Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention (DLP) and Symantec DLP are data security solutions helping prevent sensitive data leaks. Both offer tiered licensing based on features and deployment options, and ROI depends on implementation complexity and prevented data leaks. Purview's tighter Microsoft integration can lead to faster value realization, while Symantec might offer better ROI for complex environments.
The summary above is based on 35 interviews we conducted recently with Symantec Data Loss Prevention and Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our report.
"We can use Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention to manage devices and site policies."
"The product can block the uploads to cloud services."
"The most valuable features are identifying sensitive data and issuing alerts."
"The product is easy to configure."
"The auto-labeling feature is definitely the most valuable feature. It goes in and labels the documents for you in different repositories. It covers the Outlook and Exchange repositories along with SharePoint and OneDrive. It is really helpful in those areas."
"For Purview's natively integrated compliance across Azure, Dynamics 365, and Office 365, I would give it a 10 out of 10. It provides all the insights and information."
"I rate Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention's stability a ten out of ten."
"Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention's responses are faster. Its installation is also reliable. The security score helps with the security part."
"It is a scalable solution...The solution's technical support was good."
"The solution can easily scale."
"The accuracy in terms of the rate of detection is good."
"Good end point encryption and data loss prevention."
"The exfiltration capabilities are great. You can put all of these rules in the product to detect the patterns and text."
"The synchronize application detection policies have been very good."
"It has good options for policy findings. You can do granular policy enhancements with multiple options. And the SMB blocking is a very good feature."
"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."
"I would like Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention to be on the source code or SQL databases. It is difficult to do classification and labeling when you have a third-party source code or a third-party Oracle database. It is seamless when it comes to Microsoft documents but is not so with third-party source codes. Microsoft needs to work on it a little bit more."
"Technical support is awful."
"A site can have different containers where you store data. We have always wanted to apply compliance, labels, and policies at the container level, rather than to an outer shell or at the site level. That is something we have been looking forward to and I believe Microsoft is already planning something like that."
"There is a need for improvements, particularly in ensuring that file-based recognition is more reliable and comprehensive."
"The scalability, in terms of the portal, could be more user-friendly. Sometimes I have faced difficulties in identifying the options."
"The support is poor."
"There is no AIP for Linux systems. That's a setback. Another thing it's lacking is libraries to work with Python. It has libraries for C# and C++, for example, but not for Python and, these days, Python is very useful."
"The solution should provide better integration with other systems."
"What could be improved in Symantec Data Loss Prevention is its security. It should be more secure."
"There are some features that are not available which are required by every data loss prevention solution."
"In the object capture recognition, which we implemented recently, there are a lot of false positives that have been happening."
"Technical support is pathetic."
"Where things could be improved is that product engineering takes time to respond when we make a request. They get on a call for troubleshooting, but fixing the issue takes time."
"Agent configuration should be improved for easier interaction for users, particularly by allowing configuration changes to be done on a grid."
"Symantec could improve by being more creative and simplifying the functions. Additionally, the data protection should be bundled with data classification and labeling instead of them being separate."
"This product is very powerful but it is very complex, so making it simpler to use would be an improvement."
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Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention is ranked 1st in Data Loss Prevention (DLP) with 13 reviews while Symantec Data Loss Prevention is ranked 3rd in Data Loss Prevention (DLP) with 53 reviews. Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention is rated 8.0, while Symantec Data Loss Prevention is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention writes "Automation has given us consistent analytics and improved quality of insights into user activity". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Symantec Data Loss Prevention writes "Consitent, accurate, and simple". Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention is most compared with Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention, Microsoft Intune, Amazon Macie, Zscaler DLP and Digital Guardian, whereas Symantec Data Loss Prevention is most compared with Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention, Digital Guardian, CoSoSys Endpoint Protector, Zscaler DLP and Trend Micro Integrated Data Loss Prevention. See our Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention vs. Symantec Data Loss Prevention report.
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