Item: Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway
Rating: 8
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Forcepoint Web Security

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Limit access to sites by category
Block malicious content

Cons

Easier software upgrades
Cloud offering for management of content gateway/on premise infrastructure

Return on Investment

Prevented loss of PII data
Protected end-users from going to malicious sites

Alternatives Considered

Symantec Content & Malware Analysis and Check Point 4000 Appliances

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

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.

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