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    AccessPatrol by CurrentWare

    Score6 out of 10
    N/AAccessPatrol by CurrentWare provides a solution for securing company endpoints against data breaches caused by illicit data transfers and rogue USB devices. AccessPatrol can be used to block flash drives, cell phones, tablets, Bluetooth, and more. File operations alerts and permissions can be configured to alert IT administrators to suspicious file operations and proactively prevent data transfers by unauthorized users.

    $72

    per year per user

    Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft Purview Data Loss Prevention is used to provide intelligent detection and control of sensitive information across Office 365, OneDrive, SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, and on the endpoint. It also helps prevent data loss through identifying and preventing risky or inappropriate sharing, transfer, or use of sensitive data on endpoints, apps, and services.N/A
    Pricing
    AccessPatrol by CurrentWareMicrosoft Purview Data Loss Prevention
    Editions & Modules
    10-99 Users
    $6
    per month (billed annually) per user
    100+ Users
    Volume & prepurchase discounts available. Please contact sales for info.
    Per User Per Month
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    Pricing Offerings
    AccessPatrol by CurrentWareMicrosoft Purview Data Loss Prevention
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsPricing is based on the volume of licenses purchased. There are additional discounts available for educational organizations, non-profits, managed services providers, and businesses that pre-purchase multiple-year plans.
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    Would buy again
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    92%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    92%
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    80%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    87%
    Implementation went as expected
    20 Answers
    Features
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    Comparison of Data Preparation features of AccessPatrol by CurrentWare and Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention
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    Ratings
    Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention
    9.6
    9 Ratings
    16% above category average
    Data Encryption00 Ratings9.69 Ratings
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    User Ratings
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    9.1
    (24 ratings)
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    7.6
    (6 ratings)
    User Testimonials
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    Likelihood to Recommend
    CurrentWare Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Microsoft
    It's well-suited if you're really deep in the tech stack. If you're an exchange organization that's using the O365 suite, that's in Entra, that's in Azure, it's really great visibility. I think it probably falls apart very quickly if you don't have data from all those planes to feed it.
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    Pros
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    Microsoft
    • I think from a coverage standpoint, it's pretty comprehensive. The areas it covers, of course, include the Microsoft stack, but also focus on using the definitive cloud apps integration to extend visibility and control to third-party cloud apps, endpoints, and even Macs. So those are capabilities.
    • Its comprehensiveness, its simplicity of creating the policies in one place, are definitely one of the plus points the solution has.
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    Cons
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    Microsoft
    • The main thing is that, within the product's story, some functionalities were deprecated, and traceability was one of them. That meant that before I could tell or pinpoint on a world map where a particular type of access attempt was happening, and now I cannot do that anymore. So that was useful because I could understand how far out a document made it, and then where the issue was. Was an employee trying to open it at home, or was it an external party altogether? I couldn't do that anymore.
    • The second bit that has room for improvement, is the fact that we have quite a lot of legacy documents that were labeled. So they are from previous versions of Office. And at the moment, since November last year, the already labeled documents are not being protected by the labels.
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    Usability
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    Microsoft
    I think it is very easy for the end user once it's applied. On the configuration side, there's a learning curve to that, but there's always a learning curve for anything. So I think the product does what it needs to do. It is easy enough to use.
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    Alternatives Considered
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    Microsoft
    Symantec or now? Brocom. Forcepoint, GPV. I'm trying to think of, there's a couple more. I can't think of the top of my head. I would say closer to the bottom then rather than the top. So because of the fact that yes, it integrates well. But in terms of the actual functionality of DLP, there are other requirements that they just don't have the features for yet.
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    Return on Investment
    CurrentWare Inc.
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    Microsoft
    • From an ROI perspective, being able to have a robust DLP capability within 365 and with eShare, again, providing the defensive depth and keeping data 365 gives both us as well as our customers an ROI by being able to not use third party repositories to share data externally and by keeping data inside of 365. It gives me much more visibility into my data landscape. One of the things we advise our customers to do when they're starting to explore the advanced capabilities of Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention, for example, is to use that DLP product to monitor and understand the flows of sensitive data within the organization. By being able to look at that DLP, identify those sensitive niche types, and see which transactions occur internally within the organization, I get a clearer picture of what I'm doing.
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    ScreenShots

    AccessPatrol by CurrentWare Screenshots

    Screenshot of AccessPatrol's web console. This password-protected console is accessible to designated operators using a desktop or laptop that is connected to the LAN that the CurrentWare console is installed on.

All users and computers with CurrentWare Clients installed can be managed from the console, including offsite/remote workers.Screenshot of AccessPatrol's device permissions window. This is the list of devices that can be blocked with AccessPatrol, including removable storage devices such as USB flash drives, optical media, and floppy disks. AccessPatrol can also block WiFi, Printers/Scanners, and other peripheral devices.

If specific USB devices need to be allowed that can be whitelisted using the Allowed List. By design AccessPatrol does not block USB-based HID devices such as keyboards and mice; blocking USBs will still allow these devices to function as normal.Screenshot of AccessPatrol's USB activity dashboards provide aggregated and granular USB activity data at a glance including file operations and blocked vs allowed devicesScreenshot of AccessPatrol's Block File Transfers window.  File transfers can be blocked based on extensions or specific file names.Product screenshotProduct screenshot

    Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention Screenshots

    Screenshot of pre-built policy templates to easily get startedScreenshot of DLP analytics to help recommend new policies and fine tune existing onesScreenshot of the step that enables one policy to be applied to several locationsScreenshot of then next step, that enables policies to be scoped to specific users and user groupsScreenshot of composite conditions using groups of AND /OR and exceptions with NOTScreenshot of granular restrictions for different actions