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https://media.trustradius.com/product-logos/Cb/mk/VZVW7FTTTURK.JPEGForcepointForcepoint, a good solution in Web Security2017-09-25T17:37:01.370ZAlthough 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.,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.,8,It has a tremendous impact on the whole kill chain approach to security. It exists, when configured correctly, in all aspects of the kill chain.,Cisco Cloud Web Security and McAfee Web Content Filtering,McAfee Enterprise Security Manager, LastlineDavid StanfieldForce the Point to be Secure2017-10-19T15:34:45.648ZWe 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.,8,Over cost to configure the units is more labor-intensive than it should be so the initial setup raises the ROI but tapers of over the first few years.
Its ability to update in real time saves a ton of time researching and saves a full time employee doing all that research.,Blue Coat and Check Point,Check Point Security Management, Cisco ASA, McAfee Email GatewayVerified UserBest in class Web and Data protection with Websense2016-10-20T15:36:47.842ZWe 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,9,Websense is an expensive solution
Initial setup takes a lot of time and man hours,,Blue Coat Web & Cloud Security, Cisco Cloud Web Security, Cisco Sourcefire SNORTAlan Matson, CCNA:S, MCPWebsense does the job well!2014-06-13T21:23:57.401ZWe are using Websense mostly for it's Malware and Spyware filtering. We do little URL filtering but the filters that have put in place have been very effective. We use Websense through out the entire enterprise of our company this includes UK and Asia. It has cut down on the time spent by PC technicians have to remove Spyware, malware and adware on our users PC. This has also cut down on time spent on reloading pc that were infected as well.,It does a great job at stopping users from going to "infected" sites and sites that are undesirable.
It has a great range of flexibility and features. We have used it to lock down a server "production" computer that need only a limited amount of access to internet sites. It allows us to also filter by user/group/domain and even IP address or range.
Implementation was a little rough but once the product is up and running it is very stable.,Websense could do some improvement in the Support group. Long wait times and long times for follow-up.
Working with the support center and the sales engineers has been a little rough. We ran into problems where the support group did not understand how the sales engineer set up our design.
It would be also helpful if that you could sort in the knowledge base on just your current version you are running.,8,The biggest impact that Websense has resolved for us was our PC technician times on having to deal with computers with Malware and Spyware on them.
It allowed us to have control over our "production" computers so that users where not surfing internet or installing stuff on these computers.,iBoss,Symantec,blue coat,Zscaler,8,Setup was very easy
Creating groups and access was easy
Setup of filters and custom for our groups.,The only real problem we have had is working with sites that are blocked with no reason why it was blocked. Working with the "Testlog Server" could be set up easier.,9Bill RiegerWebsense Great Tool2014-06-04T02:42:36.988ZHi, I'm Bruno Lafrenier, Senior IT Datacom Specialist at the IRB. Websense was used to monitor and control some access to the Internet. It was used across the entire organization.,The integration with the firewall was amazing
The report for senior management was awesome
The possibility to filter malicious sites was usefull,Finding a solution to better support the https blocking and security
Better integration with the firewall
Faster GUI,8,Good ROI due to reducing usage of unecessary web traffic
It provides fantastic security by blocking specific web sites
It's a great tool to control web traffic,9,1200,3Bruno LafreniereFancy Tool of Security with Less Stability2014-06-06T14:04:02.821Za) It's being used for web security and monitoring and filtering the traffic. Also Websense is used as web caching and proxy server.
b) It's being used globally.
c) Managing the Security policies,Web Security Policies are detailed and we can control the traffic till application layer level. Software is good.
Their database for websites is good.
The management (Triton Server) is good as central management for all appliances placed globally.,Their Hardware is not good.
Support needs improvement.,6,More control over network and users
Negative was -- Lots of issues with the hardware which in turn was a loss for our business.,none,5Shivam AgarwalWebsense makes sense!2017-02-14T18:15:06.530ZWebsense 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,7,DLP has been our major reason for Websense and it has delivered well
Appliance failure/reboot required has caused some downtime,Windows Server, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for DesktopsVerified UserWebsense DSS2016-02-01T20:38:59.029ZWebsense Data Security Suite was used to monitor users to detect transmission of company confidential documents. The DSS solution was fairly successful in this effort and helped us to detect many violations of our corporate policies. The cautions for this product are scalability and reliability. The DSS product seems to have issues scaling above 8000 to 10000 nodes.,Keyword matching is very good.
Large list of applications that can be monitored.
Reporting is very user friendly.,We had issues scaling the management environment to over 10,000 nodes.
We had many false positives with the fingerprinting technology.
The agent can be a large drag on endpoints.,7,Faster detection of insiders misusing corporate information.,Verified UserWebsense review2015-09-04T19:09:26.669ZTwo Websense appliances are installed onsite and at our co-location to filter Citrix users and onsite users. We leverage the hybrid filtering service for the users in our satellite offices worldwide. We had plans to filter protocols, however, policies were never implemented for this use so we still only monitor their use.,Hybrid service works well and the reporting is fairly good for hybrid.
Easy to navigate interface.,It does not filter Citrix users well. We are still working around a user authentication issue on the Citrix boxes. This has not been resolved since we installed the appliances. I've contacted support several times and have received conflicting responses. No one has been able to resolve the issue.,6,Gains in security and malware protection
Prevent groups from accessing personal mail increased employee work productivity,Verified UserUsed to be a good product. Has gone down hill...2014-06-07T00:06:42.385ZWebsense is deployed corporately to provide content filtering and inspection of end user web traffic. The business had asked IT for more visibility into what users are doing on the internet and to block categories of site deemed inappropriate.,Easy to generate reports on user activity.
Can run on appliances or server hardware.
Up to date web site categorization.,Support is a joke at the moment. Support staff have told us they are unsure whether they will lose their jobs so they are not performing 100%.
Has been difficult to get WCCP integration working with Nexus switches (approximately 9 months in and still have issues).
SQL configuration is difficult and often has issues.,2,Enhances visibility into what users are doing on the internet.
Has cost us a lot of time and resources trying to implement.,Checkpoint Software,blue coat,2,4Verified UserHonest Review2014-06-13T15:31:26.790ZWe use Websense for Internet traffic filtering, email spam filtering, and DLP. It is used in all offices of our company; from the headquarters in Chicago to a remote office in Hong Kong. It blocks spam and compromised and unproductive websites for our users. If we don't want sensitive data to leave the company, we can also fingerprint data to be used by the DLP endpoint.,Websense is an all-inclusive product that handles email, web, and DLP in one interface.
Websense has a lot of different options to implement their solutions from software to onsite appliance to the cloud.,I think the support is lacking at times or takes a long time to get a return call from a tech; I've been on hold for 5hrs at one time.
It would be nice if they explained in more detail the different filtering options they provide either online or by a sales person. Our rep wasn't very knowledgeable and steered us to a 3rd party vendor to help explain the software.
It would be nice if there was an all in one appliance that handled email and web.
I was hoping there was an endpoint client that doesn't filter web traffic when it's on a public network.,7,Since we don't have a failover solution in place, when our server goes down we lose the ability to filter.
The interaction with AD makes Websense easy and simple to create groups for filtering. You don't need to have a lot of rules for many different users.
Sometimes the negative factor is more about users reaching blocked sites that are needed for their job and IT having to take the time to research the site and figure out why it is blocked.
A positive impact is Websense blocks compromised web sites and sites that may contain malware. We haven't implemented the email appliance yet so I can't comment on it.,,8Verified UserWebsense Data Security just works.2014-06-04T01:50:51.326ZWebsense Data Security Suite is used by our customers who want to protect large amounts of intellectual property and other proprietary information. We have seen it implemented in single departments who have specific business needs and across entire organizations who are using it to protect everything from intellectual property to electronic healthcare records to credit card data.,Multiple channels for enforcement of policies (web, e-mail, copy/paste, saving to USB, etc.)
Simple and easy to understand policy definitions
Built in policies and definitions make it easy to design and publish policies applicable to any industry or type of data,The GUI can be a little messy to navigate as advanced configuration items are not always categorized in the sections you'd expect them to be.
Major upgrades can be a long and arduous process but thankfully come few and far in between compared to other security products.
Error messages in the GUI are sometimes less than helpful or not verbose enough to diagnose problems without opening the command line.,9,Increased visibility into who has access to what types of sensitive data and how they are moved within the organization.
Changing employee behavior to only handle sensitive types of data through approved communication channels.
Customers are seeing data security being recognized as a process, not a one time effort, as user behavior changes in response to Websense being implemented within various departments.,9Verified UserWebsense just makes sense.2014-06-06T17:01:22.753ZWebsense was implemented to protect the organization from external and internal internet abuse. It successfully cut down on desktop issues, prevented pop-ups and prevented internal issues of internet abuse. In the end it it gave the CEO and IT relief as the cost of the product more than paid for itself in reduced support of desktops. We used it across the whole organization as an internet proxy.
We test drove other products but they just did not compare in terms of reporting, ease of use and out of the box categories.,We implemented time based internet use. At lunch hour non work related websites were free to use and other parts of the day employees had 1/2 hour to freely surf. Setting this up on Websense was a breeze and helped reduce initial complaints from end users during implementation.
An added bonus of Websense was the ad/pop-up blocking. Not only did this save on bandwidth, but it also in the end drastically reduced the number of desktop issues we had from malware related internet surfing. Rebuilding or troubleshooting desktops ended up being a thing of the past.
Maintenance of Websense was particularly easy. The pre-canned categories as well as the daily updates to the lists were accurate and rarely did we have to manually add websites to an allow list. This made administration of Websense straightforward and easy. In the end it just ran and ran with very minimal maintenance on our end.,Initial install can be confusing. After I implemented it 3 or 4 times it was fairly straight forward.
Having a planning tool for how many users and what size of server would be a plus. When we implemented it was kind of a best guess based on 3 different setups.
Would be nice if they implemented a feature where if a user came to a page that was blocked (and they felt like it should be open) that they could click on a link which would generate an email or put into a report for administrators to review.,10,No doubt it has an increase on employee efficiency as the web is no longer a place to waste time. I do not believe in totally locking it down but giving a time allowance is the best of both worlds.
Decrease in internet traffic. With locked down video streaming, downloading and AD's being blocked our internet bills decreased.
Once again the amount of time IT had to spend on fixing desktops dramatically reduced. As well if a user is not being interrupted then it also increases their work efficiency.,,10Verified User
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