Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention (DLP) and Symantec DLP are data security solutions helping prevent sensitive data leaks. Both offer tiered licensing based on features and deployment options, and ROI depends on implementation complexity and prevented data leaks. Purview's tighter Microsoft integration can lead to faster value realization, while Symantec might offer better ROI for complex environments.
The summary above is based on 35 interviews we conducted recently with Symantec Data Loss Prevention and Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our report.
"There's a good amount of documentation in case you run into any problems."
"We can use Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention to manage devices and site policies."
"The product is easy to configure."
"One of the valuable features of Purview is the ability to create a legal hold on a user's account within the compliance portal. That's pretty useful when it comes to any litigation or if you want to redeem the content within a mailbox, OneDrive, or a generic public SharePoint site."
"The product has improved compliance and confidence. We are aware of the data that is leaving our organization. It provides confidence in data management and information storage."
"For Purview's natively integrated compliance across Azure, Dynamics 365, and Office 365, I would give it a 10 out of 10. It provides all the insights and information."
"Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention's responses are faster. Its installation is also reliable. The security score helps with the security part."
"The product can block the uploads to cloud services."
"The dashboard, management section, and reporting are good."
"I like how I have the possibility to check different channels with the same policy set."
"Symantec DLP has many servers, and the solution is very powerful because you can use it in ports, endpoints, networks, and email servers to prevent the leakage of emails. DLP can be integrated with Symantec encryption."
"The most valuable aspect of Symantec DLP is its powerful policy system."
"The Network Monitor component is the most advanced on the market. Combined with the other Network DLP components."
"The product is very robust."
"The most valuable feature of Symantec Data Loss Prevention is the ease of modification."
"The solution can easily scale."
"There is a lot of ambiguity when you are setting up labels, such as sensitive information labels. It is a little daunting at first if you don't have prior knowledge, and there is a little bit of a learning curve for setting up the labels. Some of the setup wizards could be more helpful from an AI perspective. They can streamline the setup through more AI technologies so that you don't have to jump through so many hoops and different menus and dropdowns. It would be useful to have a setup wizard that is more hands-off and engaging for setting up the information type labels. If you tell them this is what we're trying to protect, it should basically start to lead you down that path of best practices. Such a feature would be great."
"The AI advancements can improve the false positives."
"A site can have different containers where you store data. We have always wanted to apply compliance, labels, and policies at the container level, rather than to an outer shell or at the site level. That is something we have been looking forward to and I believe Microsoft is already planning something like that."
"The solution should provide better integration with other systems."
"The platform can be challenging to navigate and has the potential for improvement."
"The support is poor."
"There is no AIP for Linux systems. That's a setback. Another thing it's lacking is libraries to work with Python. It has libraries for C# and C++, for example, but not for Python and, these days, Python is very useful."
"There is a need for improvements, particularly in ensuring that file-based recognition is more reliable and comprehensive."
"The Symantec DLP solution is very complex, and installation requires many components."
"They could improve the predefined reports because they don't have much information. We would like detailed reports."
"We are finding delayed response if the macOS is updated. They need to make sure their solution is compatible."
"Since being acquired by Broadcom, the support has really degraded for small and medium enterprises."
"In a majority of cases, most of the companies are using DLP for endpoint sessions, where you have a user that might be communicating information outside of the company. However, they forget there are actual interfaces that can directly communicate with either the database or other files within the data center that uses end-to-end encryption. In those cases, you might need things like your DLP to be able to monitor and block some of that. The solution needs to catch information communicated through the data center on the server-side."
"There are some features that are not available which are required by every data loss prevention solution."
"The product must improve its interface."
"Sometimes setting up the solution can get a little tricky because it would depend on your internal infrastructure. For example, you have to connect the Symantec Data Loss Prevention platform and you need to integrate it, so that could make the process somewhat difficult."
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Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention is ranked 1st in Data Loss Prevention (DLP) with 13 reviews while Symantec Data Loss Prevention is ranked 3rd in Data Loss Prevention (DLP) with 53 reviews. Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention is rated 8.0, while Symantec Data Loss Prevention is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention writes "Automation has given us consistent analytics and improved quality of insights into user activity". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Symantec Data Loss Prevention writes "Consitent, accurate, and simple". Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention is most compared with Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention, Amazon Macie, Microsoft Intune, Zscaler DLP and Digital Guardian, whereas Symantec Data Loss Prevention is most compared with Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention, Digital Guardian, Zscaler DLP, CoSoSys Endpoint Protector and Trellix DLP. See our Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention vs. Symantec Data Loss Prevention report.
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