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Forcepoint Web Security is Great for Internet Content Filtering!
January 10, 2020

Forcepoint Web Security is Great for Internet Content Filtering!

Ted Jan | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Forcepoint Web Security

Forcepoint Web Security is used across our enterprise. We have different policies setup depending on the type of users we have (ie: regulated and unregulated) as well as which BU they belong to. The primary use for us is to block users from going to websites that either the company as a whole or the individual BUs don't deem appropriate.
  • Blocking websites based on different BU requirements.
  • Putting websites into categories depending on content.
  • Forcepoint Web Security can have difficulty in determining the user who is browsing the internet and requires an app be run in order to make that determination. This app can fail and your users can still have issues. Hopefully they can figure out a way to move away from using this app.
  • Forcepoint Web Security has to release a new version every time Chrome is updated. Unfortunately, this can mean that you cannot use the latest version of Chrome until Forcepoint is updated; this can take several days. If there is a zero-day vulnerability, this can lead to your company being exposed until the latest version is ready.
  • Because a new version of Forcepoint must be rolled out when Chrome is updated, this can have a negative impact. Last year, we scrambled to release a new version of Chrome in order to be safe from a zero-day vulnerability and had to wait till the latest version of Forcepoint was released. We blocked the use of Chrome until we could rollout both products which caused many users to complain about loss of productivity due to not being able to use Chrome.
We did not evaluate any other product at the time of purchase.
In my organization, we use Forcepoint Web Security primarily to control internet browsing per BU specific requirements as well as across the company as a whole. I think the Forcepoint excels in making sure that the specific browsing policies are enforced. It also does a good job of making sure that users don't stumble across websites that might contain malicious content. There is definitely some room for improvement, but overall it does a good job.