Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway Reviews

Basically, we are the system integrators. We apply it to clients for use cases such as productivity increases. For example, if they want to block Facebook and those kinds of social networking sites, it will help stop users from off-work distractions. They also are now catering to the use case of remote working to control access off-site. That involves cloud solutions.

The reporting part of it is pretty awesome. With the reporting, you can drill down effectively. It gives us a lot of power to really look into what we are looking for. That is one very crucial feature. In the remote filtering part, the agent that they have on Forcepoint is pretty light. That also is a very, very good feature that we look into and sell.

The setup is simple.

It’s pretty stable after you get up and running.

The solution scales well.

I use the solution in my company to deal with the area of slowness when we activate a proxy.

If there is a category of generative AI or GenAI, it is not a very detailed category, as there are many AI-based sites where data exfiltration can happen. In the category of generative AI or GenAI, the tool is not updated, and the solution has targeted only four or five sites to be included in the aforementioned category. Categories like generative AI or GenAI are not updated regularly in the solution, making it a problematic area where improvements are required.

The performance issues in the product are an area of concern where improvements are required. The proxy categories in the product have certain shortcomings where improvements are needed. The solution's proxy categories are not updated regularly. The tool's categories, like the one involving generative AI, have certain shortcomings since it does not get updated, and it is not able to target many sites that the developers use for code review, which may lead to some security breaches in the future.

I use Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway to prevent users from accessing spam websites and allow others. For example, I block sites that are not needed by employees, such as social media platforms like YouTube and Facebook, thus ensuring their productivity while they work.

Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway is mainly used to prevent employees from accessing certain sites and allow others to access specific websites. Based on Forcepoint's insights, we block some sites for classification purposes. 

It efficiently categorizes which sites should not be accessed during work hours. Additionally, Forcepoint does not affect traffic flow, ensuring a smooth browsing experience.

We use the solution as an overall proxy. We are using Forcepoint Web Gateway to allow only trusted, valid URLs - whatever is accepted or offered by the cache rate.

It's a landing zone for all kinds of end-user traffic for the internal users, as well as to protect against any attacks from my external users. Also, it controls the internal IT assets and can protect us from hard, new, cyber attacks, ransomware, and other things. That's how it has been used right now specifically.

The agent is acting as a HIPS, host intrusion prevention system, apart from providing trusted access to any external websites. It is doing some real-time monitoring, as well as reporting security events. It can able to give an alert for any security event, which is any unauthorized event. It sends a notification to the reporting manager, who can be immediately alerted. It can happen in nearly real-time. The reporting is very helpful.

There is some sandboxing available, which is quite useful. 

The solution is scalable.

It's fairly easy to set up if you have some prior knowledge. 

The stability is good. 

It offers reasonable pricing. 

We use the solution for malware protection and content filtering. 

The tool's most valuable features are content filtering and URL filtering. 

We used the tool for secure internet access in our legacy environment. We had a firewall. In a corporate environment, when a user goes through the environment, they go through the firewall. However, hardware devices have some limitations. The performance degrades if the number of users increases. Forcepoint is a cloud solution that users can go through. It is scalable.

The solution provided our organization with easy and secure internet access. I did not see any lagging in the solution. It has a good speed. It has good data loss prevention features.

We are implementing Forcepoint Web Security Gateway on corporate, and on enterprise levels. We're not only maintaining Forcepoint, but we are also maintaining McAfee and Symantec as well. I implement and maintain Forcepoint.

The primary use case of Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway is focusing on the advanced malware detection for our customers. We deployed it in multiple locations, and we ensure that the customer's requirements are achieved.

The majority of customers are using the on-premises solution of Forcepoint, and hybrid solutions. But, during this COVID period, they are upgrading that Cloud Web Security console with the availability of the categorization, and there is a GRE tunnel. You can use the GRE tunnel between your organization and the Forcepoint cloud with the IT-based policy applicable to your prospective user.

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.