We performed a comparison between Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway and Fortinet FortiGate SWG based on real PeerSpot user reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway is favored over Fortinet FortiGate SWG thanks to its extensive capabilities, such as enterprise DLP, sandboxing, and granular policies. Fortinet FortiGate SWG is stable and dependable, but lacks in web and DMC features, reporting capabilities, and network traceability. Customer service and support for Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway received mixed reviews, but its pricing is considered reasonable or average by some reviewers. Overall, Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway offers a strong sense of security and protection, resulting in a positive ROI.
"The most valuable features are the antivirus as a whole, the anti-malware, and all of the protection features that scan our enterprise devices."
"On the outside, the main differentiation is because Lookout ingest. They have ingested basically all of the apps for the last ten years and all the versions of all the apps, and we have that in a corporate database that allows us to do very large-scale machine learning and analysis on that data set. That's not something that any of the competitors really have the capability to do because they don't have access to the data set. A lot of the apps you can no longer get them because that version of the app is five or six years old, and it just doesn't exist anywhere anymore, except within our infrastructure. So, the ability to have that very rich dataset and learn from that dataset is a real differentiator."
"The solution is stable."
"The protection offered by the product is the most valuable feature. It detects vulnerabilities or traps on our users' phones and then prompts them to clean up their devices. Tools we used previously would only discover, which required us to gather information on the backend, so Lookout is a welcome upgrade."
"The initial setup is easy. It's not difficult."
"Once deployed, the management console is simple and easy to use."
"I like the product's scalability and stability."
"The most valuable feature for me in Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway is URL filtering, though all other features of the product are okay as well."
"The solution’s administration is easy."
"Real-time category protection."
"The Forcepoint client software can be downloaded on a user's machine so that it can filter the sites from home or the office. That's one of the biggest features. We can use it for filtering our laptops for our users at any place."
"This is a highly detailed product with very good key features."
"The interface is user-friendly, so it's easy to add policies and block traffic."
"It offers web filtering capabilities at a more affordable price compared to other solutions like PSMs or NETGEAR."
"The response from the technical support team has always been excellent."
"FortiGate is easy to configure. We configured one of the units and sent it to Indiana to be installed. We asked them to give us a call when they got it, so we could help them through the process, but they called us back to tell us it works great."
"Web filtering is the most useful feature."
"The overall features of Fortinet FortiGate SWG are good."
"The product's most valuable features are SD-WAN and the integration of WiFi and switches."
"The performance is very good and the solution is simple to manage."
"From the analysis that we've done, they do seem to be maybe a step behind in trying to enter the market with a new solution. But when they do pick up, they do come out with some good products."
"Lookout was moving into the SSE space. And so their work on SecureWeb Gateway and SD-WAN is still sort of evolving."
"We just submitted an enhancement request reflecting the main area we want to see improvement in; the APIs. Currently, we're able to build dashboards, but it's somewhat backward because we use our MDM API to create them. Lookout should provide API to customers so we can query our data and use it in our cloud, and this is the only outstanding area for improvement with the product right now."
"The stability depends on the service from where you access it. Because sometimes, the place you are in, you have Gateway. You don't have Gateway. The gateway is overutilized. At the end, you need to go through their gateways. And this is the key point here. You have a tracking point. If it's not well orchestrated, and it scales up as you add more to the existing team, you will suffer"
"Stability needs some improvement, we have on occasion experienced some delay when it is synchronized."
"We have had latency issues."
"It has a problem with tablets and the iPhone. It's not filtering on these platforms. It filters on Windows but not iOS or Android."
"The deployment is a bit complex and it requires expertise to deploy, which is something that should be improved and made easier to do."
"The performance issues in the product are an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The technical support team's response time could be improved."
"The product needs to have more mobility."
"The product could be improved by including a consolidated product that can carry on Forcepoint product email, web, and DLP."
"Fortinet FortiGate SWG's SSL offloading features need improvement."
"We can't identify which users are causing challenges when we have issues."
"It is essential to leverage its capabilities more professionally to achieve an even higher level of security."
"The solution could improve by having some additional features, such as IBS and better cloud administration."
"The product needs to drastically improve its reporting capability."
"Integrating OpenVPN with FortiGate would provide a powerful combination of secure remote access and comprehensive network security."
"Fortinet FortiGate SWG should be localised to specific regions to comply with local data privacy regulations because of the data privacy rules in the countries. In the Middle East, data organisation and KFA requirements are stringent."
"Fortinet FortiGate SWG could improve the price, it is expensive."
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Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway is ranked 5th in Secure Web Gateways (SWG) with 47 reviews while Fortinet FortiGate SWG is ranked 4th in Secure Web Gateways (SWG) with 39 reviews. Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway is rated 7.8, while Fortinet FortiGate SWG is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway writes "Simple to set up, reliable, and offers great reporting". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Fortinet FortiGate SWG writes "Non-IT people could plug it in, connect it to the fiber, and get it running without IT help. ". Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway is most compared with Zscaler Internet Access, Cisco Umbrella, Symantec Proxy, Fortinet FortiProxy and Cisco Web Security Appliance, whereas Fortinet FortiGate SWG is most compared with Fortinet FortiProxy, Cisco Umbrella, Sangfor Internet Access Gateway (IAG), Netskope Next Gen Secure Web Gateway and Axis Security. See our Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway vs. Fortinet FortiGate SWG report.
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