We compared Symantec Endpoint Encryption and McAfee Complete Data Protection across several parameters based on our users' reviews. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below:
Comparison Results: Symantec is highly regarded for its security capabilities and encryption, while McAfee is praised for its comprehensive security features and compliance standards. Symantec's pricing is considered expensive compared to other solutions, whereas McAfee's pricing is rated as moderate and reasonable. Symantec's customer service and support receive mixed feedback, while McAfee's support is commended for its responsiveness and helpfulness.
"It is part of the DLP and works well for that use case."
"In addition, it is easy to use, and you can define rules that protect the database beyond the built-in rules of the product. I found another purpose for the product besides the basic things that it does, protecting the database: privileged use, weak authentication, SQL injection and and database platform vulnerability."
"The solution has a good interface."
"It works seamlessly as long as it's well configured and the policies have been put properly."
"In the configuration, you can restrict a user from accessing a removable drive."
"Complete Data Protection lets us define roles in our data products. It helps us identify something suspicious on the client's device."
"The most important feature of McAfee Complete Data Protection to my customers is the ePO or the management console. It's easy to use and it's scalable. You can also generate the reports you want on the console. It's a mature management console. The features that McAfee Complete Data Protection has, for example, anti-spam features and other features can also be found on other solutions, but the most unique feature you can find in the solution is the ePO itself, the management console."
"With McAfee Complete Data Protection, you can managed all your security solutions from one single server and one interface. This might be the most powerful advantage of McAfee's solution."
"We can extend it to all of the critical endpoints and the servers, and we can ensure the confidentiality of the data."
"It is fairly stable."
"We find the dashboard, endpoint mobile encryption, and email encryption valuable."
"Disk encryption and file and folder encryption are the most valuable and used features. It is also very well integrated with Symantec Messaging Gateway and Symantec DLP, which is helpful in protecting any kind of information that goes outside. Symantec DLP catches an email and sends it to the encryption server. The encryption server encrypts the email and intimates to the user that confidential information is being sent out. The administrator can then take appropriate action."
"The solution’s installation was easy."
"It helps us put antivirus solutions in place and prevent malware from getting to our machines."
"Overall Symantec Endpoint Encryption is a reasonable solution."
"The most valuable feature is that it works in the background so that the end-users are not aware of what is happening on the laptop."
"The product must improve endpoint encryption."
"The UI could be improved a bit."
"Though there may be some ransomware detection modules now in McAfee Complete Data Protection, it's a field that McAfee should focus on, particularly having integration with some EDR or other add-ons. This is so McAfee Complete Data Protection would have more accuracy in detecting new ransomware in the market. What I'd like to see in the next release of the solution is for its pricing to be more cost-effective because some competitors have cheaper pricing, so McAfee Complete Data Protection can't compete. Sometimes, some new vendors offer other solutions rather than McAfee Complete Data Protection, to win customers over, and this is a loss for McAfee."
"The solution needs more advanced features."
"The refresh feature needs improvement. You need to refresh it manually yt going to the address bar, clicking on it and pressing enter, or pressing F5. There should be a button you can click on to refresh or have it so every five seconds it's refreshing."
"There are compatibility issues with the Chrome browser."
"As a new technology, it does need to grow."
"Some clients still receive spam and malware in their attachments, so the data protection isn't working correctly. We have configured it and enabled the features in the client's system, but some policies have failed to work once or twice."
"There are other solutions in the market that have new features. The feature could improve."
"It was hard to install and took us about three months."
"Its decryption time needs to be improved. Currently, its decryption time is very long, and it takes double time than encryption. They need to work on that. Its encryption time is fine."
"It's a bit difficult to get good support. Their response times are really bad."
"The solution presently doesn't let network folder encryption be done on Macintosh."
"The program's disk encryption is not very friendly with Microsoft OS updates. We have a problem with updates failing unless we use a time-consuming work-around."
"The solution does slow down the device a little bit, once it's installed."
"It's difficult to integrate the solution with the DLP"
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McAfee Complete Data Protection is ranked 2nd in Endpoint Encryption with 30 reviews while Symantec Endpoint Encryption is ranked 7th in Endpoint Encryption with 34 reviews. McAfee Complete Data Protection is rated 8.0, while Symantec Endpoint Encryption is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of McAfee Complete Data Protection writes "Bandwidth is reduced and online protection does a good job of identifying traits". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Symantec Endpoint Encryption writes "Provides a centralized management console and a straightforward initial setup process ". McAfee Complete Data Protection is most compared with Microsoft BitLocker, Cisco Secure Endpoint, Check Point Full Disk Encryption Software Blade, Trend Micro Endpoint Encryption and Sophos SafeGuard, whereas Symantec Endpoint Encryption is most compared with Microsoft BitLocker, Cisco Secure Endpoint, Digital Guardian, WinMagic SecureDoc and ESET Endpoint Encryption. See our McAfee Complete Data Protection vs. Symantec Endpoint Encryption report.
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