# Formal Reviews
**Vendor:** Formal  
**Category:** [Privileged Access Management (PAM) Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/privileged-access-management-pam)  
**Average Rating:** 5.0/5.0  
**Total Reviews:** 1
## About Formal
Over the past decade, the data stack has evolved, bringing new technologies and vulnerabilities. Nowadays, company data is scattered across every type of data store imaginable. This scattered data is also being accessed by numerous employees across the company. With the modern data stack growing more decentralized every year, it's hard to collect and control these sprawling data stores, so that consistent and commonsense rules can be applied to them all. Formal products enable real-time understanding of an organization's data schema, sensitive data storage, consumption across teams, and the ability to secure everything from one place. It allows for the design of access and encryption policies. Our aim is to be the operating system for secure data management. Formal provides a protocol-aware access proxy, supports discovery, categorization, and policy enforcement in data stores.




## Formal Reviews
  ### 1. Formal solves problems not just tells me about them

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** August 13, 2024

**What do you like best about Formal?**

Formal gives me something others tools dont - actual control of my data. Instead of just telling me where my data is and classifying it (it does that too), Formal gives me the ability to enforce data controls (dynamic data masking, row-level filtering, and field-level encryption).

**What do you dislike about Formal?**

You always have to keep up because of how fast Formal builds!

**What problems is Formal solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Data Security
Data Loss Prevention
Audit Logs
Data Policy Enforcement



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## Formal Features
**Administration**
- Policy, User, and Role Management
- Approval Workflows
- Automated Provisioning
- Bulk Changes
- Centralized Management
- Self-Service Access Requests

**Functionality**
- Multi-Factor Authentication
- Single Sign-On
- BYOD support
- Password Vault
- Centralized management
- Role-based security
- Live notifications
- Live session recording & playback
- Hide passwords
- Temporary, time-limited privilege

**Monitoring**
- Audit Logging
- Activity Logging
- Anomaly Detection

**Reporting**
- Audit log
- Reporting

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