We performed a comparison between Symantec DLP and Digital Guardian based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison results: Based on the parameters we compared, Symantec DLP comes out ahead of Digital Guardian. While both solutions offer valuable endpoint security and data analysis, Digital Guardian’s lack of support and high price leaves room for improvement.
"Some of the features that are highly appreciated are its robust data loss prevention capabilities, flexible deployment options, and the ability to monitor data transfer across multiple vectors."
"It has the added advantage of offering forensic analysis."
"In Digital Guardian, they have the cloud correlation servers that give you visibility work like EBR and the correlation server works very well for security analysis."
"I like the solution's adaptive inspection and container inspection."
"The most valuable feature of Digital Guardian is its reputation. They have scored high on the Gartner Magic Quadrant."
"We have been able to monitor access to files from each of our workstations."
"It has been scalable."
"The technical support is really terrific."
"The accuracy in terms of the rate of detection is good."
"The data-at-rest features are the most valuable because they let us identify data infected with ransomware and prevent employees from being exploited through phishing attacks. If an employee is compromised, the attacker can access servers and deposit ransomware. This enables the attacker to exfiltrate data remotely using employees' credentials. It might be valuable data that could cause a business reputational and financial damage if stolen and publicized. It could also be credit card data or personal health information stored on critical servers."
"The dashboard, management section, and reporting are good."
"The data matching features are the most valuable due to the easy policy setup and implementation."
"We can integrate with some other tools such as Splunk, which is very useful."
"The most valuable feature of Symantec Data Loss Prevention is the ease of modification."
"The tool's really working well, and the agents are good."
"The initial setup is easy."
"It would be helpful if there was an on-premise version of the solution for companies that cannot use the cloud, such as government sectors."
"Technical support could be better."
"There are a lot of issues with the current version of the Endpoint agent. It's not stable, it's resource-consuming, and there are some performance issues. If they could improve the stability of the agent it would be great."
"Some features on Mac and Linux are not complete currently. For example, some device control features haven't been transferred over to the other systems. If they could have their Windows features also available on Mac and Linux, that would be perfect. Some of our customers have a Mac environment for their RD environment. Having the solution fully capable of handling everything in a Mac environment is crucial."
"I would like to see the workflow, to get all the rules and policies set up, be less complicated."
"The initial setup is a bit more complex than other solutions."
"The room for improvement with Digital Guardian is that it will be better with the Linux agent because it is the only DLP solution for Linux workstations. It still needs to upgrade the agents to the latest version for the Linux kernel."
"When considering potential areas for improvement, it may be beneficial for Digital Guardian to optimize its processes and reduce the computational demands on the system, particularly with regard to high CPU usage. Although Digital Guardian offers numerous benefits, it can consume a substantial amount of RAM and CPU power."
"The enforce service is difficult to understand, and free courses made available on the internet would be useful."
"The product's technical support services need improvement."
"The database is a problem for us, as it's running on Oracle and not everybody likes that."
"The upgrade process is convoluted. The server and database software must run in line with third-party providers like the Oracle database. If an Oracle database reaches the end of its life, then servers must be decommissioned, and you need to bring new servers online. When the maintenance packages are deployed to the management server, they don't get pushed to the detection servers. Each detection server must be manually installed rather than automatically made from a single server. If it's a large enterprise, you need to manually install it or use a GPO or some other technology, which I never use."
"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."
"This product is very powerful but it is very complex, so making it simpler to use would be an improvement."
"There should be more information about the features of the solution and what they do. This way we would be able to use all the features that are available."
"I do have a problem with the database."
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Digital Guardian is ranked 10th in Data Loss Prevention (DLP) with 11 reviews while Symantec Data Loss Prevention is ranked 3rd in Data Loss Prevention (DLP) with 53 reviews. Digital Guardian is rated 7.4, while Symantec Data Loss Prevention is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Digital Guardian writes "Great data classification and data discover with built-in endpoint detection and response". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Symantec Data Loss Prevention writes "Consitent, accurate, and simple". Digital Guardian is most compared with Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention, Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention, CrowdStrike Falcon, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint and Faronics Deep Freeze, whereas Symantec Data Loss Prevention is most compared with Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention, Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention, Zscaler DLP, CoSoSys Endpoint Protector and Trellix DLP. See our Digital Guardian vs. Symantec Data Loss Prevention report.
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