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Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention vs. McAfee Email Gateway (Discontinued)

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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

    McAfee Email Gateway (Discontinued)

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AMcAfee Email Gateway was a secure email gateway featuring encryption and anti-spam / phishing protection that was EOL in late 2015.N/A
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    Forcepoint DLPMcAfee Email Gateway (Discontinued)
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    Forcepoint DLPMcAfee Email Gateway (Discontinued)
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Forcepoint DLPMcAfee Email Gateway (Discontinued)
    Considered Both Products
    Forcepoint
    Chose Forcepoint DLP
    We are currently in the evaluation phase to compare overall cost and functionality. Blue Coat runs in a very similar way that Forcepoint does. Check Point runs at the same gateway layer that the firewall does so its policy can be run on the same hardware of existing environments.
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    87%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    87%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    91%
    Happy with the feature set
    21 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    92%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    12 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
    85%
    Implementation went as expected
    17 Answers
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    Features
    Forcepoint DLPMcAfee Email Gateway (Discontinued)
    Data Preparation
    Comparison of Data Preparation features of Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention and McAfee Email Gateway (Discontinued)
    Feature
    Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention
    6.3
    2 Ratings
    26% below category average
    McAfee Email Gateway (Discontinued)
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    Ratings
    Data Encryption6.32 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Forcepoint DLPMcAfee Email Gateway (Discontinued)
    Small Businesses
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    Sophos Email
    Score9.1 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Symantec Data Loss Prevention
    Score7.3 out of 10
    Sophos Email
    Score9.1 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Symantec Data Loss Prevention
    Score7.3 out of 10
    Microsoft Exchange
    Score8.6 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Forcepoint DLPMcAfee Email Gateway (Discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.7
    (35 ratings)
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    7.6
    (7 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    7.7
    (3 ratings)
    -
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    Support Rating
    5.3
    (12 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    Forcepoint DLPMcAfee Email Gateway (Discontinued)
    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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    Discontinued Products
    Comparable to a Barracuda email appliance, these units retain email that is quarantined as well as provide cloud layer to support it. It is best suited for a medium size company as the devices are often not as scalable as Barracuda.
    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.
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    • Filtering system is very strong, more often than not blocks bad email.
    • Does fine job filtering and configuring content filtering for extension types such as ZIP or RAR.
    • Intermediary between Internet and email system provides extra layer of security including ability to spool email in the event of an email system outage.
    • Outbound encryption feature is very useful for security purposes.
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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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    Discontinued Products
    • The onsite appliances have end-of-life forcing an upgrade to new unit.
    • Many of the appliances have been end-of-life and seems McAfee may not be offering the service in the future.
    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.
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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.
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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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    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.
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    Discontinued Products
    Barracuda provides two product options, the ESS cloud-only filtering, and onsite Email Security Gateway appliances. Unless compliance needs require the on-premises device, the ESS option easily beats the McAfee Email Gateway.
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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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    Discontinued Products
    • The end-of-life of appliances is unfortunate as it forces a purchase of a replacement unit. Barracuda devices have a 4-year refresh cycle so purchasing additional hardware is rarely necessary.
    • McAfee seems to be phasing out the service over time.
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