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Fortra

Fortra Digital Guardian

Composite Score

8.1 /10

CX Score

8.4 /10

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What is Fortra Digital Guardian?

Breaches are inevitable, losing data is not. Digital Guardian for Data Loss Prevention (DLP) gives you everything you need – the deepest visibility, the fine-grained control and the industry’s broadest data loss protection coverage – to stop sensitive data from getting out of your organization.

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Awards & Recognition

Fortra Digital Guardian won the following awards in the Data Loss Prevention category

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2024 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

Latest Award, 2024

8 Top Rated Capabilities

11 Top Rated Features

Latest Award, 2024

2023 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

2023

5 Top Rated Capabilities

9 Top Rated Features

2023

Fortra Digital Guardian Ratings

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
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Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

88 Likeliness to Recommend

1
Since last award

100 Plan to Renew

87 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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Since last award

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Emotional Footprint Overview

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

+91 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love Fortra Digital Guardian?

6% Negative

7% Neutral

87% Positive

Pros

Client Friendly Policies
Over Delivered
Appreciates Incumbent Status
Security Protects

Feature Ratings

Average 87

Environment Support

Optical Character Recognition

Email and IM Support

Application Monitoring

Forensic Analysis Support

Real Time Scanning

Multiple Enforcement Actions

Endpoint Support

Data Discovery (DLP)

Activity Monitoring Alerts

Centralized Reporting Engine

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 86

Ease of Implementation

Ease of Data Integration

Quality of Features

Business Value Created

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Ease of IT Administration

Breadth of Features

Vendor Support

Usability and Intuitiveness

Ease of Customization

Availability and Quality of Training

Fortra Digital Guardian Reviews

Shivani P.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Technology
Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jan 2023

Data Protector for Professionals

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

What differentiates Fortra Digital Guardian from other similar products?

The finest part is that data is being collected by installing an Agent onto an Endpoint while it is running in the kernel to properly safeguard data from both internal and external assaults.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

The TAM offering and customer service from Digital Guardian are by far its top features in my experience.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Too many logs might cause unexpected application crashes and take a long time to process. Rest, No complaints.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

The sensitive data is monitored, found, and blocked by Digital Guardian. Giving users more control over data visibility, IP protection, and personal information protection. Because of these features, one should think about adopting it.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

Maulik G.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Technology
Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jan 2023

Best DLP solution to restrict data transfer.

Likeliness to Recommend

7 /10

What differentiates Fortra Digital Guardian from other similar products?

Digital Guardian DLP provides complete Control and visibility of what actions are currently performed on your endpoint over other similar products like forcepoint. Also, Digital Guardian DLP is highly scalable. It is excellent in the core job of protecting the data. It enables encryption so that the data saved is safe and can be retrieved easily when needed.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Digital Guardian Data loss prevention has a very good GUI and the ability to provide a high level of granularity for monitoring and analyzing data in order to detect any violations of our security regulations.

What do you dislike most about this product?

At the beginning setup whole solution is very complex. When you do not see the expected outcomes and you start troubleshooting you will find it very confusing. After installing your computer might slow down. Also, the service support is not that good.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

To protect sensitive data, we deploy Digital Guardian on all of our virtual machines, as well as all of our laptops and PCs. It has assisted us in identifying data breaches and illegal file copies throughout the organization. You can consider it to protect your data.

Pros

Enables Productivity
Trustworthy
Inspires Innovation
Client's Interest First

Cons

Less Effective Service

Theresa E.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Food and Beverage
Involvement: End User of Application

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jan 2023

Super helpful to make sure data is secured

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Fortra Digital Guardian from other similar products?

It seems similar to any DLP but it's easy to use and work with and works very well

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

it was super quick to deploy and easy to learn

What do you dislike most about this product?

no complaints here

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Very helpful to make sure your data is safe!

Pros

Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Trustworthy
Efficient Service

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Awards & Recognition

2024 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

2023 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

Fortra Digital Guardian Ratings

88 Likeliness to Recommend

1 Since last award

100 Plan to Renew

87 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

1 Since last award

Emotional Footprint Overview

+91 Net Emotional Footprint

How much do users love Fortra Digital Guardian?

Pros

Feature Ratings Average rating of all product features, some of which may not be shown below

Environment Support Breadth of protocol support, cloud protection, peer to peer, Web 2.0, and virtualization environment support.

Optical Character Recognition Optical Character Recognition (OCR) capabilities to accurately extract sensitive data (e.g. SS numbers, credit card numbers) from images.

Email and IM Support The solution scans inbound and outbound messages for security violations.

Application Monitoring The solution monitors applications which may store sensitive data (e.g. clipboard).

Forensic Analysis Support Query capabilities with pre-built and custom drill down, pivot, and parsing; includes export functions and event session reconstruction.

Real Time Scanning The solution scans content and context of files in real-time, 24/7.

Multiple Enforcement Actions The solution provides options for violations such as block, move, quarantine, and delete.

Endpoint Support Multiple operating system and device type support with offline protection, removable media, print screen, and copy and paste support.

Data Discovery (DLP) Structured (content registration or data fingerprinting) and unstructured (keywords, lexicons, metadata tags, statistical analysis, etc.) data identification.

Activity Monitoring Alerts User access patterns can be monitored with rule-based alerts for sensitive data access requests.

Centralized Reporting Engine The solution provides a central reporting engine for policy creation and management with canned reports and RBAC.

Vendor Capability Ratings Average rating of all vendor capabilities, some of which may not be shown below

Ease of Implementation Successfully implementing new software is necessary to realize its full value and promote end user adoption. This data indicates whether or not the product is easy to implement.

Ease of Data Integration Use this data to determine whether the product will cause headaches or make data integration easy.

Quality of Features Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.

Business Value Created Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement Vendors who don't stay on top of emerging needs and trends won't enable you to meet your business goals. Use this data to separate innovators from imposters.

Ease of IT Administration This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

Breadth of Features Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

Vendor Support The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.

Usability and Intuitiveness End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

Ease of Customization Don't get bogged down in a difficult customization; use this data to make sure you can easily achieve the functionality you need for your particular situation.

Availability and Quality of Training Effective and readily available training enables users to get the most out of the software you've chosen. Use this section to make sure your vendor's training programs and materials measure up.

Fortra Digital Guardian Reviews

Shivani P.

Data Protector for Professionals

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Maulik G.

Best DLP solution to restrict data transfer.

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Cons

Theresa E.

Super helpful to make sure data is secured

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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Feature Ratings

Environment Support

Optical Character Recognition

Email and IM Support

Application Monitoring

Forensic Analysis Support

Real Time Scanning

Multiple Enforcement Actions

Endpoint Support

Data Discovery (DLP)

Activity Monitoring Alerts

Centralized Reporting Engine

Vendor Capability Ratings

Ease of Implementation

Ease of Data Integration

Quality of Features

Business Value Created

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Ease of IT Administration

Breadth of Features

Vendor Support

Usability and Intuitiveness

Ease of Customization

Availability and Quality of Training