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 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."
"We receive a lot of insights from this product."
"The integration is great."
"The workflow remediation is quite good. That is a key feature because of which it has the upper hand over other DLP solutions."
"The fingerprinting technology is the solution's most valuable feature. It's unique to Forcepoint."
"Forcepoint has been the leader in the space for many years and they, are very well established, and mature."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is security."
"I have found the most valuable feature to be partial enlisting."
"We can integrate with some other tools such as Splunk, which is very useful."
"Symantec Data Loss Prevention is the number one product in its field. It does its job well and it has all the necessary features. It is definitely better than any other solution on the market."
"It can prevent copying and encoding of HTTP data to various sites like Google, and Webex."
"DLP's most valuable feature is that it's more granular in terms of creating block-based policies, which gives you more options to create policies in a filtered way."
"Users like the product because of its simplicity and the rate of detection."
"We work in the banking field. We deploy data loss prevention. Our branch protects our clients' data, credit card numbers, account numbers, and other confidential and sensitive data."
"We are able to contain our confidential data in our environment."
"The protection of personal data needs to be improved."
"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."
"The support could improve Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention."
"We want to be able to do data classification better in the product and reduce false positives, especially on data loss prevention."
"When you automatically try to upgrade the agent it causes problems."
"An area for improvement for Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention is its price. It would be good if they could offer better pricing."
"The initial setup of Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention is of medium difficulty level."
"You have to monitor the solution all the time."
"The console is not the best one. There is room for improvement in the management console."
"Symantec Data Loss Prevention's AI technology has certain shortcomings where improvements can be made."
"Symantec Data Loss Prevention's setup needs to be easier and support needs to be improved."
"This product is very powerful but it is very complex, so making it simpler to use would be an improvement."
"In a majority of cases, most of the companies are using DLP for endpoint sessions, where you have a user that might be communicating information outside of the company. However, they forget there are actual interfaces that can directly communicate with either the database or other files within the data center that uses end-to-end encryption. In those cases, you might need things like your DLP to be able to monitor and block some of that. The solution needs to catch information communicated through the data center on the server-side."
"Their support program needs a lot of improvement. If you are stuck somewhere, getting their support can be difficult."
"Reporting could be improved."
"There are some features that are not available which are required by every data loss prevention solution."
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Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention is ranked 2nd in Data Loss Prevention (DLP) with 51 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 GTB Technologies Inspector, whereas Symantec Data Loss Prevention is most compared with Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention, Digital Guardian, CoSoSys Endpoint Protector, Zscaler DLP and Trend Micro Integrated Data Loss Prevention. See our Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention vs. Symantec Data Loss Prevention report.
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