We performed a comparison between Sophos EPP Suite and Symantec Endpoint Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Additionally, when it comes to EDR, there are more tools available to assist with client work."
"The price is low and quite competitive with others."
"NGAV and EDR features are outstanding."
"It is stable and scalable."
"The setup is pretty simple."
"The most valuable feature is the analysis, because of the beta structure."
"We have FortiEDR installed on all our systems. This protects them from any threats."
"The solution was relatively easy to deploy."
"The solution's most valuable aspect, for us, is the DLP portion of the product."
"Sophos EPP Suite stands out with its user-friendly dashboard and strong web filtering features for enhanced online security."
"This product is quite stable and there are no problems with it."
"The anti-malware and web filtering are the solutions most valuable aspects."
"So easy to deploy and use that you really don't even need their technical support."
"The product is stable and has a user-friendly dashboard. It has good security features."
"In terms of the Firewall, the EAP assist, the simple interface and the reporting features are quite good for clients. It's very easy to understand and to navigate the Dashboard."
"Sophos EPP Suite's most valuable feature is ease of use."
"The features I find the most valuable are the protection, the encryption, and the DLP."
"The solution is easy to use."
"It's good for large organizations. It's able to handle a lot of users."
"It is easy to use. Its interface is user-friendly. So, anybody can use it very well, which is a good thing."
"Symantec has cloud-based endpoint protection, so whether a user is off the network or on the network, the endpoint will be protected by the cloud."
"The product has been quite stable."
"Scalability."
"The most valuable feature of Symantec Endpoint Security is the protection of our systems."
"I haven't seen the use of AI in the solution."
"Once, we had an event that was locked and blocked, but information about it came to us two or three days later."
"Everything with Fortinet having to do with their cloud services. They need to invest more in their internal infrastructure that they are running in the cloud. One of the things I find with their cloud environment compared to others' is that they go cheap on the equipment. So it causes some performance degradation."
"It takes about two business days for initial support, which is too slow in urgent situations."
"I would like the solution to extend beyond endpoint protection and include other attack surfaces such as other network components."
"The SIEM could be improved."
"The support needs improvement."
"We find the solution to be a bit expensive."
"Sophos is lacking in the granularity of optimization, so having more control would be better."
"The solution could improve in configuration and the central logging and dashboard."
"More integration options could be included in Sophos EPP Suite."
"The management console need improvement."
"The user interface is not responsive."
"The solution’s performance could be improved for the end-users."
"The support could be improved. The response times are slow."
"The solution could improve on the resource management, it is a bit heavy on the resources."
"This solution needs better compatibility with services and applications."
"Future releases should ideally be cheaper."
"We communicate with our local partners and they give us the license key. Then, we have to go to the portal and apply it, but sometimes it doesn't work. We then have to create a new administrative account and migrate all our endpoints. That is the only major issue we have been battling with."
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"I would like to see a hybrid version of this solution that covers both in-house and cloud-based servers."
"I know they were just bought out by Broadcom and there have been some difficulties with Broadcom as far as getting license renewals, etc. Mostly, due to the fact that it's confusing, even for the vendor, people are turned off by it. The vendors are telling us that it can take weeks for them to get a renewal quote, nevermind the actual renewal."
"The artificial intelligence of Symantec End-User Endpoint Security could be better."
"Managements' number one item on the "Wish List" would have to do with the real-time scan of external media inserted into any client."
Sophos EPP Suite is ranked 26th in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 52 reviews while Symantec Endpoint Security is ranked 5th in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 139 reviews. Sophos EPP Suite is rated 8.0, while Symantec Endpoint Security is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Sophos EPP Suite writes "The solution provides endpoint detection and response with a nice-looking dashboard". 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". Sophos EPP Suite is most compared with Trend Micro Deep Security, Seqrite Endpoint Security, Trellix Endpoint Security, Coro and Xprotect , whereas Symantec Endpoint Security is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, CrowdStrike Falcon, Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks and Trend Micro Deep Security. See our Sophos EPP Suite vs. Symantec Endpoint Security report.
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