Cyberhaven vs Fortra DLP (Digital Guardian)
A side-by-side comparison on deployment model, data residency, licensing basis and security coverage. Structural facts are verifiable against vendor documentation; the scored dimensions are our assessment.
Cyberhaven
Cyberhaven
7.1
Average across eight dimensions
- Deployment
- SaaS only
- Licensing
- Per user
- Time to value
- Medium
- Segment
- Mid-market / enterprise
- G2
- 4.5 (18)
Fortra DLP (Digital Guardian)
Fortra
7.5
Average across eight dimensions
- Deployment
- Hybrid
- Licensing
- Per endpoint or managed service
- Time to value
- Complex
- Segment
- Enterprise
- G2
- 4.3 (64)
Score by dimension
| Dimension | CH | DG |
|---|---|---|
| Data residency control | 3 | 7.5 |
| Pricing value | 6 | 5 |
| Detection accuracy | 8.5 | 9 |
| Response speed | 8 | 8 |
| Ease of setup | 7.5 | 6 |
| Management UX | 8.5 | 7.5 |
| Integration depth | 7.5 | 8 |
| Security coverage | 8 | 9 |
What the comparison says
Cyberhaven is SaaS only and Fortra DLP (Digital Guardian) is hybrid. Where your obligations dictate residency, that difference tends to settle the choice before any score is read.
Cyberhaven licenses on per user, Fortra DLP (Digital Guardian) on per endpoint or managed service. Neither bills on data volume, so the comparison is about what each licence includes rather than how much you send it.
Cyberhaven leads on pricing value, ease of setup and management UX. Fortra DLP (Digital Guardian) leads on residency and channel coverage.
Cyberhaven
- +Traces data lineage rather than only matching content, so it catches transformed and renamed files.
- +Materially fewer false positives than pattern-matching approaches.
- +Investigation workflow shows the full path a file travelled.
- −Cloud-delivered with no self-hosted deployment.
- −Younger vendor with a smaller install base and less independent analyst coverage.
Best for Organisations where intellectual property leaves via transformation rather than obvious copying.
Watch out Assess vendor maturity and support depth alongside the technology.
Fortra DLP (Digital Guardian)
- +Tracks data lineage at the endpoint, so it can follow a file through copies and renames.
- +Available as on-premises, hosted or managed service.
- +Particularly strong for intellectual property protection rather than only regulated data.
- −Agent footprint and tuning effort are heavier than most alternatives here.
- −Pricing sits at the enterprise end, and the managed option adds materially to it.
Best for Manufacturers and research organisations protecting intellectual property.
Watch out Pilot the agent on real workloads before rollout. Performance is the usual complaint.
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Data last verified 2026-10-06. nPro publishes this comparison. Where nPro appears as one of the platforms listed, its card is marked and its scores are our own assessment. Third-party review scores are sourced from public vendor profiles. Structural facts are verifiable against each vendor's documentation: deployment model, licensing basis and residency.