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May the Force(point) Be With You!
January 17, 2020

May the Force(point) Be With You!

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Forcepoint Web Security

Forcepoint Web Security is being utilized in our environment as a proxy and content filter. We use this to filter website categories across the many groups we have in our organization. This includes protocol, file extension, and keyword filters. The software also gives us some solid alert data when employees encounter risks on websites that are not yet categorized.
  • Dynamic threat recognition
  • Diverse ways to deploy the product
  • Reporting was an issue in the past. New report builder features have improved upon this
  • Realtime Monitor works well but can sometimes become non-responsive
  • Detection of threats on the fly with Forcepoint has saved us countless times.
  • File extension filtering has stopped our less-educated customers from installing malware.
We have used many content filter devices in the past. None of them seemed to cover (at least at the time) the sheer amount of features that Forcepoint has for us. The cost of Forcepoint seems to be (again, at this time) under the cost of all the competitors we have installed or tested in the past.
Forcepoint Web Security is well suited for diverse environments. It has a load of capabilities. It works well in both inline and explicit proxy situations. There are many authentication methods that give you many deployment options as well. Either used as a traditional Windows server, Linux install or appliance, you can really choose any form you like. The only scenario I can think of where it would not be appropriate would be one where the product was overkill for the organization. I'd say maybe a very small office setting.