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CTERA Edge X Series (discontinued) vs. Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention

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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    CTERA Edge X Series (discontinued)

    Score8 out of 10
    N/ACTERA offered a cloud storage gateway and NAS appliance the Edge X Series. The product line has been discontinued.N/A

    Forcepoint DLP

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AForcepoint Data Loss Prevention (DLP) protects sensitive data everywhere it resides and moves, across endpoints, cloud apps, web, email, and on-premises environments. It delivers unified policy management and centralized control from a single console.N/A
    Pricing
    CTERA Edge X Series (discontinued)Forcepoint DLP
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    CTERA Edge X Series (discontinued)Forcepoint DLP
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    CTERA Edge X Series (discontinued)Forcepoint DLP
    Considered Both Products
    Discontinued Products
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    Forcepoint
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    87%
    Would buy again
    20 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    87%
    Delivers good value for the price
    20 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    91%
    Happy with the feature set
    21 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    92%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    12 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
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    85%
    Implementation went as expected
    17 Answers
    Features
    CTERA Edge X Series (discontinued)Forcepoint DLP
    Data Preparation
    Comparison of Data Preparation features of CTERA Edge X Series (discontinued) and Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention
    Feature
    CTERA Edge X Series (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention
    6.3
    2 Ratings
    26% below category average
    Data Encryption00 Ratings6.32 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    CTERA Edge X Series (discontinued)Forcepoint DLP
    Likelihood to Recommend
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.7
    (35 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.6
    (7 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.7
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.3
    (12 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    CTERA Edge X Series (discontinued)Forcepoint DLP
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Discontinued Products
    This is all about the selling you a "Device" and prices vary greatly between resellers. The devices work well, but the pure cloud solutions need a lot of work.
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    Forcepoint
    -Where companies need to secure their attachment, which goes outside, means from their company to outside -Where companies need to ensure their client's personal information -Where companies need DLP. They need to look for Forcepoint only, as they have the upper hand over the rest of their competitors.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    Discontinued Products
    • Standard File Backup
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    Forcepoint
    • 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.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Discontinued Products
    • SQL Backups just don't work reliably. For us, we lost all of our SQL data backed up through the CTERA Application process. Although the logs indicated a success, that was really not the case. This came close to putting us out of business. Luckily I had taken a genuine SQL backup to a folder. Unfortunately it was a month old. We had to pick-up the pieces from there.
    • Don't use it for file sync and share. There are better products out there i.e. anchorworks.com
    • Support sucks. Good luck with response time and answers that are inconsistent between team members. For example I had to rebuild a VM from scratch. When I re-installed the CTERA client It obviously thought I was adding another device. When I inquired to tech support, one member said "copy the old Data folder" (I still had the old VHD. That did not work). The other directed me to the correct spot to just change the associated folder. The turn-around time was over 24 hours for this simple fix.
    • Documentation, plenty of fodder but no real tech there.
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    Forcepoint
    • 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.
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Discontinued Products
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    Forcepoint
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    Discontinued Products
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    Forcepoint
    For us, Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention was difficult to administer, did not work well when it did work, was incredibly expensive for the feature set you get, and was difficult to uninstall when we moved on from the software. Once it was fully set up, it worked occasionally for us.
    Incentivized
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    Support Rating
    Discontinued Products
    No answers on this topic
    Forcepoint
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Alternatives Considered
    Discontinued Products
    Unfortunately CTERA does not stack up well if you want a pure cloud BDR. I have use iDrive and Asigra. iDrive has similar support and SQL backup issues. Asigra can vary widely in support and price, but the software is solid.
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    Forcepoint
    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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    Return on Investment
    Discontinued Products
    • NONE, it about put us out of business
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    Forcepoint
    • 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.
    Incentivized
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