Protects the organization
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2022
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What is Forcepoint Web Security?
Austin-based company Forcepoint (formerly Websense) offers Forcepoint Web Security, a cloud security platform.
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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 |
|---|---|
| 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.
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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
- 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
- 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 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
- 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 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
- 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
- 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
- Policy enforcement
- Content filtering
- Threat detection
- Mobile device protection
- Failover capability
- Vendor support
- 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.
- 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 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
- 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 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!
- 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.
- 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
- DLP
- Analytics
- Email Security
- Better UI
- Possibly better documentation
November 24, 2020
Forcepoint Web Security offers comfort and 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.
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Bock URL.
- Whitelist websites.
- Protect users from anywhere they are connected.
- Reporting.
- Executive summary.
- Notification to administrator.
- 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
- Block Malicious Sites
- DLP
- Ease of Use
- Cloud based could use more granularity
- Easier backend access
- Cloud HA
January 27, 2020
Solid Web Security
- Customized Block Pages
- AD Integration
- None