We performed a comparison between Microsoft BitLocker, Sophos SafeGuard, and Symantec Endpoint Encryption based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, McAfee, Check Point Software Technologies and others in Endpoint Encryption."We have not seen any bugs or glitches, so the stability is good."
"While it helps mitigate unauthorized data access by enhancing file and system protection through encryption, the tool is really enhanced with the combination of other Microsoft Security and Compliance features like data labeling."
"The most valuable feature is the simplicity and integration with the Microsoft Clouds platform."
"It holds significant value as it reduces the need for extensive IT management to handle security across networks and environments"
"Whole Disk Encryption is great. BitLocker runs seamlessly during boot up."
"Integration with System Center Configuration Manager (C: and D: logical drives are encrypted before installing Windows via SCCM)."
"It's a straightforward solution for encryption."
"One significant aspect is that without the BitLocker key, you can't log in to the user's laptop. I appreciate the capability to encrypt the user's hard drive, ensuring access only with the recovery key. In an enterprise setup, we store all BitLocker keys on our server. So, whenever a user attempts to log in, the architecture authenticates with the key. This ensures that our data is secure. Even if the user's laptop is lost, we have confidence that the data remains inaccessible. So far, our user data is well-protected."
"It's a straightforward solution."
"The intrusion detection system."
"It is seamless and easy to install. We haven't encountered any recent issues."
"The most valuable features of the solution are the fact that they are able to encrypt the hard disk and to encrypt USB sticks."
"The setup process is straightforward."
"The most valuable feature is the synchronized security. It's a unique feature on the market at this time only offered by Sophos. As a reseller, we often win bids and get clients because of this unique trademark feature."
"The monitoring features are easy to use."
"The product filters phishing emails."
"We use it for protecting accounts, which is its most valuable feature."
"The installation process is pretty straightforward."
"The initial setup was easy."
"It is fairly stable."
"Its management is good, and it is also scalable and mostly stable."
"Their cloud features such as Cloud Endpoint security, ransomware modules, malware, and other modules are very effective."
"One notable aspect is the ability to customize alerts and other settings."
"The management console gives us the ability to quickly control who sees what, ensures we are on the latest version, and up-to-date."
"Some of the technical internal functions, such as encryption protocols or something similar, could be improved."
"The solution could be improved if it was more user friendly."
"The solution could improve by having a centralized GUI for management."
"The solution needs to have better protection and improve its pricing."
"The implementation of BitLocker is not simple. There are many prerequisites and hours of study and testing."
"I would like to see improvement in the solution's central management of passwords. Currently, we install it separately."
"The biggest one for us is revoking access. So, even though someone downloads something to a device, we want the ability to cloak that device or data and bring it back or make that data unusable for that person. Currently, BitLocker doesn't give us that ability. It basically encrypts it. We're seeing if identity management or IAM allows us to do that. We're kind of looking at third-party software that does that for us."
"The solution lacks the ability to allow its user to provide limited access to someone."
"It's a good product, but some are not happy with the boot BCN, and the point-to-point VPN requires the best protection."
"The product's next release could have integration features with different internal and external systems."
"An area for improvement in Sophos SafeGuard is the pricing. Pricing should be better when adding a new account or scaling the product."
"It just needs a little bit more on the reporting side. Its reporting can be improved a little bit in terms of being able to know that things are in the right status. I should be able to pull a report to make sure that everything is all right. It could also have cloud integration. At the time I was using it, it wasn't a cloud product."
"In the next release, I would like to see more automation with the endpoint logging, but it's a special feature that is quite complicated to explain."
"You have to pay extra for some additional features, like data extraction. It would be nice if everything was available in one bundle."
"Technical support could be a bit better."
"The Office 360 integration could be improved."
"They have too high of a price tag. That's why they're losing the market share."
"What I didn't find helpful in the version we used is the fact that all devices had to be on the same network for us to push through the encryption."
"Its remote deployment should be improved. Currently, there is no remote deployment for Symantec Endpoint Encryption. You have to install it manually. There are some issues with AD integration and the time taken to reflect a password on the Endpoint Encryption Manager when a new user has changed the password, but they are already working on these issues, and these will be resolved in the next release."
"There are other solutions in the market that have new features. The feature could improve."
"If for example, a user forgets the endpoint key, they cannot access their data. We need a support team that is a single point of contact for the IT entity to be trained and to have documentation for troubleshooting and managing the solution."
"The program's disk encryption is not very friendly with Microsoft OS updates. We have a problem with updates failing unless we use a time-consuming work-around."
"The agent can be improved on the solution. Right now, we have an Endpoint Protection agent as well as an encryption agent and another for the DLVs and other services. We would prefer a single agent for the entire product."
"I think that they should improve the on-premises version to include the manageability and simplicity that is available on the cloud."