Forrester Wave™️: Data Security Platforms, Q1 2023

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Data loss prevention incident risk ranking

Visibility and Control Over Your Most Valued Asset

Data Loss Prevention (DLP)

The standard bearer of data security. Superior control and visibility of your data, with out-of-the-box compliance for over 80 countries.

Secure your data across web, cloud, email, network, and endpoint.

Data security is a persistent challenge. Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention (DLP) enables businesses to discover, classify, monitor, and protect data intuitively with zero friction to the user experience. Audit behavior in real-time with Risk-Adaptive Protection to stop data loss before it occurs.

Forcepoint vs. the Competition

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Legacy Vendors

(e.g., Symantec, Digital Guardian)

Limited DLP Vendors

(e.g., Netskope, Microsoft)

Data Protection Feature Breadth

  • Drip DLP
  • Cloud
  • Native remediation
  • Comprehensive data discovery
  • Fingerprinting/OCR
  • OOTB compliance mandate policies

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Unified Data Protection Coverage

  • Unified policy enforcement
  • Single console
  • Converged network & endpoint
  • Cloud apps
  • Off-network

 

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Behavioral Awareness

  • Native behavioral analytics
  • Risk-adaptive protection
  • Risk-based policy enforcement

 

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Automation & Ecosystem

  • Automated policy enforcement
  • Classification vendor compatibility
  • Database flexibility

 

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DISCLAIMER: Product comparison is based off of in-product capabilities and cross-portfolio integrations available from the same vendor as of Feb 1st, 2024. Comparisons do not include integrations with third-party vendors. Feature comparison is based off of each vendor’s most recent and modern version available as of Feb 1st, 2024. Information is based off of data collected from public websites and forums, analyst papers, and product datasheets as of Feb 1st, 2024.

Control all your data with one single policy

Replace broad, sweeping rules with individualized, adaptive data security that doesn’t slow down your employees. Block actions only where you need to, and drive productivity

Configure once, set everywhere

Create data security policies once and apply them to the web, cloud and private applications through the Forcepoint ONE Security Service Edge (SSE) platform integration.

Simplify compliance with pre-defined policies

View and control all your data with the industry's largest pre-defined policy library. Ensure regulatory compliance across 80+ countries for GDPR, CCPA and more. Deploy data classification with Forcepoint Data Classification as well as Microsoft Purview Information Protection.

Protect critical intellectual property with unsurpassed accuracy

Protect PII and PHI, company financials, trade secrets, credit card data, and other pieces of sensitive customer data-even in images. Follow intellectual property (IP) in both structured and unstructured forms, and stop low & slow data theft even when user devices are off-network.

Prevent data breaches automatically

Automatically block actions based on an individual user's risk level with risk-adaptive data protection.

Why Forcepoint DLP?

Control all your data with one single policy

Replace broad, sweeping rules with individualized, adaptive data security that doesn’t slow down your employees. Block actions only where you need to, and drive productivity

Configure once, set everywhere

Create data security policies once and apply them to the web, cloud and private applications through the Forcepoint ONE Security Service Edge (SSE) platform integration.

Simplify compliance with pre-defined policies

View and control all your data with the industry's largest pre-defined policy library. Ensure regulatory compliance across 80+ countries for GDPR, CCPA and more. Deploy data classification with Forcepoint Data Classification as well as Microsoft Purview Information Protection.

Protect critical intellectual property with unsurpassed accuracy

Protect PII and PHI, company financials, trade secrets, credit card data, and other pieces of sensitive customer data-even in images. Follow intellectual property (IP) in both structured and unstructured forms, and stop low & slow data theft even when user devices are off-network.

Prevent data breaches automatically

Automatically block actions based on an individual user's risk level with risk-adaptive data protection.

The Next Generation of Data Security

Forcepoint enables organizations to discover, classify, monitor and protect data with a complementary suite of data security products.

Forcepoint ONE DLP: Secure data on the web, in the cloud and in private applications with DLP Software-as-a-Service (SaaS).

Forcepoint Data Visibility: Gain a panoramic view of unstructured data across your organization.

Risk-Adaptive Protection: Automatically adjust policies based on user behavior to adapt in real-time to emerging risks.

Data Classification: Develop greater accuracy and efficiency in classifying data with the help of AI and ML.

Secure Data Everywhere It Goes

Create a data security policy once and apply it everywhere data goes with a few simple clicks, saving your team hours in productivity. Forcepoint DLP integrates with Forcepoint ONE Security Service Edge (SSE) channels to enable organizations to easily extend their security policies across web, cloud and private applications in just a few minutes.

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Our Customers

Why organizations choose Forcepoint DLP

A “Leader” Forrester Wave ™: Data Security Platforms 2023

“Organizations seeking a strong technology partner for enabling a Zero Trust approach and risk-adaptive data security controls should consider Forcepoint.”

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“The risk of our data being leaked has been reduced to zero."

Senior Software Engineer
Gartner Peer Insights | February 5th, 2022

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"Forcepoint DLP delivers unified data and IP protection for hybrid and multi-cloud enterprises with a focus on understanding the people who create, touch, and move data, in order to protect users and data across endpoints, networks and cloud apps."

SC 2022 Awards winner for Best Data Leakage Protection Solution

Forcepoint Wins Frost & Sullivan 2023 Global Data Loss Prevention (DLP) Company of the Year Award

A leader in the DLP industry, Forcepoint remains committed to providing customers with solutions they can trust to protect their sensitive data and assets.

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Read the 2022 DLP Gartner Market Guide for Data Loss Prevention.

DLP Tools and Technologies

See Why Forcepoint is a Leader in DLP

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