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Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention vs GitGuardian Platform comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 3, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
7.2
Forcepoint DLP users praise its compliance benefits, ROI, data security, and insurance-like protection for sensitive information.
Sentiment score
7.1
GitGuardian Platform offers financial benefits by enhancing security, automating detection, and saving resources, with annual savings around $20,000.
The majority of our incidents for critical detectors and important secret types are remediated automatically or proactively by developers through GitGuardian's notification system, without security team involvement.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
6.4
Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention's customer service is inconsistent, with varying support experiences and ratings between six and nine out of ten.
Sentiment score
8.2
GitGuardian Platform's support is highly rated for responsiveness, effectiveness, and approachable communication, with scores from eight to ten.
They conduct sessions to check logs and policies, unlike Symantec, where engineers may temporarily check and ask for logs, causing delays.
I would rate their technical support a nine out of ten.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.6
Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention is highly scalable and efficient, supporting diverse sectors and compliance with expanding user bases.
Sentiment score
7.8
GitGuardian Platform efficiently manages large deployments, ensuring security integration, though some users desire improvements in scalability and provisioning.
I would rate it a ten out of ten for scalability.
In terms of scalability, I would rate it around a ten out of ten, as it handles all the repositories and commit activity we have.
It is quick and meets our needs.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.5
Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention is stable with minimal downtime, though upgrade challenges and some reporting issues are noted.
Sentiment score
8.3
GitGuardian Platform is stable and reliable, with consistent performance, effective support, and minor downtime issues efficiently managed.
The SaaS platform has experienced two significant moments of downtime or instability in the last six months, requiring notices and retrospectives.
We set up a lot of the repository, so GitGuardian is a required check.
 

Room For Improvement

Forcepoint DLP requires improved integration, data classification, UI, support, cloud options, resource efficiency, and better multilingual, AI, and macOS support.
GitGuardian Platform needs better customization, integration, automation, reporting, access controls, mobile app, and analytics for user satisfaction.
While Forcepoint is mostly on-premises, I suggest that to compete with Symantec, they should consider cloud solutions.
We are looking for better metrics and audit data, wanting more features such as knowing which users are creating the most secrets or committing the most secrets, what repository, what directory, and who is not checking in secrets.
This presents an opportunity for them to better showcase their developer-first remediation mindset.
Another thing that would be good to see is some more metrics on the usage of the GitGuardian pre-push hooks.
 

Setup Cost

Forcepoint DLP offers flexible pricing with negotiable discounts, balancing robust features and cost-effectiveness for enterprises.
Enterprise users find GitGuardian Platform offers good value with comprehensive security features, though some view it as slightly expensive.
The pricing is reasonable and medium, not very low, but fair for the product offered.
Overall, the secret detection sector is expensive, but we are happy with the value we get.
It's fairly priced, as it performs a lot of analysis and is a valuable tool.
 

Valuable Features

Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention offers user-friendly integration, robust reporting, and AI-driven protection across endpoints, networks, and cloud applications.
GitGuardian Platform provides automatic secrets detection and integration tools for efficient incident management and agile collaboration across development environments.
It provides multiple customization options for policies, which makes it superior to Symantec.
A high number of our exposures are remediated by developers before security needs to step in, as the self-healing playbook process engages them automatically.
GitGuardian Platform performs the capability to detect secrets in real time exceptionally, as it activates from the commit and can detect it immediately.
One of the best features of the solution is the ability to use pre-push hooks.
 

Categories and Ranking

Forcepoint Data Loss Preven...
Ranking in Data Loss Prevention (DLP)
4th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
58
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
GitGuardian Platform
Ranking in Data Loss Prevention (DLP)
9th
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
27
Ranking in other categories
Application Security Tools (13th), Static Application Security Testing (SAST) (9th), Software Supply Chain Security (6th), DevSecOps (5th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2025, in the Data Loss Prevention (DLP) category, the mindshare of Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention is 10.6%, down from 13.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of GitGuardian Platform is 0.7%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Data Loss Prevention (DLP)
 

Featured Reviews

AlexOgbalu - PeerSpot reviewer
No other product will give you the same visibility and data classification functions as this tool
Forcepoint enables you to clarify aspects of your data, including which data to protect for how long, what priority to assign to the data and the destinations. It's a comprehensive, dedicated solution. The interface is user-friendly and easy to manage. No other product will give you the same visibility and data classification functions as this tool. You install the agent to your endpoint, and the end user needs to label the data as confidential, private, internal, etc. After you label the document, you can confirm the confidentiality and go to the DLP to make a new policy to block the specified destination addresses at the Forcepoint level, such as network, email, RDP, etc. Forcepoint uses machine learning and AI file or database fingerprinting. This can give you an early chance to prevent incidents fast. File fingerprinting gives you 100 percent accurate DLP results.
Joan Ging - PeerSpot reviewer
It dramatically improved our ability to detect secrets, saved us time, and reduced our mean time to remediation
While they do offer some basic reporting, more comprehensive reporting would be beneficial in the long run. This would allow me to demonstrate the value of the product over time to continue to effectively budget for this subscription, especially as they add features that may come at an additional cost. I appreciate the improvements made to reporting over the past year, but continued development in this area will be appreciated. We have encountered occasional difficulties with the Single Sign-On process. There is room for improvement in its current implementation. It works, but was not quite as smooth as the rest of the GitGuardian experience.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
16%
Computer Software Company
14%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Insurance Company
6%
Computer Software Company
23%
Government
15%
Media Company
7%
Financial Services Firm
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention?
The technical support for the solution is very good.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention?
The pricing is reasonable and medium, not very low, but fair for the product offered.
What needs improvement with Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention?
I would recommend aligning OCR with endpoints. This is a highly demanded technology globally, especially for endpoints. Forcepoint should focus on improving this aspect to draw more users from Syma...
What do you like most about GitGuardian Internal Monitoring ?
It's also worth mentioning that GitGuardian is unique because they have a free tier that we've been using for the first twelve months. It provides full functionality for smaller teams. We're a smal...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for GitGuardian Internal Monitoring ?
It's fairly priced, as it performs a lot of analysis and is a valuable tool.
What needs improvement with GitGuardian Internal Monitoring ?
We'd love to see notification updates in Slack, as the system does not provide feedback on updates to incidents, which can be problematic when developers resolve issues. ie. if a developer commits ...
 

Also Known As

Forcepoint DLP, Forcepoint Data Security Suite, Websense Data Security Suite
GitGuardian Internal Monitoring
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Alphawest, Betsson, Cellcom Israel Ltd., Chelsea & Westminster Hospital, Confartigianato Vicenza, EverBank, Finansbank, iGATE, Landa Digital Printing, Northern California Bank, Reliance Capital, Remosa, Toyota, Scavolini, Zim Integrated Shipping Services
Automox, 66degrees (ex Cloudbakers), Iress, Now:Pensions, Payfit, Orange, BouyguesTelecom, Seequent, Stedi, Talend, Snowflake... 
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