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Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention vs. Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    Forcepoint SWG

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AThe Forcepoint ONE Secure Web Gateway (SWG) is one of the three foundational gateways of the Forcepoint ONE all-in-one cloud platform. Forcepoint ONE SWG monitors and controlsany interaction with any website, including blocking access to websites based on category and risk score, blocking download of malware, blocking upload of sensitive data to personal filesharing accounts, detecting shadow IT, and optionally providingRemote Browser Isolation (RBI) with Content Disarm andReconstruction (CDR).N/A
    Pricing
    Forcepoint DLPForcepoint SWG
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Forcepoint DLPForcepoint SWG
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Forcepoint DLPForcepoint SWG
    Considered Both Products
    Forcepoint
    Chose Forcepoint DLP
    We didn't evaluate any other solutions at the time of purchase. Forcepoint was the leader on the Gartner report and we went with their recommendation.
    Incentivized
    Chose Forcepoint DLP
    We selected Forcepoint DLP as we already were using their Web and Email filtering products. The integration among their products is very strong and we did not want to introduce too many additional products into our environment. We have limited security resources so a high level …
    Incentivized
    Chose Forcepoint DLP
    It is a lot easier to use than Symantec.
    Incentivized
    Forcepoint
    Chose Forcepoint SWG
    Forcepoint Web Security is a much more robust web protection suite than TRITON, and much easier to manage once it is implemented.
    Incentivized
    Chose Forcepoint SWG
    Web proxies will always cause some disruption due to false positives. This one was in the environment before I joined the team and there was no real reason to disrupt a product that's working as designed.
    Incentivized
    Chose Forcepoint SWG
    Forcepoint was a much more robust product, had progressive add on (DLP, email). We did a shoot out and their suite was heads over better.
    Incentivized
    Chose Forcepoint SWG
    zScaler is a solid product but the price point is a bit steep. They are very similar in the way that they function. Cisco Web Security was our previous product and that was inferior compared to FWSS and it cost more during its maintenance renewal than FWSS during an …
    Incentivized
    Chose Forcepoint SWG
    Overalll Websense provided the best protection for the money, with the ability to use SSL decryption on the Websense Content Gateway which Blue Coat did not offer at the time was critical to our decision.
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    87%
    Would buy again
    20 Answers
    70%
    Would buy again
    7 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    87%
    Delivers good value for the price
    20 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    8 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    91%
    Happy with the feature set
    21 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    10 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    92%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    12 Answers
    86%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    6 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    85%
    Implementation went as expected
    17 Answers
    78%
    Implementation went as expected
    7 Answers
    Features
    Forcepoint DLPForcepoint SWG
    Data Preparation
    Comparison of Data Preparation features of Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention and Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway
    Feature
    Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention
    6.2
    2 Ratings
    27% below category average
    Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway
    -
    Ratings
    Data Encryption6.22 Ratings00 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
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    Small Businesses
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    Medium-sized Companies
    Symantec Data Loss Prevention
    Score7.3 out of 10
    UniFi Cloud Gateways
    Score8.3 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Symantec Data Loss Prevention
    Score7.3 out of 10
    Skyhigh Secure Web Gateway
    Score8 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Forcepoint DLPForcepoint SWG
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.6
    (35 ratings)
    8.0
    (76 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    7.6
    (7 ratings)
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    Usability
    7.6
    (3 ratings)
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    5.3
    (12 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Forcepoint DLPForcepoint SWG
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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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    Forcepoint
    Over the years, [in our experience], the maintenance of the Forcepoint Web Security solution proved to be more cumbersome and troublesome with each version upgrade. In addition, it did not transition well to support the large increase of remote workers. We also experienced weird incompatibilities with the client. We have since replaced this solution with Zscaler Internet Access, a cloud-based secure web gateway solution with a client that behaves as expected, is more flexible, and requires significantly less administration.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    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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    Forcepoint
    • It prevents users from accessing websites that may have recently been created for the purpose of distributing malware.
    • It prevents users from accidentally or intentionally accessing websites that are considered inappropriate for a work environment.
    • It allows us to create different policies for different teams in our organization.
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    Cons
    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.
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    Forcepoint
    • The user access logs contain a lot of useless information. I understand this is very hard to tackle as I've seen this across any product that logs web activity.
    • I would like to see more customization options of website block pages.
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    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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    Forcepoint
    It is very stable, the organisation has "locked in" the product and has no plans to change or try another product. We have already renewed our 2019-2020 licenses. It is user friendly and people catch on easily when they first use it. The only downtime is when we install Microsoft updates! It has excellent reporting which help in determining how the organisation's Internet is used and also during both internal and external IT audits.
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    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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    Forcepoint
    Despite the intimidating Linux CLI when you use the appliance for troubleshooting, the web security usability compensates as most of the Administration of the system is done there. It is GUI based and has an easy to use UI where one can navigate around rather easily like getting reports, checking alerts, looking the whole setup under deployment to check if all services are running in one place though there are other parts to the system.
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    Support Rating
    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.
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    Forcepoint
    The is a quick first response to acknowledge your issue and the Engineers never take more than two hours to fix an issue and we hardly get issues looking at the fact that the system is pretty stable. There is also a robust Knowledge Base in the site for known problems.
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    Implementation Rating
    Forcepoint
    No answers on this topic
    Forcepoint
    Research known issues with upgrading from the Support Knowledge base, this will enable you avoid road blocks along the way and reduce your dependence on Forcepoint Support
    Incentivized
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    Alternatives Considered
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Forcepoint
    To be honest, once using Forcepoint for our Web Security, I have not wanted to look anywhere else. The dashboard gives me quick insight of threats, productivity, and bandwidth usage. Again, this is a layer in my security and it fills many holes. I feel safe and I do like I can just let it do its thing
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    Return on Investment
    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.
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    Forcepoint
    • Being a non-profit the cost is a bit higher than some competitors so our ROI takes a bit longer to recoup. I would really like to see better non-profit pricing.
    • The ease of doing a report on someone cuts down on the IT man-hours to do website tracking for managers as we can do it from a central point whereas in the past (prior to Forcepoint/Websense) we would have to ghost their machine to look for activity as well as their local servers.
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