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.
"Offers some good protection features."
"I am impressed with the tool's firewalls and web protection."
"The most valuable feature is strong data leak prevention for data protection."
"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 tool focuses on endpoints rather than networks. Endpoints cover everything. It wouldn't be possible to steal confidential information from endpoints."
"The interface showcases threat incidents very well."
"The product is largely stable."
"The solution is very user-friendly and valuable."
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"An excellent solution for data classification."
"The most valuable features of Symantec Data Loss Prevention are endpoint security, endpoint agent, and DLP. Additionally, we have been satisfied with the policies."
"Symantec Data Loss Prevention is the number one product in its field. It does its job well and it has all the necessary features. It is definitely better than any other solution on the market."
"There's only one policy needed to implement for all channels."
"Technical support is very professional and responsive."
"They have a feature on the management side called the document indexer. Let's say you have a unique document with many near identical versions, which have one or several values that change, while the rest of the content stays the same. You can collect 50 of those documents and put them into this feature of the Symantec DLP system. It will compress them and create a profile specifically for that document."
"The product helps with blocking sensitive data transmission and permission management."
"The most valuable aspect of Symantec DLP is its powerful policy system."
"The pricing is high for licensing and support and the GUI interface is good but could use updating."
"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."
"It could improve how it deals with solar data."
"The initial setup is very complex."
"Technical support doesn't really offer fast response times."
"There needs to be support for blocking the sending of files by email because even if you block or remove an external disk, the files are not protected."
"Our client is not very happy with the lack of support, the skills, and the effectiveness of the tool."
"McAfee Total Protection for Data Loss Prevention could improve by having artificial intelligence."
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"We want a more proactive reporting structure."
"The policies need to be improved."
"What could be improved in Symantec Data Loss Prevention is its security. It should be more secure."
"We need to have agent auto-parsing."
"Different departments should manage administration, reporting, normalization and incident management."
"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."
"The solution is not user-friendly."
"It is very difficult to log in to create a support ticket because no one is available to support our queries."
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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 50 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 "A lot of false positives have been eliminated, helping with our operational costs". McAfee Total Protection for Data Loss Prevention is most compared with Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention, Cisco Secure Endpoint, Trend Micro Integrated Data Loss Prevention and HP Wolf Security, whereas Symantec Data Loss Prevention is most compared with Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention, Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention, Digital Guardian, CoSoSys Endpoint Protector and Zscaler Cloud DLP. See our McAfee Total Protection for Data Loss Prevention vs. Symantec Data Loss Prevention report.
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