Forcepoint DLP
Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention
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What is Forcepoint DLP?
Forcepoint DLP promises to address human-centric risk by providing visibility and control everywhere your people work and everywhere
your data resides. Security teams apply user-risk scoring to focus on the events that matter most and to accelerate
compliance with global data regulations.
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The vendor promises these benefits:
- Accelerate compliance
- Empower people to protect data
- Advanced detection and controls that follow the data
RESPOND AND REMEDIATE RISK
Traditional approaches to DLP overload users with false positives while missing data at risk. Forcepoint DLP applies advanced analytics to correlate seemingly unrelated DLP events into prioritized incidents. Incident Risk Ranking (IRR) provided with Forcepoint DLP fuses disparate DLP indicators into a framework of Bayesian belief networks to assess the likelihood of data risk scenarios, such as data theft and broken business processes.
VISIBILITY EVERYWHERE YOUR PEOPLE WORK, CONTROL EVERYWHERE YOUR DATA RESIDES
Today’s enterprises are challenged with complicated environments, where data is everywhere and requires the protection of data in places that aren’t managed or owned by the enterprise. Forcepoint DLP for Cloud Applications extends analytics and DLP policies to critical cloud applications so your data is protected, wherever it resides.
Forcepoint DLP Features
- Supported: Endpoint
- Supported: Cloud applications
- Supported: Discovery
- Supported: Network
Forcepoint DLP Competitors
Forcepoint DLP Technical Details
Deployment Types | On-premise, SaaS |
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Operating Systems | Windows, Linux, Mac |
Mobile Application | No |
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What are Forcepoint DLP's top competitors?
Symantec Data Loss Prevention and SecureTrust Data Loss Prevention are common alternatives for Forcepoint DLP.
What is Forcepoint DLP's best feature?
Reviewers rate Support Rating highest, with a score of 5.3.
Who uses Forcepoint DLP?
The most common users of Forcepoint DLP are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees) and the Information Technology & Services industry.
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Ws are using this product to prevent data from leakage from internal environment to outside public environment. We have deployed this product on all internal systems via endpoints and also on our email server. This product captures DLP incidents with very less false positives and it is very good in functionality.We can easily deploy policies and it has a easy to use interface.
- Incidents identification and escalation is easy
- Policy deployment is easy
- Blocking access to users
- Deployment on multiple servers is difficult
- Data discovery can be improved
- Machine learning technique can be improved
March 31, 2022
Forcepoint - Simple to use DLP
We are using Forcepoint DLP for preventing users from intentionally or unintentionally leaking data from the organization whether they are in office premises or working from home or working from branch offices or working from elsewhere. We restrict users to upload business-critical data to a website, USB device or even through any application.
- Data leak prevention, as it is meant to do
- Application control, monitoring and blocking on users system
- Device control
- Website blocking
- Integration with Network DLP and other tools
- Deployment is tedious as there are multiple servers for multiple services
- Connectivity is not secure
January 05, 2022
Effective and powerful endpoint DLP security solution
Our entire organization depends on Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention to protect our valuable data on Cloud, server and on-premises. Powerful tool that helps to protect data at rest, data in-motion and data in use giving us the visibility and control to every abnormal activity by the user within our networked environment.
- Cloud secure data protection.
- Unified policy enforcement.
- Risk-adaptive protection based on user behavior.
- The way to discover data at risk can be improved.
- Additional cost to professional support.
- Improvement to reporting days per week.
September 15, 2021
A data loss prevention software which is doing good
Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention is a data loss prevention software and due to the nature of this category, this tool is used as a web proxy all across our organization. It is used enterprise-wide in my organization. This tool has been installed on all of the PCs, laptops, and servers that we own. This software has ensured us how and when people are attempting to print, store, and even share data with potentially unauthorized teams.
- 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.
- This tool would have been more effective if whitelisting was not restricted, as it should be able to adjust just so it can be read accurately.
- Fingerprinting is a little too sensitive, which should also be further strengthened when files are found.
September 13, 2021
Stop Data Leakage
Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention is [being] used across [the] organization to safeguard the sending of sensitive data outside the organization. We solve problems where users should not be able to send any company information for their personal use, such as sending files [that] are not sensitive but still the company's data. Also, we have to monitor what incidents are triggered by the endpoint for us to keep track, monitoring incidents through images using OCR, and using risk score to get the details of which user tried to violate the policy more often, even if it was blocked for him.
- Performing finger printing
- Performing discovery tasks
- Detecting data from images using OCR
- Pre-defined policies
- Agent communication with data loss prevention servers
- Getting unwanted incidents using pre-defined policies
September 10, 2021
Efficient data network protection with Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention
Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention is exceptional and has pleased me and IT. So far it has only been implemented at our headquarters. And the biggest problem we had was the fear of data leakage through corporate equipment and devices. This Forcepoint DLP solution now protects critical data through encryption and prevents information theft from our devices, even in cases of theft, where we create action plans to execute in those cases. Along with other tools, it has improved our information security and we are happy with this product.
- Effective data leakage protection
- Email security
- URL filter
- It has a graphical interface for creating security rules
- Device information theft protection
- Good price
- URL filter with few categories
- Small instabilities
September 07, 2021
Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention fulfills its purpose very well.
The Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention solution has been used throughout our organization's region. There are two main problems to be solved with Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention: the first is protecting critical data on employee devices, such as smartphones, pen drives, and notebooks, regardless of their location, and the second is strengthening web security with resources for endpoint protection, with web content filtering, email security, and proxy. The experience has been positive and my team and I are enjoying it; security has been improved and problems have decreased.
- Web content filter and proxy
- Can be expanded on demand
- Prevents theft of corporate information
- Fingerprint feature
- Cryptography
- High-level and quality Forcepoint support
- More customization is lacking in the web content filter feature
- Reports of some false positives
- GUI is not so fluid
September 07, 2021
Perfect for information security and compliance management
We use Forcepoint Endpoint Data Loss Prevention to avoid data leakage and protection. We carry out data monitoring and offer this solution to customers who require it.
- Drip data loss prevention monitoring
- Digital data printing/OCR
- Unified data protection coverage
- Risk-based policy enforcement and native behavioral analysis
- Initial setup is not that simple
- It does not have an integration API
- Machine learning technologies and OSR technologies would be better
August 31, 2021
A trusted leader in data security
We are a solutions provider to our clients who are facing compliance and security issues. There are multiple modules in Forcepoint and we recommend clients start their data loss prevention journey with Forcepoint Endpoint Data Loss Prevention and later on to move to Forcepoint Network Data Loss Prevention. Forcepoint Endpoint Data Loss Prevention takes time to be established in the client environment and multiple policy fine-tunings are required to remove the false positives. We also recommended starting the data loss prevention journey with a small fraction of users--say 50 and 100 users at the initial level.
- The Forcepoint Endpoint Data Loss Prevention Endpoint module is applied to secure data being used at endpoints, like from Microsoft Excel and other Microsoft capabilities, also other functions like email and FTP, Active Sync, etc. It secures the data in use at the endpoint.
- The Forcepoint Endpoint Data Loss Prevention Network Module is applied for the traffic being used in network capabilities like email, FTP, and web. It also secures the data on the move in the network.
- Forcepoint Data Discover--the capability to discover the data which is sensitive for the organization and lies across the network; with the discovery tool, we can define the data, which is important based on regulatory and compliance risk.
- OCR (optical character recognition) capabilities also come with the Data Discover Module, by which we can see the embedded text inside the image and that helps to prevent sensitive data theft.
- 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.
February 28, 2020
Forcepoint DLP is great
It is used across our whole organization. It is helping us prevent unauthorized disclosure of member data.
- Prevents data from leaving that we want to protect
- Ensures data leaving is encrypted if that is what we want
- Takes some time to get it tuned
- Requires tuning from time to time
January 17, 2020
Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention is a solid product but there is room for improvement.
We are currently using it on the Security team to track data exfiltration. We also allow Data Custodians from different departments to review incidents to point out anything suspicious.
- Tracks Removeable media based events well
- Provides in depth forensic analysis
- Whitelisting is limited. It should be adjusted so multi-tiered rules can be used accurately
- Fingerprinting can be too sensitive and when similar (not exactly the same) files are found, it can impede production
January 13, 2020
Current satisfied user of Forcepoint Web, Email and Data
Forcepoint DLP is used bankwide. It addresses problems with data loss to network storage sites.
- Ability to identify PII
- Ability to alert on PII violations
- Ability to block uploads to all Personal Network Storage and Backup sites
January 08, 2020
Forcepoint - Off point on customer service
The IT department implements and manages the product, and it is deployed across the environment.
- Notify of problems
- Stability
- Customer Service
December 31, 2019
Forcepoint in action
Forcepoint is used as a web proxy across the vast majority of the organization. The DLP product is used to monitor how and when people attempt to print, store or share data with potentially unauthorized parties. The DLP product is then used to warn people about the potential impacts that such behavior has.
- Captures email attachments in their entirety.
- Recognizes printing.
- Limits on sizes of files.
- The reports require lots of clicking to get to.
December 23, 2019
Good tool to use!
We use Data Loss Prevention across org and, it addresses problems like Data Loss of PII. We have deployed the agents as well on endpoints.
- Prevents Data Loss
- Allows us to see what files are being touched
- Masking
- Changing regex
Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention is used across the organization. As a financial institution it is imperative that we take steps to insure customer data and ensure that when sensitive data leaves the organization it is done in a secure manner for sound business purposes. Forcepoint DLP is one of the tools we use to flag attachments and messages that may contain customer PII or proprietary information. Mistakes happen, so educating users is not an adequate preventive control.
- Provisioning canned policies such as PII, PCI and PHI data detection.
- Ability to detect sensitive data in compressed (zipped) attachments.
- Inability to OCR and detect PII delivered as a screenshot or image file.
- Lacking ability to alert when compressed file is password protected.
December 19, 2019
Forcepoint DLP helps us fight internal data leaks.
We use Forcepoint DLP across the whole organization in the US and China. We are in the health insurance industry and need to be compliant with PCI, HITRUST, HIPAA, etc. Forcepoint DLP enables us to protect sensitive information.
- Blocks sensitive data from uploading to Internet via Forcepoint proxy.
- Blocks sensitive data transmitted between application and even clipboard by Forcepoint DLP endpoint.
- Does not support latest medicare id format - MBI.
- Different to make whitelist and exception
December 13, 2019
Forcepoint DLP is good for what it does
Forcepoint DLP is used enterprise-wide at my company. We have the agent installed on every desktop/laptop that we own. Its primary usage is to stop data loss via USB storage devices. Being a financial company, we are very concerned about data loss from internal employees. Forcepoint has been able to help us track the movement of data to USB drives and block them.
- Audit Data Transfers to USB
- Block Data Transfers to USB
- Policies can be difficult to create
- Overwhelming amount of data is collected
December 10, 2019
Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention Review
My organization uses Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention across the organization to address PHI stored in the organization. The use of Forcepoint DLP has helped us discover the actual location where PHI resides and how the user shares the PHI. We are able to set a threshold on the amount of PHI to share externally and it will trigger the alarm to the administrator for further review.
- Track location of PHI.
- Track confidential information.
- The implementation is tougher than we initially thought.
- It would be great to just add the solution that requires seamless implementation.
December 10, 2019
Forcepoint DLP for HIPAA Compliance
Forcepoint DLP is being used across the organization to identify and locate ePHI on disk and in transit via email.
- Database Fingerprinting to match my data exactly.
- Integration with Forcepoint Email and Endpoint Agents.
- Some inconsistency between module interfaces. Loading approve and block lists.
- Complicated setup.
December 10, 2019
Forcepoint DLP Review
It's being used across the whole organization. The main purpose is PII data loss prevention.
- Easy to use
- Easy to manage
- Technical documentation is too complicated
- Too many products with different names. So, it can get confusing which product does what.
October 19, 2017
Force the Point to be Secure
We are currently using Forcepoint as our URL filtering solution. This takes a lot of the research out of whether a site should be accessed or not especially with the real-time filter enabled. Most our access out to the internet is blocked before we are even aware that there is an issue with the site. and can just be rendered a non-issue.
- Easy access to which categories would be blocked or allowed.
- Real-time blocking of hazardous sites.
- Expandable.
- Remote filtering is not as advanced as we would like.
- Support time is not as quick as needed in most cases.
- Upgrades of appliances and software is not as easy as other solutions.
- HTTPS inspection needs to hand a valid cert and doesnt work correctly with all vendors.
September 25, 2017
Forcepoint, a good solution in Web Security
Although I am not part of the original team that implemented the Websense/Forcepoint system I have made large scale changes to improve upon its efficiency and resolve performance issues due to incorrectly deployed parts of the system. My overall experience has been good. Forcepoint has come a long way with their product and the features being made available over the next couple of versions are exciting and needed. The Forcepoint team has been very good to work with and they have shown remarkable improvement in customer service and technical support.
Forcepoint is being used as our Web Security and DLP solution and that is across the whole organization.
Forcepoint is being used as our Web Security and DLP solution and that is across the whole organization.
- It is a very complete solution that addresses a wide range of different security issues and it does it well.
- Forcepoint's Technical Support is on the ball. They have improved greatly over the last 3 years.
- The level of professionalism from Forcepoint really completes the picture.
- I do have some issues with Forcepoint but they do listen to their customers. Many of our issues have been addressed.
February 14, 2017
Websense makes sense!
Websense is used in implementing endpoint DLP, as a content gateway, a web filter, a URL filter and also e-mail security. It provides real-time scanning of websites and caching both of which are really important features to us at our organization. Overall [it's] easy to navigate (user-friendly) and has a UI with a few issues here and there, but still we are happy with the product.
- Real-time scanning
- Caching capabilities
- Easy to implement changes with good and clean UI
- Sometimes needs rebooting of appliances as throughput reduces
- Support improvement needed
- Navigating to appliances could be better
October 20, 2016
Best in class Web and Data protection with Websense
We currently use Websense to protect our web and data security channels. We have a number of Websense proxies deployed world wide protecting users in both large and small offices. Using Websense allowed us to add security to our internet bound traffic while securing our IP and keeping our bandwidth costs down from users browsing non-work related sites.
- Content Filtering
- Real Time security
- Caching
- DLP
- A more centralized UI, different components have different UIs to log into
- Better integration with third party products, they used to support SQUID but they no longer do