Use the Forcepoint
December 20, 2019
Use the Forcepoint
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Forcepoint Web Security
Forcepoint Web Security is used by my company to manage employee access to acceptable websites, reduce time spent on frivolous sites, and to manage some of the features that we want to permit within social media sites. It is also a defense-in-depth layer for malicious attacks that call out to the Internet to download scripts. We have also used it in security investigations for threat hunting, to search for unusual website access, as well as finding other outliers, like users hitting a certain site thousands of times over.
- Good dashboard overview
- Targeted policies on users, IPs, subnets
- Sometimes requires a logoff/logon to validate website access
- Occasional service restarts needed as a troubleshooting measure
- Blocking malicious website callouts reduces workstation compromise impact
- Enables implementation of HR-based acceptable use policies
Each product has strengths and weaknesses. Since we can leverage an agent on the local workstation that applies our Forcepoint Web Security policies, we like the consistency this offers, and that we can utilize our on-premises Web Security and local agents in a uniform manner. There are more specific administrative features that we can apply beyond a per-user or group basis, leveraging IP-based policies, and we are happy with this solution.