We compared Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention and Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention based on our user's reviews in several parameters.
Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention offers robust data protection capabilities, seamless integration, and reliable incident response mechanisms. Users appreciate its prevention of data leakage and policy enforcement. Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention focuses on safeguarding sensitive data, offering comprehensive visibility, and efficient breach detection. Users praise its affordability, ease of use, and seamless integration with Microsoft tools. Both products have strong customer service, but Forcepoint users desire a better interface and reporting, while Purview users seek more accurate breach prevention and customizable policy options.
Features: The valuable features of Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention include robust data protection capabilities, comprehensive policy enforcement, and reliable incident response mechanisms. Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention highlights safeguarding sensitive data, comprehensive visibility and control over data, and efficient detection of potential data breaches.
Pricing and ROI: The setup cost for Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention is described as minimal, while Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention is praised for its affordability. Users find the licensing process for Forcepoint straightforward, while Microsoft Purview offers flexible and accommodating licensing options., Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention has received highly beneficial user reviews, emphasizing its efficient data protection capabilities, prevention of information loss and leakage, improved productivity, enhanced security, and cost savings. In comparison, Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention received notably positive feedback, highlighting its effectiveness in preventing data loss, reliable data protection features, seamless integration with existing systems, and tangible benefits in terms of enhanced data security and protection.
Room for Improvement: Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention has been criticized for its user interface, reporting capabilities, documentation, technical support, and customization options. In comparison, Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention requires enhancements in accuracy, policy options, user interface, and integration with other Microsoft applications.
Deployment and customer support: The user reviews show that the implementation time for Forcepoint DLP ranges from one week to three months, while the implementation time for Microsoft Purview DLP varies from one week to three months. The reviews suggest that the time frames mentioned should be taken into consideration, as they might refer to separate phases or the same period., The customer service for Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention received positive feedback for their helpful and knowledgeable support team. Microsoft Purview's customer service is highly regarded for its promptness, efficiency, and reliability of assistance.
The summary above is based on 41 interviews we conducted recently with Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention and Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our report.
"It was mostly stable."
"The GUI is very intuitive. That is the way I would explain its ease of use. It is straightforward."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is security."
"The most valuable feature of Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention is the OCR."
"The product is good and reliable. The vendor company is continually improving it and they seem to stay one step ahead."
"I did not experience any crashes. The solution has been stable in my usage."
"The initial setup process went well."
"Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention's responses are faster. Its installation is also reliable. The security score helps with the security part."
"It has helped our clients to reduce the time to action on insider threats because it can be integrated."
"The product can block the uploads to cloud services."
"There's a good amount of documentation in case you run into any problems."
"One of the valuable features of Purview is the ability to create a legal hold on a user's account within the compliance portal. That's pretty useful when it comes to any litigation or if you want to redeem the content within a mailbox, OneDrive, or a generic public SharePoint site."
"I rate Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention's stability a ten out of ten."
"The most valuable features are identifying sensitive data and issuing alerts."
"We can use Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention to manage devices and site policies."
"I would like to see the product extended into the cloud as a single solution."
"The ease of deployment wasn't as flexible as Digital Guardian."
"There's zero Forcepoint presence in West Africa. Customers typically like having these things close to them. It would help if they had a presence here. Right now, Forcepoint West Africa has been administered from South Africa. Because of this, customers can't access premium support in our region."
"An area for improvement for Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention is its price. It would be good if they could offer better pricing."
"One area that could be improved is the support. The current support is not very good. Because they don't come on time when a customer really needs it, they take a lot of time to troubleshoot anything."
"Lacks the ability to control the USB port devices so that content coming out of the port is blocked."
"This solution has a tendency to provide false-positive results."
"The deployment and troubleshooting aspects of Forcepoint need improving."
"They do not provide language options beyond the ones already available, so our language option is missing."
"A site can have different containers where you store data. We have always wanted to apply compliance, labels, and policies at the container level, rather than to an outer shell or at the site level. That is something we have been looking forward to and I believe Microsoft is already planning something like that."
"The scalability, in terms of the portal, could be more user-friendly. Sometimes I have faced difficulties in identifying the options."
"The solution should provide better integration with other systems."
"Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention's licensing is expensive."
"There is a lot of ambiguity when you are setting up labels, such as sensitive information labels. It is a little daunting at first if you don't have prior knowledge, and there is a little bit of a learning curve for setting up the labels. Some of the setup wizards could be more helpful from an AI perspective. They can streamline the setup through more AI technologies so that you don't have to jump through so many hoops and different menus and dropdowns. It would be useful to have a setup wizard that is more hands-off and engaging for setting up the information type labels. If you tell them this is what we're trying to protect, it should basically start to lead you down that path of best practices. Such a feature would be great."
"There is no AIP for Linux systems. That's a setback. Another thing it's lacking is libraries to work with Python. It has libraries for C# and C++, for example, but not for Python and, these days, Python is very useful."
"The support is poor."
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Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention is ranked 2nd in Data Loss Prevention (DLP) with 51 reviews while Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention is ranked 1st in Data Loss Prevention (DLP) with 13 reviews. Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention is rated 8.0, while Microsoft Purview 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 Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention writes "Automation has given us consistent analytics and improved quality of insights into user activity". Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention is most compared with Digital Guardian, Symantec Data Loss Prevention, CoSoSys Endpoint Protector, Zscaler DLP and GTB Technologies Inspector, whereas Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention is most compared with Symantec Data Loss Prevention, Microsoft Intune, Amazon Macie, Zscaler DLP and Digital Guardian. See our Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention vs. Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention report.
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