CrowdStrike Falcon vs Forcepoint DLP

Likelihood to Recommend

It's a great solution with a massive deployment scenario with a lot of endpoints, and where the time is an issue and you need to be protected ASAP - thanks to its cloud-based architecture you will be up and running in almost 10 minutes (literally). There are no signatures, further refinements, or additional hardware and servers required. An always or almost always offline [scenario] is not well-suited for Falcon Pro.

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Victor Rivera

Senior Information Technology Manager

Grupo VinteConstruction, 1001-5000 employees

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In scenarios where you are just trying to block specific types of data based on a rule, it can be used very effectively.If you are trying to use fingerprinting to classify data, Forcepoint is not well suited for this. You would need a separate technology in order to classify data appropriately.

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Verified User

Manager in Information Technology

Aviation & Aerospace Company, 5001-10,000 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

CrowdStrike Falcon

Forcepoint DLP

Anti-Exploit Technology

Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)

Centralized Management

Hybrid Deployment Support

Infection Remediation

Vulnerability Management

Malware Detection

Pros

Ransomware protection. We ran a ransomware simulation with obfuscated executables to hide malware signatures and CrowdStrike found and stopped 15 out of 15.
Malware/adware detection. Packaged adware in official installers are instantly blocked without interfering with the install of the primary application.

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Randy Munroe

Information Security Analyst

Randall-ReillyMarketing and Advertising, 201-500 employees

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It is a very complete solution that addresses a wide range of different security issues and it does it well.
Forcepoint's Technical Support is on the ball. They have improved greatly over the last 3 years.
The level of professionalism from Forcepoint really completes the picture.

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David Stanfield

Systems/Network Administrator

Jack Henry & AssociatesFinancial Services, 5001-10,000 employees

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Cons

We get false positive detections when we run an email signature script for our users. These false positives can be a distraction. We've implemented a whitelist for those behaviors, but had some difficulty in figuring out how to configure CrowdStrike to recognize these executions since the file name and hash were always different (the executing file was firstname_lastname.exe, and that was too Vague to whitelist.

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Mark Sauer

Director of Information Technology

TransPakPackage/Freight Delivery, 1001-5000 employees

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Remote filtering is not as advanced as we would like.
Support time is not as quick as needed in most cases.
Upgrades of appliances and software is not as easy as other solutions.
HTTPS inspection needs to hand a valid cert and doesnt work correctly with all vendors.

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Administrator in Information Technology

Insurance Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

No score

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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

Network Engineer

Herman MillerFurniture, 5001-10,000 employees

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Usability

No score

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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

Network Engineer

Herman MillerFurniture, 5001-10,000 employees

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Support Rating

CrowdStrike Falcon 8.6

Based on 13 answers

When I receive support, it is always useful and informative. However, the support doesn't get back to me in the most timely manner. Often, by the time I hear back from support I have already resolved the issue. But for bigger issues, that need more in-depth help the support team has been incredibly valuable.

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Analyst in Information Technology

Telecommunications Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Forcepoint DLP 5.5

Based on 13 answers

Because we've brought our problem of inexplicable web traffic disruption and they effectively ceased working with our troubleshooting team even though we'd eliminated other avenues as the potential source of the problem. Once they stopped helping us look for a problem, their product became less appealing as the long-term solution. They may claim to want to be "my" (or "your") partner, but partners need to stick it out beyond the "traffic looks good from my perspective" attitude. They need to help us figure out what we're doing differently that could negatively impact business.

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John Keenan

Director of Information Security

Memorial Hospital of GulfportMedical Practice, 5001-10,000 employees

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Alternatives Considered

Overall I found CrowdStrike Falcon's EDR capabilities superior to their competitors. Also, the user interface has taken its time to mature and is very intuitive and has a natural flow. Policy configuration and assignment as well as the features and settings within the config were more complete and met all our requirements. Lastly, the agent plays nice with everything else running on systems. We hardly ever have issues of Falcon interfering with users or services, and false positives are kept at a minimum.

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David Reyes

Sr Systems Engineer

InnovaSystemsComputer Software, 201-500 employees

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We have tried out Office 365 and Trend Micro DLP but those solutions have not worked out as we hoped. That said, when we looked at Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention, there were only minor issues we came across that did not have any negative impact and overall, the solution was what we needed.

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Verified User

Analyst in Information Technology

Higher Education Company, 201-500 employees

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Return on Investment

CrowdStrike has cut our security costs.
Has given us more insight into our end points.
It has helped with our older PC's CPU usage.
Cut our cost and time from managing multiple platforms down to managing one platform with better insight than what we had with multiple security platforms.

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Verified User

C-Level Executive in Information Technology

Security & Investigations Company, 1-10 employees

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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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Verified User

Manager in Information Technology

Financial Services Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Yes

Entry-level set up fee?

No

CrowdStrike Falcon Editions & Modules

Edition

Falcon Pro	$6.99¹
Falcon Enterprise	$14.99²
Falcon Premium	$17.99²

per endpoint/month (for 5-250 endpoints, billed annually)
per endpoint/month (minimum number of endpoints applies)

Additional Pricing Details

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General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

—

Entry-level set up fee?

No

Forcepoint DLP Editions & Modules

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Additional Pricing Details

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Rating Summary

CrowdStrike Falcon

Forcepoint DLP

CrowdStrike Falcon

Forcepoint DLP

CrowdStrike Falcon

Forcepoint DLP

CrowdStrike Falcon

Forcepoint DLP