We performed a comparison between McAfee Total Protection for Data Loss Prevention and Symantec Endpoint Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Forcepoint, Broadcom and others in Data Loss Prevention (DLP)."The most valuable feature right now is the user control."
"The product is largely stable."
"The most valuable feature of McAfee Total Protection for Data Loss Prevention is data loss prevention."
"The ability to block all USBs from the McAfee portal has been great."
"What I like about McAfee Total Protection is that it's working. I also like that it doesn't require any specific knowledge to set up."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to control access to USB drives and other external devices."
"You can manage your compliance in line with legislation such as GDPR and POPIA."
"The solution is stable."
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"Symantec has cloud-based endpoint protection, so whether a user is off the network or on the network, the endpoint will be protected by the cloud."
"It is good for detecting signature-based viruses, and it is user friendly."
"Helps to protect our organization from known attacks."
"I have found the solution to be very scalable, we have 700 employees using the solution in our organization."
"The most valuable feature for our organization is the antivirus, as our staff is the target of zero-day malware and viruses."
"Symantec End-User Endpoint Security is a stable solution."
"The application and device control functionality is good. We are able to see which applications are installed using the product management dashboard."
"Its response time is the most valuable. It is very quick."
"We need to do a lot of configuration."
"McAfee Total Protection for Data Loss Prevention could improve by making the customer aware of the benefits of the solution which would increase the adoption. Additionally, if there were features to suit multi-cloud environments it would be helpful. If the solution can intelligently identify which is important data for the organization and should not be released from the organization without authorization would be a benefit."
"In my experience, it's not really user-friendly for me, in terms of how I navigate with the ePolicy Orchestrator. They need to upgrade their management console."
"Integration with other vendors could be improved. For example, with Chrome or Firefox."
"There needs to be support for blocking the sending of files by email because even if you block or remove an external disk, the files are not protected."
"We faced many issues with the solution's customer support, and it should be made customer-friendly and more responsive."
"McAfee needs to clarify its rules."
"Lacks GDPR regulations to enhance security."
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"The Centralized Management could be improved."
"It seems that its not working very well with VMWare."
"It would be nice to see more antivirus features for USB control."
"The support can be wanting. Sometimes the time to resolution is longer than I would expect."
"In a few cases, when we enable the IPS/IDS feature, there are performance-related issues on the end devices. If we run quite a few features of Symantec, especially the IPS/IDF, it consumes a lot of processing and memory capacity."
"This latest version has proven unreliable for management and installation."
"Sometimes, when we are creating a new policy, some of the clients are not being updated with the latest policy."
"Nowadays, threats are changing, and they are moving more towards script control and zero-day attacks. So, we would like to have more control similar to an EDR solution. Symantec Endpoint Protection has certainly come a long way as a traditional antivirus, but because the threats are changing, we would like to have more EDR features so that we have a detailed view of the source from where the infection entered the environment and whether it has tried to connect any other endpoint. It should provide such a detailed view for investigation. It should protect against zero-day threats, etc. These are the key enhancements that can make it a complete solution for any enterprise. Currently, we have seen organizations going for two solutions: antivirus and EDR. With both these capabilities, it would be a complete package."
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McAfee Total Protection for Data Loss Prevention is ranked 9th in Data Loss Prevention (DLP) with 29 reviews while Symantec Endpoint Security is ranked 5th in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 140 reviews. McAfee Total Protection for Data Loss Prevention is rated 7.4, while Symantec Endpoint Security is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of McAfee Total Protection for Data Loss Prevention writes "Highly beneficial DLP functionality, full system protection, and useful file scanning". 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". McAfee Total Protection for Data Loss Prevention is most compared with HP Wolf Security, Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention, Trend Micro Integrated Data Loss Prevention, Cisco Secure Endpoint and Safetica ONE, 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.
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