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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.The…

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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…

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Product Details

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.

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 Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsWindows, Linux, Mac
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

Symantec Data Loss Prevention and VikingCloud are common alternatives for Forcepoint DLP.

Reviewers rate Support Rating highest, with a score of 5.3.

The most common users of Forcepoint DLP are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Used to be a good product. Has gone down hill...

Rating: 2 out of 10
February 26, 2015
Vetted Review
Verified User
Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention
5 years of experience
Websense 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.
Cons
  • 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.
Traditional filtering seems to work okay. The web content gateway is not very easy to use and work with.

Websense just makes sense.

Rating: 10 out of 10
June 06, 2014
Vetted Review
Verified User
Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention
4 years of experience
Websense 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.
Cons
  • 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.
I personally think that every organization should have a form of Websense. The initial cost and on going support is easily paid for and it makes it easier on IT administrators and the organization more secure in the end. To me Websense is a no-brainer and I now run a web filter at home because of it.

Forcepoint - Simple to use DLP

Rating: 9 out of 10
March 31, 2022
DS
Vetted Review
Verified User
Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention
1 year of experience
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
Cons
  • Integration with Network DLP and other tools
  • Deployment is tedious as there are multiple servers for multiple services
  • Connectivity is not secure
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.

One of the best data leakage prevention tool in market

Rating: 9 out of 10
October 28, 2023
PM
Vetted Review
Verified User
Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention
2 years of experience
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
Cons
  • Deployment on multiple servers is difficult
  • Data discovery can be improved
  • Machine learning technique can be improved
It's very user friendly and easy to use. Rules can be managed on user-friendly interface web site console. For-example, violation can be release via management module. It provide prevention sensitive data against accidental data loss and compromised. Rule set sometimes work, sometimes does not work. There is no OCR feature. Forcepoint DLP tool does not have any AI feature that can learn user behavior or data and produces alarm.

Websense Data Security just works.

Rating: 9 out of 10
June 04, 2014
Vetted Review
Verified User
Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention
2 years of experience
Websense 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
Cons
  • 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.
For customers who are expecting absolute protection of their data, Websense Data Security is not suitable. However, no DLP solution on the market is completely unbreakable or cannot be circumvented. Customers should be made aware that no security product is perfect and that dedicated individuals are going to find a way around any security measures you put in place. Key questions to ask during selection are:

  • What types of data are you looking to protect? PHI, PII, cardholder data, proprietary, intellectual property, or a combination?
  • Who currently handles these data types?
  • What types of methods do they use for accessing and managing them?
  • What level of security do you expect to get out of the product?
Customers who are realistic about the fact that a DLP solution is meant to prevent most unauthorized movement of data and will not prevent all are perfect candidates for Websense Data Security Suite.
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