We compared McAfee Total Protection for Data Loss Prevention and Symantec Data Loss Prevention across several parameters based on our users' reviews. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below:
Comparison Results: McAfee's setup process can vary in complexity, whereas Symantec offers more flexibility. McAfee provides a wide range of policies and user control, while Symantec excels in capturing and blocking data breaches. McAfee is generally considered expensive in terms of pricing, while Symantec's pricing is seen as high but fair. McAfee's customer support could be improved, while Symantec's support receives mixed feedback. McAfee prioritizes user-friendliness and data loss prevention, while Symantec focuses on effective breach capture and cost savings.
"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."
"The ability to block all USBs from the McAfee portal has been great."
"Everything in this DLP is great. It"
"McAfee Total Protection for Data Loss Prevention is a very stable product."
"This solution has a rich set of policies."
"The solution is very user-friendly and valuable."
"The initial setup process was easy."
"The most valuable feature right now is the user control."
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"The dashboard, management section, and reporting are good."
"The product is very stable."
"The accuracy in terms of the rate of detection is good."
"Symantec DLP has many servers, and the solution is very powerful because you can use it in ports, endpoints, networks, and email servers to prevent the leakage of emails. DLP can be integrated with Symantec encryption."
"Technical support is very professional and responsive."
"It is a scalable solution...The solution's technical support was good."
"The detection capabilities are comprehensive."
"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 UI needs to be simplified."
"The user interface is messy and could be simplified."
"The interface can be improved, it's too cluttered."
"In my experience, it's not really user-friendly for me, in terms of how I navigate with the ePolicy Orchestrator. They need to upgrade their management console."
"When this solution is used it requires a lot of administration because the users can have difficulties using it and require assistance. The administrators are continuously modifying the policies for the users. Technical support will be used frequently."
"The solution takes up too much CPU and memory."
"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 Total Protection for Data Loss Prevention needs to improve the resources it uses for CPU and RAM."
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"Symantec DLP doesn't provide complete cloud coverage. We need another DLP solution to monitor our cloud applications."
"Sometimes setting up the solution can get a little tricky because it would depend on your internal infrastructure. For example, you have to connect the Symantec Data Loss Prevention platform and you need to integrate it, so that could make the process somewhat difficult."
"I do have a problem with the database."
"The solution could offer improved more informative documentation."
"There is room for improvement in the remote control capabilities of the DLP solution."
"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."
"Symantec Data Loss Prevention's AI technology has certain shortcomings where improvements can be made."
"They need to expand the channels they check."
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McAfee Total Protection for Data Loss Prevention is ranked 9th in Data Loss Prevention (DLP) with 29 reviews while Symantec Data Loss Prevention is ranked 3rd in Data Loss Prevention (DLP) with 53 reviews. McAfee Total Protection for Data Loss Prevention is rated 7.4, while Symantec Data Loss Prevention is rated 8.0. 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 Data Loss Prevention writes "Consitent, accurate, and simple". 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 and Cisco Secure Endpoint, whereas Symantec Data Loss Prevention is most compared with Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention, Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention, Digital Guardian, Zscaler DLP and CoSoSys Endpoint Protector. See our McAfee Total Protection for Data Loss Prevention vs. Symantec Data Loss Prevention report.
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