Emotional Footprint Awards 2022
Next Generation Firewall - Enterprise
SoftwareReviews names Fortinet Fortigate NGFW, Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall, and Palo Alto Network Security NGFW as Next Generation Firewall - Enterprise Emotional Footprint Award Winners.
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Next Generation Firewall - Enterprise
Emotional Footprint Awards
SoftwareReviews Emotional Footprint Awards evaluate and rank products based on emotional response ratings from IT and business professionals. Using our Emotional Footprint methodology, we aggregate emotional footprint scores across 26 dimensions of the vendor-client relationship and product effectiveness, creating a powerful indicator of overall user feeling toward the vendor and product.
Emotional Footprint Awards are proudly founded in 100% user review data and are free of traditional “magical” components such as market presence and analyst opinion, which are opaque in nature and may be influenced by vendor pressure, financial or otherwise.
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See how each vendor stacks up across each of the 26 dimensions and our thorough evaluation of vendor capabilities, product features, and overall satisfaction.
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Measuring Emotional Footprint
Emotional Footprint is scored using our “Net Emotional Footprint” Index. This index tracks responses across 26 dimensions of emotional footprint that span 5 categories: Purchasing, Service Experience, Product Impact, Vendor Strategy, and Conflict Resolution. Then, the following calculation is done across this index:
% of Positive Reviews - % of Negative Reviews
For clarity, the total percentage of positive, neutral, and negative ratings is shown for each vendor as well.
Emotional Footprint Leaders
Forcepoint LLC
Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall
Forcepoint NGFW provides consistent security, performance and operations across physical, virtual and cloud systems. It's designed from the ground up for high availability and scalability, as well as centralized management with full 360° visibility.
9.1
CX Score
CX
Score
+94
Net Emotional Footprint
Net Emotional
Footprint
88
Value Index
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Fortinet
Fortinet Fortigate NGFW
FortiGate enterprise firewalls reduce complexity and improve overall security posture by providing full visibility into users, devices, applications and threats on the network, with the ability to apply advanced threat protection anywhere in the network.
9.0
CX Score
CX
Score
+91
Net Emotional Footprint
Net Emotional
Footprint
88
Value Index
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Palo Alto Networks
Palo Alto Network Security NGFW
We offer a full line of next-generation security appliances that range from the PA-200, designed for enterprise remote offices, to the PA-7050, which is a modular chassis designed for high-speed data centers. Our platform architecture is based on our single pass software engine and uses function-specific processing for networking, security, threat prevention, and management to deliver predictable performance.
8.9
CX Score
CX
Score
+90
Net Emotional Footprint
Net Emotional
Footprint
88
Value Index
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Other Evaluated Vendors
Sophos
Sophos Firewall
Sophos Firewall’s Xstream architecture protects your network from the latest threats while accelerating your important SaaS, SD-WAN, and cloud application traffic.
8.5
CX Score
CX
Score
+86
Net Emotional Footprint
Net Emotional
Footprint
85
Value Index
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Cisco Systems
Cisco Firewall Series
To protect your assets, you must see the users, applications, devices, and threats on your network and what they are doing. Our ASA 5500-X firewalls deliver the network visibility, superior protection, and greater automation you need to defend against today’s threats. The Cisco Firepower® NGFW (next-generation firewall) is the industry’s first fully integrated, threat-focused next-gen firewall with unified management. It uniquely provides advanced threat protection before, during, & after attacks.
8.5
CX Score
CX
Score
+86
Net Emotional Footprint
Net Emotional
Footprint
84
Value Index
VALUE INDEX
WatchGuard Technologies
WatchGuard Network Security
WatchGuard offers the most comprehensive portfolio of security services, from traditional intrusion prevention, gateway antivirus, application control, spam prevention, and URL filtering, to more advanced services for protecting against evolving malware, ransomware, and data breaches. Each security service is delivered as an integrated solution within an easy-to-manage and cost-effective Firebox appliance.
8.2
CX Score
CX
Score
+83
Net Emotional Footprint
Net Emotional
Footprint
81
Value Index
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Check Point Software Technologies
Check Point Quantum
Check Point provides customers of all sizes with the latest data and network security protection in an integrated next generation firewall platform, reducing complexity and lowering the total cost of ownership.Your network is under constant threat. To secure it, you need the most advanced firewall protection. Check Point Next Generation Firewall identifies and controls applications by user and scans content to stop threats before they happen.
7.3
CX Score
CX
Score
+69
Net Emotional Footprint
Net Emotional
Footprint
77
Value Index
VALUE INDEX
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