Fortra DLP (formerly Digital Guardian) Reviews & Product Details

We know data loss prevention can be complex... but it doesn't have to be. Fortra DLP is deployed via SaaS, gives you immediate visibility into your organization’s assets, blocking threats to your sensitive data before it’s lost. Our market-leading DLP is backed by decades of focus, solving real use cases. From basic data protection requirements to today's common cloud, hybrid, and remote work environments, we can help you protect workflows across your entire organization. Fortra DLP gives you immediate visibility into your organization’s assets and helps provide a streamlined path to security maturity. Businesses have trusted Fortra DLP to safeguard their critical data for over two decades. 600 customers worldwide use Fortra DLP to discover, monitor, log, and block threats to their data with pre-built policies that help them avoid gaps and comply with evolving regulatory changes.

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Fortra

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English, Japanese

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.

Overview by

Lacey Weber

Value at a Glance

Averages based on real user reviews.

Time to Implement

7 months

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Fortra DLP (formerly Digital Guardian) Media

Fortra DLP (formerly Digital Guardian) Demo - Analytics & Reporting Cloud Alarm Summary

Analytics that Filter Out the Noise Analytics & Reporting Cloud (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 ...

Fortra DLP (formerly Digital Guardian) Demo - Insights Workspace

Help Leaders Assess DLP Effectiveness DLP 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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Daniel S.

Senior Data Security Engineer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

4/25/2022

"Baker Hughes DG Review"

4/5

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

ARC platform has improved with new analysis offerings. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Customer service for priority issues has fallen off. Difficult to get in touch. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Fortra DLP (formerly Digital Guardian):

Definitely use their WalkMe software and training feature within ARC Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

My team at BH has been able to analyze, investigate and track down large amounts of data egress using ARC, and the tool has been invaluable for auditing purposes and general data security. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Paola Rodriguez of Fortra DLP (formerly Digital Guardian)

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Thanks for taking the time to leave us a review! It’s great to see you’re enjoying the platform and its new analysis offering. Also, thanks for your feedback on customer service. If there's ever anything that you need from us, don't be shy and feel free to reach out directly to your account representative or Fortra support.

Dinesh K.

Network Security Admin

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/18/2025

"Great Cross-Platform Coverage, but Reporting Could Be Faster"

3.5/5

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

The cross-platform endpoint coverage, including Windows, macOS, and Linux, is a strong feature.

Additionally, the Network DLP solution is effective for blocking threats from the network side. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Firstly, the reporting feature tends to be a bit slow.

Additionally, the cost can be quite high, especially for smaller organizations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nguyen D.

I-Security Engineer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

10/2/2025

"Very good product but it takes time to master it"

4.5/5

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

It covers all the endpoint data exposue channel ( web, application, printer/usb...)

It helps tracking end user behaviors or interactions with application so we can build policy to protect data without any insight before that.

The architechture is quite understandable, easy to deploy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Takes time to learn and get it useful, many knowledge need to be used to control the product (mssql, IIS application...)

Policy creation is way too complicated/ hard to use with the beginner Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Suresh K.

Technical Executive

Information Technology and Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

5/31/2024

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"Advanced Modern DLP Solutions: Integrating On-Premises and SaaS for Enhanced Security"

5/5

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

1. DG provides standard predefined policies that cover most of the organization's use cases.

2. supported in all three flavors windows, Linux, and Mac.

3. advanced forensics available for investigations.

4. prebuilt reports more than 400.

5. they DGcomm component for roaming users so we can connect remote users easily.

5. prebuilt PCI, PHI, and PII Data policies to cover PCI-DSS, HIPPA and GDPR.

6. integration with siem and other solutions are easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

1. they don't have proper training for customers.

2. Linux supports but again kernel versions are the main dependency.

3. It is difficult to understand the console for new users.

4. there are no exception options in classification policies.

5. implementation is complicated.

5. local support is not helpful and even they don't know the product properly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Dawna Xenia M.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

12/13/2023

"The Leader for Data Loss Prevention - Digital Guardian"

5/5

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

I am highly impressed by Fortra's Digital Guardian. The software surpasses expectations in safeguarding our data, offering outstanding security features that ensure the protection of our critical information. Utilizing advanced measures, it successfully thwarts unauthorized access and shields us from potential cyber threats. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

During the initial usage of Digital Guardian, users may face some challenges. To improve the overall user experience, it would be advantageous to provide clearer instructions, especially for individuals who may not be familiar with technology. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Gabriel V.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

12/15/2023

"Security Simplified"

4.5/5

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

The UI is one of the easist to navigate in terms of finding the events and insights you want to find. So many other places showing you things that aren't actionable, and here Fortra is clearly devoting resources not on some fancy framework but rather showing you what a SoC actually uses. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Nothing! Well, the alarm summary could do a bit better with prioritizing alerts vs just displaying all the info DG has collected, but it's still tidy enough to parse out quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

12/13/2023

"Fortra's Digital Guardian: A Sturdy Barrier Guarding Our Workspace"

4.5/5

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

The most noteworthy feature of Fortra's Digital Guardian is its extensive threat detection and response capabilities, which guarantee a silent defense against cyberthreats in our workplace Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Fortra's Digital Guardian is useful in a lot of ways, although there is a learning curve at first. Some features may take some time for users to completely understand and use effectively due to their intricacy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Fortra's Digital Guardian, which provides enhanced threat detection and data protection, has proved crucial in resolving critical cybersecurity issues. Its strong features reduce dangers and guarantee a safe working environment. This has helped me a lot because it has given me more confidence in protecting private data and upholding the integrity of our work processes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Caner A.

Information Security Specialist

Information Technology and Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

7/5/2023

"Comprehensive Data Protection with Room for Improvement in User Experience"

4.5/5

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

Digital Guardian, offered by Fortra, is known for its comprehensive data loss prevention (DLP) capabilities. What I appreciate the most is its ability to protect sensitive data across all endpoints, networks, and data storage systems. This holistic approach helps ensure that our organization's data remains secure, whether our team members are working in-office or remotely.

Another feature that stands out is its advanced analytics and reporting capabilities. Digital Guardian provides in-depth visibility into how data is being used across the organization, helping us to identify and address potential vulnerabilities and threats.

Additionally, I appreciate its user-friendly interface and policy flexibility, which allow for seamless implementation and customization to suit our organization's specific needs. The fact that it also supports both Windows and Mac operating systems is a definite plus Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

While Digital Guardian by Fortra provides robust data loss prevention capabilities, it can be quite complex to set up and configure initially. The process can be time-consuming and may require a significant amount of technical expertise.

In addition, some users have mentioned that the software can sometimes be resource-intensive, which may impact system performance, particularly on older or less powerful machines.

Furthermore, while Digital Guardian offers a wealth of data and analytics, the sheer volume of information can be overwhelming and may require additional time and resources to sift through and analyze. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Fortra's Digital Guardian is solving several crucial issues for my organization. Its primary function is data loss prevention (DLP), and it excels in this area. The platform provides comprehensive protection of sensitive data across networks, endpoints, and storage systems. This is incredibly beneficial in today's work environment where remote and hybrid work models are common, and data security is paramount.

Another problem Digital Guardian solves is visibility into data usage. Its advanced analytics and reporting capabilities allow us to understand how data is being used across the organization, helping to identify potential vulnerabilities and prevent data breaches. This visibility is crucial for mitigating risks and ensuring overall data security.

Moreover, Digital Guardian assists in regulatory compliance by protecting sensitive data in accordance with various data protection regulations. This is a huge benefit as it helps us avoid potential legal penalties and maintain our reputation.

In summary, Digital Guardian is providing solutions in critical areas such as data loss prevention, data visibility, and regulatory compliance, bringing significant benefits to our organization's data security strategy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

12/14/2023

"Navigating to Fortra's Digital Guardian is complex."

4/5

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

What I like most about Fortra's Digital Guardian is that information is provided via analytics, graphs, etc. With that, it is much more understandable.

One more I like about Digital Guardian is the deployments are made easier since distribution servers are already part of the console. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It is complex when you are still starting.You may need a documentation of assistance from the professional services, but once you are able to understand it, it is easy to navigate. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Danny K.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

9/18/2023

"Data loss prevention is perfectly executed by Fortra"

4.5/5

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

In all my experience, I have the best experience in managing data protection by Fortra's Digital Guardian. It is effective and has many features that helps us to repel any threat to the data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The first onboarding process and setup is difficult and need so much configuration to make the system online. They need a better customer service. 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 problem that Fortra's Digital Guardian has solved for our company is with the data categorizing and tagging. It will automatically segregate the data information by reading its meta velue. This process has saved my time to differentiate each data and information category. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.