Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention Valuable Features
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Shaikh Mubashshir
Cyber Security Technical Engineer at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention is a user-friendly product, particularly regarding upgrades. Every function and task, such as backups, forensics, and policy creation, is defined clearly and is easy to manage. It provides multiple customization options for policies, which makes it superior to Symantec. Fingerprinting technology is supported, although I primarily monitor with a data classification tool.
View full review »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.
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Badrul Hisyam Jamil
IT Manager at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
We like the ability to customize our requirements and rules, as well as its ease of use and management. It also has a cloud feature and proxy functionality.
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Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention
June 2025

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First, you need to categorize your data—what kind of data it is, the severity of its sensitivity, how long it needs protection, and the destinations that need protection. Forcepoint provides a dedicated solution with a user-friendly interface that makes it easy to manage. Remember that DLP doesn't handle data classification independently, so you'll need another tool to classify your data. For instance, you might use a classification tool to label documents as confidential, private, or internal.
Once the classification agent is installed on the endpoint, users need to label their data accordingly. For example, a Word document containing sensitive information should be labeled confidential. After labeling, you can create a policy in the DLP solution, such as Forcepoint, to block any data labeled as confidential from being shared. You can specify destination addresses to block at various levels, like the network, email, or RDP.
View full review »The feature with which the solution integrates with the proxy, the ICAP protocol that logs the inline traffic or real-time traffic, is valuable.
The Optical Character Recognition (OCR) functionality is another helpful feature, especially for unstructured data. Being able to discover sensitive data in an unstructured format is the most beneficial element of the solution.
We can add tags to table format or Excel documents, such as ''confidential'' or ''sensitive information'', and the DLP suite takes action according to the defined policy for each tag.
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SurendarJ
Deputy Manager of IT at FP LAB
From the coverage perspective, it has better insights.
The solution is stable.
It can scale.
Technical support has been helpful.
The pricing is fine.
View full review »Forcepoint has out-of-the-box rules and policies for PCI DSS and GDPR compliance. The compliance features are easy to deploy and implement. If your data is not classified, you need to do that first, but the functionality is out-of-the-box otherwise.
Forcepoint offers many policies that conform to global DLP best practices, including requirements specific to regions like the Middle East, Europe, etc. They have a policy database in their product. That feature is unique to Forcepoint. Their AI and fingerprinting are incredibly effective and robust. We have tested it multiple times. It always catches the correct data being leaked.
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Sasikumar P
Sr. Manager - IT at Durr India
The most useful features of Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention are the transfer through Bluetooth can be blocked and the transfer to the cloud-based storage can be blocked. The features are wonderful.
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KrishnaChaitanya4
Manager at KPMG
I like that you can quickly create policies and enforce them in a matter of minutes.
View full review »The feature I found most valuable is the DLP. We are using it to do encryptions.
View full review »Forcepoint's data visibility is the most valuable feature.
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Badrul Hisyam Jamil
IT Manager at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
The solution is easy to manage.
View full review »The most valuable feature is security.
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Aamir Ejaz
Head of IT Department at Mana
The most valuable feature of Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention is the OCR.
View full review »Forcepoint DLP has very good reporting whether it is at the gateway or it is the LP. The product is user-friendly.
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Owen Nunez
Security Engineer at Protego Trust Bank
I do not have any real valuable features at the moment.
It was mostly stable.
There is a lot of articles and documentation that technical support direct you to.
View full review »I like the product's integration at the network layer, which allows for integration with other vendors' security solutions as long as they are compatible with ICAP integration. For example, integrating DLP with web security or email security solutions. This flexibility is a valuable feature for me as it allows for more efficient use of the product, without necessarily requiring the use of all of Forcepoint's products.
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Manjit Singh
Senior Information Security Engineer at Herbalife
I like the encryption feature of this solution as well as the proxy aspect of it.
Forcepoint DLP's most valuable feature is that it provides complete end-to-end security. It gives us an understanding of any violation happening in the network or via endpoint.
View full review »One of the most valuable features is being able to see file movement, where files are going. Every week we review the files. It can identify software codes, so we code files and we know where they're going and who's doing what. It gives us visibility. It shows any key files, any strange behaviors, such as if somebody is taking too many screenshots, and alerts us about that.
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Mahesh Dalavi
Sr. Manager at 2Five1
The workflow remediation is quite good. That is a key feature because of which it has the upper hand over other DLP solutions.
Endpoint protection, web protection, network protection, and storage use are valuable features. Among these, endpoint protection is most valuable.
It has good policies and good mechanisms to detect incidents.
View full review »The solution’s content classification is the best.
View full review »The most valuable feature of this solution is that it captures where the data is being moved.
Forcepoint is the one I see most frequently mentioned in a lot of webinars or insider threat discussions.
It is a product that is commonly referenced.
View full review »Forcepoint has a unique fingerprinting technology. We set a policy and as soon as a document goes into the repository, the policy applies. When I receive a document from my MD and want it to remain within the organization, I move it into a repository and it's viewed as sensitive. It's an efficient way to ensure that documents are safe. DLP ensures that data doesn't flow out.
I would also add that the predefining feature is a very simple process. You pick your industry, add the email, choose your country, populate the type of policies that suit your region, and your industry, and then you can choose what to block and what to allow.
In general, Forcepoint is miles ahead of its competitors. The closest similar solution would be Symantec, but they're still miles behind.
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- network DLP, which has two components
- DLP agent installed on endpoints
- discovery, as it covers the endpoints and shared folders on servers.
These features are important for control. A main part of DLP is its use as a tool that provides different layers of controls.
The Forcepoint tool is well developed. It is ranked in many evaluations at the top when it comes to enterprise DLP solutions. It has good artificial intelligence that enables our customers to focus on specific incidents, instead of having a complicated list of uncategorized incidents.
View full review »One thing that I really like is that you can customize the rules.
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Allan Dylan Pinto
Associate Consultant at Atos
With OCR and Risk Analysis, we are able to determine if anything sensitive is been shared. OCR helps us to safeguard those things and with risk ranking, we can determine which user is trying to violate policies multiple times even though they have been blocked to him or her. It does require additional servers, as the processing and result of the incident is high, however, it's worth using to see all the use cases being met with these two features as well. They are the best features provided by Forcepoint.
View full review »The solution is stable overall.
View full review »Endpoint security and DLP are the features I have found to be the most valuable ones in the solution.
View full review »The email-sharing capabilities are good. We can watch email sharing based on content, keywords, key phrases, et cetera.
The initial setup process went well.
It is stable.
The solution is scalable.
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Surodas Deb Roy
Chief Technology Officer at Penta Global Limited
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.
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MUHAMMAD FAHAD HASSAN
System Engineer at ABM Info. tech
One of the most valuable features is the set of built-in policies that Forcepoint has for PCI compliance. We just need to activate them and start working. Without them, it would be a big task to do a data transformation. Another advantage is that Forcepoint also updates these policies. If there is a new control for PCI compliance, Forcepoint updates it in its system and it can be downloaded.
Forcepoint is also easy to use and manage.
View full review »Some of the built-in rules, templates, and content classifiers are among the most valuable features. Some of the built-in patterns are good places to get started with. Along with the phrases, they are helpful in putting together policies and fine-tuning our policies. A good example of that would be certain kinds of credit card data. They have a lot of algorithms available to fine-tune what exactly you're looking for, whether it be credit cards from Mexico, or US credit cards, et cetera. They have a good database of those types of predefined algorithms, ways to detect things, and the specific information you're looking for.
These features are valuable because they work and seem to be picking up the right data. They seem accurate. It's also convenient to be able to choose them and not have to figure it out myself or create my own. That goes a long way toward fine-tuning our policies.
View full review »The product is interesting. It meets our needs very well. It's the best solution when compared to Symantec, for example. We have both ForcePoint and Gartner as well and it's a leader among similar solutions.
The solution offers very good sensitive data protection.
The solution is excellent at protecting strategic information. I deployed it when I was working in the petrol industry for an oil and gas group. It was the biggest one in Morocco. We held important information about critical activities, including providing gas and oxygen for the hospital. We were considered critical IT and we had to comply with the operative elective and the law. DLP helped us to protect our data and we improved our safety in order to comply with the law and existing regulations.
View full review »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.
View full review »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.
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.
View full review »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.
View full review »The data loss prevention is great. Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention provides the user with plenty of control.
View full review »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.
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Giang Nguyen
Product Manager with 201-500 employees
The GUI is very intuitive. That is the way I would explain its ease of use. It is straightforward.
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DragosBasmaluta
Co-Founder at Avant Consulting
I do not think I should name a specific feature that is the most valuable because it is a product we are using as a unified solution and that is very important because it is one of the leaders in the Gartner Magic Quadrant. So there is not a specific feature that is more important than the whole of it together.
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Sanjeet Kumar Bhuyan
Security Consultant and Cybersecurity Support at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Some of the features that I find to be valuable are the data loss features, such as CASB, Network, and Email.
The fingerprinting technology is the solution's most valuable feature. It's unique to Forcepoint.
View full review »One of the features I find most valuable is that it is very easy to install. Secondly, it has a very deep reporting mechanism, so it can give you a very detailed report. Then, thirdly, it gives you protection, either at the endpoint, at the network level, and also at the server level. Which also includes the endpoint.
It can also easily be integrated into the data cloud protection and be integrated with cloud protection software or application. This gives us wide visibility and control over our network, for both inbound and outbound data.
Another valuable feature is that it provides integration to things like Cloud Access Security Broker, which provides security around cloud applications.
It also gives integration with SIEM solution, which means that from a SIEM, you'll be able to actually see what is happening around your data. It has some very unique capabilities, such as optical character recognition and custom encryption identification. It has an out of the box library of templates, which enables you to easily set it up and deploy, making it possible for you to identify and stop data theft. You can even integrate it to your email if you want to extend it, where you can actually have DLP around the email and not just around the web and network.
View full review »The ease of configuration was probably one of its biggest selling points. I know that we took a long time to get it configured properly but it just takes a while. It's a big tool and it does a lot of work.
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Sayed Ahmed
I-Security Engineer at Nhq Distribution Ltd
We use several components in this solution, including Endpoint Discovery, CEIT technology, Network Discovery, and NT integration. The most valuable feature in this solution is the support for templates.
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DR Goyal
VP Technology at a outsourcing company with 51-200 employees
We receive a lot of insights from this product.
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Javier Ramirez
Network Security Specialist at SEFISA
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.
The solution has multiple modules and is good with integration. It also enables data classification and monitored file labeling. It's a classic solution.
There is a feature in the product that I use the bank with which it is really easy to capture any data leakages.
The incident management and fingerprinting have been the most valuable features.
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Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention
June 2025

Learn what your peers think about Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: June 2025.
859,687 professionals have used our research since 2012.