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."
"It has been scalable."
"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 can scale from 100 to 10,000. There's no problem with the scalability."
"DLP's most valuable feature is that it's more granular in terms of creating block-based policies, which gives you more options to create policies in a filtered way."
"The features I like most about this solution is the endpoint modules because it gives us the protection we need."
"We can integrate with some other tools such as Splunk, which is very useful."
"The incident response options and reporting features are particularly strong, with the inclusion of Incident Classification Assessment (ICA) for integrated reporting."
"All of the features are really important, including DLP for the OCR and endpoint. It will be all of the combined features that will give you the strength to control the data. Every feature has its own uniqueness, different control and will help you to protect the data."
"The Network Monitor component is the most advanced on the market. Combined with the other Network DLP components."
"The exfiltration capabilities are great. You can put all of these rules in the product to detect the patterns and text."
"The most valuable feature of Symantec Data Loss Prevention is the ease of modification."
"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."
"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."
"If the client uses Windows 10 or 11 and Microsoft updates the operating system's version, Digital Guardian must update their product to match compatibility."
"Digital Guardian is an excellent solution but our experience with the partner has been the most horrible experience we have ever had with any partner."
"The solution has complexities around policy creation and deployment."
"The initial setup is a bit more complex than other solutions."
"I would like to see the workflow, to get all the rules and policies set up, be less complicated."
"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."
"The Symantec DLP solution is very complex, and installation requires many components."
"Different departments should manage administration, reporting, normalization and incident management."
"That fine tuning has to be done for the customer as well as the vendor. So if I take Symantec DLP, we have to have some final fine tuning but we may need some time developing this depending on the customer. This is an area where something can be done to improve the product."
"Since being acquired by Broadcom, the support has really degraded for small and medium enterprises."
"The product's pricing and support services need improvement."
"We need to have agent auto-parsing."
"The solution is not user-friendly."
"DLP could be improved by implementing a cloud-based console."
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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 Trend Micro Integrated Data Loss Prevention. See our Digital Guardian vs. Symantec Data Loss Prevention report.
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