabilities
Forcepoint's Next-Gen Review
What do you like best about the product?
I liked that it has multilayer protection and implementation of role based access. It also provides the administrators to monitor threats and respond to critical threats in a simple way.
What do you dislike about the product?
Cloud security features should also be included and the connectivity should be improved also and its heavy systemresources consumption should be enhanced and SD-WAN core features should also be improved.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The best thing I liked the most is its easy to use GUI and its protection is great but the connectivity should be improved and the use of system recourses also and the support for application based policies.
Forcepoint NGFW
What do you like best about the product?
We get a very smart console of Forcepoint SMC through which we can control all NGFW engines. We can create a single, cluster, VPN firewall directly in smart console.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes firewall lost connectivity for that we need to create the initial configuration for that.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We can place this firewall as internal, external perimeter, and DMZ protection directly. by logs, we can solve all the issues easily.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Firewall configuration is not easy as compared to others like Palo Alto, Checkpoint and Fortigate.
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