A Wise Web Security Investment: The Gift that Keeps on Giving

Don’t you love it when a decision turns out better than anticipated? 

Maybe you bought Nvidia stock before the AI boom, or a house right before the pandemic started and rates were still at rock-bottom levels.

Forcepoint Web Security customers find themselves in a similar situation with GenAI as they already have the tools they need to implement guardrails around the use of GenAI services in place.

Forcepoint ONE Web Security Uniquely Fit to Tackle GenAI Risk

Many organizations buy web security to reduce risks from ransomware and to make sure people aren’t going to inappropriate websites. It is easy to think of this kind of service somewhat like insurance – it is a business necessity, but maybe not the most exciting service to research.  

However, a lot of customers that chose Forcepoint as their web security vendor did so because they appreciate the added value of best-of-breed capabilities for Data Loss Prevention (DLP), among other features. 

This attention to detail in the search for a web security solution is paying dividends in their ability to adapt to new business initiatives involving GenAI services like ChatGPT because it allows them to pursue these projects immediately. The biggest risk to using GenAI services is arguably the lack of control over what happens to the data sent to these services. And, in order to get better outputs from these services you need to provide more data.

If, however, you have an accurate tool for identifying and blocking sensitive data in real-time you can immediately put guardrails in place and allow your users to experiment with free AI services as different lines of business build business cases for the adoption of enterprise versions of the tools. 

Customers tell us that having Forcepoint in place as a Secure Web Gateway has allowed them to mitigate risks that they wouldn’t have been able to tolerate otherwise, with particular emphasis placed on the value of highly effective DLP with low false-positive rates that they don’t see in competing solutions. 

They are commonly adding DLP classifiers for PII, PHI, and PCI to web categories for GenAI sites in just a couple of clicks and immediately able to allow use of these free services. This speed to pursue potentially massive productivity enhancements can have implications that are incalculable, extending to delivery of new services and better customer experiences faster than competitors, as well as value for their brand reputation with better capabilities for protecting customer data and demonstrating compliance with regional privacy regulations around the globe.

At Forcepoint, we understand the balance between productivity and security. We know your users want to onboard more SaaS apps and to kick the tires on new AI tools frequently. And we also know it saves time when you can leverage and enforce existing security policies to cover new business use cases. 

We strive to help customers manage business trade-offs between productivity and security. Getting it right means putting your organization in the best possible position to take advantage of the latest applications and AI innovations while keeping data safe everywhere, for users working anywhere. 

Check out this short demo to see Forcepoint ONE Web Security enforcing data security controls over prompts used with online GenAI services.