We performed a comparison between McAfee Total Protection for Data Loss Prevention and Symantec Endpoint Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Forcepoint, Broadcom and others in Data Loss Prevention (DLP)."The administrative capabilities and the interface make this product accessible and easy to use."
"The solution has good stability and endpoint."
"The product is largely stable."
"The product provides us with an excellent, dependable solution to recommend to clients for their security needs."
"The ability to block all USBs from the McAfee portal has been great."
"The whitelisting works well."
"The solution is very user-friendly and valuable."
"The interface showcases threat incidents very well."
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"Symantec ATP provides quite a good overview of how threats have spread within the company."
"The technical support is very good. They have an Indian support team, so there are no delays in receiving support."
"The mobile application is valuable. You are able to see the reports of intrusions and the like on mobile devices. That is one of the coolest aspects."
"Offers good antivirus and local firewall."
"It's a robust product."
"No maintenance is required after a successful installation phase."
"Symantec Endpoint Security is easy to use, fast, and good for small and medium-sized businesses."
"The most amazing qualities of Symantec Endpoint Protection is that it provides a total solution to all virus problems."
"Lacks GDPR regulations to enhance security."
"Integration with other vendors could be improved. For example, with Chrome or Firefox."
"It could improve how it deals with solar data."
"The product uses a lot of resources and because of this it is not always a good solution for every situation."
"The interface can be improved, it's too cluttered."
"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."
"I would like the solution to improve the AI features for anti-virus detection. I also want the software to include a tool for malware detection."
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"We must have complete dissolution with advance care protection but we are finding out that we need more Symantec technical specialists. We have identified a need to hire at least one more technical specialist familiar with Symantec to improve our solutions capabilities."
"It would be interesting if Symantec Endpoint protection could also manage Windows Defender. If they were to add a feature, it would be nice if you could see the Symantec client and the Windows Defender client in case you choose to deploy both."
"I would like to see improvements in the anti-virus and the device control features."
"The solution is very difficult to uninstall. There isn't really a way to uninstall the product at all, which is quite a headache."
"They lack the visibility you get in a heuristical, artificial, AI type of product, like a next-gen antivirus."
"The solution has become quite complicated since Broadcom acquired Symantec, and we no longer sell it or try not to sell it."
"Its GUI needs improvement. It's good, but it needs to be improved in terms of management and reporting."
"Sometimes tech support is a bit slow to find a solution."
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McAfee Total Protection for Data Loss Prevention is ranked 9th in Data Loss Prevention (DLP) with 29 reviews while Symantec Endpoint Security is ranked 5th in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 139 reviews. McAfee Total Protection for Data Loss Prevention is rated 7.4, while Symantec Endpoint Security is rated 7.6. 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 Endpoint Security writes "The solution has given us visibility into compliance within our whole system and helped us ensure everything is updated". McAfee Total Protection for Data Loss Prevention is most compared with Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention, HP Wolf Security, Trend Micro Integrated Data Loss Prevention, Cisco Secure Endpoint and CoSoSys Endpoint Protector, 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.
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