Forcepoint Web Security
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What is Forcepoint Web Security?
Forcepoint Web Security allows companies protect every user, everywhere. The vendor says, with real-time advanced threat protection, built in cloud application security, cloud sandboxing and DLP scanning, you get a comprehensive security solution built for today’s mobile and global workforce.
- Deep content inspection for pages and links, powered by Forcepoint’s ACE (Advanced Classification Engine) technology to identify zero day, advanced threats, and data theft attempts.
- Insight and visibility to the cloud application landscape within your organization with Shadow IT discovery, and user and risk ranking. Extend the built-in CASB capabilities to control sanctioned cloud apps across managed devices with anomaly detection and behavioral analytics. Seamlessly upgrade to our full CASB suite for reverse proxy and API mode, and BYOD support.
- A centralized reporting system enables granularity and customization through an intuitive and easy to use drop and drop interface.
- Highly secured and always available Forcepoint cloud so you can extend web protection to roaming users with global coverage from the industry’s only certified global cloud infrastructure (ISO 27001, 27018, CSA STAR).
- Flexible deployments options with a choice of pure cloud (SaaS), hybrid cloud, or on-premise – via a single SKU.
- Seamlessly integrated with all Forcepoint solutions for a true enterprise security platform; NGFW, CASB, DLP, Email Security, Insider Threat, and Behavioral Analytics.
Forcepoint Web Security 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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Deployment Types | On-premise, SaaS |
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Operating Systems | Windows, Linux, Mac |
Mobile Application | No |
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Austin-based company Forcepoint (formerly Websense) offers Forcepoint Web Security, a cloud security platform.
Zscaler Internet Access and Netskope Public Cloud Security are common alternatives for Forcepoint Web Security.
The most common users of Forcepoint Web Security are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees) and the Financial Services industry.
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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.
- It can be integrated with the DLP module
- Hybrid capabilities
- Can be integrated with Forcepoint AMD for sandboxing
- Helps us to restrict access of unwanted sites
- The hybrid agent should get updated automatically
- Some sites are not proxy friendly, which causes issues
- Time taken for the policy to sync in cloud
December 15, 2021
WebSecurity
PIL is using Forcepoint Web Security throughout the whole organization; it addresses surf content filtering and prevents malicious infection.
- Hybrid mode deployment —cloud.
- Able enforce web content filtering at home.
- Implement for both office and remote users.
- In recent hybrid mode deployment, it was discovered that quota time was not able to apply for the remote user.
- The existing office encountered a challenge to deploying Forcepoint Web Security.
- To consider price competitive for global deployment.
December 04, 2021
New Generation Web Security Solution
It is being used in every department which uses [the] internet in our organization. It helps in secure browsing of [the] internet. It also manages the user site visit data which is helpful for HR in some cases. We are using Forcepoint Web Security for web protection while using SAP and other cloud-based software and also in filing GST & other returns online.
- It provides safe internet browsing by blocking [the] opening of websites [that carry] viruses, malware, or spyware.
- We are also using it to [manage] the usage of [the] internet efficiently by blocking unnecessary social media websites.
- It provides [a] record of internet usage which can be used in business analytics by our HR department.
- It consumes lots of RAM, our old systems respond very slowly when we are running Forcepoint [Web Security] on it.
- It is not that user friendly, we faced troubles installing it for multiple users.
- Defining the usage is also not having that [many] options as [compared] to the options available today.
November 30, 2021
Decent product with poor support
Used to help prevent users from accessing malicious sites and sites considered counterproductive to work.
- Quota Time.
- Somewhat easy redirection of web traffic.
- Enforcement is inconsistent at times.
- Seems to cause connection timeouts with certain websites.
- Very poor product support.
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.
- Forcepoint Web Security met our requirements for a scalable on-premises secure web gateway solution.
- Forcepoint Web Security met our requirements for providing flexible policy assignments for users.
- Our largest challenge with Forcepoint Web Security is the difficulty of performing version upgrades.
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.
- Full SASE suite for threat and data security
- Robust ACE engine
- DLP integration
- Sandboxing
- Control and visibility for non-web protocol
- Application visibility and CASB
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.
- Customization of configuration and block pages
- Performance for web browsing is very good
- Easy to troubleshoot with logging
- Supports high available configurations (clustered setup) and virtual servers
- Does not support web sockets, used by (e.g., WhatsApp Web, Spotify, call/video apps) unless you install client software
- Learning curve can be steep
- Sometimes lagging behind modern browsers (e.g., when SAN in SSL became a requirement)
- May not support TLS 1.3 decryption fully
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.
- Policy enforcement
- Content filtering
- Threat detection
- Mobile device protection
- Failover capability
- Vendor support
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.
- It prevents users from accessing websites that may have recently been created for the purpose of distributing malware.
- It prevents users from accidentally or intentionally accessing websites that are considered inappropriate for a work environment.
- It allows us to create different policies for different teams in our organization.
- Forcepoint Web Security can be improved by making the setup less bloated. We have two proxy servers clustered together for each environment, and we currently have environments for our campus, server, DMZ, and external networks. The setup and maintenance of the application can be cumbersome.
- Updating the agent needs to be implemented better. Instead of having to create and push out updates for the agents, there should be a way agents can get software updates directly from Forcepoint Web Security.
- Accessing the web content gateway to make changes is also not as streamlined as I would like and it should be improved.
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.
- Categorization
- Real-time security updates for threat protection
- It has a centralized granular policy controls
- Content Filtering
- Customer Support
- Scalability and throughput
- Documentation availability
- Pricing should be bit lower
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.
- Forcepoint DLP alerts of potential data security issues with data leaving the organization.
- Forcepoint web filtering also protected against users navigating to malicious sites.
- Endpoint solution supports logging and monitoring to alert security control center.
- Fine tuning is required for various DLP flags.
- False positives require deep-dive investigations so staffing and timing are required for research.
- Web filtering not always accurate and additional tuning needed for categorization.
December 11, 2020
You can make it better
Forcepoint is used across Organization. It takes care of web-security and data leakage prevention.
- Crawler works very well
- Each word scanning page wise works well
- User behavior pattern is very useful
- Intelligent DLP
- Network devices vulnerabilities detection
- Intelligent analysts of threat vulnerabilities
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.
- It works in hybrid mode.
- The policies and categories are clearly defined.
- The reporting is good.
- The cloud setup of the same can be improved.
- The categories can be detailed out with subcategories.
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.
- URL filtering.
- Scalability of the management.
- Easy way to update endpoints.
- Middle East area (where Government blocks traffic to your local PoP).
- China area (where you don't have local PoP so it's impossible to point to cloud proxy out of China, because traffic hits the Great Firewall and traffic is sometimes blocked for secured connections).
- Support expertise.
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.
- Blocks malicious sites.
- Allows restriction complete or by time to sites such as social media.
- Provides keyword content and category blocking of sites.
- Provides extensive reporting for browsing and security alerts.
- Ability to temporarily disable the proxy.
- More flexible client deployment options.
- Web chat support.
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.
- DLP
- Analytics
- Email Security
- Better UI
- Possibly better documentation
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.
- Advanced threat protection
- Set it and forget it
- Any user, any device, any location
- Change in web content control happens quickly
- None I can think of
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.
- Blocks malicious and compromised websites.
- Provides a raft of customizable detailed metrics.
- Provides very easy to implement content filtering of which there is a lot of default framework ready to go.
- The endpoint software at times can be a little glitchy.
- Would be good to be able to temporarily disable the filter via the client for troubleshooting and admin purposes.
- Would be good to be able to manually set a Geo location for better response.
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.
- Content Filtering
- APT
- Web Traffic Analysis
- Please include support for other protocols as well. We intend to use the product for perimeter security for all the incoming and outgoing traffic. The limitation is that we had to divert the HTTP traffic to forecpoint web security appliance and rest of the traffic to other device.
- Integration with IBM SOAR Solution
- Support for Email Traffic including IDN support
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>
- Web category filtering.
- Governance and compliance.
- Investigative reporting.
- Real time monitoring on the cloud platform would be good to have.
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.
- Its most valuable aspect is the efficient, immediate support.
- Works seamlessly very well on SSL interception and packet deep inspection
- Gives very flexible and most restrictive options in threat mitigation
- Stripping scripts from webpages helps fight drive-by, dropper, and cryptic common threats flood.
- It's very helpful in creating policies to block and safeguard from content and categories that are culturally and regionally sensitive.
- I would like to see improvement in Triton Manager response and resource consumption.
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.
- Bock URL.
- Whitelist websites.
- Protect users from anywhere they are connected.
- Reporting.
- Executive summary.
- Notification to administrator.
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.
- It gives us a high-level snapshot of what are users are doing online.
- It allows us to have a generous Acceptable Use Policy because we know that abuses will be easy to spot.
- It gives us a way to allow temporary access to otherwise blocked sites.
- Its tools for creating policies and exceptions is confusing in certain areas.
- Some of its online help topics don't provide as much detail as we would like.
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.
- Block Malicious Sites
- DLP
- Ease of Use
- Cloud based could use more granularity
- Easier backend access
- Cloud HA
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.
- Customized Block Pages
- AD Integration
- None