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Forcepoint Web Security: The One to Beat
January 22, 2020

Forcepoint Web Security: The One to Beat

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Forcepoint Web Security

Forcepoint Web Security is used across the entire organization to limit where particular users can go on the web and protect the corporation from malicious websites, and control loss of company data.
Forcepoint is especially critical in worker productivity as reports can be run against users and departments on internet usage. We especially like that the threat database and site categorization is constantly being updated throughout the day.
  • Limit access to sites by category
  • Block malicious content
  • Easier software upgrades
  • Cloud offering for management of content gateway/on premise infrastructure
  • Prevented loss of PII data
  • Protected end-users from going to malicious sites
We have looked at proxy products ranging from firewalls to endpoint clients, Forcepoint Web Security has made a central environment that scales easily, allows for policy enforcement off-premises, that works with many web technologies, with little to no compatibility issues. We also selected Forcepoint for the ease of scaling the environment, with little effort.
Forcepoint Web Security is well suited for environments where admins need to control users' access to websites, and to also keep track of loss of data, such as if documents or information containing PII isare being sent out of the company.

Forcepoint Web Security may be less appropriate in very small environments--less than 1,000 users--or where there might not be an admin to maintain the system frequently.