Digital Guardian vs Fortra's Digital Guardian comparison

Digital Guardian and Fortra's Digital Guardian are both solutions in the Data Loss Prevention (DLP) category. Digital Guardian is ranked #15 with an average rating of 8.0, while Fortra's Digital Guardian is ranked #19 with an average rating of 10.0. Digital Guardian holds a 2.4% mindshare in DLP, compared to Fortra's Digital Guardian’s 1.2% mindshare. Additionally, 80% of Digital Guardian users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Fortra's Digital Guardian users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 3, 2024

Digital Guardian and Fortra's Digital Guardian compete in data protection and security. Fortra's Digital Guardian seems to have an upper hand due to its comprehensive feature set, despite users appreciating the pricing and support of Digital Guardian.

Features: Digital Guardian provides advanced threat detection, robust data policy management, and strong security measures. Fortra's Digital Guardian includes enhanced analytics, wider application integration, and complex environment adaptability, making it more suitable for intricate requirements.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Digital Guardian offers straightforward deployment with direct support, resulting in quicker setup. Its simplicity benefits smaller organizations. Fortra's Digital Guardian, providing extensive technical guidance, involves more complex deployment models that favor larger organizations requiring tailored solutions, with ongoing support facilitating a customizable setup.

Pricing and ROI: Digital Guardian is known for its competitive pricing structure and low setup cost, delivering satisfactory ROI for budget-conscious organizations. Fortra's Digital Guardian, while having a higher initial cost, justifies it with advanced features and strong analytics, aiming at high-security needs. Flexible pricing offsets its greater investment, highlighting superior functionality.

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Categories and Ranking

Digital Guardian

Ranking in Data Loss Prevention (DLP)

15th

Average Rating

7.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Endpoint Encryption (8th), Mobile Data Protection (5th), Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) (26th), Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) (42nd)

Fortra's Digital Guardian

Ranking in Data Loss Prevention (DLP)

19th

Average Rating

9.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2026, in the Data Loss Prevention (DLP) category, the mindshare of Digital Guardian is 2.4%, down from 3.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Fortra's Digital Guardian is 1.2%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Data Loss Prevention (DLP) Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Digital Guardian	2.4%
Fortra's Digital Guardian	1.2%
Other	96.4%

Data Loss Prevention (DLP)

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Syed Mubeen

Cyber Security Researcher at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Enterprise data protection has supported regulatory compliance and integrates with classification tools

In terms of functionality, many features are valuable in Digital Guardian, as the first thing for most customers is that they are using solutions such as Boldon James and Titus, which fall under the classification side, and Digital Guardian can easily integrate with this data classification solution and has a very granular level of configuration and policy tuning. Digital Guardian's data protection policies are indeed useful for my clients. Regarding Digital Guardian, I find it to be a very good solution, and in fact, it is an enterprise-level solution that has very tight integration with most of the products, with Fortra but also with others.

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Christian Dagal

Security Architect Manager at Aboitiz Equity Ventures, Inc.

Ease of sensitive information detection and provides flexibility to customize and redefine policies and user analytics that detect data channels

In my opinion, there's a need for an extensive skill set or knowledge of creating policies. There's room for improvement to make it more user-friendly in creating custom rules and policies. In future releases, I would like to see a quick glance at detected data without downloading the actual file for both Windows and MacOS.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The technical support is really terrific."

"It can scale from 100 to 10,000. There's no problem with the scalability."

"In Digital Guardian, they have the cloud correlation servers that give you visibility work like EBR and the correlation server works very well for security analysis."

"It has the added advantage of offering forensic analysis."

"I like the solution's adaptive inspection and container inspection."

"The feature we call desktop recording is the most valuable aspect of the solution. Not only can we collect data from the user's usage, but we also capture his screenshots when he is trying to steal the data."

"It has been scalable."

"We have been able to monitor access to files from each of our workstations."

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"As long as you know the flow and how the setup phase works, the process can be totally straightforward."

"We have accurate detection on data protection and more visibility on different data channels compared to other DLP solutions. So, basically, more on the principle, there is ROI."

Cons

"I would like to see the workflow, to get all the rules and policies set up, be less complicated."

"The initial setup is a bit more complex than other solutions."

"Digital Guardian is an excellent solution but our experience with the partner has been the most horrible experience we have ever had with any partner."

"Technical support could be better."

"There are a lot of issues with the current version of the Endpoint agent. It's not stable, it's resource-consuming, and there are some performance issues. If they could improve the stability of the agent it would be great."

"The room for improvement with Digital Guardian is that it will be better with the Linux agent because it is the only DLP solution for Linux workstations. It still needs to upgrade the agents to the latest version for the Linux kernel."

"If the client uses Windows 10 or 11 and Microsoft updates the operating system's version, Digital Guardian must update their product to match compatibility."

"It would be helpful if there was an on-premise version of the solution for companies that cannot use the cloud, such as government sectors."

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"The trouble with the tool is its ability to integrate with a third-party application."

"In my opinion, there's a need for an extensive skill set or knowledge of creating policies. There's room for improvement to make it more user-friendly in creating custom rules and policies."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"If I compare Digital Guardian with Symantec, the license cost is lower, but McAfee can be cheaper than Digital Guardian. It depends on how many licenses you plan to buy and how big the project is. The cost is not so high as Symantec, but not as cheap as McAfee. They can easily sell the solution for price."

"The price of Digital Guardian is on the higher end compared to other vendors."

"I rate the solution's pricing an eight out of ten because Digital Guardian is expensive."

"The cost was around $300,000."

"Digital Guardian has both, subscription and perpetual licenses, but I think when everything (all technologies) will go to the cloud they will only offer subscriptions."

"The price of Digital Guardian is expensive."

"As long as your needs are fulfilled, even if the price is high, you will buy the tool."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

13%

Computer Software Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

Comms Service Provider

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Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	10
Large Enterprise	3

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Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Digital Guardian?

Regarding points for improvement, from a technical aspect, I do not see any suggestions that have come to my notice, but it is an enterprise-level product, and the issue is that it works only with ...

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What is your primary use case for Digital Guardian?

The main use case for Digital Guardian is for endpoint DLP, as it is the product for endpoint-level DLP and is one of the core requirements for many enterprises that have to follow compliance, so t...

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What advice do you have for others considering Digital Guardian?

I would recommend Digital Guardian to other users, as I mentioned, we have to see the client's existing environment, and since we are not bound to sell Digital Guardian, we are open to selling even...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Fortra's Digital Guardian?

As per my experience with both of my clients, I would say that the price is a bit high, but it didn't matter once they noticed the thing they wanted for their application. As long as your needs are...

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What needs improvement with Fortra's Digital Guardian?

The trouble with the tool is its ability to integrate with a third-party application. For example, integrating an SIEM with the firewalls that the client currently uses can be difficult. The main t...

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What is your primary use case for Fortra's Digital Guardian?

I have been handling the clients who use the product. My current company is the reseller connected with the tool from the time it was known as Digital Guardian, and then recently after it was chang...

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Overview

Digital Guardian is proud to be part of Fortra’s comprehensive cybersecurity portfolio, and one of the Data Protection family of products. Fortra simplifies today’s complex cybersecurity landscape by bringing complementary products together to solve problems in innovative ways. These integrated, scalable solutions address the fast-changing challenges you face in safeguarding your organization. With the help of the powerful protection from Digital Guardian and others, Fortra is your relentless ally, here for you every step of the way throughout your cybersecurity journey.

Fortra

Fortra's Digital Guardian is celebrated for its robust data protection, especially in data loss prevention across various endpoints. It enhances organizational efficiency, streamlines workflows, and provides deep insights via advanced analytics and real-time alerts, significantly improving data security and compliance management. Ideal for monitoring, customizing policies, and guarding against internal and external threats.

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