We performed a comparison between Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention and Symantec Data Loss Prevention based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Symantec comes out on top in this comparison. According to its reviewers, it is more fairly priced and a more comprehensive and powerful solution than Forcepoint. Forcepoint does come out on top in the Support category, however.
"The technical support for the solution is very good."
"The solution offers very good sensitive data protection."
"The integration is great."
"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."
"It was mostly stable."
"The feature I found most valuable is the DLP. We are using it to do encryptions."
"I like that you can quickly create policies and enforce them in a matter of minutes."
"Some good features are basically its UAV Analytics engine. And even fingerprinting is really good in Forcepoint."
"With respect to the amount of intelligence that they have with respect to how they formed the DLP solution, for example, exact data matching. If you compare Forcepoint with Symantec, Symantec is more sophisticated than Forcepoint."
"There's only one policy needed to implement for all channels."
"It can prevent copying and encoding of HTTP data to various sites like Google, and Webex."
"The most valuable feature is file-level DLP."
"It is a scalable solution...The solution's technical support was good."
"The solution can easily scale."
"The features I like most about this solution is the endpoint modules because it gives us the protection we need."
"The product is very stable."
"My opinion is that the dashboard could be improved and made more user-friendly. They do not enable a wide range of proper inquiries and we need to identify much of what we need on our own, like incident severity."
"If you are a macOS user, there are issues in the area of USB control."
"Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention can improve by having an uninstall option for the client or restart of a client agent can be controlled from the server. This feature is missing which is available with other solutions."
"They can improve a bit in the OCR category. The OCR deployment could be simplified. Right now, you have to set up a separate server to manage all the data going through the network, especially the images. Forcepoint could better integrate the OCR component with central management."
"We faced some issues with the endpoint installation of the agent as it is not from a common ground."
"An area for improvement for Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention is its price. It would be good if they could offer better pricing."
"It would be better if we could easily integrate with other products. Suppose I want to integrate this DLP with some other CASB solutions or a firewall solution. In that case, it takes a considerable amount of time because Forcepoint DLP doesn't come with a legacy firewall or CASB solutions to integrate with it. We need to do it separately. It's not improvised for different sectors, and I need to look for other solutions. I'm investing a lot of time researching and implementing other solutions for other areas. That is one point where I can't feel satisfied with this Forcepoint DLP. The only problem we have faced is that it consumes most of the CPU whenever a Forcepoint DLP is deployed on an endpoint. This is when users feel some lag in their machine's performance or their Internet performance. That's when we uninstall and try to reinstall, or we'll give a cloud link to which it gets access. We use Forcepoint DLP for endpoint protection, not for email or cloud. For email and drive, we went with the Google DLP. Forcepoint DLP isn't as efficient on drive or chat, or email. For that, we have some specialized solutions, but it would be better to have a single console where you can control all these areas. It would be pretty easy for a consumer who is going to use this product. All in one shot, you can try to track it and enforce your policies on a single dashboard. That is one point currently lacking in Forcepoint, and I feel they need to work on it. In the next release, I would like to use this DLP across different solutions like network, firewall, email, or chat with a consolidated dashboard and with integration facilities with other solutions. Security should work as a whole. It shouldn't work individually in blocks. It does not serve our purpose. It should be integrated with multiple solutions. For that, it should have enough intelligence to work with other tools. I'm looking forward to seeing that kind of capability with Forcepoint."
"The policy update size and agent size could be improved. We would also like to have a proper solution for Linux OS which Forcepoint does not offer."
"I would like to see an improved interface, with better documentation and integration with other products."
"The enforce service is difficult to understand, and free courses made available on the internet would be useful."
"Agent configuration should be improved for easier interaction for users, particularly by allowing configuration changes to be done on a grid."
"Different departments should manage administration, reporting, normalization and incident management."
"Symantec Data Loss Prevention could improve by having better system resource management, cloud option, and more features."
"We want a more proactive reporting structure."
"Symantec could improve by being more creative and simplifying the functions. Additionally, the data protection should be bundled with data classification and labeling instead of them being separate."
"Their support program needs a lot of improvement. If you are stuck somewhere, getting their support can be difficult."
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Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention is ranked 2nd in Data Loss Prevention (DLP) with 52 reviews while Symantec Data Loss Prevention is ranked 3rd in Data Loss Prevention (DLP) with 53 reviews. Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention is rated 8.0, while Symantec Data Loss Prevention is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention writes "DLP great for encryptions; tech support is quite helpful". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Symantec Data Loss Prevention writes "Consitent, accurate, and simple". Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention is most compared with Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention, Digital Guardian, CoSoSys Endpoint Protector, Zscaler DLP and Palo Alto Networks Enterprise Data Loss Prevention, whereas Symantec Data Loss Prevention is most compared with Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention, Digital Guardian, Zscaler DLP, CoSoSys Endpoint Protector and Trellix DLP. See our Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention vs. Symantec Data Loss Prevention report.
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