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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

    Zscaler Data Security

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/AZscaler Data Security is a cloud-delivered platform built to safeguard an organization's sensitive data. It locates sensitive data, understands its risk exposure, and secures sensitive data across the web, email, workloads, private apps, and BYOD endpoints.N/A
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    Digital GuardianZscaler Data Security
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    Fortra
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    Zscaler
    Chose Zscaler Data Security
    Zscaler Data protection must be used in conjunction with other Zscaler tools where the others are stand alone. It is mainly the cost that drove us to look at Zscaler's product again, although, we do still use Proof point for DLP and email security
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    89%
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    93%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Features
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    Zscaler Data Security
    7.7
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    Medium-sized Companies
    Forcepoint DLP
    Score8.5 out of 10
    Forcepoint DLP
    Score8.5 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Forcepoint DLP
    Score8.5 out of 10
    Forcepoint DLP
    Score8.5 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Digital GuardianZscaler Data Security
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
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    User Testimonials
    Digital GuardianZscaler Data Security
    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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    Zscaler
    Great for network DLP, web, and endpoint monitoring. DSPM data discovery works well for key structured and unstructured data sources. An area for improvement is simplifying the interface into a single pane for reviewing incidents and making it part of the tooling, rather than a separate module with a fee (incident receiver).
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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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    Zscaler
    • If the policy is set correctly, it identifies DLP (Data Loss Prevention).
    • Scanning zip files to find executables works really well.
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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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    Zscaler
    • The DLP dictionary functions need to be expanded upon, such as matching all regex patterns with any phrases and vice versa. The only way to do this today is to create two dictionaries and then use an engine to combine them; however, this approach loses the ability to utilize proximity.
    • Regex does not support lookaheads.
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    Usability
    Fortra
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    Zscaler
    Zscaler Data Protection is a complete solution for protecting your valuable data. No matter whether the data resides at your on-prem, cloud, or any workload or at the data center, Zscaler has a foolproof mechanism to protect it at any cost with zero tolerance. Also, Zscaler Data Protection has a perfect UI for deploying, managing, and maintaining our different kinds of environments. (e.g., On-Prem or Hybrid).
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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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    Zscaler
    Thought about deploying zero trust cloud within our environment, but we are still in the early stages of our digital transformation projects. Still evaluating current options, but we knew Zscaler Data Security took a strict approach to data, so that's what we wanted to evaluate.
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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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    Zscaler
    • It has had a positive impact on protection of intellectual property
    • It had a negative impact on us as tenant to tenant connectivity needs to get better.
    • Positive news in how it integrates with our identity provider
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