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Forcepoint SWG
Formerly Forcepoint Web Security

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What is Forcepoint SWG?

The Forcepoint ONE Secure Web Gateway (SWG) is one of the three foundational gateways of the Forcepoint ONE all-in-one cloud platform. Forcepoint ONE SWG monitors and controlsany interaction with any website, including blocking access to websites based on category and…

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What is Forcepoint SWG?

The Forcepoint ONE Secure Web Gateway (SWG) is one of the three foundational gateways of the Forcepoint ONE all-in-one cloud platform. Forcepoint ONE SWG monitors and controlsany interaction with any website, including blocking access to websites based on category and risk score, blocking download…

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Product Details

What is Forcepoint SWG?

The Forcepoint ONE Secure Web Gateway (SWG) is one of the three foundational gateways of the Forcepoint ONE all-in-one cloud platform. Forcepoint ONE SWG monitors and controlsany interaction with any website, including blocking access to websites based on category and risk score, blocking download of malware, blocking upload of sensitive data to personal filesharing accounts, detecting shadow IT, and optionally providingRemote Browser Isolation (RBI) with Content Disarm andReconstruction (CDR).

Forcepoint SWG Features

  • Supported: Shadow IT discovery and risk ranking
  • Supported: Cloud Application Control and full CASB upgrade
  • Supported: Data Loss Prevention (DLP)
  • Supported: Cloud Sandbox

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Forcepoint Web Security Cloud Features

Forcepoint SWG Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsWindows, Linux, Mac
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

The Forcepoint ONE Secure Web Gateway (SWG) is one of the three foundational gateways of the Forcepoint ONE all-in-one cloud platform. Forcepoint ONE SWG monitors and controlsany interaction with any website, including blocking access to websites based on category and risk score, blocking download of malware, blocking upload of sensitive data to personal filesharing accounts, detecting shadow IT, and optionally providingRemote Browser Isolation (RBI) with Content Disarm andReconstruction (CDR).

Zscaler Internet Access and Netskope Public Cloud Security are common alternatives for Forcepoint SWG.

The most common users of Forcepoint SWG are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Quick analysis and access list for the small/medium environment.

Rating: 8 out of 10
January 22, 2020
Vetted Review
Verified User
Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway
1 year of experience
We use Forcepoint Web Security for web filtering only. We use it across our entire organization. This allows us to quickly set up standardized accesses to different levels of employees. With it's real-time monitoring features Forcepoint Web Security also allows us to easily identify sites that are being blocked and which ones are being allowed. Using that information, I can then evaluate user access and adjust it.
  • The real-time monitoring tool allows for quick analysis of users traffic.
  • Exceptions, makes allowing one-off accesses easy and allows for notes.
Cons
  • Command-line functionality seems limited and not very user friendly.
  • Online documentation to assist in solving errors quickly isn't easy to find what your looking for or isn't relevant to your problem.
Forcepoint Web Security is well suited for a smaller organization that needs easy management of web URL filtering. It allows IT to quickly discover inadvertently blocked sites and correct. It does appear to have some reporting functionality but as we are not using it, I can't say for sure. I would say that it appears it could use a more robust set of reporting tools.

Good Solid Product

Rating: 8 out of 10
June 26, 2018
Vetted Review
Verified User
Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway
8 years of experience
Forcepoint Web Security Suite is used to control access for our users to avoid access to personal storage and email in order to prevent sensitive data from being leaked outside of the organization along with blocking malicious websites. We have also deployed the endpoint solution on company laptops so they are protected outside of our organization as well.
  • Automatically syncs with the master database to have a current list of bad sites
  • Centralized management to all devices
  • Centralized configuration of Categories
Cons
  • Upgrade process
  • Support is sometimes slow to respond
  • The complexity of the configurations
Overall, I believe ForcePoint is a good solid product though there are some environments were other solutions work better and may be more cost-effective.

Meets requirements but in our experience does not lend itself well to remote workers

Rating: 3 out of 10
October 18, 2021
Vetted Review
Verified User
Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway
6 years of experience
Forcepoint Web Security is used as the secure web gateway across our entire organization. It is used to provide access to the Internet securely, performing SSL inspection of websites, applying real-time web page analysis, and blocking access to dangerous sites. It is also used to enforce organizational policy with regard to what sites can and cannot be accessed, which is important for us as a public-sector organization.
  • Forcepoint Web Security met our requirements for a scalable on-premises secure web gateway solution.
  • Forcepoint Web Security met our requirements for providing flexible policy assignments for users.
Cons
  • Our largest challenge with Forcepoint Web Security is the difficulty of performing version upgrades.
Over the years, [in our experience], the maintenance of the Forcepoint Web Security solution proved to be more cumbersome and troublesome with each version upgrade. In addition, it did not transition well to support the large increase of remote workers. We also experienced weird incompatibilities with the client. We have since replaced this solution with Zscaler Internet Access, a cloud-based secure web gateway solution with a client that behaves as expected, is more flexible, and requires significantly less administration.

A best in breed solution

Rating: 9 out of 10
September 27, 2017
Vetted Review
Verified User
Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway
7 years of experience
We've been a long time Web Gateway user. It is used for all web filtering across the enterprise both in the environment and for our remote users. The filtering provides both content filtering and security protection for our environment.
  • Software just works once installed, not a lot of hand-holding.
  • Good customer support over the phone.
  • Fantastic reports (both ad-hoc and generic out of the box ones).
Cons
  • The documentation is almost too detailed. Many times the same content is duplicated in many different documents.
  • Because it can do so much, upgrades can be complex.
Well suited for enterprise deployments. Endpoint protection is harder to roll out to production; remote web filtering has been the red-headed stepchild for us.

Forcepoint Web Security is a good flexible tool to protect your user community.

Rating: 9 out of 10
June 19, 2019
Vetted Review
Verified User
Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway
4 years of experience

Forcepoint Web Security is being used throughout our entire organization. It is used to provide web content filtering that follows our Compliance, HR, Information Security, and Legal policies.

In addition, it provides our users a layer of protection from malicious web content that is updated multiple times a day. This is very important in today's electronic communication environment where users are getting bombarded with very realistic looking SPAM and malicious e-mails that want users to "Click on this link" to....

  • Prevent access to suspicious or malicious web sites.
  • Keep their database of malicious or suspicions web sites current.
  • Allows us to customize/fine tune user access to sites. We can allow some people to access sites while preventing other from accessing those sites.
Cons
  • The support when I call in could be better. When I call in with a high priority issue, I have to wait while the agent tries to reach the technician that works on my account. If they are not available then I need to leave information for the technician. This is no better than me opening a ticket from within their customer portal.
  • Some of their upgrade documentation could be more detailed and kept up to date.

It is well suited for:

  • Controlling web browsing access to categories of sites. (Ex. News, Sports, Network Storage, Adult)
  • Allowing the administrators to fine tune the access so some people can get to specific sites while others cannot. (Ex. Marketing and PR people can get to Facebook while the rest of the organization cannot.)
  • Disabling the ability to use certain protocols such as FTP or P2P.

Forcepoint Web Security is not well suited for environments that are very permissive regarding what sites users can access. In this scenario, there may not be a need to go to the expense of building and maintaining this infrastructure if you allow users to get to most content (ex. universities).

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