Cloudflare vs Forcepoint URL Filtering

• Security: Cloudflare keeps our website safe from DDoS attacks and other malicious traffic.
• CDN: Cloudflare caches our website content, increasing our website's reliability and reducing server load. This saves on bandwidth costs from web servers.
• Registrar: We can migrate domains to Cloudflare, though they don't currently allow the purchase of new domain names. The benefit of this is cheaper renewal fees and fewer systems involved in managing our domains.

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• It tracks user activity, which means our HR department has a tool to report on certain users' activities when their productivity vs. internet surfing habits are in question. The reports are pretty simple to create and view and the ability to export to Excel has been useful. The ability to automatically generate and email these reports on a schedule has been useful at times too.
• The ability to set quotas, such as users are allowed to spend 30minutes per day on Facebook or 30minutes a day on shopping sites, which displays the quota for the user when they enter such a site, has been a valuable reminder of our company policies for such activity.
• The ability to prevent certain types of protocols for certain groups of users, such as group xyz is not allowed on FTP sites, or only https, has allowed to consider and set security parameters for different groups of users.
• The ability to easily override any group policy setting for a certain individual if an immediate need for something outside the box arises has been useful. If a certain user is temporarily filling in for another person on vacation and needs additional internet access with less restrictions, we just call out that user specifically in the software and apply a different policy, then easily remove that the following week.

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• Multiple Users - It would be great to be able to have multiple users on one account.
• Itemized Cache - Would love to see a list of files that have been cached by CloudFlare's CDN and when they will expire. Also nice to optionally remove one or more files from the cache.

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• It needs the ability to measure bandwidth. I want to know how much a user is taking up. The fact that he/she has 17,000 hits doesn't help.
• Clients, Policies, Filters can be confusing. Maybe it's too complicated and can be simplified?

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• Our business has online presences to reassure our customers, not to gain new ones, so the actual ROI is smaller than for most other people.
• CloudFlare is super easy to use so I can make adjustments on the fly.
• Safety and security is important and I don't have to worry about a lot of things due to CloudFlare.

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• The websense filtering has helped us to reduce and eliminate productivity losses from some gaming and streaming services.
• We have been able to lower our liability from illegal streaming services and also adult content viewing (and also reduced the internet uses related to those services).
• The filtering service has helped us to prevent virus spread on the network and also helped as a layer to pinpoint affected endpoints, that had gone unnoticed by our antivirus solution. By alerting to those early infections, we can quarantine the device before the infection spreads or affects other endpoints.
• The solution has given the HR department reporting they needed when employees were under review without having to pull any local logs or have any local solutions installed.
• The hybrid client has worked well in a few remote offices, meaning we didn't need a separate proxy service to filter and protect that traffic.

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