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What is Forcepoint SWG?
The Forcepoint ONE Secure Web Gateway (SWG) is one of the three foundational gateways of the Forcepoint ONE all-in-one cloud platform. Forcepoint ONE SWG monitors and controlsany interaction with any website, including blocking access to websites based on category and…
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What is Forcepoint SWG?
The Forcepoint ONE Secure Web Gateway (SWG) is one of the three foundational gateways of the Forcepoint ONE all-in-one cloud platform. Forcepoint ONE SWG monitors and controlsany interaction with any website, including blocking access to websites based on category and risk score, blocking download of malware, blocking upload of sensitive data to personal filesharing accounts, detecting shadow IT, and optionally providingRemote Browser Isolation (RBI) with Content Disarm andReconstruction (CDR).
Forcepoint SWG Features
- Supported: Shadow IT discovery and risk ranking
- Supported: Cloud Application Control and full CASB upgrade
- Supported: Data Loss Prevention (DLP)
- Supported: Cloud Sandbox
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Forcepoint SWG Technical Details
| Deployment Types | On-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Windows, Linux, Mac |
| Mobile Application | No |
Frequently Asked Questions
The Forcepoint ONE Secure Web Gateway (SWG) is one of the three foundational gateways of the Forcepoint ONE all-in-one cloud platform. Forcepoint ONE SWG monitors and controlsany interaction with any website, including blocking access to websites based on category and risk score, blocking download of malware, blocking upload of sensitive data to personal filesharing accounts, detecting shadow IT, and optionally providingRemote Browser Isolation (RBI) with Content Disarm andReconstruction (CDR).
Zscaler Internet Access and Netskope Public Cloud Security are common alternatives for Forcepoint SWG.
The most common users of Forcepoint SWG are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway has proven to be a valuable tool for organizations in various departments, ensuring secure browsing of the internet and addressing a range of security concerns. Users have reported that the application effectively blocks malicious threats while allowing users to browse the internet, providing an effective layer of security. This has helped organizations protect their computers and laptops from potential threats, giving IT departments peace of mind.
Additionally, the software has been instrumental in managing productivity, as it enables different departments to access specific categories of websites and allows managers to review internet activity. HR teams have found value in the user site visit data managed by Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway, which has proven helpful in certain cases. Moreover, the ability to quickly generate standard reports from the report catalog has made it easier for organizations to monitor web traffic and measure internet usage.
In public-sector organizations, the software ensures that users and staff are accessing websites aligned with mission goals. Libraries have leveraged its functionality to enable filtering of staff and patron internet usage, meeting requirements for CIPA compliance and qualifying for E-Rate funding.
Customers have also praised Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway's scalability and ease of deployment across multiple locations. The granular delegation of administration via active directory has allowed local departments to implement their own rule sets, enhancing efficiency and effectiveness.
Overall, customers have found this product to be a reliable solution for securing web traffic, preventing threats, managing productivity, and ensuring compliance with organizational policies.
Helpful and Clear Help Articles: Reviewers have praised the clear and helpful help articles provided by Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway. These articles were found to be a valuable resource in understanding and utilizing the software effectively, with some users mentioning that they served as a comprehensive reference point for various tasks and functionalities. The availability of these detailed and informative articles not only contributed to a smoother learning curve but also helped troubleshoot issues independently, reducing the reliance on customer service support.
Time-saving Feature: Users appreciate the time-saving aspect of Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway's clear and easily accessible help articles. With these resources readily available, reviewers mentioned being able to find answers to their questions quickly, allowing them to continue working without interruptions. This feature has been particularly useful in minimizing downtime caused by seeking support from customer service or navigating complex user manuals.
Commitment to Customer Satisfaction: The inclusion of clear help articles demonstrates Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway's commitment to customer satisfaction. Reviewers highlighted how this comprehensive resource eliminates unnecessary back-and-forth communication with customer support, as it provides extensive information upfront. By offering detailed guidance through these articles, Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway ensures users have access to reliable self-help options, enhancing overall user experience.
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Poor User Interface: Multiple users have expressed frustration with the confusing and non-user-friendly interface of Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway, making it difficult to navigate and causing difficulties during installation.
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Limited Configuration Options: Some users feel that the software lacks flexibility in defining usage, as the options for configuring policies and exceptions are limited compared to other available options in the market.
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Slow Support Response Times: Users have reported slower support response times compared to other vendors, with issues taking 3 to 5 days to resolve, indicating a need for more efficient and responsive customer support from Forcepoint.
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January 16, 2023
Forcepoint is a force to reckon with!
Force point is used at EWS for monitoring and DLP policies of the organization. For more effectivity, we’ve defined dictionary clearly to be used for monitoring by enabling EWS_Keywords as the dictionary traveling over outgoing communication and over internet through USB storage, FTP, chat applications, HTTP, HTTPS through browser, including plaintext and printing document and constantly enhancing it
July 13, 2022
Protects the organization
Forcepoint Web Security is being used across the whole organization. It helps us solve problems if we need to restrict users from gaining access to the internet sites so that they don't click or browse sites that contain malicious links which would affect the entire organization. We use web security as a hybrid module [that] allows us to block access even when the user is outside of the organization.
December 15, 2021
WebSecurity
Score 7 out of 10
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Verified User
PIL is using Forcepoint Web Security throughout the whole organization; it addresses surf content filtering and prevents malicious infection.
November 30, 2021
Decent product with poor support
Used to help prevent users from accessing malicious sites and sites considered counterproductive to work.
October 18, 2021
Meets requirements but in our experience does not lend itself well to remote workers
Forcepoint Web Security is used as the secure web gateway across our entire organization. It is used to provide access to the Internet securely, performing SSL inspection of websites, applying real-time web page analysis, and blocking access to dangerous sites. It is also used to enforce organizational policy with regard to what sites can and cannot be accessed, which is important for us as a public-sector organization.
October 15, 2021
Forcepoint Web Security: Content security for SMB, which is good enough for even large enterprises
We had too many issues concerning employees' productivity, wasting precious bandwidth and time, and then above all, security concerns like malware entering into our infra from infected websites, phishing attacks, targeted attacks, or just about anything from the cyber threat perspective. We had a squid proxy, but it [could not] match up with the changing times. We started deploying [Forcepoint Web Security] location-wise and [could] cover 100,000 employees in around 1.5 years, including the roaming client. The ACE engine on which [Forcepoint Web Security] runs really helped us in identifying the real threats, and with their hybrid cloud, we were able to test the best of both cloud and on-premises models. We also started the SSL interception on the boxes, which worked fine but brought down the performance of the boxes significantly, and would suggest [doing] SSLi on [a] dedicated solution. The DLP integration also worked well for both network and endpoint. With SSLi, DLP really gave us [an] inside view of what data is getting exfiltrated.
October 15, 2021
Forcepoint Web Security: Secures Your Browsing Traffic
We use it for our entire organization. With Forcepoint Web Security, we can be certain that the web traffic from users’ browsers will be scanned. Both plain and encrypted communications can be scanned, malware and executable programs can be filtered out, and it works transparently for the users. We have selected a number of "forbidden" categories; if they try to visit a site from that category, they will receive either a block page or a warning page.
September 26, 2021
Extend content and threat protection to off-premises EUC
We are currently utilizing Forcepoint Web Security to provide proxy and content filtering services to end-user compute devices on our corporate network. The solution is deployed across all corporate managed devices and managed centrally by the IT team to enforce acceptable usage policies and protect devices from other malicious web content.
Forcepoint Web Security is being used across the whole organization on our servers and our PCs, including laptops. We use it to filter websites and protect us from accessing URLs that may be harmful. It addresses the need to have protection on our devices, even when users are out of the office.
Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User
Earlier we were using the URL filtering from other Firewall vendors for our web security but we were so many challenges with that as it had so many categorization issues. Sports sites were getting blocked in the Movies category and some unwanted URLs were not getting blocked. Our users were facing many problems in their daily tasks. Then we decided to go ahead with Forcepoint Web Security and trust me it was life-changing decision for our infra. First, it got installed in our Data Center on-premises and their categorization is just perfect. After implementing it, we got our web security covered and users didn't face any issues after that.
December 28, 2020
Reassured Cybersecurity
Forcepoint Web Security works to help protect and control end-user web access all while working to protect against cyber threats. Various rules and filters were implemented to identify potentially malicious and suspicious sites. DLP events also trigger and alert the organizations of suspicious and potentially malicious actions taken by an employee.
December 11, 2020
You can make it better
Forcepoint is used across Organization. It takes care of web-security and data leakage prevention.
December 10, 2020
Forcepoint Security
It's a good solution and works for us in hybrid as well as central proxy. We are currently using this solution throughout the organization. It is a huge help in the current work from home situation.
December 10, 2020
Forcepoint killed 'em all!
We deployed the solution all across the whole organization. We have about 30 WCGs and 20 locations using cloud proxy. Forcepoint Endpoint helped us to protect computer and laptops from threats.
We set up a hierarchy inside Forcepoint Security Manager, to grant access of each defined location/company to the respective IT department.
We set up a hierarchy inside Forcepoint Security Manager, to grant access of each defined location/company to the respective IT department.
December 03, 2020
Excellent threat protection and Productivity monitoring with now in house overheads.
In use by the whole organization, provides extra layer of security also provides content blocking as well as time based access to certain sites to increase productivity.
December 02, 2020
May the FORCEpoint be with You
Forcepoint is being used to inspect web content which helps to prevent users from accessing inappropriate websites and security risks while browsing the internet. We also use it on our Cloud infrastructure for behavioral and analytics and data loss prevention. It solves many problems for our organization in terms of keeping things secure.
November 24, 2020
Forcepoint Web Security offers comfort and security
I have 8 years experience as a Forcepoint Web Security customer and I am very happy with it. We have a small IT department and as the IT Manager, Forcepoint allows me to rest at ease as the application does all the work. I really enjoy the fact that it is a cloud-based application, not an appliance. I can quickly run standard reports from the report catalog. I feel a great sense of security knowing my users can browse the internet while Forcepoint blocks malicious threats. This is a inexpensive, but very effective, layer I use for my company's security. I look forward to many more years using Forcepoint Web Security.
November 08, 2020
Forcepoint: Great results easily implemented.
We have Forcepoint web security deployed across the whole organization, worldwide with over 350 active endpoints. It provides a very effective defense against everything malicious the web has to offer. Also, it provides us with critical metrics of what types of sites users are visiting and for how long it also enables us to do content and keyword blocking of sites and time-based locking of common sites, eg. social media, this can be achieved very granularly via Active Directory integration.
October 30, 2020
Secure web experience for everyone
We are using it for protecting the web traffic to and from public networks. It is being used across the state of Rajasthan. It helps us protect from many complex threats crawling on the web and protect our internal users from being affected.
October 13, 2020
Forcepoint Web Security - The Only Choice
Used across the whole organization as the sole web filtering platform. Allows us the peace of mind in insuring that our users only access approved web categories and that they remain safe when browsing the internet whilst on the corporate network.<br>Forcepoint web filtering policies allow us the flexibility needed to tailor the end users experience according to company policy.<br>
October 13, 2020
From Websense to Forcepoint
We have selected Forcepoint for filtering our data flows on web browsing traffic. Its capabilities are scaled and availability is ensured with the high availability option. Load balancing is handled by WCCP. It's transparent proxy implementation.
September 30, 2020
New and liking Forcepoint
In our company we have over 3,000 employees and due to current circumstances with Covid-19 most of our employees are working from home or remotely. We use Forcepoint to keep our users secure. We use Forcepoint Web Security across our whole organization. Forcepoint addresses the problem with the blocking of bad/unwanted websites that may have malicious software. I'm actually glad to have Forcepoint installed in our organization. It definitely helps me sleep better at night.
My Systems Administrator and I use ForcePoint Web Security daily. We use it for monitoring and filtering web usage company-wide. And that is exactly the business problem it addresses. Ensuring that hundreds of users are safely and responsibly using the web. Its dashboard and reports alert us to problems before they get out of hand.
April 14, 2020
Forcepoint helps our SOC be proactive
Forcepoint Web Security is used across the enterprise as a web proxy and DLP for a business unit. We are in the process of deploying the Hybrid to our company. We have received excellent help in this endeavor and may start using the DLP option after the POC. We look forward to continuing to work with Forcepoint.
January 27, 2020
Solid Web Security
We use ForcePoint Web Security to help us get a handle on threats from web browsing as well as content and productivity concerns.