We performed a comparison between Symantec Endpoint Security and Symantec Norton 360 [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, SentinelOne, CrowdStrike and others in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP)."The ease of deployment and configuration is valuable. It's very easy compared to other vendors like Sophos. Sophos' configuration is complex. Fortinet is a lot easier to understand. You don't need a lot of admin knowledge to do the configuration."
"he solution is an anti-malware product that integrates well with other vendor products such as firewalls, SIEM, etc. It captures threat intelligence and gives you better visibility. The product also has sandboxing features."
"It is very easy to set up. I would rate my experience with the initial setup a ten out of ten, with ten being very easy to set up."
"The price is low and quite competitive with others."
"The solution was relatively easy to deploy."
"This is stable and scalable."
"Exceptions are easy to create and the interface is easy to follow with a nice appearance."
"The setup is pretty simple."
"The application and device control functionality is good. We are able to see which applications are installed using the product management dashboard."
"The performance of Symantec End-User Endpoint Security is very good. It does not slow down the computer like other solutions."
"The solution can be scaled to handle different threats."
"With a single console, you get control over Mac, Windows, iOS, and Android. This control is most valuable."
"Some of the features that were important were a built-in firewall and device control."
"It is a stable solution...It is a very scalable solution."
"The solution detects malware very well."
"It is very easy to managing everything in relation to the implementation and processing. The initial setup is very easy."
"It provides confidence by ensuring software programs are virus free and file integrity through an online backup."
"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."
"There's room for improvement in the quick response time and technical support for integration issues, especially when dealing with multiple vendors."
"We've had a lot of false positives; things incorrectly flagged that require manual configuration to allow. Even worse, after we allow a legitimate program, it sometimes gets flagged again after an update. This has caused a lot of extra work for my team."
"To improve Fortinet, we need to see more features and technology areas at the endpoint level introduced."
"The amount of usage, the number of details we get, or the number of options that can be tweaked is limited in comparison to that with other EDR solutions"
"Detections could be improved."
"It takes about two business days for initial support, which is too slow in urgent situations."
"The solution's installation from a central installation server could be improved because the engineers had a little bit of trouble getting it installed from a central location."
"About four years back, Symantec's signature was very heavy and their signature patch was around 200MB or 300MB files."
"Sometimes tech support is a bit slow to find a solution."
"Automation of tasks should be improved on SEPM. It is currently manual, and we should be able to automate installation and deployment from the client side."
"The whitelisting feature does not work as expected."
"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."
"The solution should have more integration with other platforms."
"Symantec's application security module needs some improvement. You need to create a lot of fingerprints for application security. For instance, let's say I have different brands of ATMs in my environment, like Wincor and NCR. I use GRG to deploy an application control to whitelist some applications. I have to get the exact image of the different models of ATMs. When I tested in the past, some machines would not connect to the server without that."
"It is only available to use on computers with higher-end specs."
"The free online storage capacity is limited."
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Symantec Endpoint Security is ranked 5th in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 139 reviews while Symantec Norton 360 [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP). Symantec Endpoint Security is rated 7.6, while Symantec Norton 360 [EOL] is rated 8.6. 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". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Symantec Norton 360 [EOL] writes "Provides online backup in case of ransomware and hardware failure". Symantec Endpoint Security is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, CrowdStrike Falcon, Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks and Trend Micro Deep Security, whereas Symantec Norton 360 [EOL] is most compared with .
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