The initial setup is easy. It's powered by AWS, and you can build it with your team to scale across the network. 

Regarding the initial setup of Digital Guardian, it can be considered relatively straightforward. The process involves setting up two or three services on the server side and making adjustments to the agent configuration file to ensure proper connectivity to the console. The time required for configuring these settings, installing the servers, and deploying clients is generally quick.

The software bundle includes detailed documents outlining both the hardware and software requirements, as well as guides on how to configure the solution. Additionally, Digital Guardian offers the assistance of its professional services team, who can provide guidance and support to ensure a smooth deployment process.

The initial setup of Digital Guardian can be difficult because of the security policies. The full deployment took us two to three weeks.

The initial setup is straightforward with a lot of documentation and the deployment was both on-premises and off-site. We have nine factories and the solution is deployed on a private cloud using a third-party data center. As long as we have an internet connection we can access the solution. The deployment took close to seven months because of the partner issues. The deployment team consisted of three people.

The setup is complex. It takes six to seven months to deploy. The policies and deployment are hard. 

It does offer cloud and on-premises options. 

My suggestion to any customer, once they choose a DLP solution, is to deploy in monitoring mode to see how data travels within and without the organization. Once you've monitored for a while, you will be able to build policies catered to the data flows. 

You only need one or two employees to deploy the solution. A consultant would be able to guide the concept. 

I have worked on various DLP tools, such as McAfee, Forcepoint, and now Digital Guardian. Digital Guardian is, compared to other tools, more complex to implement. Handling that and creating policies and rule formation, et cetera, is work.

I have not deployed it yet to the digital cloud as it is currently on-premises. I don't have any knowledge about deploying Digital Guardian. Basically, I'm working on the operational part for Digital Guardian.

I have worked on McAfee for deployments and Forcepoint. However, I’m not into deploying Digital Guardian.

I rate the initial setup a ten out of ten because we need to prepare and fulfill the application's system requirements, including the server and database sides, and prepare everything indicated in the system requirements. The installation is not difficult. As long as everything is prepared, the deployment takes two hours.

When I was in Symantec, I also handling Symantec's DLP solution. Compared to the Symantec DLP, for the policy, for the rule, DG is a little bit complex due to the fact that you have many kinds of use cases.

Therefore, DG is a bit more complex. It's even more complex than Forcepoint. That said, it has very comprehensive coverage and control. 

The initial setup is complex. It is not straightforward. You need to do lot of config when you create rules and policies. It takes a lot of time to create them. It takes a lot of testing. You also need to have a little understanding of the programming language. It's very difficult to create a policy.

Deployment takes three to six months.

It can be deployed by one person, but that person would need to dedicate his time to finish the project from start to end. Otherwise, it would require a minimum of two people because sometimes engineers are not available. You have to have at least two engineers.

The initial installation of the software in the server is actually very straightforward and it is quite easy to install. It can, however, be a challenge for entities that do not have a data governance policy or structure already in place. This tool doesn't help them develop that, it only applies what the current policies are for data classification and data control.

It took me about three weeks to deploy the solution, but when a client has no data classification and they have to develop those systems first, installing and deployment might take as long as six months.

Provisioning is not a full-time job, but the continuous maintenance from all the alerts that occur from the different rule-sets that are created is based on the size of the organization. We've seen as little as three people managing alerts on a 24/7 basis, and we've seen companies where the alerts go to a security operations center, where there is an entire systems engineering department that helps triage those alerts. 

That is a problem with this tool - you can go from having nothing to do with this tool based on your policies, to having continuous tickets and a workload that requires you to get more staff to meet your IT Operations demand. 

It's pretty easy to install and implement the solution. Put it on our universal server and the solution is already working out-of-the-box.

Other DLP solutions are not quite so easy to install or to implement as Digital Guardian.