Forcepoint DLP

Effective tool that safeguards our data with a single policy and simplifies compliance with predefined policies, and the automatic access control and usage is very convenient to our web and networked environments. Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention protects our critical intellectual property with unsurpassed accuracy and provides a secure mobile application access to data on and off network.

Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention is very well suited for organizations where [the] user count is more than 200 users. These users can be work from home users or users visiting the office premises or even branch office users. As Forcepoint is only supported on Windows and MAC operating systems, it is less likely to be suitable for such environments.

I find this tool to be a great product, as it comes in really very handy. This product is great when it comes to scenarios where you are just trying to block some specific types of information and data out of your company.

I would recommend Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention; it can be used in any scenario, best suited for small and medium-sized operations. It is easy to use and configure through its graphical interface, being able to create rules within rules, exceptions and add devices for specific users. It is a way to inhibit and protect the network from data theft that is now more serious than the hardware itself. Management can be done remotely and from any device. Forcepoint support is very good; we've already had an NGFW at a branch and we like the customer service.

It requires a certain knowledge in information security but the solution is very good and we recommend it for any scenario. It's a way to enhance security, prevent theft of sensitive device information, and maintain an extra layer of security with URL filtering. Overall, it's easy to use and set up. Forcepoint support is a good thing and I liked it when I asked for technical support to do a configuration. The solution can be a good alternative to protect USB pen drives and prevent information theft in case of unpredictable theft.

Forcepoint Endpoint Data Loss Prevention suited the environment where data movement is heavily regulated and complies with compliance like PCI-DSS, HIPAA, SOC Type-2, etc. Also, if the organization wants to see a holistic view of the security posture of the organization and imports logs from endpoints and network for data movement. The best part of Forcepoint Endpoint Data Loss Prevention is the reporting part, while another OEMs in the market share logs details only, Forcepoint Endpoint Data Loss Prevention has a reporting part where you can generate reports with compliance format. Forcepoint Endpoint Data Loss Prevention also integrates with different SIEM solutions available in the market.

Forcepoint Endpoint Data Loss Prevention is perfect for information security and compliance management and the IT department, cyber security consulting services, legal business, and large companies that need to manage and control information leakage and ensure compliance with company policies.

If any organization doesn't want to share data outside the organization. It is always recommended to use user-defined policies to avoid any false incidents and using up drive space. Using the management console is easy to understand and you get everything in a systematic manner.

It is easy to use and manage. Reviewing all the hits for items you are looking for requires the staff. Custom rules are easy to create.

Support is getting better. It was bad at first, but now it is a lot better.

As a bundled package, we've kept Forcepoint DLP around because we need the capability. Our current on-prem deployment requires a bit of management and one of the things that always seems to be problematic is inserting a proxy. Some traffic doesn't like WCCP, other traffic doesn't like proxies. It quickly becomes a technical finger pointing session in almost any troubleshooting effort. And Forcepoint tech support isn't terribly interested in solving my problems so if their software is operating as they intend it to, then they don't really care if it's impeding our business.

Because we've brought our problem of inexplicable web traffic disruption and they effectively ceased working with our troubleshooting team even though we'd eliminated other avenues as the potential source of the problem. Once they stopped helping us look for a problem, their product became less appealing as the long-term solution. They may claim to want to be "my" (or "your") partner, but partners need to stick it out beyond the "traffic looks good from my perspective" attitude. They need to help us figure out what we're doing differently that could negatively impact business.

Forcepoint DLP is ideal for companies that have dedicated IT staff to monitor it. There is a lot of data that is collected and it requires constant monitoring in order to determine whether or not people are moving data in or out of your environment. Creating policies, even test policies can be tricky in Forcepoint. A few times, we've created policies that we thought would only affect a small subset of users and instead they impacted the whole enterprise, so it's really important that a group/team of people really understand how to use this tool. If your company is concerned about data loss via USB, this is a good tool to use.

Forcepoint support for DLP is pretty good. When we've had issues, they are usually able to help us.

I like the database fingerprinting for DLP. I can point it to a DB Table of my sensitive customer info and use that to look for data loss. The reporting feature has also been useful as we can setup different levels of alert for different users and different amounts of sensitive data. The alerts can be sent to the offending user, their manager, and the security officer or any combination.

Forcepoint DLP and TRITON Enterprise are fully functional and complicated products to administer. We had excellent results with their support of the Web and Email products and have not been disappointed with their support of the DLP product. Our calls are always handled very efficiently and effectively. I would recommend Forcepoint to other users just based on the quality of their tech support.

We use an on-prem Forcepoint web protection solution. So far, the limitations found in the DLP are specifically related to the ability for the product to completely block uploads to online storage sites like drive.google.com. There are some sites that Forcepoint can handle well. But not all.

Overall, response is acceptable for a recent Severity 3 support ticket. Resolution provided by the support tech was accurate.

For a complete Web Security solution this is a good choice. For a simple solution look elsewhere.

In scenarios where you are just trying to block specific types of data based on a rule, it can be used very effectively.

If you are trying to use fingerprinting to classify data, Forcepoint is not well suited for this. You would need a separate technology in order to classify data appropriately.

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.

Great tool that has come in handy. We send many emails and deal with PII, so it's great to have a tool that looks out for our data. Sometimes the GUI can run slow but for the most part, we have not had any issues and things run smoothly.

Support has many issues. Forcepoint is starting to use offshore support and they simply just read out of a book and do not know how to troubleshoot properly. This has presented many issues for us and we have expressed our frustrations but to no avail, and that is an issue.

I have tried many proxy solutions from BlueCoat, to TMG/ISA, to Cisco WSA and nothing has compared to the ease of use of Websense and the flexibility. Sure there are always things missing but overall Websense has the best I have found.

Google Drive allows a user to browse locally using an applet that resembles Windows Explorer. In this scenario, Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention is unable to enforce restrictions. Therefore, the only preventive control is to block Google Drive entirely, which reduces access to cloud storage solutions.

Not good. We have not had a good support experience with Forcepoint overall. When we open a ticket, it is usually as a last resort because our expectations are low that a resolution will be found quickly. As an example, we had a production issue that required support escalation. The Forcepoint engineer provided a webex session to review the status then proceeded to send KB articles for us to review and implement on our own. If the recommendation is for us to read and test out solutions on our own, then we could have just used Google.

Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention does what we intended it to do. It tracks all PHI stored in the company and track the movement of PHI. It also has the capability to block the user from sharing PHI depending on how you have it on the setting. Overall, it is a return of investment for my company because it will prevent malicious insider from sharing valuable data to external parties.

We do not have any issues when we needed support from Forcepoint. The support team always gets back to us in a timely manner.

Due to the lack of responsiveness on support issues I cannot say it is well suited anywhere.

Many years of experience with unresponsiveness, unresolved issues, and poor support from management when escalated

It is good if you are also using Forcepoint web content gateway or Endpoint. You need to create regex pattern for MBI if you want to catch this latest medicare ID format.

Some support engineers are helpful, while others are not so helpful. Overall, the support is acceptable.

Well suited for smaller organizations like ours.

They have good knowledge and return calls.

Overall usage and configuration of Forcepoint is pretty straight forward. There a few things harder then others to get working correctly, but once configured correctly things work great.

During the setup and design make sure that they have other companies using the same model and design that you are using. We ran into a big disconnect on this issue due to our configuration and working with Websense Support.

Product is very customizable and easy to setup and change on the fly.

What is the ease of deployment in the environment? Do you require an installment or change to the setting of each client in your organization? How does it work with the signature?