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Forcepoint DLP

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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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Users of Forcepoint DLP have reported that the product effectively monitors critical streams to prevent data leakage and offers ease of …
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Stop Data Leakage

7 out of 10
July 13, 2022
Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention is [being] used across [the] organization to safeguard the sending of sensitive data outside the …
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Good tool to use!

9 out of 10
December 23, 2019
Incentivized
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.
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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

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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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Community Insights

TrustRadius Insights are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, 3rd-party data sources. Have feedback on this content? Let us know!

Users of Forcepoint DLP have reported that the product effectively monitors critical streams to prevent data leakage and offers ease of management. They have found the API feature in Forcepoint DLP particularly helpful as it allows for automation, addressing the problem of slowness and delays in incident creation. The manager approval process with Network Email has been praised for its ability to effectively notify managers of any user activity.

Forcepoint DLP provides comprehensive coverage, unified data protection, reporting capabilities, and customization options. It also integrates seamlessly with other Forcepoint products, enhancing its usefulness for organizations. Users have highlighted the small footprint and quick data classification capabilities of Forcepoint endpoint DLP, which helps them efficiently protect their data. The availability of good pre-defined policies and a user-friendly interface contribute to the benefits organizations experience in terms of core data protection.

The integration of all data vectors on a single console is another valuable use case for Forcepoint DLP. Users have successfully utilized the product to protect their organization's confidential data, particularly in web and email data protection scenarios. With its ability to prevent data loss and breaches, provide better visibility and control over data, improve compliance, and automate IT security work, Forcepoint DLP has proven to be a valuable tool for businesses. Daily analysis of DLP reports helps track users' activities related to sensitive information and easily identify suspicious activity. Additionally, by implementing data protection policies across thousands of devices and enabling centralized monitoring and actions on incidents, organizations can effectively safeguard their sensitive information.

Websense, now part of Forcepoint, has been widely used to prevent users from uploading company documents to external websites or attaching them to personal emails. It has successfully addressed internal internet abuse issues by cutting down on desktop problems and preventing pop-ups. Globally utilized for web security purposes, Websense performs functions such as monitoring, filtering traffic, web caching, proxy server operation, content filtering, inspection of end-user web traffic, and blocking inappropriate site categories. It is also leveraged for internet traffic filtering, email spam filtering, and DLP across multiple offices and locations.

Websense Data Security Suite has been instrumental in protecting valuable intellectual property, proprietary information, and sensitive data like electronic healthcare records and credit card data. Users have reported successful detection of the transmission of company confidential documents and violations of corporate policies. By adding security to internet-bound traffic, securing IP, and controlling bandwidth costs, Websense offers important benefits and use cases. Furthermore, it is used extensively for implementing endpoint DLP, content gateway, web filtering, URL filtering, and email security. Users have found Websense to be easy to navigate, user-friendly, and have had positive experiences with the product.

Forcepoint has made improvements to their product and has shown remarkable improvement in customer service. It is being widely used as a Web Security and DLP solution across organizations. The primary use case for Forcepoint is PII data loss prevention, helping prevent unauthorized disclosure of member data and discovering the actual location where PHI resides and how it is shared. The threshold feature in Forcepoint DLP triggers an alarm to the administrator for further review when a set amount of PHI is shared externally.

Forcepoint DLP is extensively used to identify and locate ePHI on disk and in transit via email. It effectively stops data loss via USB storage devices, especially concerning internal employees. This makes it particularly valuable for the health insurance industry, enabling compliance with regulations such as PCI, HITRUST, HIPAA, etc. It addresses problems like Data Loss of PII and is deployed on endpoints to flag attachments and messages containing customer PII or proprietary information.

Forcepoint DLP serves as a web proxy that monitors and warns users about potentially unauthorized data printing, storing, or sharing. It helps track data exfiltration and allows Data Custodians from different departments to review incidents. Users have recommended Forcepoint DLP for clients starting their data loss prevention journey with endpoint protection before moving on to network data loss prevention. With its ability to prevent data leakage and protect critical data on employee devices regardless of location, Forcepoint DLP strengthens web security while providing visibility and control over abnormal activities.

This all contributes to the overall objective of using Forcepoint DLP enterprise-wide: preventing intentional or unintentional data leakage from the organization. It protects valuable data on Cloud, servers, and on-premises systems while providing confidence in controlling abnormal activities that could lead to data breaches. The capture of incidents with low false positives ensures efficient incident management and response.

Effective Endpoint Data Loss Prevention Module: Users have found the Forcepoint Endpoint DLP module highly effective in securing data at endpoints, such as Microsoft Excel and other Microsoft capabilities, email, FTP, and Active Sync. Reviewers have specifically praised its OCR capabilities for preventing sensitive data theft through embedded text recognition in images.

Flexible Filtering and Customization: The software provides a great range of flexibility and features that allow users to filter web content and block access to undesirable or infected sites. Reviewers appreciate the ability to customize filtering based on user/group/domain, IP address, or range, enhancing their control over web access.

Seamless Integration with Firewall: Users have praised the seamless functionality between Forcepoint Endpoint DLP and the firewall. This integration has been particularly appreciated for its ease of use and efficient security management.

Difficult and Tedious Deployment: Users have found deployment on multiple servers to be difficult and tedious, often requiring significant effort and time to set up the system as per their specific requirements.

Improvement Needed in Data Discovery and Machine Learning Techniques: Some users feel that the data discovery and machine learning techniques of the product need improvement. They believe that these features are not as effective or accurate as desired, leading to challenges in identifying and protecting sensitive data.

Lack of Integration with Network DLP and Other Tools: Users have expressed frustration over the lack of integration with Network DLP tools. This limitation makes it challenging for organizations to seamlessly incorporate the product into their existing security infrastructure, hindering efficient data protection measures.

Users who have reviewed Forcepoint DLP commonly recommend the following:

  1. Deploying correctly and following business processes: Users have found that Forcepoint DLP can be effective if it is deployed correctly and if business processes are followed and updated. They emphasize the importance of implementing the solution properly to maximize its effectiveness.

  2. Selecting Forcepoint DLP for comprehensive data loss prevention: Users recommend choosing Forcepoint DLP because it offers a complete package of data loss prevention capabilities. They appreciate that the product addresses various aspects of data security.

  3. Utilizing advanced features: Users suggest that Forcepoint DLP stands out as the best option for advanced features like OCR (Optical Character Recognition). They highlight the product's ability to provide advanced functionalities for enhanced data protection.

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Reviews

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Piyush Mittal | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
July 13, 2022

Stop Data Leakage

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Olivia Jayy | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Brandon Smith | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Flavio Pereira | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Gabriel Silva | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Tribett Requena | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Bhuwan Chandra | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
December 31, 2019

Forcepoint in action

John Keenan | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
December 23, 2019

Good tool to use!

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Ted Jan | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
February 14, 2017

Websense makes sense!

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Websense requires some work but is good with the DLP appliances. The content gateway needs some improvement and the endpoint agent has affected performance in some cases. All in all, it does the job but not without a good investment of work and time!
Alan Matson, CCNA:S, MCP | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
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