Forcepoint CASB

Score7.4 out of 10

13 Reviews and Ratings

What is Forcepoint CASB?

Forcepoint CASB promises to help eliminate security and compliance blindspots by providing visibility into users' devices and cloud apps.

The vendor promises the following benefits:

Discover and risk-prioritize all unsanctioned cloud use (Shadow IT) to quickly and easily determine if applications meet governance rules and avoid compliance issues
Unleash the power of BYOD with improved employee productivity and cost savings while ensuring security of employees and corporate resources in the cloud
Identify anomalous and risky user behavior in the cloud to stop malicious users, as well as clamp down on user activities that don’t meet best practices
Reduce the risk of exposing sensitive cloud data to unauthorized users in violation of governance and regulatory rules
Identify potentially inappropriate privilege escalation to prevent the impact associated with root account takeover
Implement geo-location-based access and activity monitoring for legitimate users and malicious actors
Track application usage for compliance, licensing, and cost savings of unused accounts

Categories & Use Cases

Darshan Chavan

ISO (Information Security Officer) at SBI Funds Management Pvt Ltd (1001-5000 employees employees)

Pros

Integration with Forcepoint DLP.
Excellent in monitoring shadow IT.
Cloud Monitoring can be conducted.
UEBA is excellent.

Cons

Syncing with local DLP solution is a problem.
API integration with Traditional Siem solution.
Does not provide granularity in UEBA.

Return on Investment

The monitoring of Critical data is a huge boost.
Byod solution for integration with API is nice.
Cloud UEBA.

Alternatives Considered

McAfee MVISION Cloud (formerly Skyhigh CASB), Netskope CASB and Microsoft Cloud App Security

Other Software Used

Microsoft Azure, Arcsight Enterprise Security Manager (formerly HP Arcsight), Symphony SummitAI, Forescout CounterACT, Aruba ClearPass, Dell EMC Avamar

Usability

Verified User

Employee in Professional Services (501-1000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The work from home model made the issue of remote security a bit complicated but it was quite easily resolved with this software. It is used to protect all the data in the cloud and avoids the leakage of vulnerable data. Any kind of suspicious activity is timely remedied because of the behaviour based security.

Pros

Web and content filtering
Behaviour-based live scrutiny
Integration with Forcepoint DLP
The cybersecurity database is quite wide and covers a variety of threats

Cons

A bit pricey as compared to other softwares
The customer service is quite lax so you're really on your own
The implementation process is a bit of a concern and is time-consuming

Most Important Features

Behaviour-based live monitoring
Integration with Forcepoint DLP
Live diagnostics

Return on Investment

It has made remote security accessible and easy
Allowed the prevention of data breach
It was quite complicated in the beginning and caused our team unnecessary stress

Alternatives Considered

McAfee MVISION Cloud (formerly Skyhigh CASB)

Other Software Used

Adobe Acrobat Reader DC, ProWritingAid, Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365)

Verified User

Consultant in Engineering (10,001+ employees employees)

Pros

Ease of implementation in different use cases
API integration on cloud apps
Excellent reports on shadow IT

Cons

Better reports
Better technical support
Better integration with other solutions as proxy and onpremise DLP
Did I say better support?

Return on Investment

We are working on strategies to understand what to do with the information that CASB gave to us, it would be good if Forcepoint gives us a few key points but they haven't.

Alternatives Considered

Proofpoint Cloud App Security Broker (Proofpoint CASB) and McAfee MVISION Cloud (formerly Skyhigh CASB)