We performed a comparison between Symantec Endpoint Security and VMware NSX based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, SentinelOne, CrowdStrike and others in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP)."The product detects and blocks threats and is more proactive than firewalls."
"I get alerts when scripts are detected in the environment."
"Forensics is a valuable feature of Fortinet FortiEDR."
"Having all monitoring, response, tracking, and mitigation tools in one dashboard provides our analysts and SOC team with a comprehensive view at a glance."
"It notifies us if there's any suspicious file on any PC. If any execution or similar kind of thing is happening, it just alerts us. It doesn't only alert. It also blocks the execution until we allow it. We check whether the execution is legitimate or not, and then approve it or keep it blocked. This gives us a little bit of control over this mechanism. Fortinet FortiEDR is also very straightforward and easy to maintain."
"The most valuable feature is the analysis, because of the beta structure."
"The main thing is that I feel safe. Because the processes that have been used to get a handle on the attackers are much better than other competitors"
"The console is easy to read. I also like the scanning part and the ability to move assets from one to the other."
"The solution's application control feature is very, very powerful."
"Symantec End-User Endpoint Security is easy to use."
"The most amazing qualities of Symantec Endpoint Protection is that it provides a total solution to all virus problems."
"The solution offers very good security features and is comparable to Sophos."
"Great security and very user friendly."
"The performance of Symantec End-User Endpoint Security is very good. It does not slow down the computer like other solutions."
"The dashboard view and reporting are valuable. It is stable and easy to integrate, and it provides custom options."
"Symantec Endpoint Security is easy to use, fast, and good for small and medium-sized businesses."
"It is a stable solution...The solution's initial setup process was easy."
"It operates on a logical level, providing a comprehensive and centralized way to manage your network resources."
"Provides flexibility to deploy and have network virtualization on different types of firewalls."
"The most valuable features are stability and low cost."
"The installation is straightforward, it took a couple of hours."
"NSX has excellent security features like virtual firewalls. I also like the micro-segmentation features, which are useful for the virtual machines inside the servers."
"Provides protection for virtual machines."
"The solution is very good at micro-segmentation."
"The dashboard isn't easy to access and manage."
"Making the portal mobile friendly would be helpful when I am out of office."
"Detections could be improved."
"To improve Fortinet, we need to see more features and technology areas at the endpoint level introduced."
"The solution's installation from a central installation server could be improved because the engineers had a little bit of trouble getting it installed from a central location."
"The amount of usage, the number of details we get, or the number of options that can be tweaked is limited in comparison to that with other EDR solutions"
"Cannot be used on mobile devices with a secure connection."
"They can include the automation for the realtime updates. We have a network infrastructure with remote sites. Whenever they send updates, they are not automated. We have to go into the console and push those updates. I wish it was more automated. The update file is currently around 31 MB. It could be smaller."
"In the next release of this solution, I would like to see more to do with malware, encryption technology, and controlling mobile devices."
"The device can be outdated. More enhancement of network and discovery would help already great features."
"The solution has become quite complicated since Broadcom acquired Symantec, and we no longer sell it or try not to sell it."
"About four years back, Symantec's signature was very heavy and their signature patch was around 200MB or 300MB files."
"I would like to see fileless attack protection."
"Multi-domain policy options for exceptions and global blocks."
"As for some features I would like to see, I'd like a retrospective action feature similar to Cisco Secure Endpoint's. Some antiviruses don't allow you to re-scan a product that was in the former scan—for example, if a file was classified as proper, but then for some reason the file was changed, we need an antivirus with retrospective capability. We need EPP and EDR products in a secured environment."
"I would like to see even more customization, the possibility to do whitelisting. It needs to be a little bit more liberal on whitelisting, even to use the name if needed, instead of hashes."
"We have done three installations and we have not had any critical issues. The time it took for the installation was approximately two days. However, they should provide better documentation."
"The solution is only sold as part of a bundle and not as an individual product."
"There are sometimes mismatch in the control, the details and what you actually see on the transport note."
"We would like tenant segmentation available in future releases."
"One aspect that needs improvement is the need for further automation."
"The technical support could use some improvement."
"The next release of NSX should try to make Kubernetes and container integration a little easier than it is now. It's quite a complicated process."
"The training costs a minimum of $3,000, which is expensive and should be reduced."
Symantec Endpoint Security is ranked 5th in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 140 reviews while VMware NSX is ranked 2nd in Network Virtualization with 94 reviews. Symantec Endpoint Security is rated 7.6, while VMware NSX is rated 8.0. 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". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware NSX writes "Allows for seamless micro-segmentation and the support is exceptional". Symantec Endpoint Security is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, CrowdStrike Falcon, Trend Micro Deep Security and Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks, whereas VMware NSX is most compared with Nutanix Flow Network Security, Illumio, Akamai Guardicore Segmentation, Cisco ACI and Cisco Secure Workload.
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