We performed a comparison between Forcepoint Risk Adaptive Protection for DLP and Symantec Data Loss Prevention 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."It primarily influences policy enforcement, cloud application access control, and endpoint network coverage."
"We chose Forcepoint as part of our cybersecurity strategy, and one of the key expectations was to prevent data leakage."
"Good end point encryption and data loss prevention."
"The product is very stable."
"We are able to contain our confidential data in our environment."
"The tool's really working well, and the agents are good."
"The most valuable features of Symantec Data Loss Prevention are endpoint security, endpoint agent, and DLP. Additionally, we have been satisfied with the policies."
"Symantec DLP has many servers, and the solution is very powerful because you can use it in ports, endpoints, networks, and email servers to prevent the leakage of emails. DLP can be integrated with Symantec encryption."
"All of the features are really important, including DLP for the OCR and endpoint. It will be all of the combined features that will give you the strength to control the data. Every feature has its own uniqueness, different control and will help you to protect the data."
"They have a feature on the management side called the document indexer. Let's say you have a unique document with many near identical versions, which have one or several values that change, while the rest of the content stays the same. You can collect 50 of those documents and put them into this feature of the Symantec DLP system. It will compress them and create a profile specifically for that document."
"From an end user's perspective, it's not always clear what's happening with the DLP. It would be beneficial to have more use cases available, perhaps on a countrywide basis."
"The deployment is a little bit difficult. It requires two to three separate servers for databases and the application."
"Symantec Data Loss Prevention could improve by having better system resource management, cloud option, and more features."
"Different departments should manage administration, reporting, normalization and incident management."
"Where things could be improved is that product engineering takes time to respond when we make a request. They get on a call for troubleshooting, but fixing the issue takes time."
"The enforce service is difficult to understand, and free courses made available on the internet would be useful."
"We're not sure if there was an issue or a bug on the system recently because as of right now if someone sends out a compressed encrypted file, the DLP won't scan it."
"I would like to see changes to the analytics."
"There is room for improvement in the remote control capabilities of the DLP solution."
"There should be more documentation with Symantec Data Loss Prevention. We had trouble with the first few deployments."
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Forcepoint Risk Adaptive Protection for DLP is ranked 26th in Data Loss Prevention (DLP) with 2 reviews while Symantec Data Loss Prevention is ranked 3rd in Data Loss Prevention (DLP) with 53 reviews. Forcepoint Risk Adaptive Protection for DLP is rated 7.0, while Symantec Data Loss Prevention is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Forcepoint Risk Adaptive Protection for DLP writes "Stable product, key part of cybersecurity strategy but country-specific configuration issues requiring manual work ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Symantec Data Loss Prevention writes "Consitent, accurate, and simple". Forcepoint Risk Adaptive Protection for DLP is most compared with , whereas Symantec Data Loss Prevention is most compared with Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention, Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention, Digital Guardian, CoSoSys Endpoint Protector and Zscaler DLP. See our Forcepoint Risk Adaptive Protection for DLP vs. Symantec Data Loss Prevention report.
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