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Fortra DLP (formerly Digital Guardian) Overview

What is Fortra DLP (formerly Digital Guardian)?

Fortra’s Digital Guardian is Data Loss Prevention that gives you immediate visibility into your organization’s critical assets, protecting data and intellectual property wherever it lives. Our platform makes it easier to see, understand, and block threats to your sensitive information. Available as a SaaS or managed service deployment, our pre-built dashboards and compliance policies deliver fast deployment, helping you see results and mitigate risk quickly. Digital Guardian’s deep visibility and ability to work with existing data classification tools give you greater deployed efficacy without compromising on the flexibility you need to match your enterprise needs. Powered by AWS, Digital Guardian’s SaaS option can help organizations reduce overhead and cost with added simplicity and speed—as well as reduced customer burden. With a managed service deployment, get unparalleled visibility to DLP actions and threats to sensitive data egress without having to allocate employees to maintaining complex infrastructure. Working in a hybrid environment? Digital Guardian provides cross-platform coverage, including your corporate network, traditional endpoints, and cloud applications running on Windows, Mac, and Linux operating systems. For 20 years, Digital Guardian has helped data-rich enterprises protect their most sensitive data and IP without slowing the pace of their business. _________________________________ A Key Part of Fortra Digital Guardian is proud to be part of Fortra’s comprehensive cybersecurity portfolio. Fortra simplifies today’s complex cybersecurity landscape by bringing complementary products together to solve problems in innovative ways. These integrated, scalable solutions address the fast-changing challenges you face in safeguarding your organization. With the help of the powerful protection from Digital Guardian Platform and others, Fortra is your relentless ally, here for you every step of the way throughout your cybersecurity journey.

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Product Description

Digital Guardians unique data awareness and transformative endpoint visibility, combined with behavioral threat detection and response, enables you to protect data without slowing the pace of your business.


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Fortra
Year Founded
1982
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Eden Prairie, Minnesota
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1,774 employees on LinkedIn®
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Problem solver. Proactive protector. Relentless ally.These three pillars represent who Fortra is as a positive changemaker for cybersecurity. Our approach is different, and we're proud of that. We transformed the industry by bringing the leading solutions into one best-in-class portfolio, creating a stronger line of defense from a single provider. But we know cybersecurity is always changing, and we should never get too comfortable. It's why our team of expert problem solvers is dedicated to building leading solutions and adapting to stay ahead of the ever-evolving threat landscape. We also understand that we're more powerful together, so we prioritize collaboration with customers throughout every step of their unique cybersecurity journeys. We take the time to listen to each organization's concerns, and provide integrated, scalable solutions to help put any worries to rest. Because ultimately, we know that the road to creating a stronger, simpler future for cybersecurity begins with the daily commitment of finding better ways to provide peace of mind to our customers.We are your cybersecurity ally.We are Fortra.


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Suresh K.
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Suresh K.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Advanced Modern DLP Solutions: Integrating On-Premises and SaaS for Enhanced Security"
1. DG provides standard predefined policies that cover most of the organization's use cases. 2. supported in all three flavors windows, Linux, an...
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Joshua E.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Digital Guardian - Next Generation Data Loss Prevention Tool"
Digital Guardian has an enhanced monitoring in all perspective between Web and Application usage across a corporate device
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4.0 out of 5
"Navigating to Fortra's Digital Guardian is complex."
What I like most about Fortra's Digital Guardian is that information is provided via analytics, graphs, etc. With that, it is much more understanda...
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Fortra DLP (formerly Digital Guardian) Demo - Analytics & Reporting Cloud Alarm Summary
Analytics that Filter Out the Noise DG ARC monitors the most comprehensive set of events about your systems, users, and data to quickly filter through potential anomalies. It only triggers alarms for the high fidelity events that warrant additional investigation by InfoSec and/or SOC Analysts
Fortra DLP (formerly Digital Guardian) Demo - Insights Workspace
Help Leaders Assess DLP Effectiveness DG Insights delivers a view into what DG DLP did to help secure your organizations' data and easily answer, “How effective is our data loss prevention program?” This report is designed to help security teams by providing a look back at the previous week’s ...
Fortra DLP (formerly Digital Guardian) Demo - Investigations Workspace
Right Click Remediation in Real-Time Security analysts can blacklist processes across the enterprise from virtually any screen for real time remediation of threats identified during incident response or threat hunting. Remediation options include blacklist, scan, warn on launch, send to V...
Fortra DLP (formerly Digital Guardian) Demo - Incident Response Detail
Simplify Incident Response Analysts can simply drag and drop to create new incidents, add events or alarms. It’s easy to add comments and artifacts. A timeline automatically builds out as you investigate an incident and work towards remediation, accelerating response time.
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What do you like best about Fortra DLP (formerly Digital Guardian)?

Securing and maintaining data protection of our business and users' information is the best that Fortra's Digital Guardian has offered. Eliminating potential vulnerabilities and preventing data leakage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Fortra DLP (formerly Digital Guardian)?

Fortra's new users will need to undergo training and familiarise themselves with the guidance and documentation before using it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Fortra DLP (formerly Digital Guardian) solving and how is that benefiting you?

After implementing this software to oversee and control the protection ends, we prevent data leakage and loss. Scanning automatically a potential loophole that can be used to compromise the system and data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Fortra DLP (formerly Digital Guardian)?

It has several options that I can choose to protect and secure our data from leakage and loss. Managing policies and notifications for errors and sending alerts to emails in real-time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Fortra DLP (formerly Digital Guardian)?

Cloud data protection is quite challenging to set up and integrate with our current cloud storage solution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Fortra DLP (formerly Digital Guardian) solving and how is that benefiting you?

It solves our primary data loss issues and prevention from any attack, malware or leakage. Fortra's Digital Guardian automatically deploy and manage our digital data security around the clock. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Fortra DLP (formerly Digital Guardian)?

Stopping and preventing data loss is the main strength of Fortra's Digital Guardian. Easy to use and understand, the software helps roll out the platform quickly to protect our data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Fortra DLP (formerly Digital Guardian)?

Concern with the support response time and inadequate details with the report of the tickets. The support process became lengthy because of this issue. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Fortra DLP (formerly Digital Guardian) solving and how is that benefiting you?

Protecting data from the endpoint and stopping breaches at the source is what this software has helped us with. EDR policy deployment is our first defense in securing against malware and attacks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Fortra DLP (formerly Digital Guardian)?

Vendor communication gets easier. Timely updates for the escalation raised by us. Multiple training videos to help us understand the concepts in details. Very good Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Fortra DLP (formerly Digital Guardian)?

Sharing big files is not possible. Can't directly communicate with engineering team. Vendor responses are spreaded over multiple posts every time they response. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Fortra DLP (formerly Digital Guardian) solving and how is that benefiting you?

Multiple product related issues, agent related interruptions raised by internal support team, performance related issues faced by dg agent by users. Working with vendor increases knowledge Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Fortra DLP (formerly Digital Guardian)?

It has visibility where many DLP vendors do not. The prompting customization helps train staff on the correct use of data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Fortra DLP (formerly Digital Guardian)?

It often over-promises on future solutions. It needs to be able to keep up with the move to the cloud as well as integrations with sensitive data-producing applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Fortra DLP (formerly Digital Guardian) solving and how is that benefiting you?

Blocking the movement of classified data. Visibility and control of data coming from non-SaaS platforms. The prompting helps train the staff on the correct usage of data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Fortra DLP (formerly Digital Guardian)?

I appreciate the number of features that Digital Guardian has to offer and its detailed reporting capabilities. The platform provides granular control and insight into assets that can be used to take various actions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Fortra DLP (formerly Digital Guardian)?

My biggest concern with Digital Guardian was the support that was offered. In some cases, I suggested a potential cause of an issue months before the agent acknowledged it and went down that path. In another instance, the issue went unresolved for months until the engineering team could review and provide a fix. Sometimes it was challenging to get the level of support required to resolve an issue promptly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Fortra DLP (formerly Digital Guardian) solving and how is that benefiting you?

One of the ways we use Digital Guardian is for USB blocking. DG is an adaptive tool that allows us to effectively implement this block without affecting permitted peripherals (i.e., wireless keyboards) and provides an easy mechanism to implement exceptions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Fortra DLP (formerly Digital Guardian)?

There are many advantages of working at the kernel level. It is one step ahead of its competitors with its classification policies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Fortra DLP (formerly Digital Guardian)?

Simplification of the management console will bring convenience on the user side. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Fortra DLP (formerly Digital Guardian) solving and how is that benefiting you?

can professionally prevent data leakage within the organization and does more than what is expected from a DLP. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Fortra DLP (formerly Digital Guardian)?

User friendly GUI and ability to fully control each aspect of endpoints from one place. Integration with systems is secure and simple. Low CPU consumption allows run it almost on every hardware Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Fortra DLP (formerly Digital Guardian)?

The creation of custom rules sometimes needs knowledge of specific code. Requirements regarding its SQL database, Read\Write IOPS needs highly rated Hard Disk Drives. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Fortra DLP (formerly Digital Guardian) solving and how is that benefiting you?

Being part of the Governmental structure and owner of private and personal data of citizens, it is critical to correctly protect these actives in modern world. Digital Guardian solution allows to increase level of security. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Fortra DLP (formerly Digital Guardian)?

The platform automatically discovers sensitive data across an organization's network, endpoints, and cloud environments and classifies it based on its level of sensitivity. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Fortra DLP (formerly Digital Guardian)?

The platform is not intuitive and requires extensive testing before deploying in an enterprise environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Fortra DLP (formerly Digital Guardian) solving and how is that benefiting you?

Safeguard their sensitive data and meet regulatory compliance requirements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Fortra DLP (formerly Digital Guardian)?

its capabilities from working at the kernel level and its capabilities in classification policies Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Fortra DLP (formerly Digital Guardian)?

the interface is a bit complicated to use Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Fortra DLP (formerly Digital Guardian) solving and how is that benefiting you?

It provides great support for information security. Professionally solves the information security and cyber security needed in companies Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.