We performed a comparison between Check Point SandBlast Network and Symantec Advanced Threat Protection based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The main feature of the solution is that it protects against malicious threats from the outside."
"It saves time with us trying to do the analysis. We use it to try to find out how something got into the network. We use it to stop something before it ever gets in."
"The zero-day protection is its most valuable feature."
"The Check Point SandBlast Network gives us incredibly good features."
"When our workers are downloading software, SandBlast Cloud is useful to emulate the downloads that the workers are doing. Then, there are no threats coming into the company."
"In terms of the scalability, it's expandable across the cloud."
"We didn't really have any IPS before. So, Check Point has improved our security posture. People get used to doing things certain ways, which might not be the best or most secure way, and they can't do that now, which just requires more education of the user base. With the endpoint client, we've started to use Check Point for remote access."
"Very few false positives are detected, which gives the confidence to raise flags when needed, ensuring the IT department is aware of threats and acting fast."
"What I like most about Symantec Advanced Threat Protection is its notification capability."
"Technical support has been helpful and responsive."
"They manage to solve detection quite nicely. There is some rather elaborate detection compared to other providers."
"Symantec Endpoint Protection provides end-to-end protection. Along with antivirus protection, it has a lot of key areas, including intrusive prevention, firewall features, and application and device control."
"Endpoint to network protects the line."
"The great advantage in using this product is it creates multiple services."
"All of the solution's features are quite valuable for us. We especially like the threat protection it provides."
"Technical support is very responsive. You just have to open a ticket. They respond in a timely manner. Their response is good. I'm satisfied."
"Using it in the beginning was difficult because I had never used anything similar. In terms of navigating the UI, it was all not too bad, but there is definitely a learning curve."
"In Check Point SandBlast, improvement has to be made with respect to the GUI."
"The technical support could use some work, but it's okay. It's a little bit of a tedious process to get through."
"I would like to see some speed improvements, e.g., how quickly you can get through all the menus. It crashes sometimes because we push so much through it. Therefore, I would like to see more small things behind the scenes, such as, back-end stability in terms of the management application."
"Today, we have it as part of a solution or a package. However, we'd like there to be a way where we can have the solution's features available to us in a cheaper way in the future."
"We have found a need for the application to be a bit more elastic, bringing it to SAS services and not IAS."
"I would like for them to improve the visibility in the product."
"Many Important controls are only available in CLI & very very complicated. All tecli command features should available on GUI so that it will become easy for normal users to monitor & control queue."
"Entire threat protection is not available for the advanced features."
"The security features need to be improved."
"It's a strange situation where the infrastructure of the consumer or customer is behind some kind of firewall and they have always used some kind of customized proxy. In this situation, the ATP has a very tough time to pass the information to the cloud and back. To fix, it requires a more elaborate and complex configuration for that particular case."
"There are limits with respect to blocking files by hash value or blocking IP addresses, and these limits should be removed."
"The product's support services need improvement."
"The cloud platform needs to have improvement in terms of the user interface and the different capabilities it has available. It needs to match the other leading next-gen EDR products that are available in the market. That's the reason why we are stepping away from Symantec. Their cloud environment is just generally lacking in comparison to others."
"The support for new OSs and older OSs could be a little tighter. They need to be more upfront about what protection services they're going to provide on new OSs. I haven't seen the Windows 11 version out yet. It is either already released in Beta, or the Beta will be released soon. There could be a little bit more advanced updates on what they're doing to help protect Windows 11 environments. They can let us know in advance so that we know it is going to be protected. We can't roll out the new OS without putting end-point protection on it. So, they should tell us what is their support model for that, and what are they doing to protect Windows 11. They're not telling me, and that's a criticism. The same issue is applicable to all the other antivirus tools. It is not just Symantec; all of them have this problem."
"The administration interface needs a lot of improvement. It should be UI based, and simple. They need to improve it. It's pretty much not that friendly compared to what we were using as Bitdefender before. It's okay but is improving, actually."
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Check Point SandBlast Network is ranked 8th in Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) with 33 reviews while Symantec Advanced Threat Protection is ranked 21st in Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) with 14 reviews. Check Point SandBlast Network is rated 8.4, while Symantec Advanced Threat Protection is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Check Point SandBlast Network writes "High detection with few false positives and able to handle large volumes of data". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Symantec Advanced Threat Protection writes "Provides end-to-end antivirus protection and has good stability ". Check Point SandBlast Network is most compared with Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Fortinet FortiSandbox, Cisco Secure Network Analytics, Microsoft Defender for Office 365 and Trend Micro Deep Discovery, whereas Symantec Advanced Threat Protection is most compared with Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Trellix Network Detection and Response, Fortinet FortiSandbox and Arbor DDoS. See our Check Point SandBlast Network vs. Symantec Advanced Threat Protection report.
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