Web Security is a pretty good purchase for those looking to secure their company's web usage.
January 08, 2020
Web Security is a pretty good purchase for those looking to secure their company's web usage.
Score 8 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Forcepoint Web Security
We use Web Security to control access by users to the internet. It is employed across the company with various policies and restrictions in place. It helps reduce the attack surface of the company by allowing us to restrict access to troublesome categories, sure, but also by a customized URL blacklist/whitelist where applicable. It also helps to reduce the potential for litigation thanks to the blocking of various content, protocols, file downloads, etc.
- Easy deployment.
- An easy to use interface.
- The SIEM connector still isn't available, but should be.
- User image searches aren't as easy to follow, in the case of policy enforcement and whatnot.
- We don't keep an active ROI on this product, but as a ballpark guess, it has more than paid for itself when it comes to enforcing acceptable use guidelines, reducing litigation efforts, and reducing the attack surface by restricting access to known bad areas.
Web Security is the successor of Websense, which I always liked. The extra capabilities, such as SSL decryption, makes this a great alternative.
In the case of GPO, sure, you can restrict web access by a custom list, but that gets bulky and annoying. This was a much better choice to restrict certain groups of users or categories.
In the case of GPO, sure, you can restrict web access by a custom list, but that gets bulky and annoying. This was a much better choice to restrict certain groups of users or categories.