Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway Benefits

BS
Subject Matter Expert at Hitachi Systems, Ltd.

Forcepoint provides you with the reporting that allows you to see the threat information and if there are any threats present.

You can see traffic going to a different country like China as an example. We can see the traffic and decide if they are going to block it and if we are able to block that IP from the firewall.

Also, it will check the functionality that is the most inexpensive and we can see the most important features. We can see whether some country is malicious. We can say this specific connection going to the specific malicious country, we can block that specific URL or specific country IP address from that security console. So, that is the most useful feature in the Web Security console.

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it_user743514 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

It has definitely added to the security level of the company network and keeps out accidental or purposeful web traffic that can be malicious or inappropriate.

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JS
Adjunct Professor at Southern New Hampshire University

It allowed our company to not worry about the security of a page, but talk more about the content and the productivity of specific types of web categories.

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Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway
April 2024
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it_user744594 - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Systems Security Administrator at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
  • Being able to have managers or department leads run their own reports has saved us an incredible amount of time.
  • Web filtering of malicious sites has increased our security posture.
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SA
Ict Help Desk Administrator Individual Contributor at a transportation company with 201-500 employees

Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway has improved our organization through its ease of use. It is not a slow product. It has numerous features that give us control over suspicious and malicious transactions. We can also integrate it for security management purposes. 

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it_user327456 - PeerSpot reviewer
Co-Founder, CTO at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

The Sandbox is a very useful solution for sand-boxing malware / phishing etc. from corporate email accounts. No matter whether it's on Office 365, Exchange (on-premise), or Google (or any other cloud). The Sandbox updates on a regular basis, and the flexibility of policy configuration, white-listing is pretty good.

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it_user564000 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Security Engineer at isit

For our organization, when we initially deployed Forcepoint Web Security, we were looking to have four different ISP's joined, all the ISP's as one. 

We wanted to utilize all of the network resources in a unified manner. We didn't want to waste other ISP resources. That is the reason why we purchased this firewall.

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AmgadYousry - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Infrastructure at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

This solution allows us to control web usage to ensure that our employees use the internet for business research only. It also monitors all employees' traffic, so it gives alerts for searches and can block any websites not allowed by company policies. This means the company can ensure our employees make the best use of their time and get the most value from the internet itself.

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it_user754590 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Administrator Professional at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees

There is less need to investigate if a site is malicious. The majority of site gets reported.

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EO
Regional Solutions Manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

I can now go to sleep not being bothered of users accessing sites that are wasteful or can compromise security.

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it_user427377 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior ICT Security Officer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

It allowed us to analyze the decrypted SSL web traffic for malware.

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it_user860823 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

This product improved the security of web traffic in our environment.

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it_user793608 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Security Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
  • Transparent mode implementation
  • Detect threats on SSL traffic
  • Multiple customization options to allow or block a specific content within the web pages has allowed us to simplify the user experience without loss of productivity.
  • Ease of updating the latest hotfixes and patches on the appliance.
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it_user146268 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Security Consultant at a integrator with 501-1,000 employees

Organisation of emails

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it_user742935 - PeerSpot reviewer
Desktop and Application Security Manager at a tech company with 51-200 employees

It helps constantly with phishing and cryptolocker attacks.

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BM
Owner at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
  • It has improved our services.
  • It has protected clients against cyberattacks.
  • It has created more and better end user experiences.
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Buyer's Guide
Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway
April 2024
Learn what your peers think about Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: April 2024.
768,740 professionals have used our research since 2012.