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Malicious web activities meets its match in Forcepoint
January 08, 2020

Malicious web activities meets its match in Forcepoint

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
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Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Forcepoint Web Security

We use Forcepoint across the enterprise. Its web filtering protects the company from several problems. Malicious websites, phishing links, viruses, encryption attacks, illegal and or immoral web activity, unproductive browsing, and wasteful use of bandwidth. Several phishing links and encryption attacks have been thwarted by Forcepoint, and our Security team was alerted to the danger.
  • Blocking immoral/Illegal activities and browsing.
  • Blocking Phishing Links.
  • Some applications have an issue with Forcepoint in the middle of the transaction. While there are ways to resolve this, it could be made easier to troubleshoot.
  • The Hybrid client can be problematic, preventing all web access in some cases.
  • We've been able to curtail the use of streaming media to an extent that we have not had to increase internet bandwidth for several years.
  • Preventing Users' data from being encrypted has saved many hours of downtime.
Forcepoint works very well onsite; we've had great protection for our onsite users.
When Users are traveling, we do get protection from the hybrid client, but it has caused several issues preventing all web access in certain scenarios, While there are a couple of ways to implement the hybrid client, none work perfectly.