We performed a comparison between Microsoft BitLocker and WinMagic SecureDoc based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Sophos, McAfee and others in Endpoint Encryption."The most valuable feature is the authentication process which is very fast."
"The ease of administering and integrating the solution is great."
"It is easy to use. It is usually easy to recover someone's privacy. The manageability is much easier than McAfee. I think that Microsoft is a leader in this area. We are in the Microsoft school so our judgment of McAfee will be a little bit unfair as we recommend Microsoft all the time because of the easy manageability and support. I think that McAfee is designed for a different customer and every time we open a ticket with their support, it takes a very, very long time. The main difference is just the manageability and support. In terms of the solution itself or the functionality, I know that McAfee is very strong, but manageability and support, for us, is much more important. It's strengthens the solution for us."
"Microsoft BitLocker's most valuable features are stability and simplicity in terms of usage."
"Whole Disk Encryption is great. BitLocker runs seamlessly during boot up."
"The platform provides good performance."
"One significant aspect is that without the BitLocker key, you can't log in to the user's laptop. I appreciate the capability to encrypt the user's hard drive, ensuring access only with the recovery key. In an enterprise setup, we store all BitLocker keys on our server. So, whenever a user attempts to log in, the architecture authenticates with the key. This ensures that our data is secure. Even if the user's laptop is lost, we have confidence that the data remains inaccessible. So far, our user data is well-protected."
"The most valuable feature is the TPM (Trusted Platform Module), which makes the PC security stronger because somebody who is not from the team cannot access the PC without the decryption PIN."
"The Central Management server."
"User profiles can be improved so that people can create their own passwords. It has one password per machine, which is a problem. We would prefer each user to have his or her own boot password. Each user can have a username and password or biometrics, such as fingerprints and iris scanner, integrated into the boot process, but I really can't see that coming anytime soon, if ever."
"The initial setup is complex."
"The solution needs to have better protection and improve its pricing."
"The solution should offer encryption for other items such as shared folders, removable media, etc."
"I would like to see improvement in the solution's central management of passwords. Currently, we install it separately."
"I often have to make multiple attempts to log in."
"I would recommend BitLocker only because of the economic side, not the technical side. If the features were included in the already existing licenses I would use it. If not, I would recommend other products."
"The deployment process regarding prerequisites and automation could be easy to understand."
"MacOS X is missing features."
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Microsoft BitLocker is ranked 1st in Endpoint Encryption with 61 reviews while WinMagic SecureDoc is ranked 11th in Endpoint Encryption. Microsoft BitLocker is rated 8.2, while WinMagic SecureDoc is rated 7.0. The top reviewer of Microsoft BitLocker writes "User-friendly, easy to set up, and offers real-time machine status updates". On the other hand, the top reviewer of WinMagic SecureDoc writes "How We Chose SED + WinMagic's SecureDoc For Full Disk Encryption". Microsoft BitLocker is most compared with ESET Endpoint Encryption, Symantec Endpoint Encryption, McAfee Complete Data Protection, Trend Micro Endpoint Encryption and Sophos SafeGuard, whereas WinMagic SecureDoc is most compared with Symantec Endpoint Encryption and ESET Endpoint Encryption.
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