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Fortra Digital Guardian

8.1 /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

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88 Likeliness to Recommend

1
Since last award

100 Plan to Renew

87 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

1
Since last award

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Emotional Footprint Overview

+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

Suraj J.

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

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Verified Reviewer

Submitted Aug 2024

Underrated DLP solution

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

What differentiates Fortra Digital Guardian from other similar products?

Reliability, remote connectivity

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Predefined policies

What do you dislike most about this product?

Lack of OCR feature

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Kindly consider this solution and give it a try by conducting POCs

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

Obaidul R.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Technology
Involvement: End User of Application

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jan 2024

Dynamic Functionalities

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Fortra Digital Guardian from other similar products?

Effectiveness in safeguarding all endpoints with single click

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Ease of integrations with other tools

What do you dislike most about this product?

Nothing to dislike so far.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

To streamline operations use this tool

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

Taylor a.

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

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jan 2023

Great for DLP and easy to use

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Fortra Digital Guardian from other similar products?

This the GUI is just super easy to manage and the rules are easy to create

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

I love the GUI and how easy it was to learn

What do you dislike most about this product?

No dislikes really

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

This is great for DLP! Easy to set up and the agent uses almost no CPU

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

Fortra Digital Guardian

What is Fortra Digital Guardian?

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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

Suraj J.

Underrated DLP solution

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Obaidul R.

Dynamic Functionalities

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Taylor a.

Great for DLP and easy to use

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