Forcepoint Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) combined with Secure SD-WAN delivers a unified platform that protects your network perimeter while intelligently connecting your branches, data centers, and cloud environments. It's the only solution that pairs fast, flexible SD-WAN networking with industry-leading firewall and intrusion prevention — all managed from a single console.
Whether you're securing a large enterprise data center, connecting hundreds of branch offices, or extending consistent policy to cloud workloads, Forcepoint NGFW and SD-WAN give your team full visibility, control, and resilience — without the complexity.
Next-Generation Firewall — Core Capabilities
A single, high-throughput engine combines deep inspection, intrusion prevention, encrypted-traffic visibility, and Zero Trust access — with the anti-evasion technology Forcepoint is known for.
Core NGFW capabilities
Deep Packet Inspection
Inspects traffic at higher TCP/IP layers to detect threats based on anomalous behavior and attack signatures — far beyond what a stateful firewall can see.
Intrusion Prevention (IPS)
A built-in IPS engine blocks known exploits, zero-day threats, and evasion techniques in real time — without sacrificing throughput.
SSL/TLS Inspection
Decrypts and inspects encrypted traffic to catch threats hidden inside HTTPS, TLS, and other encrypted protocols.
Application Control
Identifies and controls thousands of applications regardless of port, protocol, or encryption — including SaaS and shadow IT.
Advanced Malware Detection
Sandboxing and behavioral analysis detect and block advanced malware, ransomware, and unknown threats before they enter the network.
Zero Trust Network Access
Enforce least-privilege access policies per user, device, and application — natively integrated within the NGFW platform.
Anti-Evasion Technology
Detects and neutralizes evasion techniques that disguise attacks inside fragmented packets, protocol violations, and encoding tricks.
VPN & Remote Access
Built-in site-to-site and client VPN with multi-factor authentication — no separate VPN appliance required.
Secure SD-WAN — Intelligent Branch Connectivity
Secure SD-WAN steers each application over the best available path, bonds multiple ISP links for resilience, and provisions new sites in minutes — and every path is inspected by the same NGFW engine, so there are no security gaps.
Core SD-WAN capabilities
Dynamic Traffic Steering
Monitors application health and ISP link quality in real time, automatically routing traffic over the best available path.
Multi-Link Aggregation
Bond multiple ISP connections (fiber, broadband, LTE) to maximize bandwidth and eliminate single points of failure at every site.
Zero-Touch Provisioning
Activate new branch sites remotely via the cloud — no on-site engineer. New locations are secured and online in minutes.
Full-Mesh Connectivity
Dynamically builds encrypted tunnels between any combination of sites, data centers, and cloud gateways — scaling to thousands of locations.
MPLS Replacement
Replace costly MPLS circuits with secure broadband while maintaining performance SLAs for critical apps like Office 365 and UCaaS.
Application Prioritization
Define QoS policies per application to guarantee performance for voice, video, and business-critical traffic across all links.
ISP Failover & Resiliency
Automatic failover to backup ISP links with sub-second switchover — ensuring uninterrupted connectivity for distributed operations.
Security-First SD-WAN
All SD-WAN traffic is inspected by the NGFW engine — no security gaps when traffic is redirected to alternate paths.
Centralized Management — Secure Management Console (SMC)
The Forcepoint Secure Management Console (SMC) is the single pane of glass for your entire NGFW and SD-WAN deployment — from a handful of firewalls to a global network of 2,000+ appliances.
- Configure, monitor, and update up to 2,000 NGFW appliances from one console
- Unified policy management across physical, virtual, and cloud deployments
- Role-based administration with granular access controls for security teams
- Real-time traffic visualization, event correlation, and threat dashboards
- Automated policy push — deploy security changes to all sites in seconds
- Audit logging and compliance reporting built in
Deployment Models
Forcepoint NGFW runs the same unified software across every deployment type — so security policy and management stay consistent no matter how or where it runs.
Physical appliances
Purpose-built hardware covering every site, from branch offices to high-throughput data centers.
Virtual & cloud
VMware vSphere / NSX-T
Full NGFW and SD-WAN capabilities in virtualized data centers.
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Available on AWS Marketplace for cloud workload protection.
Microsoft Azure
Deploy virtual NGFW alongside Azure workloads with centralized SMC management.
Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Consistent policy enforcement across multi-cloud environments.
Use cases
Enterprise Campus & Data Center
Protect high-throughput core networks with deep inspection, clustering up to 16 nodes, and active-active high availability.
Branch Office Security
Replace expensive MPLS links with secure broadband SD-WAN at every branch — zero-touch provisioned from HQ.
Multi-Cloud Connectivity
Deploy virtual NGFW on AWS, Azure, and VMware to extend consistent security policy into cloud workloads.
Retail & Distributed Sites
Rapidly secure hundreds of stores with policy-consistent, centrally managed NGFW and SD-WAN from a single console.
Industrial & OT Security
Segment IT/OT networks and protect industrial control systems with firewall rules tailored for operational environments.
Secure Remote Access
Provide employees and third parties Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) without deploying separate VPN infrastructure.
Why Forcepoint NGFW / SD-WAN?
Security + SD-WAN in one
No separate SD-WAN appliance — security and connectivity are delivered from a single platform.
Scales to 2,000+ sites
Manage your entire global network — thousands of appliances, one console, one policy framework.
Proven anti-evasion
Industry-recognized technology that detects evasion techniques other NGFWs consistently miss.
Zero-touch branch deployment
New branch sites activated in minutes from the cloud — no truck rolls, no on-site configuration.
Consistent policy everywhere
The same policy enforced on physical hardware, VMs, AWS, Azure, and GCP — no gaps.
HA & clustering built in
Active-active clustering up to 16 nodes ensures zero-downtime operations even during hardware upgrades.
Ready to secure your network with Forcepoint NGFW / SD-WAN?
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