We performed a comparison between McAfee Total Protection for Data Loss Prevention and Sophos SafeGuard based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Data Loss Prevention (DLP) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The whitelisting works well."
"The solution is stable."
"The most valuable features of McAfee Total Protection for Data Loss Prevention are the DLP. The DLP, data loss prevention is the most important feature right now that users are looking for."
"The overall features of McAfee Total Protection for Data Loss Prevention are very good."
"It can scale."
"The most valuable feature is strong data leak prevention for data protection."
"Enables customization of file types and for different scenarios."
"I am impressed with the tool's firewalls and web protection."
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"The most valuable features of the solution are the fact that they are able to encrypt the hard disk and to encrypt USB sticks."
"What I love most about Sophos SafeGuard is its user-friendly interface. My company has another software with a complex user interface versus Sophos SafeGuard, which is extremely easy to use."
"It is one of the best products when it comes to stability."
"It's the best solution on the market."
"The monitoring features are easy to use."
"It's quite easy to integrate Safeguard with BitLocker"
"The malware protection and the scanning features are most valuable in this solution."
"It's a straightforward solution."
"The initial setup is very complex."
"Technical support doesn't really offer fast response times."
"McAfee Total Protection for Data Loss Prevention needs to improve the resources it uses for CPU and RAM."
"The UI needs to be simplified."
"McAfee needs to clarify its rules."
"McAfee Total Protection for Data Loss Prevention could improve by having artificial intelligence."
"It could improve how it deals with solar data."
"The support from McAfee Total Protection for Data Loss Prevention is good. However, if they provided 24 hours a day seven days a week support that would be a helpful addition."
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"Sometimes, multiple updates and crashes happen in the tool, making it an area where improvements are required."
"An area for improvement in Sophos SafeGuard is the pricing. Pricing should be better when adding a new account or scaling the 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."
"Sophos should conduct some seminars to teach people how to use it and also to inform the users about what they should do in case of problems."
"The product is not cheap."
"The solution is not using other features like booting encryption, because it causes very heavy processing of the workstation. If they could find some way to handle the encryption and decryption to be lighter on the workstation it would be better."
"The cost is rather expensive. It's a pain point for many clients. They should work to see if they can reduce pricing."
"I would like to see a support-cloud, where Sophos creates a single package that contains all of its products."
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McAfee Total Protection for Data Loss Prevention is ranked 9th in Data Loss Prevention (DLP) with 29 reviews while Sophos SafeGuard is ranked 3rd in Endpoint Encryption with 34 reviews. McAfee Total Protection for Data Loss Prevention is rated 7.4, while Sophos SafeGuard is rated 8.6. 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 Sophos SafeGuard writes "Stable solution that preserves data confidentiality". 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 Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention, whereas Sophos SafeGuard is most compared with Microsoft BitLocker, Trend Micro Endpoint Encryption, ESET Endpoint Encryption, Cisco Secure Endpoint and McAfee Complete Data Protection. See our McAfee Total Protection for Data Loss Prevention vs. Sophos SafeGuard report.
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