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.
"The product can block the uploads to cloud services."
"Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention's responses are faster. Its installation is also reliable. The security score helps with the security part."
"It has helped our clients to reduce the time to action on insider threats because it can be integrated."
"There's a good amount of documentation in case you run into any problems."
"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."
"The most valuable features are identifying sensitive data and issuing alerts."
"The product is easy to configure."
"I rate Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention's stability a ten out of ten."
"DLP's most valuable feature is compliance."
"The incident response capability has been instrumental in mitigating potential data loss."
"The synchronize application detection policies have been very good."
"We find the product is easy to manage and maintain."
"We can integrate with some other tools such as Splunk, which is very useful."
"The most valuable feature is file-level DLP."
"The exfiltration capabilities are great. You can put all of these rules in the product to detect the patterns and text."
"What we like about Symantec Data Loss Prevention is that it's a very good product. We never faced any problems with its performance. It has very good performance. There was this RAM issue, but it was an internal issue which we've sorted out. Apart from the RAM issue, there are no other issues with Symantec Data Loss Prevention."
"Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention's licensing is expensive."
"The platform can be challenging to navigate and has the potential for improvement."
"The support is poor."
"They do not provide language options beyond the ones already available, so our language option is missing."
"Technical support is awful."
"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."
"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."
"There is a need for improvements, particularly in ensuring that file-based recognition is more reliable and comprehensive."
"We're not sure if there was an issue or a bug on the system recently because as of right now if someone sends out a compressed encrypted file, the DLP won't scan it."
"The deployment is complex."
"The solution could offer improved more informative documentation."
"The product's technical support services need improvement."
"They could improve the predefined reports because they don't have much information. We would like detailed reports."
"There is room for improvement in the remote control capabilities of the DLP solution."
"The enforce service is difficult to understand, and free courses made available on the internet would be useful."
"There should be more information about the features of the solution and what they do. This way we would be able to use all the features that are available."
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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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