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 product provides us with an excellent, dependable solution to recommend to clients for their security needs."
"The product is largely stable."
"Enables customization of file types and for different scenarios."
"The tool focuses on endpoints rather than networks. Endpoints cover everything. It wouldn't be possible to steal confidential information from endpoints."
"You can manage your compliance in line with legislation such as GDPR and POPIA."
"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."
"Offers some good protection features."
"The initial setup process was easy."
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"One of the most valuable features is the ability to manage antivirus security. There is an admin console that helps you make policies and do deployment of the clients, to make them reachable and to deploy updates."
"It is a scalable product and is average stability-wise."
"I think the key thing for me, is interoperability, in that you can deploy it to Windows, Mac, and Linux. That's been a really important feature in the last two years. Now there's one management console to cover all three OSs."
"Offers good antivirus and local firewall."
"There is no other endpoint solution that will help you in preventing lateral-movement attacks on Active Directory. And Active Directory is one of the more critical assets within an organization."
"Symantec have everything – documentation, videos, data sheets."
"It is easy to use. Its interface is user-friendly. So, anybody can use it very well, which is a good thing."
"The solution, especially in older versions, is quite stable."
"Integration with other vendors could be improved. For example, with Chrome or Firefox."
"Lacks GDPR regulations to enhance security."
"McAfee Total Protection for Data Loss Prevention needs to improve the resources it uses for CPU and RAM."
"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."
"McAfee needs to clarify its rules."
"The pricing is high for licensing and support and the GUI interface is good but could use updating."
"It could improve how it deals with solar data."
"The support from McAfee Total Protection for Data Loss Prevention is good. However, if they provided 24 hours a day seven days a week support that would be a helpful addition."
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"It would be perfect if it is capable of detecting or checking ransomware."
"Its GUI needs improvement. It's good, but it needs to be improved in terms of management and reporting."
"It would be nice to have customized reports integrated on the main console with no additional DB server or BI server."
"We were having a problem in Version 14, where the client machines used to go into the health state and once it restarted, and never came back again."
"The virus definitions could be updated more frequently."
"The technical support could be a bit better."
"I would like to see fileless attack protection."
"The solution is very difficult to uninstall. There isn't really a way to uninstall the product at all, which is quite a headache."
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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 CoSoSys Endpoint Protector, 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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