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    Digital Guardian

    Score7 out of 10
    N/AThe 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

    MX Layer

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AMX Layer is an enterprise security company based in the United States, focusing on providing cloud-based solutions for email security, business continuity, data loss prevention and email archiving services. MX Layer aims to ensure that their comprehensive email security platform protects company's critical communications at all times. Its web-based interface is used to control inbound and outbound email traffic, protecting employees and customers from ever-evolving threats such as spam,…

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    Digital GuardianMX Layer
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    Digital GuardianMX Layer
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
    Additional Details—- Essentials (free): For professionals or companies looking for a convenient and easy to use security solution. - Pro (30 days free trial): For small and medium size businesses with less than 100 employees with outbound features. - Business (30 days free trial): For organizations need advanced security and management features with outbound.
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    Features
    Digital GuardianMX Layer
    Secure Email Gateway
    Comparison of Secure Email Gateway features of Digital Guardian and MX Layer
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    Ratings
    MX Layer
    9.4
    1 Ratings
    11% above category average
    Anti-malware00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Customizability00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Data Loss Protection00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Threat Detection00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Sandboxing00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    End-to-End Encryption00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Management Tools00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
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    Digital GuardianMX Layer
    Small Businesses
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    Sophos Email
    Score9.1 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Forcepoint DLP
    Score8.5 out of 10
    Sophos Email
    Score9.1 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Forcepoint DLP
    Score8.5 out of 10
    Microsoft Exchange
    Score8.6 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Digital GuardianMX Layer
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
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    9.0
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    User Testimonials
    Digital GuardianMX Layer
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    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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    MX Layer
    Its modules predominantly function via the cloud, rendering it exceptionally convenient for users. Its design based on the cloud liberates us from the burden of upkeeping the infrastructure.
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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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    MX Layer
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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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    MX Layer
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    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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    MX Layer
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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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    MX Layer
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