We performed a comparison between Elastic Security and Symantec Endpoint Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Log Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The performance is good and it is faster than IBM QRadar."
"The most valuable feature of Elastic Security is that you can install agents, and they are not separately licensed."
"We chose the product based on the ability to scan for malware using a malware behavioral model as opposed to just a traditional hash-based antivirus. Therefore, it's not as intensive."
"The solution is compatible with the cloud-native environment and they can adapt to it faster."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"It is very quick to react. I can set it to check anomalies or suspicious behavior every 30 seconds. It is very fast."
"The visualization is very good."
"I like the indexing of the logs."
"It is easy to use. Its interface is user-friendly. So, anybody can use it very well, which is a good thing."
"The solution is completely scalable."
"With Symantec, I always know this tool will be reliable and with the latest protection."
"This product is valuable for ransomware protection, general malware protection, and network exploitation protection."
"The product blocks computer viruses."
"I like the malware threat control policy and USB blocker. In Symantec Manager, we use multiple available features, so we created firewall policies to prevent any malware attack from the network or device controls."
"What I like most about Symantec is the intrusion detection module. If you are scanning the environment, it will flag a possible intruder and tell you the IP and where the attack is coming from. Traditional antivirus solutions will never flag that. If you have a traditional SIEM, you might be able to pick that up. Symantec is a holistic endpoint security solution, so when you scan an endpoint, Symantec will let you know that something is happening to it."
"The application and device control functionality is good. We are able to see which applications are installed using the product management dashboard."
"It's a little bit of a learning curve to understand the logic of searching for things and trying to find what you're looking for in Elastic Security."
"The tool should improve its scalability."
"There isn't really a very good user experience. You need a lot of training."
"Anything that supports high availability or ease of deployment in a highly available environment would help to improve this solution."
"I think because we are a cybersecurity company, the thing that can be improved is the prebuilt tools, especially quality. Compared to its competitor, they still have fewer prebuilt security rules. Elastic Security, in terms of generating alerts, cannot group the same products into one another. Even though the alerts are the same, they still generate them one by one. So, it is very noisy in our dashboard. I would like the Elastic Security admin to group all the same alarms into one alarm so that our dashboard is not noisy."
"The solution's query building is not that intuitive compared to other solutions."
"We'd like to see some more artificial intelligence capabilities."
"They don't provide user authentication and authorisation features (Shield) as a part of their open-source version."
"The monitoring capabilities could be further developed."
"I find the documentation on Symantec.com to be not very updated. It seems like Symantec focuses more on their product than on documentation."
"The malware and ransomware protections could be improved, which was ultimately the reason why I stopped using the solution."
"Users mostly complain that the solution slows down the system whenever something is scanned."
"They are lacking the visibility that you get in a heuristical, next-generation AI product."
"It can be improved in terms of features and integration. It should have more advanced features and more integration. Currently, it is just talking to their own solutions. They could add more artificial intelligence, more XDR, and more integration with other vendors so that we can do sharing of information with other vendors."
"The solution should have more integration with other platforms."
"It needs to die. In my opinion, Symantec was a really great security company, 10, 15 years ago. They went out, they bought all the great tools and then they never did anything with them. So they've just fallen behind and there's nothing that's going to work now to bring them back up the date that's going to regain user confidence."
Elastic Security is ranked 5th in Log Management with 58 reviews while Symantec Endpoint Security is ranked 5th in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 138 reviews. Elastic Security is rated 7.6, while Symantec Endpoint Security is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Elastic Security writes "A stable and scalable tool that provides visibility along with the consolidation of logs to its users". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Symantec Endpoint Security writes "The solution has given us visibility into compliance within our whole system and helped us ensure everything is updated". Elastic Security is most compared with Wazuh, Splunk Enterprise Security, Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint and IBM Security QRadar, whereas Symantec Endpoint Security is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, CrowdStrike Falcon, Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks, Trend Micro Deep Security and Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business. See our Elastic Security vs. Symantec Endpoint Security report.
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