Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention vs Skyhigh Security comparison

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention and Skyhigh Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Data Loss Prevention (DLP) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

To learn more, read our detailed Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention vs. Skyhigh Security Report (Updated: September 2026).

Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention vs. Skyhigh Security

September 2026

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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

5.3

Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention enhances security, saves costs, ensures compliance, and is valued as insurance against data breaches.

Sentiment score

5.0

Skyhigh Security enhances efficiency, reduces manual tasks, and improves governance, though exact financial benefits are hard to quantify.

I have seen a return on investment, and the biggest one is saving time.

Moses Odunga

Neetwork Security Engineer at a consultancy with 1-10 employees

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With Skyhigh Security, that same analysis could often be reduced to around ten minutes

RafaelMartins

Sales Engineer at a consultancy with 11-50 employees

By moving to having more in the cloud, their cloud is automatically updated as part of a SaaS solution, which reduces the responsibility on the company to do the updates themselves.

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Manager - Cyber Security at a educational organization with 1-10 employees

I have seen a return on investment from using Skyhigh Security; we saved a lot of time since the dashboard gives the complete picture of the overall usage of cloud apps.

Balu Paulraj

Cloud Operations Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

Customer Service

Sentiment score

5.8

Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention support is mixed; service varies by region, with premium support rated more favorably.

Sentiment score

7.3

Skyhigh Security's customer service is rated high, but technical support needs improvement in consistency and first-contact resolution.

They conduct sessions to check logs and policies, unlike Symantec, where engineers may temporarily check and ask for logs, causing delays.

Cyber Security Technical Engineer at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

I expect that ticket alignment within Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention support should depend on the type of case, and that is not there.

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Team Leader at L & T Finance

We were very happy with the technical support engineers that are supporting us.

reviewer2775105

Senior CyberSecurity Consultant at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

We can know the case severity such as P1, P2, or P3, allowing easy interaction from the customer support side.

Karthik Sathivel

Technical Associate Network Security at Valuepoint Systems

Weekly setup calls are conducted with all clients to discuss ongoing issues and resolutions.

DeepakGupta_

Deputy Manager at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

There is also some really good diagnostic information built into their web gateways that they deploy on-premise if you want to do hybrid, so they get a lot of information before you even know something might be wrong.

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Manager - Cyber Security at a educational organization with 1-10 employees

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score

7.2

Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention is scalable and flexible, supporting businesses of all sizes with minimal maintenance staff needed.

Sentiment score

6.6

Skyhigh Security is highly scalable and adaptable, despite occasional documentation overload and portal slowdowns in cloud environments.

The key principle of a scalable DLP uses a single policy engine across multiple data channels such as endpoint, email, web, cloud, and network.

MuhammadJunaid7

Data Security Specialist at BOK

It is easily scalable because it is purely deployed on on-premises and with less downtime.

reviewer2775105

Senior CyberSecurity Consultant at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention performs well in terms of scalability, as it can handle growth because the license is a trust-based license, so it will not block the growth.

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Team Leader at L & T Finance

Scalability-wise, for monitoring cloud apps, Skyhigh Security is more scalable, and we never faced any scalability issues on the dashboards.

Balu Paulraj

Cloud Operations Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

They have peering agreements with a lot of the major ISPs where their data centers are, which allows them to get a really good bandwidth allocation.

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Manager - Cyber Security at a educational organization with 1-10 employees

We upgraded with a plan for the next five to seven years to run with this solution because this easy scalability is what we are able to achieve with Skyhigh Security for our environment.

Pratap Roy

Security Consultant at RL

Stability Issues

Sentiment score

7.4

Forcepoint DLP is praised for stability and reliability, with effective support, though cloud services occasionally experience glitches.

Sentiment score

7.5

Skyhigh Security is largely stable and reliable, with improvements and multi-location capabilities but some regional gaps remain.

The stability of Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention is reliable, with minimum crashes, errors, or performance issues.

MuhammadJunaid7

Data Security Specialist at BOK

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We did not face any downtime on that site, so it is quite reliable.

Karthik Sathivel

Technical Associate Network Security at Valuepoint Systems

If your primary location is down, you just get diverted to the other one.

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Manager - Cyber Security at a educational organization with 1-10 employees

It has many gaps, so I think some customers take three months and up to six months for the deployment of Skyhigh Security.

Eunsok Kim

Secure at ESCARE COLtd

Room For Improvement

Forcepoint DLP needs better integration, OCR capabilities, resource efficiency, pricing, support, MacOS compatibility, and security system integration.

Skyhigh Security needs enhancements in reporting, support, API capabilities, and performance to improve user experience and efficiency.

While Forcepoint is mostly on-premises, I suggest that to compete with Symantec, they should consider cloud solutions.

Cyber Security Technical Engineer at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

The AI component is missing in Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention, where based on user behavior analytics, it could give us suggestions.

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Team Leader at L & T Finance

Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention is already capable enough to integrate with data classification tools such as Boldon James and Microsoft MIP.

reviewer2775105

Senior CyberSecurity Consultant at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

There is no API available.

reviewer2847426

Security automation specialist at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees

Skyhigh Security does not have a local representative in the Philippines.

reviewer2866380

Product Team Lead at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

Skyhigh has its own DLP which is helping users not upload sensitive documents to the AI chatbot, making that a main good feature.

reviewer2867868

Information Security Specialist at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

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Setup Cost

Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention offers negotiable pricing, competitive for enterprise needs, but can be costly for smaller businesses.

Skyhigh Security offers flexible yet potentially higher pricing, with costs depending on user numbers and required features.

There have been situations where the license expired before the purchased license was sent, resulting in the DLP being out of service.

Andhika Rifaa

Information Security Officer at Kustodian Sentral Efek Indonesia (KSEI)

The pricing is reasonable and medium, not very low, but fair for the product offered.

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Cyber Security Technical Engineer at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing for Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention is that the pricing was reasonable.

Moses Odunga

Neetwork Security Engineer at a consultancy with 1-10 employees

After switching, cost savings would be in the millions since we were having many VPN edge routers, and there were many VPN tunnels utilized on the cloud, and after moving to ZTNA, we were able to cut the cost.

reviewer2867868

Information Security Specialist at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

The pricing and licensing was generally aligned with the number of users and the models, and the cost depends on the scope, but I think Skyhigh Security has great pricing for the market.

RafaelMartins

Sales Engineer at a consultancy with 11-50 employees

Regarding pricing, the licensing and pricing for Skyhigh Security, especially for SWG, is cheap.

reviewer2866380

Product Team Lead at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

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Valuable Features

Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention offers advanced AI, fingerprinting, and multi-channel protection with seamless integration, enhancing data breach prevention and compliance.

Skyhigh Security excels in security through tokenization, analytics, and compliance, simplifying tool integration and enhancing remote access.

It provides multiple customization options for policies, which makes it superior to Symantec.

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Cyber Security Technical Engineer at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

It supports 50 file types and continuously improves accuracy with user feedback, enabling auto-discovery across cloud, endpoint, and on-premises data stores without extra cost of repeated scans.

MuhammadJunaid7

Data Security Specialist at BOK

Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention's email workflow checks whether emails sent from the office are forbidden by DLP rules and sends a notification to the manager accordingly.

Andhika Rifaa

Information Security Officer at Kustodian Sentral Efek Indonesia (KSEI)

Skyhigh Security dashboard helps monitor security threats, and it works well with very large enterprise environments.

Balu Paulraj

Cloud Operations Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

By going through their Zero Trust interface, we effectively had single sign-on to the internal network remotely without a VPN, so it reduced the overhead and gave us faster access to the files.

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Manager - Cyber Security at a educational organization with 1-10 employees

The hardware and cloud usability features help my team by providing easy scalability, which is the main advantage.

reviewer2842041

Senior Associate at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Categories and Ranking

Forcepoint Data Loss Preven...

Ranking in Data Loss Prevention (DLP)

2nd

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Skyhigh Security

Ranking in Data Loss Prevention (DLP)

14th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Secure Web Gateways (SWG) (7th), Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASB) (7th), ZTNA as a Service (10th), Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) (9th)

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the Data Loss Prevention (DLP) category, the mindshare of Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention is 4.3%, down from 8.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Skyhigh Security is 1.1%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Data Loss Prevention (DLP) Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention	4.3%
Skyhigh Security	1.1%
Other	94.6%

Data Loss Prevention (DLP)

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Team Leader at L & T Finance

Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention can be improved because the options nowadays involve the use of AI. The approach of Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention is still very traditional, where I have to create the policy for each and everything. The AI component is missing in Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention, where based on user behavior analytics, it could give us suggestions. This type of improvement is needed in Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention. Additionally, the hardware costing goes up when it comes to Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention because it requires large resources in the implementation part. Not regarding the user interface, but nowadays other DLP solutions have come up with the CASB part and the SaaS platform they are providing. Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention is still lagging there, and I have to rely on the on-premises setups. The management part has been difficult as I have to patch the servers, restart them, and regularly take backups. These are a few tedious things that I have to do while managing Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention. This part also needs to be improved in Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention.

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DeepakGupta_

Deputy Manager at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

Centralized cloud security has improved DLP incident management and simplifies email protection

One major challenge is that downloading incidents during the investigation process takes a very long time, and this issue should be resolved. More customized columns and filtering options in incident review would be beneficial. File types should be included, such as file names along with file extensions, which are not currently available to my knowledge. Overall, Skyhigh Security is very good and just needs to improve in terms of the latency of downloading incidents.

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

15%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Outsourcing Company

Insurance Company

Financial Services Firm

13%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Government

Comms Service Provider

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	33
Midsize Enterprise	7
Large Enterprise	29

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	34
Midsize Enterprise	6
Large Enterprise	49

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention?

Need to bare server cost if you are going for on prem setup. License cost is negotiable.

What needs improvement with Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention?

What is your primary use case for Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention?

My main use case for Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention is that I have used it for all three channels: the endpoint, web, and email. The main use case is preventing the exfiltration of personally iden...

What needs improvement with McAfee Web Gateway?

From my perspective as a distributor and based on feedback from my clients, Skyhigh Security has a bit of a disadvantage in the Philippines. First, Skyhigh Security is not offering the full SASE su...

What is your primary use case for McAfee Web Gateway?

I do not use Skyhigh Security firsthand, but M.Tech Philippines distributes Skyhigh Security as one of the authorized distributors. My main use case for Skyhigh Security in my role as a distributor...

What advice do you have for others considering McAfee Web Gateway?

I always believe that Skyhigh Security works hand-in-hand with Trellix. What we are doing in our approach is to deliver the whole use case from an end-to-end approach, and from on-premises to cloud...

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Also Known As

Forcepoint DLP, Forcepoint Data Security Suite, Websense Data Security Suite

McAfee MVISION Cloud, McAfee MVISION Unified Cloud Edge, McAfee Web Gateway, McAfee MVISION CNAPP, and Skyhigh Networks, McAfee Web Gateway

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Forcepoint

Overview

Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention (DLP) helps organizations prevent sensitive data loss across endpoints, AI interactions, web, cloud applications, email, and networks. Forcepoint provides unified policy management and consistent enforcement across channels, giving organizations visibility and control over sensitive data everywhere.

Forcepoint DLP simplifies deployment, policy management, and compliance with 1,800+ predefined classifiers and policy templates covering regulations across 90+ countries and major industries. Forcepoint Risk-Adaptive Protection continuously analyzes user behavior and risk to dynamically adjust DLP enforcement, helping organizations reduce data loss while minimizing unnecessary friction for users.

Forcepoint also uses AI to simplify DLP operations. ARIA, the Adaptive Risk Intelligence Assistant, helps security teams configure and deploy policies, investigate incidents, understand user risk, and surface data security insights using natural language. With unified policies, risk-adaptive enforcement, AI-assisted operations, and flexible on-premises, hybrid, and cloud deployment options, Forcepoint helps organizations protect sensitive data, streamline compliance, and modernize data security without adding unnecessary complexity.

Forcepoint

Skyhigh Security provides comprehensive protection with features like user behavior analytics, shadow IT identification, and data loss prevention. Its integration with IT infrastructure offers robust security insights and helps maintain compliance.

Skyhigh Security offers a user-friendly interface that simplifies navigation while delivering substantial threat protection. It enhances existing IT infrastructure integration, such as DLP and Active Directory, to strengthen security. Yet, there is room for improvement in report generation speed, interface intuitiveness, and integration with other products. Organizations utilize Skyhigh Security to audit internet behavior, secure cloud environments and control web content. It effectively manages data movement and ensures compliance, while preventing unauthorized access and bandwidth misuse.

What are the key features of Skyhigh Security?

Shadow IT Identification: Detects unauthorized IT activity to maintain security.
Cloud Service Risk Assessments: Offers detailed evaluations of cloud services' risks.
Data Loss Prevention: Protects against accidental or deliberate data breaches.
User Behavior Analytics: Analyzes user actions for potential security threats.
Security Insights: Provides comprehensive reports to understand security posture.

What benefits should users look for in reviews?

Threat Protection: Offers robust measures against potential security risks.
Compliance: Assists with industry regulations and standards adherence.
Integration Capabilities: Enhances protection by integrating with existing infrastructure.
User Experience: Easy navigation despite needing interface improvements.
Cloud Security: Secures cloud environments effectively.

In sectors like finance, healthcare, and technology, companies implement Skyhigh Security for its comprehensive monitoring capabilities. It helps secure access to SaaS applications and protects against threats, ensuring adherence to regulatory requirements and preventing data breaches while optimizing performance in cloud environments.

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

Western Union.Aetna.DirecTV.Adventist.Equinix.Perrigo.Goodyear.HP.Cargill.Sony.Bank of the West.Prudential.