Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall vs Google Cloud Firewall Policies

Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall provides network security and SD-WAN connectivity for enterprise networks spanning physical, virtual, and cloud systems. Its Secure Management Center centralizes policy management, log analysis, monitoring, and reporting. Protection features include deep packet inspection, anti-evasion defenses, intrusion prevention, vulnerability exploit detection, and DoS/DDoS protection. Clustering supports active-active or active-standby arrangements with up to 16 nodes, and updates can be applied without interrupting service. Listed cloud infrastructure includes Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google, Oracle, and IBM. Virtual appliances support x86 64-bit systems, VMware ESXi and NSX, Microsoft Hyper-V, KVM, and Nutanix AHV. Integrations include SASE/SSE, CASB, and Web Security; remote access supports the Forcepoint VPN client for Windows, Android, and Mac OS, as well as standard IPsec clients. URL filtering requires a separate subscription, and local anti-malware scanning is unavailable on 110/115 appliances. Pricing is on request, and there is no free plan.

Google Cloud Firewall Policies provide hierarchical firewall rules for organizations that need to apply controls across an organization or selected folders. Rules can allow or deny connections, or pass evaluation onward to lower-level policies or VPC firewall rules. A hierarchical policy becomes active only when associated with an organization or folder; it cannot be assigned directly to a project. Rules can target VPC networks and VM service accounts, but not instance tags. When configured with a security profile group, matching traffic can be sent through a firewall endpoint for Layer 7 inspection, including URL filtering and intrusion detection and prevention. Administrators can manage policies in the Google Cloud console or with gcloud CLI; Google also documents Terraform support for rules with logging enabled. Logs are available in Cloud Logging and can be exported to its supported destinations. Identity and Access Management roles govern policy permissions. Essentials rules based on standard network attributes are free; hierarchical policy charges are listed per covered VM and depend on rule-attribute count.