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 initial setup process went well."
"The solution is easy to manage."
"Our organization's intellectual property is not misused or extracted without permission."
"Regardless of the size of your company, this solution can be scaled accurately."
"The Optical Character Recognition (OCR) functionality is another helpful feature, especially for unstructured data. Being able to discover sensitive data in an unstructured format is the most beneficial element of the solution."
"Scalability-wise, I rate this solution a nine out of ten."
"One of the most valuable features is the set of built-in policies that Forcepoint has for PCI compliance. We just need to activate them and start working. Without them, it would be a big task to do a data transformation."
"The product is good and reliable. The vendor company is continually improving it and they seem to stay one step ahead."
"The product is very robust."
"The Network Monitor component is the most advanced on the market. Combined with the other Network DLP components."
"All of the features are really important, including DLP for the OCR and endpoint. It will be all of the combined features that will give you the strength to control the data. Every feature has its own uniqueness, different control and will help you to protect the data."
"The initial setup is easy."
"I'm able to track everyone who is trying to send information outside the environment and to know if they are not supposed to be sending it. I'm also able to see the people who are accessing or maybe try to access the information they are not supposed to be accessing based on their level of classification. It gives me overall control of who has got access to what and at what point. And who can do what with specific information."
"I like how I have the possibility to check different channels with the same policy set."
"The tool's really working well, and the agents are good."
"The detection capabilities are comprehensive."
"We want to be able to do data classification better in the product and reduce false positives, especially on data loss prevention."
"In terms of display, the support and the Mac platform requires a lot of improvement."
"They can improve a bit in the OCR category. The OCR deployment could be simplified. Right now, you have to set up a separate server to manage all the data going through the network, especially the images. Forcepoint could better integrate the OCR component with central management."
"Lacks the ability to control the USB port devices so that content coming out of the port is blocked."
"An area for improvement in Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention is the complex UI and policy deployment. You have to find the policies, and then designing the policies is also tricky."
"The setup is complex and has room for improvement."
"It would be wonderful if the solution could develop more AI and machine learning capabilities. It would also be good if the solution was able to integrate with other ML and AI solutions. Right now, this is lacking."
"There is no support for the Bangla (Bengali) language, so we cannot use the Forcepoint technology for Bangla documents."
"The solution could offer improved more informative documentation."
"Symantec could improve by being more creative and simplifying the functions. Additionally, the data protection should be bundled with data classification and labeling instead of them being separate."
"Symantec DLP doesn't provide complete cloud coverage. We need another DLP solution to monitor our cloud applications."
"There should be more information about the features of the solution and what they do. This way we would be able to use all the features that are available."
"From a management perspective, it takes a lot of time to manage the infrastructure."
"They need to expand the channels they check."
"DLP could be improved by implementing a cloud-based console."
"In the object capture recognition, which we implemented recently, there are a lot of false positives that have been happening."
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Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention is ranked 2nd in Data Loss Prevention (DLP) with 52 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 Palo Alto Networks Enterprise Data Loss Prevention, whereas Symantec Data Loss Prevention is most compared with Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention, Digital Guardian, Zscaler DLP, CoSoSys Endpoint Protector and Trellix DLP. See our Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention vs. Symantec Data Loss Prevention report.
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