Fortra

Fortra Digital Guardian

Composite Score

7.6 /10

CX Score

7.9 /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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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.

85 Likeliness to Recommend

4
Since last award

100 Plan to Renew

81 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

7
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.

+90 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?

4% Negative

4% Neutral

92% Positive

Pros

Client Friendly Policies
Security Protects
Altruistic
Transparent

Feature Ratings

Average 82

Environment Support

Email and IM Support

Real Time Scanning

Customizable and Pre Canned Policies

Forensic Analysis Support

Application Monitoring

Activity Monitoring Alerts

Multiple Enforcement Actions

Endpoint Support

Encryption and Decryption Support

Optical Character Recognition

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 81

Ease of Data Integration

Ease of Implementation

Quality of Features

Business Value Created

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Breadth of Features

Vendor Support

Ease of IT Administration

Availability and Quality of Training

Usability and Intuitiveness

Ease of Customization

Fortra Digital Guardian Reviews

Evans V.

Role: Finance
Industry: Banking
Involvement: Business Leader or Manager

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jan 2025

User friendly Product

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Fortra Digital Guardian from other similar products?

It offers a highly granular level of control over data protection

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

A favorite aspect of Fortra Digital Guardian is its comprehensive data discovery and classification capabilities, allowing organizations to easily identify and categorize sensitive information across various systems.

What do you dislike most about this product?

As such there is no dislike to this product.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Just go for it

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

Shivajatkumar G.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Healthcare
Involvement: IT Leader or Manager

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jan 2025

Good tool for DLP product

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

What differentiates Fortra Digital Guardian from other similar products?

Sensitive data will be identified easily

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Customized endpoint agents

What do you dislike most about this product?

No constraints

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Highly recommend to protect the sensitive data

Pros

Continually Improving Product
Trustworthy
Unique Features
Respectful

Cons

Less Caring

Abrar Ahmad M.

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

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jan 2025

Powerful Data Protection Solution

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Fortra Digital Guardian from other similar products?

It is equipped with built in threat intelligence that allows it to detect, analyze, and respond to both insider threats and external attacks.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

It offers highly customizable DLP policies, allowing organizations to define very specific rules around how and where data can be accessible shared and moved.

What do you dislike most about this product?

It is often seen as expensive particularly for small to medium sized organization

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Unlike many DLP solutions that focus on perimeter defense or board endpoint security Digital Guardian is built around data centric protection

Pros

Helps Innovate
Enables Productivity
Trustworthy
Inspires Innovation

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Awards & Recognition

2024 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

2023 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

Fortra Digital Guardian Ratings

85 Likeliness to Recommend

4 Since last award

100 Plan to Renew

81 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

7 Since last award

Emotional Footprint Overview

+90 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.

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

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

Customizable and Pre Canned Policies Centralized reporting engine with out-of-the-box policy support and custom policy creation with bi-directional workflow integration.

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

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

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

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.

Encryption and Decryption Support Support for real-time decryption and re-encryption of information.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Fortra Digital Guardian Reviews

Evans V.

User friendly Product

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Shivajatkumar G.

Good tool for DLP product

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Cons

Abrar Ahmad M.

Powerful Data Protection Solution

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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Application Monitoring

Activity Monitoring Alerts

Multiple Enforcement Actions

Endpoint Support

Encryption and Decryption Support

Optical Character Recognition

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Ease of Data Integration

Ease of Implementation

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