Digital Guardian vs. Proofpoint Insider Threat Management

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Digital Guardian
Score 7.7 out of 10
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The 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
Proofpoint Insider Threat Management
Score 9.2 out of 10
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An Insider Threat Management (ITM) solution, Proofpoint’s ObserveIT ITM (acquired by Proofpoint November 2019) protects against data loss and brand damage involving insiders acting maliciously, negligently, or unknowingly. ObserveIT correlates activity and data movement, enabling security teams to identify user risk, detect insider-led data breaches, and accelerate security incident response.N/A
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Small Businesses
Paubox Email Suite
Paubox Email Suite
Score 10.0 out of 10

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Medium-sized Companies
Druva Data Resiliency Cloud
Druva Data Resiliency Cloud
Score 9.6 out of 10
Forcepoint DLP
Forcepoint DLP
Score 8.8 out of 10
Enterprises
Druva Data Resiliency Cloud
Druva Data Resiliency Cloud
Score 9.6 out of 10
Forcepoint DLP
Forcepoint DLP
Score 8.8 out of 10
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
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10.0
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Likelihood to Renew
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8.0
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User Testimonials
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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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Proofpoint
Proofpoint Insider Threat Management (ObserveIT) is well suite for organization that are ready to implement risk based solution and do not compare it feature by feature with Classic DLP products. It's aim to analyze and prevent misuse(both accidental or intentional) and educate users.
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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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Proofpoint
  • Takes screen captures of user's activities to understand suspicious activities better.
  • User friendly management interface makes it better.
  • Ease of upgrading all of the related servers and its agent.
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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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Proofpoint
  • it can be more affordable
  • Many organization are not ready to implement insider threat solutions and prefer classic DLP
  • don't have more dislikes
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Likelihood to Renew
Fortra
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Proofpoint
It depends on the our needs actually. Audit has big space on our environment, so we need to put anything infront of them clearly. ObserveIT makes it perfectly.
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Support Rating
Fortra
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Proofpoint
Easy to access them, immediate response and huge knowledge make them nearly perfect. Also their supports have great sense of humour :)
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Alternatives Considered
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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Proofpoint
Proofpoint Insider Threat Management (ObserveIT) is so called next generation of DLP systems ensuring that you can use it after deployment, no need to create comprehensive regex and patterns of data
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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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Proofpoint
  • Organization will benefit DBA activity and Privileged Access analytics
  • Ensures user privacy by anonymizing
  • You get full visibility of insider threats and solution can reduce costs by using out-of the box risk activity library
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