Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention Reviews

Our primary use case is for PCI certification so that the company employees' credit card information doesn't get lost.

It has helped us meet CTI requirements. Some employees accidentally shared compromising information and it was able to block that information. That is one of the biggest benefits we have seen from this tool.

I was working with other customers with the integration of the solution of web protection with DLP and it allows the same agent to bring it and you can protect them and in some cases share web pages or emails. The other thing is that they already have a custom template so you don't have to compute that.

Sometimes the agent has trouble communicating with the central management. You need to push a lot of different times to get the policy. Another issue is that the templates are primarily in English and Japanese. They have a lot of Spanish speaking customers and should have more options in Spanish.

It should integrate better with email.

It's quite stable. Sometimes, when we do an upgrade, we get some trouble but otherwise, it's very stable.

Scalability depends on the operation of the system. We have around fifty users. 

Their technical support is great. The technicians are very experienced. We don't have any trouble with them.

The initial implementation was easy because we implemented 25 to 50 agents. We didn't have a lot of problems. It was truly easy to implement this product. The deployment took one month. We saw what data we needed to protect and we told the agents. 

We required two people for the setup who were IT people. We use it every day. 

We implemented it ourselves. 

It's not the cheapest solution but it's not the most expensive. It's a good price for a good product.

The first advice is that you should know what data you need to protect then you can implement everything. If you know what you need it'll be a lot easier. You also need good hardware and resources in the computer hardware to be able to implement. 

I would rate it an eight out of ten. An eight because you need to have a lot of security experience to properly implement it, in order to know what you need to activate. It's not a  plug and play solution. 

The primary use case of this solution is to manage personal identification, and for data loss prevention in government.

What I like most is that it's quick. 

It's fast and it prepares loss reports.

The data loss prevention and personal data need improvement. 

The protection of personal data needs to be improved.

I would like to see integration with OCS in the next release of this solution.

We have been using this solution for four years.

We are using the latest version.

130 people using Data Loss prevention.

I prefer Forceoint because it is cheaper than Symantec.

I prefer Forcepoint for data discovery and data loss prevention. I have evaluated Symantec data loss prevention and ICT (Information Centric Tagging) for classification and discovery.

My advice would be to use these same components. 

I would rate this solution an eight 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.