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Cisco Firepower 4100 Series vs. Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Cisco Firepower 4100 Series

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/AThe Cisco Firepower 4100 Series’ 1-rack-unit size is presented by the vendodr as ideal at the Internet edge and in high-performance environments. They further state that it shows what’s happening on your network, detects attacks earlier so you can act faster, and reduces management complexity.N/A

    Forcepoint DLP

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AForcepoint Data Loss Prevention (DLP) protects sensitive data everywhere it resides and moves, across endpoints, cloud apps, web, email, and on-premises environments. It delivers unified policy management and centralized control from a single console.N/A
    Pricing
    Cisco Firepower 4100 SeriesForcepoint DLP
    Editions & Modules
    Firepower 4100
    50,000-250,000
    per appliance
    No answers on this topic
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Cisco Firepower 4100 SeriesForcepoint DLP
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Cisco Firepower 4100 SeriesForcepoint DLP
    Considered Both Products
    Cisco
    No answer on this topic
    Forcepoint
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    80%
    Would buy again
    4 Answers
    87%
    Would buy again
    20 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    5 Answers
    87%
    Delivers good value for the price
    20 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    5 Answers
    91%
    Happy with the feature set
    21 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    92%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    12 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    80%
    Implementation went as expected
    4 Answers
    85%
    Implementation went as expected
    17 Answers
    Features
    Cisco Firepower 4100 SeriesForcepoint DLP
    Firewall
    Comparison of Firewall features of Cisco Firepower 4100 Series and Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention
    Feature
    Cisco Firepower 4100 Series
    8.2
    5 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention
    -
    Ratings
    Identification Technologies8.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Visualization Tools8.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content Inspection9.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Policy-based Controls8.75 Ratings00 Ratings
    Active Directory and LDAP7.94 Ratings00 Ratings
    Firewall Management Console8.35 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting and Logging8.75 Ratings00 Ratings
    VPN7.15 Ratings00 Ratings
    High Availability9.35 Ratings00 Ratings
    Stateful Inspection9.35 Ratings00 Ratings
    Proxy Server6.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Preparation
    Comparison of Data Preparation features of Cisco Firepower 4100 Series and Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention
    Feature
    Cisco Firepower 4100 Series
    -
    Ratings
    Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention
    6.3
    2 Ratings
    26% below category average
    Data Encryption00 Ratings6.32 Ratings
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    Score8.3 out of 10
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    Medium-sized Companies
    Barracuda CloudGen Firewall
    Score9.6 out of 10
    Symantec Data Loss Prevention
    Score7.3 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software
    Score9 out of 10
    Symantec Data Loss Prevention
    Score7.3 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Cisco Firepower 4100 SeriesForcepoint DLP
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.4
    (5 ratings)
    7.7
    (35 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.6
    (7 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    7.7
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.3
    (12 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Cisco Firepower 4100 SeriesForcepoint DLP
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Cisco
    When we are asked by local partners which security equipment we use we always recommend our Cisco security products. The Firepower firewall is no exception and we can easily recommend this to others who need a fast, secure, and well built system that integrates well with all your existing hardware and software.
    Incentivized
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    Forcepoint
    -Where companies need to secure their attachment, which goes outside, means from their company to outside -Where companies need to ensure their client's personal information -Where companies need DLP. They need to look for Forcepoint only, as they have the upper hand over the rest of their competitors.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    Cisco
    • Packet filtering
    • Great vpn client
    • Integrates correctly with other vendors
    Incentivized
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    Forcepoint
    • It has predominantly protected us from unauthorized parties and has provided us with better visibility and control over our data.
    • This software has also successfully prevented us from both malicious and accidental tasks, which are quite flexible actions when it comes to the violation of data loss prevention policies.
    • This product has been successful in improving compliance and even mitigating compliance violations, which further facilitated IT security.
    • I think there is room for improvement, as the user interface is slightly rough and difficult to adopt in the beginning. The software also hangs up at a few instances, which leads to some wasting of time and annoyance, but other than that, this software is good. The technical staff should work on the complexities for a better user experience.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Cisco
    • Too much time to deploy changes
    • When there are a lot of entries in the ldap mapping the device runs slow
    • You can not make config changes via CLI, only via GUI
    Incentivized
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    Forcepoint
    • Forcepoint technical support--specially for users who go with essential support--is challenging to get support on time. You need the ticket to be raised long beforehand to get support from TAC. However, in the case of enterprise support, its is not like this technical person will come on a priority basis.
    • However it comes with higher prices, especially for SMB, it is allowed to pay that amount for support only.
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Cisco
    No answers on this topic
    Forcepoint
    We have been fairly happy with the product and how it has worked. We have looked at other vendors for url filter and such and have not found one that meets our needs or does what we have been doing with Websense. The product has been fairly stable and we have only had a few issues in the past. We have all seen that it was one of the highest leaders from the Gartner Group Magic Quadrant for Web Gateways.
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    Cisco
    It not easy to understand the different features it offers. Sometimes you need to spend a couple of minutes to implement a change or even open a ticket with cisco tac to figure it out. Once support is on the phone with you they know how to resolve problems. But it's not an intuitive tool
    Incentivized
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    Forcepoint
    For us, Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention was difficult to administer, did not work well when it did work, was incredibly expensive for the feature set you get, and was difficult to uninstall when we moved on from the software. Once it was fully set up, it worked occasionally for us.
    Incentivized
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    Support Rating
    Cisco
    No answers on this topic
    Forcepoint
    Support from Forcepoint has been lacking. When calling in with a high priority issue we rarely are able to work with a technician immediately. The queue waits are very long and when you get through there are no support engineers available and we need to wait for a call back for hours it seems.
    Incentivized
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    Alternatives Considered
    Cisco
    As I mentioned before, the Fortigates have better failover. I think the Cisco interface is easier to use that that of the FortiGate. My only criticism would be that with multiple CLIs, it can get a bit confusing when you are trying to configure something or troubleshoot from the CLI.
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    Forcepoint
    User friendly solution that makes it easy to deploy and manage. Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention very effective to protecting our valuable data on endpoints and where data lives like in the Cloud, server and on-premises disk drives and its valuable to just set policies once and start utilizing Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention solution.
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    Cisco
    • Very stable and does not cause major interruption.
    • Supports most of the business requirements.
    • Enhance security, risk and compliance.
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    Forcepoint
    • The exchange of financial documents with customers creates extreme risk as data loss could result in financial and reputation damage to the customer. The cost of deploying Forcepoint is fractions of pennies compared to the potential financial impact of data loss.
    • There is some administrative overhead associated as false positives are inevitable, requiring a manual review and a potential loss of productivity.
    Incentivized
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