Secure Web Gateway

Making the web safe for the global enterprise.

Stop advanced threats hidden in dynamic web content

Proactively secure the web with advanced, real-time threat defenses—full content inspection and in-line security scanning help mitigate risk and protect against malware.

Forcepoint VS. The Competition

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Unified Endpoint with Dynamic Proxying

The convenience of securing your global workforce with a single endpoint for Web Security, DLP, CASB, and NGFW with flexible connectivity and traffic redirection options.

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Enforcement Flexibility

The Seamless Handoff feature allows automatic switching between the default, in-line proxy enforcement mode and the secondary, local enforcement mode using Direct Connect.

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Deployment Flexibility

Deploy how, when and where you want. On-premises, hybrid and cloud deployment architectures so you can go to the cloud at your own pace.

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Comprehensive Cloud Application Security

Monitor and control cloud app usage across your organization to uncover risk and eliminate security gaps.

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Complete Data Protection

Protect your data on channels, devices, and applications - on the web, over email, at endpoints, on networks and in the cloud.

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Advanced Threat Protection

Dynamic capabilities, including Remote Browser Isolation, to keep your organization safe from a continually evolving threat landscape.

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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 April 7, 2020. 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 April 7, 2020. Information is based off of data collected from public websites and forums, analyst papers, and product datasheets as of April 7, 2020.

Advanced threat protection powered by ACE

Keep users safe from malicious threats, including zero-day threats. Protect against zero-day threats with real-time threat intelligence and remote browser isolation, and provide deep content inspection for encrypted and unencrypted traffic to detect evolving threats across the entire kill chain.

Advanced threat protection powered by ACE

  • Stop all types of attacks, including zero day threats with cloud sandboxing and remote browser isolation integrations.
  • Leverage deep content inspection with our advanced classification engine to protect against the expanding threat landscape.
  • Identify new malware with heuristic analysis.
  • Receive advanced analytics and threat protection with our shared global intelligence cloud.

Prevent theft of regulated data and intellectual property

Forcepoint’s Web DLP module provides the industry’s leading DLP engine (Forcepoint Enterprise DLP) to protect against data exfiltration over the web in real-time.

Prevent theft of regulated data and intellectual property

  • Integration through the Web DLP Module opens up a vast library of predefined DLP rules based on data compliance regulations around the world.
  • Custom DLP rules can go beyond simple classifiers such as dictionaries and regular expressions to include fingerprinting for structured and unstructured data as well as form contextual analysis using machine learning.
  • Forcepoint’s Data Protection Service, used by the Web DLP Module, executes DLP policy in the Forcepoint cloud, in-line and in real-time without adding the latency associated with sending traffic to another node via ICAP.

Safe access for every user, anywhere

Ensure security policies are consistently enforced for all users at all times – whether traveling, at home, or on the corporate network.

Safe access for every user, anywhere

  • The Seamless Handoff feature for endpoint traffic steering enables automatic switching between two different endpoint enforcement modes to bring unmatched resilience and ease-of-use.
  • Cloud based web security ensures consistency of security posture as users travel and enables a faster user experience.
  • Integration with Remote Browser Isolation allows safe browsing of risky sites.

Industry's strongest cloud infrastructure

Private peering partnerships with the most Tier 1 networks for faster connectivity and over 160 PoPs across 145 countries for localized content.

Industry's strongest cloud infrastructure

  • Gain peace of mind with every Forcepoint data center fully certified as ISO 27001, ISO 27018, and SOC 2 compliant.
  • Count on always-on coverage with every Forcepoint data center qualified as Tier 4 with 99.99% uptime, full redundancy, and error tolerance.
  • Provide a superior end-user experience with hyper-localized content.
  • Enjoy peering with a variety of software partners, including Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and more.

Move to the cloud at your own pace

Choose when, where and how you deploy. Choose where and how you connect to the cloud.

Move to the cloud at your own pace

  • Move to the cloud at your own pace with a single SKU that lets you switch deployment architectures on your time, with no additional subscription costs.
  • Put controls around cloud apps at your own pace—with different levels of cloud application security for every stage of your digital transformation.
  • Enjoy customer-centric connectivity options that are tailored to how you need to connect and protect you users and data.
  • Go direct-to-cloud by adding our SD-WAN.

 

Why Forcepoint SWG?

Advanced threat protection powered by ACE

Keep users safe from malicious threats, including zero-day threats. Protect against zero-day threats with real-time threat intelligence and remote browser isolation, and provide deep content inspection for encrypted and unencrypted traffic to detect evolving threats across the entire kill chain.

Advanced threat protection powered by ACE

  • Stop all types of attacks, including zero day threats with cloud sandboxing and remote browser isolation integrations.
  • Leverage deep content inspection with our advanced classification engine to protect against the expanding threat landscape.
  • Identify new malware with heuristic analysis.
  • Receive advanced analytics and threat protection with our shared global intelligence cloud.

Prevent theft of regulated data and intellectual property

Forcepoint’s Web DLP module provides the industry’s leading DLP engine (Forcepoint Enterprise DLP) to protect against data exfiltration over the web in real-time.

Prevent theft of regulated data and intellectual property

  • Integration through the Web DLP Module opens up a vast library of predefined DLP rules based on data compliance regulations around the world.
  • Custom DLP rules can go beyond simple classifiers such as dictionaries and regular expressions to include fingerprinting for structured and unstructured data as well as form contextual analysis using machine learning.
  • Forcepoint’s Data Protection Service, used by the Web DLP Module, executes DLP policy in the Forcepoint cloud, in-line and in real-time without adding the latency associated with sending traffic to another node via ICAP.

Safe access for every user, anywhere

Ensure security policies are consistently enforced for all users at all times – whether traveling, at home, or on the corporate network.

Safe access for every user, anywhere

  • The Seamless Handoff feature for endpoint traffic steering enables automatic switching between two different endpoint enforcement modes to bring unmatched resilience and ease-of-use.
  • Cloud based web security ensures consistency of security posture as users travel and enables a faster user experience.
  • Integration with Remote Browser Isolation allows safe browsing of risky sites.

Industry's strongest cloud infrastructure

Private peering partnerships with the most Tier 1 networks for faster connectivity and over 160 PoPs across 145 countries for localized content.

Industry's strongest cloud infrastructure

  • Gain peace of mind with every Forcepoint data center fully certified as ISO 27001, ISO 27018, and SOC 2 compliant.
  • Count on always-on coverage with every Forcepoint data center qualified as Tier 4 with 99.99% uptime, full redundancy, and error tolerance.
  • Provide a superior end-user experience with hyper-localized content.
  • Enjoy peering with a variety of software partners, including Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and more.

Move to the cloud at your own pace

Choose when, where and how you deploy. Choose where and how you connect to the cloud.

Move to the cloud at your own pace

  • Move to the cloud at your own pace with a single SKU that lets you switch deployment architectures on your time, with no additional subscription costs.
  • Put controls around cloud apps at your own pace—with different levels of cloud application security for every stage of your digital transformation.
  • Enjoy customer-centric connectivity options that are tailored to how you need to connect and protect you users and data.
  • Go direct-to-cloud by adding our SD-WAN.

 

Our Customers

Why organizations are choosing Forcepoint

Genuine parts
"With Forcepoint, we were able to help improve business performance while improving the overall security of our business. I deal with vendors every single day. I don't need vendors. I need partners. I need partners to help us solve our strategic problems

Damian Apone
Global Security Program Director, GPC

Four Star
"Our organization utilizes over 83 third-party applications. Anytime we can simplify a system we aim to do so. Forcepoint allowed us to fulfill our web security needs by moving to a cloud environment which is invaluable to us."

Cody Taggart
System Administrator, Medical Arts Hospital, 2D4-99E-260

Forcepoint's SWG wins the TrustRadius 2021 Top Rated category in both Cloud Computing Security and Secure Web Gateway.
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Forcepoint's SWG is Gartner Peer Insights 2019 Customers' Choice

GARTNER’S ROADMAP TO SASE

Did you know SWG is a core capability of SASE?

Gartner states that "by 2024, 30% of enterprises will adopt cloud-delivered SWG, CASB, ZTNA and firewall as a service (FWaaS) capabilities from the same vendor"
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