Digital Guardian vs. Keepit

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Digital Guardian
Score 7.0 out of 10
N/A
The Digital Guardian Platform from Fortra (formerly HelpSystems, acquired in late 2021) is a cloud-delivered data protection platform purpose-built to stop data loss by both insiders and outsiders on Windows, Mac and Linux operating systems. Additionally, Digital Guardian User Activity Monitoring enables users to detect, investigate and mitigate suspicious user actions to ensure sensitive data doesn’t get out. And Digital Guardian for Data Discovery provides visibility and auditing of sensitive…N/A
Keepit
Score 9.5 out of 10
N/A
The Keepit platform, from the company of the same name in Copenhagen, is a solution that protects cloud data, boasting simple deployment and restore options that enable users to recover historic data. The Keepit platform supports any Cloud Workload and offers full retention on the user's terms from one year to eternity. It features indexing and search to ensure users have a complete view of data. The solution features supports Microsoft Office 365, Dynamics 365, Google Workspace, and…N/A
Pricing
Digital GuardianKeepit
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
No answers on this topic
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Digital GuardianKeepit
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Digital GuardianKeepit
Features
Digital GuardianKeepit
Data Center Backup
Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Product A and Product B
Digital Guardian
-
Ratings
Keepit
8.1
32 Ratings
6% below category average
Management dashboard00 Ratings8.132 Ratings
Retention options00 Ratings8.431 Ratings
Encryption00 Ratings8.029 Ratings
Enterprise Backup
Comparison of Enterprise Backup features of Product A and Product B
Digital Guardian
-
Ratings
Keepit
8.1
26 Ratings
1% above category average
Operational reporting and analytics00 Ratings7.823 Ratings
Malware protection00 Ratings8.318 Ratings
Ransomware Recovery00 Ratings8.318 Ratings
SaaS Backup
Comparison of SaaS Backup features of Product A and Product B
Digital Guardian
-
Ratings
Keepit
8.5
36 Ratings
2% below category average
SaaS Product Integration00 Ratings8.733 Ratings
Multiple Data Restoration Options00 Ratings8.236 Ratings
Data Auditing and Search00 Ratings8.334 Ratings
Data Storage in the Cloud or On-Premises00 Ratings8.528 Ratings
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Digital GuardianKeepit
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Score 9.8 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
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Druva Security Cloud
Score 9.5 out of 10
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Score 9.5 out of 10
Enterprises
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Score 9.5 out of 10
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Score 9.5 out of 10
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User Ratings
Digital GuardianKeepit
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(2 ratings)
8.8
(54 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
8.8
(6 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
8.6
(5 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.2
(4 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.7
(4 ratings)
User Testimonials
Digital GuardianKeepit
Likelihood to Recommend
Fortra
Digital Guardian has excellent data-preventing solutions, which locate and protect [that] database that [is] super sensitive. More so, Digital Guardian offers complete coverage of endpoint safety and network monitoring. Again, Digital Guardian has a team of elite professionals, who screens and detect any cyber threats. Finally, Digital Guardian has improvised and detailed attack response, very efficient in making the right controls.
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Keepit
The ability to restore within minutes is beneficial and helps productivity; no longer spend hours restoring from tapes. They can show a new start to the interface and portal, and within minutes, they know how to navigate and restore if required. It is very user friendly and easy for understand and navigate.
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Pros
Fortra
  • Email data leaks - DLP software must prevent certain actions to work well. Let's say you try to copy and paste an SS # to an email, or upload sensitive data to your personal email account. Guardian Edge can prevent that, and then alert administrators that it happened
  • Unauthorized file copies - Guardian Edge can also prevent users from copying files from a sensitive restricted area to somewhere else where they might be able to more easily exfiltrate it. A good example would be from a company file share to a less secure server or their own home drive
  • Alerting Administrators of suspicious activities - Any time a user uploads a file to an upload service or personal email, it is logged and reported as an event to be reviewed. If it found nothing in scanning the data, it will still notify you that it happened so you can review it yourself to confirm it wasn't a false negative.
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Keepit
  • Cross tenant restores, allows you to migrate mailboxes from one tenant to another.
  • Being able to backup multiple tenants/platforms from a single interface is awesome.
  • The setup and ongoing maintenance is great, articles on how to setup security and gain access to data in a secure way is also a great feature
  • The interface is very intuitive and easy to navigate, it hides an awful lot of power
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Cons
Fortra
  • Digital Guardian is perfect in database protection, hence, no complaint.
  • Digital Guardian makes the detection process effective, hence, reliable.
  • Finally, Digital Guardian is cloud focused or delivered, hence, concrete and efficient.
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Keepit
  • Providing more information on an ongoing restore job. Once you begin a restore or a data import, it seems to be impossible to see which user account that job is tied to.
  • Its job percentages seem to be drastically inaccurate. It will say a job is 76% complete even though it has only restored 484MB of 8GB - but this is just a little annoying and not a real problem.
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Likelihood to Renew
Fortra
No answers on this topic
Keepit
Keepit is an awesome product that garantees a result with a simple interface, and a quick configuration integration. Nowadays the service is really good and all requests have been replied to very quickly, and that´s important for our satisfaction. The possibility of multiple points recovery is a plus as well.
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Usability
Fortra
No answers on this topic
Keepit
Such a simple solution to use. User friendly, intuitive, processes can be completed in minutes instead of hours with restoring from tape, and requesting the return of tapes from the off site location, thus saving many hours and cost of storage. Also gives the end user a better experience as files can be restored almost immediately.
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Reliability and Availability
Fortra
No answers on this topic
Keepit
Never had a single issue with availability, what you would expect from this type of provider, it is perfect.
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Performance
Fortra
No answers on this topic
Keepit
No issues to report at all, pages are responsive, we have no other integrations, it is all good.
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Support Rating
Fortra
No answers on this topic
Keepit
Support helped us to set up SSO and MFA with our Azure AD Accounts. Once when the backup was failing, they could help us to investigate the reason and find a stale account that was preventing the backup. They are really concerned that the backup works and not only want to close the ticket like other support hotlines.
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Implementation Rating
Fortra
No answers on this topic
Keepit
The communication from KeepIT was on point, we did the implementation based on very little information as it was so easy to deploy, yet super powerful, it is a great tool.
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Alternatives Considered
Fortra
DG is the only DLP platform I've used at my current employer. I used it at my previous employer as well, and we ended up abandoning future deployments of it due to many problems caused by it, especially with web browsers. This was in 2015, rather than the 2018 version I used with my current employer, but I feel it still warrants mentioning. DG works great...when it works. When it doesn't, it's a disaster.
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Keepit
We previously used Veeam to backup data from O365 to local servers. We had other SaaS platforms we needed to include and move from local to cloud backups. While Veeam does have multiple cloud options but compared with Keepit it was overly complicated and less cost effective. Keepit was a no-brainer in terms of simplicity and having a single 360 dashboard.
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Scalability
Fortra
No answers on this topic
Keepit
It has been fantastic, never mised a beat and restore test are always perfect.
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Return on Investment
Fortra
  • The professional threat detectors and cyber security analysts [increase] the reliability of the company database.
  • Cloud coverage allows easy deployment and efficient systematic controls.
  • Lastly, Digital Guardian [values] and monitors the procedures or the roles that every player makes in the company.
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Keepit
  • User productivity increase when the users didn't need to manually recreate data when it was lost. Estimation of past cases: 100,000 $ per year
  • Company blackout on disasters: pricelessly :-)
  • Admin cost reduction, no more tape changes and storage costs: 10,000 $ per year
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ScreenShots

Keepit Screenshots

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