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 feature I found most valuable is the DLP. We are using it to do encryptions."
"Forcepoint DLP's most valuable feature is that it provides complete end-to-end security."
"The incident management and fingerprinting have been the most valuable features."
"I did not experience any crashes. The solution has been stable in my usage."
"It was mostly stable."
"The technical support for the solution is very good."
"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 most valuable feature of this solution is that it captures where the data is being moved."
"The most valuable feature of Symantec Data Loss Prevention is the ease of modification."
"DLP's most valuable feature is that it's more granular in terms of creating block-based policies, which gives you more options to create policies in a filtered way."
"The most valuable aspect of Symantec DLP is its powerful policy system."
"Technical support is very professional and responsive."
"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 product helps with blocking sensitive data transmission and permission management."
"Users like the product because of its simplicity and the rate of detection."
"I like how I have the possibility to check different channels with the same policy set."
"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."
"I am not able to get support directly from Forcepoint."
"When you automatically try to upgrade the agent it causes problems."
"Usually for the biome of a small company, like 50 users, setup takes more than one week."
"The setup is complex and has room for improvement."
"The tool needs to integrate data classification."
"They need to improve their reporting feature as well as the incident response."
"The product is good, but the biggest issue is needing direct support from Forcepoint."
"Different departments should manage administration, reporting, normalization and incident management."
"Symantec Data Loss Prevention could improve by having better system resource management, cloud option, and more features."
"Their support program needs a lot of improvement. If you are stuck somewhere, getting their support can be difficult."
"This product is very powerful but it is very complex, so making it simpler to use would be an improvement."
"DLP could be improved by implementing a cloud-based console."
"The solution could offer improved more informative documentation."
"The one downside for Symantec is that, due to its transition from Symantec to Broadcom, there's been a lot of changes. I am based in the Philippines and we don't have a contact person locally for any Symantec."
"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 GTB Technologies Inspector, 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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