Introduction
This case study of Raytheon Company is based on a June 2018 survey of Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.
Challenges
- The business challenges that led the profiled company to evaluate and ultimately select Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall:
- A lack of or inefficient one-to-many device provisioning
- Exposure to advanced network threats
- Evaluated the following vendor before choosing Forcepoint:
- Cisco
- Addressed the following challenges after using Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall:
- New firewall deployment
- Maintaining policy consistency across firewalls
- Deploying software updates
- Having a unified view of all firewalls
Use Cases
The key features and functionalities of Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall that the surveyed company uses:
- Chose Forcepoint because of the following capabilities:
- Speed/simplicity of managing sophisticated policies across many sites
- High-availability clustering of up to 16 different devices
Results
The surveyed company achieved the following results with Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall:
- Less planned maintenance and fewer unplanned outages
- Less IT staff time spent managing networks
- Faster incident response times
- Faster deployment times
- Reports that their end-user internet performance significantly improved as a result of moving to the Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall.
- Reports that their planned maintenance and unplanned outages were reduced from hours to minutes since using Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall.
- Reports that their incident response time was reduced from days to hours since using Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall.