We performed a comparison between Elastic Security and Symantec Endpoint Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Log Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It is the best open-source product for people working in SO, managing and analyzing logs."
"The stability of the solution is good."
"Just the ability to do a lot more than just up-down is nice, which a lot of people take for granted."
"Elastic Security is very easy to adapt."
"The most valuable feature for me is Discover."
"I like that it's a SIEM platform. I like that I can sell Elastic Security quickly. Elastic Security has a large community that can support users."
"ELK is open-source, and it will give you the framework you need to build everything from scratch."
"What customers found most valuable in Elastic Security feature-wise is the search capability, in particular, the way of writing the search query and the speed of searching for results."
"The administrator's console is very good and easy to manage with it. Deploying patches, definition updates and report is simple."
"With a single console, you get control over Mac, Windows, iOS, and Android. This control is most valuable."
"Device control is most valuable. Symantec is providing all such features in the basic plan, whereas when we last checked, such a feature was not available in the basic plan of Malwarebytes."
"The most valuable features of this solution are that it is really easy to use, and it is secure."
"The application and device control are valuable features, and the live update is another one. We have a schedule to check every four hours for the live update."
"The solution's application control feature is very, very powerful."
"The firewall, IPS and device control are useful at protecting the environment."
"I like the firewall and the intrusion prevention features, and just the basic anti-malware and anti-virus seems to be pretty effective as well."
"The tool needs to integrate with legacy servers. Big companies can have legacy servers that may not always be updated."
"Their visuals and graphs need to be better."
"I would like the process of retrieving archived data and viewing it in Kibana to be simplified."
"It's a little bit of a learning curve to understand the logic of searching for things and trying to find what you're looking for in Elastic Security."
"I would like more ways to manage permissions and restrict access to certain users."
"In terms of what could be improved with Elastic, in some use cases, especially on the advanced level, they are not ready made, so you'll have to write some scripts."
"The solution could offer better reporting features."
"Technical support could respond faster."
"They need to develop a multi-language interface."
"Symantec has not properly promoted Symantec Endpoint Security in the market. In my opinion, the product should be properly promoted."
"The whitelisting feature does not work as expected."
"This solution needs better compatibility with services and applications."
"The solution is very difficult to uninstall. There isn't really a way to uninstall the product at all, which is quite a headache."
"Its interface needs improvement. Its interface is very old, and it needs a new look. Other solutions, such as Sophos and BitDefender, have a better and more modern interface, whereas Symantec has had the same interface for a while. There has been no enhancement in the interface. They should update and provide a better interface in 2022 for a better user experience for their customers."
"The detection and response can always be improved."
"The tool switches off automatically, and I have to restart it. Also, we had to manually fix some issues that cropped up while using the tool."
Elastic Security is ranked 5th in Log Management with 59 reviews while Symantec Endpoint Security is ranked 5th in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 140 reviews. Elastic Security is rated 7.6, while Symantec Endpoint Security is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Elastic Security writes "A stable and scalable tool that provides visibility along with the consolidation of logs to its users". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Symantec Endpoint Security writes "The solution has given us visibility into compliance within our whole system and helped us ensure everything is updated". Elastic Security is most compared with Wazuh, Splunk Enterprise Security, Microsoft Sentinel, IBM Security QRadar and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, whereas Symantec Endpoint Security is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, CrowdStrike Falcon, Trend Micro Deep Security, Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks and Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business. See our Elastic Security vs. Symantec Endpoint Security report.
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