There are better alternatives in the current market
July 12, 2019
There are better alternatives in the current market
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Forcepoint Web Security
Forcepoint Web Security, Formerly Websense(used to be called WSG), is Forcepoint's solution for Web Proxy.
This is currently our Proxy solution in the company. We have hybrid deployment - meaning we have an agent on all of our endpoints to make sure that even when using outside the network, the web access will be controlled.
When using in the office, we have on-prem local proxies. The policies allow one to control access to categories/protocols. You can allow, block or limit and also control the ability to download files. There is also a built-in AV, which in my opinion doesn't do much. The new feature of Shadow IT can help you detect the usage of Shadow IT in your network.
This is currently our Proxy solution in the company. We have hybrid deployment - meaning we have an agent on all of our endpoints to make sure that even when using outside the network, the web access will be controlled.
When using in the office, we have on-prem local proxies. The policies allow one to control access to categories/protocols. You can allow, block or limit and also control the ability to download files. There is also a built-in AV, which in my opinion doesn't do much. The new feature of Shadow IT can help you detect the usage of Shadow IT in your network.
- The ability to set policies is very simple.
- Logging and monitoring are detailed and easy to run.
- Deploying new proxies are now much more simple with the proxy appliances. In the past, you had to install the OS and software.
- From time to time services stop working, so you need to manually restart them.
- Endpoint agents can cause problems in all kind of situations such as during a flight, hotel wifi, if the user is in China, some ISP's, etc.
- Some settings cannot be changed from the management server and you'll need to do them on each proxy server manually.
- Support in O365 apps does not always work and can cause issues. We had to configure some bypasses in order to solve them.
- All the components can be virtual - no need to purchase any physical appliance.
- From what I had a chance to see, Forcepoint prices are very competitive (in comparison to other proxy vendors).
- I spent (or actually wasted) a lot of time with their support when I had problems with the system. This can be very frustrating.
We're now in the process of moving to Symantec Proxy solution which has additional security features like isolation. We picked the full cloud solution so that there will be no need to install any in premise servers. The fact that we already have their AV makes things more simple for deployment.