Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention vs. MX Layer vs. Proofpoint Information Protection

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Forcepoint DLP
Score 8.0 out of 10
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Forcepoint 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
MX Layer
Score 9.0 out of 10
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MX 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,…
$0.10
per month per user
Proofpoint Information Protection
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
Proofpoint's Enterprise Privacy platform includes supports messaging security with data loss prevention and email encryption.N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptionalOptional
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
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Data Preparation
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Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention
5.5
2 Ratings
35% below category average
MX Layer
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Proofpoint Information Protection
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Data Encryption5.52 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Secure Email Gateway
Comparison of Secure Email Gateway features of Product A and Product B
Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention
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MX Layer
9.4
1 Ratings
11% above category average
Proofpoint Information Protection
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Anti-malware00 Ratings10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Customizability00 Ratings10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Loss Protection00 Ratings8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Threat Detection00 Ratings10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Sandboxing00 Ratings10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
End-to-End Encryption00 Ratings10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Management Tools00 Ratings8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
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Medium-sized Companies
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Enterprises
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User Ratings
Forcepoint Data Loss PreventionMX LayerProofpoint Information Protection
Likelihood to Recommend
6.7
(35 ratings)
9.0
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8.0
(2 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
7.6
(7 ratings)
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Usability
6.6
(3 ratings)
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Support Rating
5.3
(12 ratings)
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User Testimonials
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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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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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Proofpoint
Best suited for organizations that are dealing with high volumes of protected/personsal or financial information that must be kept secure
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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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MX Layer
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Proofpoint
  • User administration is very intuitive and simple.
  • Rules are quickly implemented allowing solid email incidence response.
  • Enterprise support is spectacular offering to go above and beyond whenever necessary.
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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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MX Layer
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Proofpoint
  • Continue to improve on the receiving side when the message is delivered through the system
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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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MX Layer
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Proofpoint
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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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MX Layer
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Proofpoint
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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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MX Layer
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Proofpoint
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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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MX Layer
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Proofpoint
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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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MX Layer
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Proofpoint
  • Stronger security posture.
  • Able to quickly respond to SPAM/Phishing campaigns.
  • Business is more adaptive and agile in the security space.
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