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Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention vs. Mimecast Threat Intelligence

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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

    Mimecast Threat Intelligence

    Score7.5 out of 10
    N/AMimecast offers a threat intelligence service, including the company's Threat Intelligence Dashboard, threat remediation, and the Mimecast Threat Feed for integration threat intelligence into compatible SIEM or SOAR platforms.N/A
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    Forcepoint DLPMimecast Threat Intelligence
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    Forcepoint DLPMimecast Threat Intelligence
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Forcepoint DLPMimecast Threat Intelligence
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    87%
    Would buy again
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    100%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    87%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    91%
    Happy with the feature set
    21 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    92%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    12 Answers
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    5 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    85%
    Implementation went as expected
    17 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    5 Answers
    Features
    Forcepoint DLPMimecast Threat Intelligence
    Data Preparation
    Comparison of Data Preparation features of Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention and Mimecast Threat Intelligence
    Feature
    Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention
    6.3
    2 Ratings
    26% below category average
    Mimecast Threat Intelligence
    -
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    Data Encryption6.32 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Medium-sized Companies
    Symantec Data Loss Prevention
    Score7.3 out of 10
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    Enterprises
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    Score7.3 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Forcepoint DLPMimecast Threat Intelligence
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.7
    (35 ratings)
    8.0
    (5 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    7.6
    (7 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    7.7
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    5.3
    (12 ratings)
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
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    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Forcepoint DLPMimecast Threat Intelligence
    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.
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    Mimecast
    I think Mimecast is great for companies who want granular control over their email. Once it is setup, it really does just run along without IT needing to get involved too much. Any time we have 'issues' - such as incorrectly blocked emails or attachments, we can easily figure out what we need to do and how to fix it. Mimecast is great for teams who don't want to sit there all day and manage and look at emails. It would suit a large organisation who want deep control.
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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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    Mimecast
    • Because all incoming and outgoing (with journaling setup for internal email) go through Mimecast it is a one-stop-shop for searching out emails from past months or years. It is light years better than using local archives such as .pst files.
    • Since they touch all incoming email Mimecast is excellent our filtering out spam, malware and virus emails before it even gets to your server whether on-premise or in the cloud.
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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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    Mimecast
    • The interface for the threat intel dashboard could use some updating
    • Slowness in the console persists occassionally
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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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    Mimecast
    It works perfectly and is really easy to manage when you understand the menu and how it works. It really is 'set and forget' with minor changes needed from time to time to blacklist and whitelist senders and domains. It makes our life really easy and gives us a lot of data to understand how or business and users operate.
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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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    Mimecast
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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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    Mimecast
    Mimecast has a 24 hours phone hotline available to assist you with issues as they arise. This is the typical help desk situation where you reach level one and go to level two if this issue is extensive however I have found their level one techs to more than capable of dealing with most issues I have called about. The only negative I would mention is that their email support is less hardy when it comes to response time so I have grown to realize that calling is the only way to get timely support.
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    Online Training
    Forcepoint
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    Mimecast
    I was shown the areas we would need to use and understand, along with the settings. It was perfect as it didn't go too deep.
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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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    Mimecast
    we were not using any other products before Mimecast. It is working perfectly as per our needs.
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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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    Mimecast
    • Saves time and manpower as the console can easily be managed by 1 person
    • Using the continuity feature could potentially save an email outage from preventing an organization from conducting business.
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