Key criteria to look for when weighing different solutions
Data serves as the heartbeat of your business, being both invaluable and vulnerable. Safeguarding it has become increasingly challenging—there are too many tools, regulations, and associated costs. Security teams often lack experienced professionals and are constantly pressed for time. Your customers entrust you with their critical data, expecting it to be securely handled. Any breach of this trust can have catastrophic consequences. With so much at stake, choosing a new data protection partner— or replacing an existing one—is a significant decision. That’s why we’ve created this guide to take the guesswork out of evaluating the leading enterprise DLP solutions and help you choose with confidence.
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Forcepoint’s unique combination of converged cross-environment data loss prevention, Data Security Posture Management (DSPM), and risk-adaptive policy enforcement makes us the most comprehensive data security solution for companies embracing digital transformation, both now and in the near future. We dynamically adjust and enforce policies based on user risk. This prevents data exfiltration events, minimizes false alerts, simplifies workflows, and ensures that valuable resources are directed where they can make the most impact. With our advanced DSPM capability, we offer unparalleled control and visibility over sensitive data across Cloud and On-premises storage locations.
Forcepoint also covers key channels through our Forcepoint ONE
CASB and SWG solutions, in addition to our cloud-native DLP, securing sensitive data, preventing breaches, and ensuring global compliance.
The Forcepoint Difference
Forcepoint’s phased implementation process is designed to shorten partners’ time-to-value. A robust library of pre-architected policies to govern safe data usage on your network, at endpoints, and in the cloud ensures that you can stand up your new solution in a timely manner,with complete customization abilities to allow ongoing optimization.
First Steps with Forcepoint
Increase Productivity: Have people work anywhere with data everywhere-seamlessly, faster, easier – even from BYOD
Cut Cost: Replace fragmented infastructure with more efficient and scalable cloud service
Reduce Risk: Use Zero Trust and enterprise-class data security to continuously protect sensitive date wherever it is used
Streamline Compliance: Get consistent visibility and control of data everywhere
Are you prepared to discover how Forcepoint can revolutionize data protection for your organization with a modern, risk-adaptive, human-centric approach?
The industry’s most extensive library of prebuilt, customizable policies to speed your implementation across cloud, endpoint, and network
Personalized account management rooted in our understanding of your timeline and needs
A direct line to industry experts with ongoing guidance on data protection best practices
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Forcepoint simplifies security for global businesses and governments. Forcepoint’s all-in-one, truly cloud-native platform makes it easy to adopt Zero Trust and prevent the theft or loss of sensitive data and intellectual property no matter where people are working. Based in Austin, Texas, Forcepoint creates safe, trusted environments for customers and their employees in more than 150 countries. Engage with Forcepoint on www.forcepoint.com, Twitter and LinkedIn.
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Questions to ask to ensure you’re getting a clear answer
Side-by-side comparison of enterprise data protection solutions
Bringing on an enterprise DLP solution shouldn’t feel like starting from scratch, so consider its compatibility and integrability with your current solution and ask how it will interface with systems you already have in place. Additionally, advisory services that help you control access to toolsets and implement new policies that work for you with little (or no) modification can be extremely helpful in shortening your time-to-value.
Ease of Implementation
Ask: Will we have a Customer Success Manager or Technical Account Manager who is dedicated to our organization?
To accelerate the time it takes to start realizing value with a new solution, you’ll likely need to learn how to use it while also making preparations for deployment across your business. Having a direct line to an account manager who can advise you on how to leverage the detailed capabilities of your new toolset can be key to shortening your time-to-value. Additionally, a full-service option to manage, evaluate, and optimize your setup continuously can help ensure you get the most value.
Support and Services
Many organizations who choose to deploy DLP have a solution that can support cloud or hybrid capabilities as well will provide the opportunity to scale and help avoid slowdowns in the future.
Deployment Models
Depending on a collection of different tools to protect data in your network, at endpoints, and in the cloud can be cumbersome to manage and can create gaps and inefficiencies in your strategy. Look for a solution that gives you visibility into how all your data is used, moved, and protected, at the user level.
Ease of Use
Ask: Do you have the ability to manage all the critical channels with a unified policy?
A robust data security solution must prevent data loss at all potential points of exfiltration. Endpoint protection, including data loss prevention, discovery, and endpoint forensics, is crucial. Additionally, safeguarding cloud applications, web traffic, and email are key.
Protection Across Critical Channels
Check for capabilities that can retroactively audit data loss incidents and proactively block data from being compromised in the moment—on all channels. This ensures that you can learn from past incidents and use them to optimize your blocking policies in the future.
Audit & Block
Ask: Can I detect threats at the user level?
Tracking risky user behavior is crucial for monitoring and proactively mitigating exfiltration across key channels, including cloud apps, web, email, and endpoints. A behavior-centric approach enhances productivity while curbing high-risk user activity.
Visibility into User Behavior
Ask: How broad is your cloud application visibility, and does it include custom apps?
Any custom applications you use to facilitate collaboration with other organizations, partners, or third parties should be represented in your data protection strategy. Ensure that your new solution has the ability to implement controls for those apps in a timely manner.
Customization Flexibility
The nature of data security threats is evolving every day, so a dynamic solution that’s built to grow with the needs of the market is critical. Even if a solution has what you need now, always ask about what they have planned for the future to ensure you understand their level of commitment to innovation and adaptation.
Road Map
The nature of data security threats is evolving every day, so a dynamic solution that’s built to grow with the needs of the market is critical. Even if a solution has what you need now, always ask about what they have planned for the future to ensure you understand their level of commitment to innovation and adaptation.
Simple Out of The Box Policies
You can’t protect what you can’t see. Ensure vendors leverage the latest AI technology, including Large Language Models, to discover and classify data across any environment. Confirm that the vendor’s technology is prepared for the present and poised for future advancements.
Leverage AI
We’ve given you a lot to consider here, but understanding what different solutions include—as well as how they address your needs—will help ensure that you stay excited about your new solution as you use it. You’ll want to dig into every point in detail, but this overview will help you figure out where to start asking questions.
For most organizations, transitioning to a new DLP solution is a process rather than a singular event, so understanding how the solution will perform at all stages of the partnership is key.
Here are 11 points to keep top-of-mind while you evaluate different solutions, along with some recommended questions you can ask to ensure you get the information you need to make a decision.
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