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Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention vs SearchInform DLP comparison

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

Categories and Ranking

Cloudflare
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Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
74
Ranking in other categories
CDN (1st), Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) Protection (1st), Managed DNS (1st), Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) (14th)
Forcepoint Data Loss Preven...
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
58
Ranking in other categories
Data Loss Prevention (DLP) (2nd)
SearchInform DLP
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
8.3
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
Data Loss Prevention (DLP) (28th)
 

Featured Reviews

Spencer Malmad - PeerSpot reviewer
It's easy to set up because you point the DNS to it, and it's working in under 15 minutes
Cloudflare is highly scalable. Cloudflare is a system with a web portal that the end users like me see. It's a console where we can adjust the DNS, caching, and security features all in that console. Cloudflare owns thousands of servers across the world that cache the data. It's a powerful solution. When clients sign up for Cloudflare, they're getting this monster content delivery network, security, and a web application firewall in one. It's all rolled into one, and it's massive. Unless you have your website hosted on a massive hosting provider, there's no way that you can deliver the amount of data that Cloudflare can provide to the end users. If you have static content, there's no way that you can ever match what Cloudflare can do. Obviously, there are competitors to Cloudflare that do the same, but I'm saying other types of solutions. Let's say you go with F5. Great, that's on-prem. That's in your colo. You can't deliver as much data to the internet as you can with a CDN. You don't have to spend $20,000 on a net scaler, F5, or whatever Cisco's selling now. You don't have to buy that. You pay them $50 a month or $150 a month. It's totally worth it because even in five years, you'll never get the performance value, not just the actual ROI. You have to consider how much throughput you can get with Cloudflare.
ManjitSingh - PeerSpot reviewer
DLP great for encryptions; tech support is quite helpful
My opinion is that the dashboard could be improved and made more user-friendly. They do not enable a wide range of proper inquiries and we need to identify much of what we need on our own, like incident severity. In the next release, I'd like to see the updates working properly as the priority apps we have are not upgrading the agent that we have installed.
Siti Aisyah Zainal - PeerSpot reviewer
Offers detailed features that can greatly assist in DLP systems
My advice for people considering using SearchInform DLP is to recognize its potential to benefit both you and your clients. It offers detailed features that can greatly assist in DLP systems, and by exploring these capabilities, you can better serve your clients. Overall, I would rate the solution a nine out of ten.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"DDoS attacks target unprotected machines. Cloudflare detects and stops these attacks using internal systems. It identifies incoming DDoS attacks, issuing challenges or blocking them immediately."
"Easier http to https redirect using page rules"
"The features of Cloudflare were found to be more beneficial and led to the decision to utilize it over other options."
"We're using dynamic components to build flexible pages to create and manage Git merge requests for code and reviews."
"It is a fast and secure DNS."
"Its ease of integration with Office 365 and the fact that it's a good product compared to what I had before"
"It's very user-friendly."
"New and innovative way to protect the client's data."
"I like the SaaS solution they're offering now a little bit more. It's a new product but it's easy to install and configure."
"Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention is a user-friendly product, particularly regarding upgrades."
"Has multiple modules and is good with integration."
"Our organization's intellectual property is not misused or extracted without permission."
"The integration is great."
"The GUI is very intuitive. That is the way I would explain its ease of use. It is straightforward."
"Forcepoint enables you to clarify aspects of your data, including which data to protect for how long, what priority to assign to the data and the destinations. It's a comprehensive, dedicated solution. The interface is user-friendly and easy to manage. No other product will give you the same visibility and data classification functions as this tool."
"The most valuable feature of Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention is the OCR."
"The most valuable feature of SearchInform DLP is the analytics tool."
 

Cons

"The pricing could be improved."
"Technical support is lacking."
"Support response time could be improved."
"Cloudflare doesn't have a reverse lookup. We can only do a DNS lookup to get the IP address from the hostname. It doesn't work if you want to look up the hostname from an IPA address."
"It should confirm audit findings of the assigned area with auditees to ensure that the audit conclusions are based on an accurate understanding of the issues."
"The product needs to improve its automation."
"One area of improvement is in the Access Rules. Hypothetically, if we wanted to block or challenge traffic outside of the United States, the only way to currently do that (as far as I know) is to enter every single country outside of the United States. That could be a labor intensive job. A solution could be to enable users to create a rule where traffic is only allowed within a certain country."
"The analytics, basically the dashboard, doesn't have much to it."
"Lacks the ability to control the USB port devices so that content coming out of the port is blocked."
"I can't push a report by a certain organizational entity or unit without a lot of work. The reporting could be better."
"With respect to the discovery component, the reports are very hard to interpret because they come out in an illogical format."
"An area for improvement for Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention is its price. It would be good if they could offer better pricing."
"This solution has a tendency to provide false-positive results."
"The policy update size and agent size could be improved. We would also like to have a proper solution for Linux OS which Forcepoint does not offer."
"I am not able to get support directly from Forcepoint."
"Usually for the biome of a small company, like 50 users, setup takes more than one week."
"There is room for improvement in terms of implementing a more solid development process, aligning with modern product standards, and upgrading the quality assurance procedures."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution has many features but there are ones that you need to pay for. Sometimes you have to find out which is available for free and which you have to pay for."
"In terms of licensing costs, we don't pay for licensing for Cloudflare. We only establish communication, then for peering, Cloudflare takes care of the cross-connection in different data centers."
"The solution is expensive when compared to other products but offers unlimited bandwidth."
"A free version of the solution is available."
"For Cloudflare, I recommend it heavily for small businesses with revenue under a couple of million dollars. Onboarding is easy, and they even have a free plan. This makes it simple for businesses in the $100,000-$500,000 range to try it out and see its value, allowing them to scale up their infrastructure as needed."
"The product's pricing is minimal compared to other products."
"We are using the free version."
"There are no additional costs beyond the standard licensing fees."
"They have to look at a different pricing structure for small to medium-sized enterprises because the cost is too high."
"The price of the solution is expensive."
"The licensing is on an annual basis."
"Forcepoint has been very cost-effective because they gave us a good deal while procuring the DLP solution."
"The cost for the product for our use is less than $10 per user."
"The licensing of Forcepoint is quite straightforward. It's based on the number of users. The support fees are a separate cost."
"They are flexible regarding the pricing and they have a good model for an OEM data classification tool... Forcepoint has been one of the most competitively priced products over the last few years."
"There is an annual subscription model and the amount depends on the type of implementation."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Educational Organization
21%
Computer Software Company
13%
Comms Service Provider
9%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Financial Services Firm
16%
Computer Software Company
14%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Insurance Company
6%
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Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Questions from the Community

Which is the best DDoS protection solution for a big ISP for monitoring and mitigating?
Cloudflare. We are moving from Akamai prolexic to Cloudflare. Cloudflare anycast network outperforms Akamai static GR...
Which would you choose - Cloudflare DNS or Quad9?
Cloudflare DNS is a very fast, very reliable public DNS resolver. It is an enterprise-grade authoritative DNS service...
What do you like most about Cloudflare?
Cloudflare offers CDN and DDoS protection. We have the front end, API, and database in how you structure applications.
What do you like most about Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention?
The technical support for the solution is very good.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention?
The pricing is reasonable and medium, not very low, but fair for the product offered.
What needs improvement with Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention?
I would recommend aligning OCR with endpoints. This is a highly demanded technology globally, especially for endpoint...
What do you like most about SearchInform DLP?
The most valuable feature of SearchInform DLP is the analytics tool.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for SearchInform DLP?
SearchInform DLP is costly but there are no extra costs when it comes to additional features.
What needs improvement with SearchInform DLP?
There is room for improvement in terms of implementing a more solid development process, aligning with modern product...
 

Also Known As

Cloudflare DNS
Forcepoint DLP, Forcepoint Data Security Suite, Websense Data Security Suite
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