Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention Reviews

I am not satisfied with the tool and will replace it since its integration with the Microsoft platform solution, which the company has chosen currently, would be difficult, and we don't want to spend too much time on it. It is easier to have a fully integrated stack. Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention is not a very well-integrated tool. We also have artificial intelligence, which is easier to directly integrate into the heart of the platform.

The main issue is that you cannot be in security staff and put your data center in Dubai. You need to master your data redundancies. Putting two data centers in Switzerland is fine, and we can use it, but you cannot have DLP rules, and you put your data in Dubai, which can lead to mistakes. Even the rules are really sensitive data. We could think that only the patterns would go in Dubai or whatever, but the rules are the most important part because the rules define what is going to be detected and what won't be detected, and inside the rules, we have everything customized.

No financial institution will be able to keep Forcepoint in Switzerland when they move outside of the data center. The other issue is that when you are doing a setup with the on-premises version of Forcepoint, the big mistake here is the way the software is split. Speaking about the version of Forcepoint you are going to install in your data centers, the issue here is that it is done for a VMware setup inside the data center, so you can have many servers. In the cloud, you are going to pay for what you are using. If you are using eight or ten servers, you are going to pay for ten, making it really expensive. The web version that you can set up of Forcepoint has not been designed for the cloud. The cloud version is located in Dubai.

I have been using Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention for ten years.

The solution's technical support was bad as they have no skills at all. We are not able to get replies from the tool's support team. I am not sure if the tool's team could offer advice or consultations because a local company used to do it for the product, as there are just a few skilled people available at Forcepoint, which is also an issue.

Instead of Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention, I recommend Purview to others, especially if you are located on Microsoft platform, since it helps with compliance and not only as a DLP tool. There is a gap we need to close in Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention as it is useful for security operations. For example, it can be used to ask an end user to unlock your blocked emails.

AI is mostly used when you have to check the DLP inside artificial intelligence, and it is not perfect. We were also looking for SSE solutions, and the point is that Forcepoint could have been a good candidate, but it is located in some bad countries, making it one of the main issues why the tool was no longer a satisfying solution for our company. The tool is also quite heavy. In some cases, it is slow, making it not so comfortable to operate.

The tool is fine for the DLP features, especially when you are on an on-premises model with a data center. If you are on the cloud, I would not recommend it.

Purview and Forcepoint are almost the same, as both can be used to block, upload data, or send emails. Once something is blocked, you ask the security operations, who will start, to provide us with the document we can look at to see if it is legitimate or not.

The incident management process is not based directly on Forcepoint. Forcepoint is used to detect and block, but the response is not done inside of Forcepoint. It is done at the data level.

I rate the tool a seven out of ten.

The main purpose of DLP is to protect data from being sent outside of the organization without authorization. So, my client uses it to protect emails and web traffic and to integrate with content classification and USB blocking systems.

Some good features are basically its UAV Analytics engine. And even fingerprinting is really good in Forcepoint.

Forcepoint recently released an in-line proxy feature, which is a great addition. Previously, users had to add an extension to their browsers, but now that's not necessary. Now, that extension is not needed. 

One area that could be improved is the support. The current support is not very good. Because they don't come on time when a customer really needs it, they take a lot of time to troubleshoot anything.

For Mac, they should introduce the feature of airdrop. Currently, no DLP detects the airdrop feature. Like, if we have an airdrop. So, no DLP detects that any file is going from Airdrop. Our customers have these use cases. 

I have been working with this solution for five years. For Forcepoint, we are a titanium partner. 

It's scalable. We sell to medium and enterprise-level businesses. 

It is an easy installation for Forcepoint.

To deploy Forcepoint, we would take almost a week because it's an on-prem solution. But now they have even a cloud platform. So it can be done in one or two days. It depends on the customer and how they provide the insight and everything.

One person is enough for the deployment and installation process. 

For Endpoint DLP, obviously, we are the people who do maintenance. But for SaaS-based, it is GTP service only.

The pricing is fine. It's a yearly based license. For endpoint Forcepoint DLP, they have another license, and for network DLP, they have another license.

Overall, I would rate the solution a ten out of ten. It is a really good product. 

It is very user-friendly, even for admins. However, the support is very low otherwise the product is very good. 

Many organizations will have different use cases with Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention. Many companies are moving to an Amazon AWS cloud-based dashboard.

The solution has three deployed options, cloud, on-premise, and hybrid.

We appreciate the user-friendliness and ease of implementation of the Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention platform. The availability of the vendor support team is an added advantage.

The support could improve Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention.

I have been using Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention for approximately four years.

There are some improvements that can be made in stability.

I rate the stability of Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention an eight out of ten.

Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention is scalable. Our customers have between 3,000 and 10,000 devices using the solution.

The solution is scalable.

Customers that have voiced technical support could improve.

We have a flexible model to size customers' requirements to deploy the solution and the process for us is not difficult.

The charges that the vendor has for the implementation are expensive.

We have a team of three people who are certified in implementing the solution.

There is an annual subscription model and the amount depends on the type of implementation.

I rate Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention a nine out of ten.

We primarily use the solution for data loss prevention.

The good side of the Forcepoint DLP is integrating with the end user behavior dynamically. 

The formation level defining a DLP has become a very static form. In the case of Forcepoint, if it is possible to implement it, they integrate with the end user behavior analytics and then dynamically can run which documents should go to home. This is the most fascinating part.

The integration is great. It's good for dynamically assigning the volume and dynamically blocking some points based on the behavior change.

The most challenging part of DLP is the categorization of documents. Most organizations take the parts and the products, and then finally, the phase is difficult to categorize their product, and these are all very static.

The deployment can be difficult. 

It could be priced a bit lower.

I've been using the solution for two or three years. 

It is very stable. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. 

I can't speak to the scalability. It's not an aspect that I've extensively tested.

Technical support was fine. They were well trained and knowledgable. 

I started with Forcepoint only. I have never used any other solution.

The deployment may be a bit difficult. 

We only need one or two people for maintenance and deployment tasks. 

We implemented the solution ourselves with the help of technical support. They had people that were trained in the prcoess.

The pricing is moderate. I'd rate it three out of five in terms of affordability.

We are Forcepoint partners.

I'd rate the solution eight out of ten. It's a pretty decent product in general. 

Our main target is banking, insurance, and pharmacy — my main clientele.

I like the SaaS solution they're offering now a little bit more. It's a new product but it's easy to install and configure.

There is an admin and you have to monitor the solution all the time. The same is true even if you use Symantec or Digital Guardian's DLP — it's all the same. They all require one administrator to monitor the system every day. In short, DLP solutions are good to have, but they do require maintenance.

In terms of human resources, if you have a DLP solution, you have to monitor it every day. Regardless of budget.

I would like to see some file access rights management. This allows users to access whichever files, folders, and resources they choose. This is something Forcepoint and Symantec both don't offer. 

I have been using this solution for roughly four years.

Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention is really scalable. Some of my customers have 20,000 licenses, others have five licenses.

The technical support is very good. From a Forcepoint perspective, they're quite responsive. If I were to open a ticket now, they would respond within an hour. They're quite quick.

I used to use Symantec DLP. Licensing-wise, Forcepoint is easier to deploy with less infrastructure. But at the end of the day, if you want the full suite, Forcepoint seems a little bit easier.

Deployment can take anywhere from four to five hours. It can take up to two days depending on the infrastructure.

The size of the deployment team can vary. One company could require one admin to check the logs every day and another could need to check only once a week. It depends on the department — DLP is complex.

All of the vendors that I know have the same licensing fee — all of them. The ones that I've used, like Forcepoint, Symantec, and Digital Guardian, all have similar licensing, either perpetual or subscription — it depends on what you want. Do you want only endpoint DLP or do you want a DLP suite? Either way, they do have similar licensing. 

I would certainly recommend this solution to others. It's one of the best DLP solutions on the market.

Overall, on a scale from one to ten, I would give this solution a rating of nine.

We are mainly using this solution to protect internal documents. It's an internal document creator for the customers.

The most valuable feature is the endpoint DLP. It's specific to copying to the USB or copying to the internal storage in our office.

It's user-friendly and the interface is good.

In terms of display, the support and the Mac platform requires a lot of improvement.

When working with different browsers, we need to upgrade.

Being able to upgrade the agent from the console itself would be great.

I have been using Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention for two years.

It's stable. Forcepoint is a very old product.

It's scalable, but we don't have many requirements to scale it.

We have approximately 50 users in our company.

Technical support is always good with providing a solution and understanding the issues.

They are able to resolve the issue and provide a solution.

Overall, I would say that the support is good.

We moved from Symantec.

The initial setup was not completely straightforward, but not too complex.

The migration takes some time, but that is with any solution.

It took approximately two months to deploy.

The deployment was completed in-house.

Pricing is handled by another department. I don't have any information in this area.

This is a product that I can recommend to others who are interested in using it.

I would suggest evaluating it and do some testing before making a decision. It's a different environment.

I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.

The data loss prevention is great. Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention provides the user with plenty of control. 

This solution has a tendency to provide false-positive results.

There should be more training provided. For instance, they did not specify how to deal with white and black-listed documents in regards to machine learning. 

There is no specific training or an example provided to follow; you have to make it up as you go. This is challenging because there are so many documents needed for each machine learning algorithm.

Also, configuration management needs to be improved. 

I supervised the implementation of this solution. I used this solution for roughly one year; however, I stopped working with it two months ago.

The only reason I stopped working with Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention is that I am currently working with a new company and system integrator and this solution is not within our portfolio.

This solution is stable.

Regardless of the size of your company, this solution can be scaled accurately. 

We've had mixed results with technical support. Some issues are resolved quickly, and other issues have taken roughly two weeks to resolve. Overall, I am satisfied with the customer support. 

The initial setup is not really complex, but not straightforward either. We had some issues because it requires an SQL server and at that point, we were experiencing some issues with our SQL server. Some of the steps in the initial setup process were not really mentioned, precisely. 

The good news is that only one person is needed for both deployment and maintenance; however, that person has to be quite knowledgeable with Sysco, some Linux, and windows.

An integrator helped us with deployment. If it's a basic environment, deployment should only take a week. Post-deployment is the biggest issue. Roughly 80% of DLP policies and work is not IT related. Some customers don't have these policies in place, so they don't even know how to transform them into automated policies. Unfortunately, many people don't have the IT knowledge to transform these security policies into automated policies. This can really draw out the post-deployment time. 

If you are interested in implementing this solution or any DLP solution for that matter, I would advise you to build your own policies first. In short, build your policies and workflows and organize your enterprise well before you implement this solution.

On a scale from one to ten, I would give this solution a rating of seven.

We are system integrators. We sell solutions to suit our customers' needs.

Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention is used for securing your mission-critical data.

Forcepoint has been the leader in the space for many years and they are very well established, and mature. This is why customers choose Forcepoint DLP.

It's quite scalable.

The price could be reduced to be more cost-effective.

We have been selling Forcepoint Data Loss prevention for one year.

It's a stable solution.

Forcepoint DLP is scalable and one of the reasons they are quite popular.

The majority of our clients are large enterprise companies.

The initial setup and time it takes to deploy is dependant on the customer's environments and requirements.

After it is deployed, Forecepoint Data Loss Prevention requires maintenance and support.

We are service providers. We implement this solution for our clients and provide support.

Forcepoint DLP is a bit expensive.

There are additional fees associated with this solution. Customers are aware in advance and usually opt to include them.

Some of our clients find it to be costly and explore other solutions that are cost, effective.

Before implementing this solution, you need to have an understanding of your environment. You need full visibility. Many customers are not aware of their environment and where all of the data is.

In summary, it's a fantastic product.

I would rate Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention a ten out of ten.