A true forcepoint Alternative
Make the switch from Forcepoint Websense to dope.swg.
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Forcepoint Limitations
Data center Performance
Forcepoint will reroute your traffic through data centers or “Points of Presence” (PoPs). Rerouting leads to performance and reliability issues, as data center outages are extremely common and entirely unpredictable.
dope.swg does not rely on data center stopovers! This allows us to work consistently in every country and network without worry for data center outages ever again.
Http1.1 Downgrade
By default, Forcepoint is limited to HTTP/1.1 for a majority of their traffic. This downgrade causes slower loading speeds (see here).
With dope.swg and local SSL inspection, HTTP/2 is supported on day one and your connection is never degraded down to HTTP/1.1. It’s so smooth, you won’t even notice we’re running in the background.
Privacy ConCerns
There are major privacy holes with Forcepoint. SSL inspection occurs off-device in data centers and PoPs and leave your decrypted data vulnerable to threat actors.
dope.swg will never do SSL inspection outside of your device’s safe zone. Decryption happens locally, so the only data in the cloud are processed transaction records sent to the region of your choice.
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HOW FORCEPOINT WORKS
Forcepoint Architecture
Forcepoint routes traffic through a stopover. They call it a “pit stop,” but it’s the same thing. Whether it’s a data center or PoP, your internet requests are being intercepted before going to their end destination. At interception, your data is decrypted, SSL inspection is done outside of your device, and it’s left vulnerable to malicious threats. It’s a huge privacy concern.
Forcepoint Performance
These stopovers result in massive performance degradations. Your data could be routed across the country, slowing down your requests on the daily. And if your primary data center goes down, then you’re potentially routed to a data center in a whole other country — or one that is now bottlenecked with everyone else who’s also affected by the outage — leading to a poor performing SWG.
Forcepoint UX
While the underlying architecture causes a negative user experience, the admin console also struggles. The UI is very outdated and requires integrating products & multiple consoles. Every page takes ages to load. It’s a legacy mess.
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DS COMPARED TO FORCEPOINT
SSO Enabled Instant Trial
Mac native
Single Console
Auto-update
URL Filtering
anti-Malware
Cloud app controls
No datacenter reliance
HTTP2
Local SSL Inspection & Policy Enforcement
Soaring Reviews
dope.security cares deeply about design and user experience in a way that is unique to the security industry. Its first goal when creating a product is simplicity — the simplicity of architecture, purchasing, deployment and management.”
dope.security completely changed the game for us. Using dope.swg to upgrade endpoint security is remarkably easy, and moving from initial trial to full deployment was quick and self-service. Now, the Internet runs as designed and our team can spend time innovating, rather than trying to make a legacy SWG work.”
dope.security’s fly-direct approach is exactly what the SWG market needs. Legacy solutions are too complex and slow down every company that uses the Internet. By eliminating the stopover with a product-led growth (PLG) motion, dope.security is a true game changer.”
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