Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention vs. Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Forcepoint DLP
Score 6.2 out of 10
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Forcepoint DLP promises to address human-centric risk by providing visibility and control everywhere your people work and everywhere your data resides. Security teams apply user-risk scoring to focus on the events that matter most and to accelerate compliance with global data regulations. The vendor promises these benefits: Accelerate compliance Empower people to protect data Advanced detection and controls that follow the data RESPOND…N/A
Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention
Score 7.1 out of 10
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Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention is used to provide intelligent detection and control of sensitive information across Office 365, OneDrive, SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, and on the endpoint. It also helps prevent data loss through identifying and preventing risky or inappropriate sharing, transfer, or use of sensitive data on endpoints, apps, and services.N/A
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Community Pulse
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Considered Both Products
Forcepoint DLP
Chose Forcepoint DLP
I think Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention pales in comparison to the feature set you get with M365 (which is likely included in most corporations existing licensing!). We moved on from Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention to implement Microsoft's solution instead.
Chose Forcepoint DLP
User friendly solution that makes it easy to deploy and manage. Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention very effective to protecting our valuable data on endpoints and where data lives like in the Cloud, server and on-premises disk drives and its valuable to just set policies once and …
Chose Forcepoint DLP
We tested and evaluated Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention and this solution suited the best for our requirement. We optimized it to suit our requirement of 250 to 300 users in our head office. We will be adding a few more users under this solution which are having Windows and MAC …
Chose Forcepoint DLP
I find Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention to be a superior product compared to the other two alternatives mentioned. It is improving, though, at a slower pace but I have seen it upgrading to its best level. There is more value associated with this tool than the other two. …
Chose Forcepoint DLP
Because it allows the creation of reports and statistics, risk assessment, real-time monitoring, fingerprints, machine learning, [and] a dictionary function--so good and useful.
Chose Forcepoint DLP
I have evaluated CoSoSys but the reporting part did not hit the mark. Also, a high number of false positives was a concern for me. I need a predefined report which needs to be compatible with my compliance requirement, which was missing in CoSoSys. However CoSoSys is good for …
Chose Forcepoint DLP
We have not done a ton of testing with alternatives at this point.
Chose Forcepoint DLP
Netskope, Digital Guardian. We've stuck with Forcepoint to limit the number of major architectural changes in a given year. If we achieved diminishing marginal returns on its ROI, then we'd change because the prevention is good, but the headache has to be less than the …
Chose Forcepoint DLP
We have tried out Office 365 and Trend Micro DLP but those solutions have not worked out as we hoped. That said, when we looked at Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention, there were only minor issues we came across that did not have any negative impact and overall, the solution was …
Chose Forcepoint DLP
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but Proofpoint has proven to be a superior product. In our experience Proofpoint has fewer false positives and more out-of-the-box pattern detections requiring less customization. However, there is still a value in having more than one DLP …
Chose Forcepoint DLP
Haven't used other product.
Chose Forcepoint DLP
We didn't evaluate any other solutions at the time of purchase. Forcepoint was the leader on the Gartner report and we went with their recommendation.
Chose Forcepoint DLP
We selected Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention because it meets the size of our organization's needs and the ease of implementation compared to other solutions.
Chose Forcepoint DLP
We selected Forcepoint DLP as we already were using their Web and Email filtering products. The integration among their products is very strong and we did not want to introduce too many additional products into our environment. We have limited security resources so a high level …
Chose Forcepoint DLP
Easier to user and cheaper
Chose Forcepoint DLP
We are currently in the evaluation phase to compare overall cost and functionality. Blue Coat runs in a very similar way that Forcepoint does. Check Point runs at the same gateway layer that the firewall does so its policy can be run on the same hardware of existing environments.
Chose Forcepoint DLP
Forcepoint stacks up pretty well against its competitors. It has more functionality then Cisco and is comparable to McAfee. McAfee is one of the few I would feel at ease with replacing our currently solution with.
Chose Forcepoint DLP
Overall it was the best we had, SSL decryption worked better than Bluecoat and Cisco traffic had a lot of certificate issues. Websense was the quickest to get up and running and their sales engineering team is superb.
Chose Forcepoint DLP
Websense has similar features to other DLP solutions. We selected Websense based upon other organizations' experiences. I cannot compare the negatives to Websense as we did not deploy any other vendor DLP solutions in the same scale.
Chose Forcepoint DLP
Websense, at the time, was the only content filtering solution to offer a hybrid option of on-prem and cloud services. We are up for renewal soon and will likely compare them to other vendors.
Chose Forcepoint DLP
Websense gave us the best flexibility for our enterprise configuration and setup. It all does not take up anything on our computers when we use Websense one armed off our firewalls and routers. We found this very easy to set up and transparent to our users and network. The …
Chose Forcepoint DLP
We've been using Websense for as long as I've been at Heitman. I had a talk with Mimecast about email filtering but it's hard to find someone that does web, email, and DLP together; it doesn't make sense to have 3 different vendors.
Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention
Chose Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention
Varonis provided great visibility into file permissions and audit records. It did not provide DLP controls for things like email, and endpoints therefore making it incomplete to provide proactive controls against DLP threats.
Chose Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention
Symantec or now? Brocom. Forcepoint, GPV. I'm trying to think of, there's a couple more. I can't think of the top of my head. I would say closer to the bottom then rather than the top. So because of the fact that yes, it integrates well. But in terms of the actual …
Chose Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention
We looked at Varonis and there was one other one whose name I don't remember. So I guess it wasn't that good.
Chose Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention
AI Cyber Experts Cybersecurity as a Service (CSaaS)
Chose Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention
Not used any product other than Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention. As I mentioned in my earlier point that we did all the researches for the best suitable product for our environment, but Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention proved to be best and is working as per our …
Chose Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention
There are much more comprehensive and granular DLP solutions out there like Trellix and Sophos but ultimately they are expensive and require significant administrative oversight for implementation and deployment. For a company of our size, they are just not economically …
Chose Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention
The DLP in Exchange Online and Purview by proxy is okay, but fails to catch a lot of HIPAA-specific information. We supplemented with Barracuda to make up for it. Purview is still better at identification across the entire tenant though, Barracuda is just doing our email DLP.
Chose Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention
overall better coverage and integration with Microsoft products. also, it was the most reasonable solution for us.
Chose Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention
The DLP was already part of our tenant so we saved money by using it. With others, we would have to built/implement VMs to connect to the tenant, which we were not willing do. Since we had access to it, we decided to stick with it and we are happy with that result
Chose Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention
As the customer already had Microsoft Office 365 E5 license, it made sense to implement Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention instead of other products.
Chose Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention
Centralized management, supports Hybrid Environment, Easy integration with Microsoft products and cloud features.
Features
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Data Preparation
Comparison of Data Preparation features of Product A and Product B
Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention
2.0
Ratings
102% below category average
Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention
8.5
Ratings
32% above category average
Data Encryption2.00 Ratings8.50 Ratings
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
2.1
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Likelihood to Renew
7.6
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Usability
2.0
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1.0
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Support Rating
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User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
-Where companies need to secure their attachment, which goes outside, means from their company to outside -Where companies need to ensure their client's personal information -Where companies need DLP. They need to look for Forcepoint only, as they have the upper hand over the rest of their competitors.
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I would highly recommend Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention for companies that are utilizing Microsoft technologies based on the strong integrations. If a company is using other technologies (e.g Google Workspace), then Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention would not be a good fit and would be difficult to implement/manage.
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Pros
  • The Forcepoint Endpoint Data Loss Prevention Endpoint module is applied to secure data being used at endpoints, like from Microsoft Excel and other Microsoft capabilities, also other functions like email and FTP, Active Sync, etc. It secures the data in use at the endpoint.
  • The Forcepoint Endpoint Data Loss Prevention Network Module is applied for the traffic being used in network capabilities like email, FTP, and web. It also secures the data on the move in the network.
  • Forcepoint Data Discover--the capability to discover the data which is sensitive for the organization and lies across the network; with the discovery tool, we can define the data, which is important based on regulatory and compliance risk.
  • OCR (optical character recognition) capabilities also come with the Data Discover Module, by which we can see the embedded text inside the image and that helps to prevent sensitive data theft.
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  • It's a great product from an information protection perspective, as it can identify different types of data across tons of different locations.
  • It's great at applying standard regulatory frameworks, like HIPAA, to management actions so you can work towards being as compliant as possible.
  • The eDiscovery tools are very helpful when it comes to managing legal holds and discovery requests, as it's simple to freeze accounts or hold at points in time for discovery.
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Cons
  • Remote filtering is not as advanced as we would like.
  • Support time is not as quick as needed in most cases.
  • Upgrades of appliances and software is not as easy as other solutions.
  • HTTPS inspection needs to hand a valid cert and doesnt work correctly with all vendors.
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  • Advanced or specific policies have a high learning curve.
  • We have to rely on our reseller partner to implement some of the policies that we were looking for.
  • Microsoft is constantly trying to upsell the PureView suite and hides some features included in E5 Enterprise to try and upsell.
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Likelihood to Renew
We have been fairly happy with the product and how it has worked. We have looked at other vendors for url filter and such and have not found one that meets our needs or does what we have been doing with Websense. The product has been fairly stable and we have only had a few issues in the past. We have all seen that it was one of the highest leaders from the Gartner Group Magic Quadrant for Web Gateways.
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Usability
For us, Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention was difficult to administer, did not work well when it did work, was incredibly expensive for the feature set you get, and was difficult to uninstall when we moved on from the software. Once it was fully set up, it worked occasionally for us.
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Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention is super difficult.
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Support Rating
Support from Forcepoint has been lacking. When calling in with a high priority issue we rarely are able to work with a technician immediately. The queue waits are very long and when you get through there are no support engineers available and we need to wait for a call back for hours it seems.
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Alternatives Considered
User friendly solution that makes it easy to deploy and manage. Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention very effective to protecting our valuable data on endpoints and where data lives like in the Cloud, server and on-premises disk drives and its valuable to just set policies once and start utilizing Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention solution.
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Symantec or now? Brocom. Forcepoint, GPV. I'm trying to think of, there's a couple more. I can't think of the top of my head. I would say closer to the bottom then rather than the top. So because of the fact that yes, it integrates well. But in terms of the actual functionality of DLP, there are other requirements that they just don't have the features for yet.
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Return on Investment
  • The capability of this tool to update in real time has saved a lot of time and even saved a lot of energy for researching.
  • The exchange of financial information related to customers builds up an extreme risk of data loss, which can be damaging to the customer.
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  • I think it's integral to everything, it has to be positive and the positivity has to be the ability to use Purview in a situation for an organization. For us as a provider, we're not sure if we need your services or we think we're doing this thing correctly. We also evaluate compliance team. So first thing that we may do is if we don't have a footprint in the organization and we don't know what their data parameter or their data flow capabilities are, if we don't think that they're controlling it confidently, we validate and verify. We may do a content search and that content search immediately will be the most revealing thing. They'll be like, "alright, so right here on this diagram, this and this area are the areas that you have protected that are capable of protecting CUI. How come your CUIs in all of these 18 other different areas in which you see as like scope creep happens because the enforcement mechanisms haven't been tested, validated or whatever, or haven't been effective." It allows us to do quick cleanup, quick discovery, and things like that for new onboarding clients.
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Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention Screenshots

Screenshot of pre-built policy templates to easily get startedScreenshot of DLP analytics to help recommend new policies and fine tune existing onesScreenshot of the step that enables one policy to be applied to several locationsScreenshot of then next step, that enables policies to be scoped to specific users and user groupsScreenshot of composite conditions using groups of AND /OR and exceptions with NOTScreenshot of granular restrictions for different actions