CylancePROTECT Previous Solutions

Sooraj Makkancherrry - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Manager at Philips

I previously used McAfee. At first, CylancePROTECT was better, however, now we are unhappy with its capabilities. In the end, they couldn't support our product

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AB
Cybersecurity & IT Operations Professional (VirtualCxO) at BrainWave Consulting Company, LLC

Yes, I used and supported a previous solution, but changed, because of system performance impact, and management of the client-side activity databases. (The old solution had a slightly better GUI, but not enough to offset the other concerns.)

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Robert Valencia - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution Architect at Westcon-Comstor

I've also worked with CylancePERSONA over the past year or so. 

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EH
Solutions Development Manager at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

We previously used Symantec End-User Endpoint Security, but we switched to Blackberry Protect because of company policy.

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SJ
Director of IT Operations at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The company did use another solution prior to Cylance, but I don't know what it was.

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C.J. Oosthuizen - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Cloud Services and Projects at Grove

We previously used CrowdStrike. We switched to CylancePROTECT because CrowdStrike was expensive.

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Kums K - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Systems Analyst at Nimbus Cloud Services

I have previously used Advantech, with which I was not really familiar. I am getting comfortable with CylancePROTECT.

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Arifin-Ritonga - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Consultant at IIJ Singapore

My company used Symantec before using CylancePROTECT, and it switched to CylancePROTECT because the update for Symantec was troublesome, plus it had some false positives. Symantec also couldn't detect some viruses, so the company decided to switch to a next-gen antivirus, such as CylancePROTECT.

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SM
IT Security manager at a energy/utilities company with 201-500 employees

We have used Symantec before and a MSSP came in with a package to help us get more secure, but it really was a failure.

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Eric Rise - PeerSpot reviewer
Network & Security Engineer at a healthcare company with 51-200 employees

I had just renewed a three year subscription to a very popular endpoint protection suite when I went to a Cylance roadshow and discovered how poorly protected my organization really was. Out of 10 real world live bugs, my endpoint protection, fully-patched, deployed in a best practice environment only stopped seven of them. Cylance stopped all 10, and every show I have ever been to, Cylance has won hands down without question. Many other products require your endpoints to connect to a central hub on-prem or are cloud-based, then soon as they lose that ability, those solutions fail.

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AB
IT Cyber Security Engineer at a legal firm with 201-500 employees

I have experience with Blackberry Cylance.

I have some experience with CylanceOPTICS which is part of CylanceGateway.

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DV
Senior Network Administrator at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees

Previously, we had McAfee ePO. We changed to CylaneProtect, a solution that we felt would be a better fit, and that was not managed in-house, on a local server that we used for that. It was time to move on from that.

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HERNAN RODRIGUEZ - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Security Engineer at Cybolt

Before using CylancePROTECT, we switched from Broadcom to enhance our security approach. We chose Cylance because we wanted to shift to a more advanced solution based on artificial intelligence.

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Niels Aerts - PeerSpot reviewer
Founder at XPose

My company went with CylancePROTECT because my company has smaller companies or customers than enterprise customers. It's easier to deploy CylancePROTECT for smaller businesses, and it works better than SentinelOne, which is more for multinationals or enterprise businesses.

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OB
Head of Systems at SKN Caribecafe Ltda

We previously used McAfee. We were worried the solution wouldn't be able to effectively protect us, so we looked for other options.

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AB
Vice President Operations at a construction company with 11-50 employees

We did use other products before CylancePROTECT. I used Kaspersky Internet Security for a long time before we moved over to CylancePROTECT. We used Kaspersky Internet Security because it was a great fit for us.  

In comparison, the only thing that I would say about Kaspersky is that sometimes on startup it would kind of slow the computer down a bit. It took up a lot of resources. It would just last for a short period of time on startup and then that would be it. Everything would return to normal.  

The other thing was that, as a growing company, it was difficult to manage all the installs. To make sure that Kaspersky was provisioned out to every computer and that it was always up to date made for a little more maintenance than seemed necessary. That extra maintenance was really what influenced our decision to move over to the CylancePROTECT product.  

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DD
Owner at Terra Controls

We were using McAfee first, and as of last year, we switched to Cylance. McAfee is not a proactive solution. McAfee's support and everything were fine, but the Cylance product is used by the G7 countries the most. The company has a good standing.

Two or three years ago when the WannaCry virus struck, the people that were on Cylance were the ones that weren't affected. That was enough for us to switch.

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LS
IT Infrastructure Manager at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees

We are also using Microsoft Outlook to block any kind of unwanted applications, which our users try to run in the background.

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SA
Wirtschaftsprüfer, CPA, Steuerberater at a financial services firm with 11-50 employees

Previously, we used Norton. We switched because Norton was very, very, heavy on consuming system resources. The computer itself was very, very slow and buggy. It took a lot of time for backup and things like that. 

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it_user649563 - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Systems Administrator at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The previous solution had too many things to monitor and required dedication to fix corrupt definitions. These required manual transfers and sometimes helpdesk time on the endpoint to fix the incumbent product.

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MH
Vice President Product and Strategy at a tech company with 201-500 employees

I've used both Cylance and SentinelOne. I have more experience with SentinelOne.

However, they are very similar in terms of their offering. both offer good performance and are AI-driven with good machine learning capabilities. Neither has an impact on an endpoint's performance levels. They offer good protection as well. The biggest difference is that SentinelOne has a rollback feature, which is something Cylance should consider adding. 

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BN
Software Engineer at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

We went with this product because we were integrating a bunch of other vulnerability threat management solutions. It handles situations that the other threat management tools wouldn't find. It has worked well covering the weaker sides of the other products that we're integrating.

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KO
Senior NOC Security Engineer at a wholesaler/distributor with 51-200 employees

We used Carbon Black before and switched to CylancePROTECT because it failed.

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it_user1172661 - PeerSpot reviewer
Security Domain Architect at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees

We moved over to this solution because it was more advanced at being able to identify how the malware is going to attack or how it's going to interfere with the operating system. There are just more tools to help security at the end point.

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MP
Technology Specialist at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees

I have used other free products. 

You can't directly compare those solutions with Cylance because they're free products and Cylance is paid. It's not good to compare them. 

I had a virus attack and malware on my PC even when I used the free solutions. I don't think it works. Those solutions were very bad. They did not have good detection. You can't rely on them because they're not paid for. 

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Buyer's Guide
CylancePROTECT
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about CylancePROTECT. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
765,234 professionals have used our research since 2012.