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Snort vs Forcepoint DLP

Snort
27 Ratings
Forcepoint DLP
61 Ratings

Snort

27 Ratings
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Score 9 out of 100

Based on 27 reviews and ratings

Forcepoint DLP

61 Ratings
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Score 9 out of 100

Based on 61 reviews and ratings

Attribute Ratings

  • Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention is rated higher in 1 area: Likelihood to Recommend

Likelihood to Recommend

8.4

Snort

84%
5 Ratings
8.9

Forcepoint DLP

89%
34 Ratings

Likelihood to Renew

Snort

N/A
0 Ratings
7.6

Forcepoint DLP

76%
7 Ratings

Usability

Snort

N/A
0 Ratings
9.0

Forcepoint DLP

90%
1 Rating

Support Rating

Snort

N/A
0 Ratings
5.3

Forcepoint DLP

53%
24 Ratings

Likelihood to Recommend

Snort

If a colleague was looking to tighten down their network I can easily recommend Snort to them. It gives you some more peace of mind knowing that its always scanning traffic for malicious looking code. Even things your major firewalls and security hardware might miss, Snort has picked up. Its an easy recommendation for me.

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Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Forcepoint DLP

It's very user friendly and easy to use. Rules can be managed on user-friendly interface web site console. For-example, violation can be release via management module. It provide prevention sensitive data against accidental data loss and compromised. Rule set sometimes work, sometimes does not work. There is no OCR feature. Forcepoint DLP tool does not have any AI feature that can learn user behavior or data and produces alarm.

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Piyush Mittal | TrustRadius Reviewer
Piyush Mittal
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Pros

Snort

  • IPS detection.
  • DoS detection.
  • Packet logging.

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Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Forcepoint DLP

  • It has predominantly protected us from unauthorized parties and has provided us with better visibility and control over our data.
  • This software has also successfully prevented us from both malicious and accidental tasks, which are quite flexible actions when it comes to the violation of data loss prevention policies.
  • This product has been successful in improving compliance and even mitigating compliance violations, which further facilitated IT security.
  • I think there is room for improvement, as the user interface is slightly rough and difficult to adopt in the beginning. The software also hangs up at a few instances, which leads to some wasting of time and annoyance, but other than that, this software is good. The technical staff should work on the complexities for a better user experience.

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Brandon Smith | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Cons

Snort

  • At times can be unstable with Cisco bugs, require frequent upgrading.
  • FTD images that are being pushed for ASAs are less efficient from an administration standpoint, no CLI.

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Alan Matson, CCNA:S, MCP | TrustRadius Reviewer
Alan Matson, CCNA:S, MCP
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Forcepoint DLP

  • Forcepoint technical support--specially for users who go with essential support--is challenging to get support on time. You need the ticket to be raised long beforehand to get support from TAC. However, in the case of enterprise support, its is not like this technical person will come on a priority basis.
  • However it comes with higher prices, especially for SMB, it is allowed to pay that amount for support only.

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Bhuwan Chandra | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Pricing Details

Snort

General

Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level set up fee?
No

Starting Price

—

Forcepoint DLP

General

Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—
Entry-level set up fee?
No

Starting Price

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Likelihood to Renew

Snort

No score
No answers yet
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Forcepoint DLP

Forcepoint DLP 7.6
Based on 7 answers
We have been fairly happy with the product and how it has worked. We have looked at other vendors for url filter and such and have not found one that meets our needs or does what we have been doing with Websense. The product has been fairly stable and we have only had a few issues in the past. We have all seen that it was one of the highest leaders from the Gartner Group Magic Quadrant for Web Gateways.

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Bill Rieger | TrustRadius Reviewer
Bill Rieger
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Usability

Snort

No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic

Forcepoint DLP

Forcepoint DLP 9.0
Based on 1 answer
Product is very customizable and easy to setup and change on the fly.

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Bill Rieger | TrustRadius Reviewer
Bill Rieger
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Support Rating

Snort

No score
No answers yet
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Forcepoint DLP

Forcepoint DLP 5.3
Based on 24 answers
Support from Forcepoint has been lacking. When calling in with a high priority issue we rarely are able to work with a technician immediately. The queue waits are very long and when you get through there are no support engineers available and we need to wait for a call back for hours it seems.

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Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Alternatives Considered

Snort

For our organization, the Cisco defense in depth concept works the best. While Cisco can be made to work with other vendors, we have found the best in depth protection by integrating Cisco products for maximum visibility. We had a Barracuda Web Filter, but it was difficult to maintain when you had limited scope on what you could block, so we created a whitelist only setup which required a lot of additional manpower. This wouldn't have covered new threats with DNS spoofing and the like.Sourcefire also integrated with our anti-malware platform (Cisco AMP) for even better visibility on what may be happening on the end users workstation. We are planning on adding in Cisco ISE to complete the approach and possibly stealthwatch to cover our bases in the future. The Palo Alto gear was interesting, but it was priced far out of our range.

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David Myers | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Forcepoint DLP

User friendly solution that makes it easy to deploy and manage. Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention very effective to protecting our valuable data on endpoints and where data lives like in the Cloud, server and on-premises disk drives and its valuable to just set policies once and start utilizing Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention solution.

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Olivia Jayy | TrustRadius Reviewer
Olivia Jayy
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Return on Investment

Snort

  • Being open source, ROI on free is hard to beat for something that works.
  • I believe it greatly enhances the security of my network.

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Curt Dickman | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Forcepoint DLP

  • The exchange of financial documents with customers creates extreme risk as data loss could result in financial and reputation damage to the customer. The cost of deploying Forcepoint is fractions of pennies compared to the potential financial impact of data loss.
  • There is some administrative overhead associated as false positives are inevitable, requiring a manual review and a potential loss of productivity.

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Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
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