McAfee Complete Data Protection Overview
McAfee Complete Data Protection is the #4 ranked solution in our list of top Endpoint Encryption tools. It is most often compared to Microsoft BitLocker: McAfee Complete Data Protection vs Microsoft BitLocker
What is McAfee Complete Data Protection?
Sensitive data is constantly at risk of loss, theft, and exposure. Many times, the data simply walks right out the front door on a laptop or USB device. Companies that suffer such a data loss risk serious consequences, including regulatory penalties, public disclosure, brand damage, customer distrust, and financial losses. According to a Ponemon Institute report, 7% of all corporate laptops will be lost or stolen sometime during their useful life. The rapid proliferation of mobile devices with large storage capacities and often internet access is opening up even more channels for data loss or theft, so protecting sensitive, proprietary, and personally identifiable information must be a top priority. McAfee Complete Data Protection Suites address all of these concerns and many more.
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- "The pricing of the cloud offering seems confusing."
- "This solution is reasonably priced."
- "The pricing is better than that of some competing products."
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Obaseun Awoyinfa
Security Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
An excellent solution for protecting from data exposure, device protection, and shadow IT
What is our primary use case?
I am actually very familiar with the on-premises solution. I am just starting to try out the cloud version. I have not really had the opportunity to exercise the capabilities fully because I need to buy the license to do that. I work with Cyber Security Africa Distribution, but even being that type of organization we still have to purchase our license to try the full solution. I have seen it work with the MVISION Cloud, but I have not tried out the data protection path. But I have reviewed all the features.Pros and Cons
- "With proper policies and configuration, it prevents sending corporate data to both cloud storage or to flash drives and data extraction."
- "The beauty of McAfee is that they are not looking at encryption from one single standpoint. It is a broader solution."
- "The drive side encryption can be confusing to use and needs better documentation."
What other advice do I have?
On a scale from one to ten where one is the worst and ten is the best, I would rate this McAfee Complete Data Protection product as an eight or even a nine-out-of-ten. Just for the encryption part, I think I will say nine. The solution is actually quite stable and otherwise, it is quite good. I would definitely recommend this product to other users. The core of McAfee has been my end solution for all types of situations for me for a long time. If I have not switched yet to work with any other solution, obviously, I think it is a good one and I definitely recommend McAfee. On the DLP side, I am…
Amer-Alkhawaldeh
Presales Manager at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Gives accessibility to either allow or block many preferences on a machine and does a good job of protecting against any data loss
What is our primary use case?
We deploy McAfee products mostly as service delivery providers for our customers. About 60% to 70% of the time we use this solution as the complete, modular anti-virus component for data and endpoint protection. We use the advanced version for device control. Sometimes we integrate Endpoint Encryption for file and folder protection and maybe add in McAfee Application Control to block unwanted applications. We provide services for prevention as well as endpoint and firewall solutions. Depending on what the client wants, there are many of the McAfee modules in this line that we work with to… more »Pros and Cons
- "With McAfee Complete Data Protection, you can managed all your security solutions from one single server and one interface. This might be the most powerful advantage of McAfee's solution."
- "The product consumes too much RAM and CPU for its processing and this can lead to resource issues on PCs."
What other advice do I have?
The advice I have for people considering this type of security solution is not to listen to what all the companies advertise. You can see bad reviews, maybe good reviews as well, but you need to use that information from the reviews as a starting point for your own observations and not just believe what reviews say. I know some reviews on the internet are fair, but some reviews are not. Try to do a POC (Proof of concept) and conduct testing for yourself. Define your policies as per your requirements for your situation and your company and choose products that meet the needs of that model. If…
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Application Programmer (Infrastructure and OA support) at a government with 10,001+ employees
Nice interface, feature-rich, and the technical support is helpful, but spinning disk performance needs to improve
What is our primary use case?
We primarily use this solution for folder and disk encryption. One encrypted folder in Drive D: for each PC user and disk encryption for all notebook PCs, especially for sensitive or confidential data.Pros and Cons
- "The server software console is exquisitely designed and organized for handy access and manipulation by the administrator."
- "I would like to have an easier and less-hassle upgrade process in future releases of the software, and extra license renewal price discounts too."
What other advice do I have?
So far, we are satisfied with the overall results and the product welcomed by end-users with few complaints.Yash Rana
Manager IT at OTE
The device control is more reliable and more stable but the interface is not easy for administrators
Pros and Cons
- "With this solution, the device control is more reliable and more stable."
- "The solution should be more user-friendly."
What other advice do I have?
My advice to others who are looking for a DLP solution, a data protection solution, would be to go for it. Along with the antivirus protection, I would definitely suggest the company to go for the next generation in antivirus or EDR or sensing technology which is currently more available in the market. There is more, newer technology on the market today. And antivirus properties of McAfee technology, like scanning the viruses and things like that, is more traditional, conventional technology. I will not say to go ahead with the antivirus, but McAfee's DLP data protection is still very good and…
Abel Abenemi
Network Support Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 51-200 employees
Protects and secures your data from threats and from copying
What is our primary use case?
This solution helps us to protect and secure our data.Pros and Cons
- "In the configuration, you can restrict a user from accessing a removable drive."
- "I want simplicity. A new user opening the dashboard will be confused. It needs to be more user-friendly."
Kranthi Kumar
Storage Engineer at 22by7
User-friendly, support is always available, and it is the best product for GDPR compliance
What is our primary use case?
We are system integrators who do the implementation and provide support for a variety of products. One of our main areas of focus is endpoint security, along with data loss prevention, encryption, and web security. McAfee Complete Data Protection is one of the security solutions that we implement for our customers. It is the best match for GDPR compliance.Pros and Cons
- "The interface is user-friendly and it provides a large number of options."
- "There was an option for SQL setup in the older versions of this product and it has been removed, but we would like to see it made available as an add-on."
What other advice do I have?
McAfee Complete Data Protection is the best product on the market and I recommend it. It is very simple and anyone can easily understand it. I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.
Saqer Aqra
Senior Cyber Security Consultant at Ingram Micro Inc.
Excellent protection that is easy to use with simple access to the DLP
What is our primary use case?
Some users were concerned about their employees' information. They needed to protect this data from leakage and from any type of exploitation. Therefore, the DLP was deployed in their environment to protect them and to test the actual requirements. This is why we primarily use the solution.Pros and Cons
- "The solution is excellent for protecting users from data being exploited. It's also great for preventing data leakage."
- "The solution needs more advanced features."
What other advice do I have?
I'm a consultant. Our company is a partner as well as a distributor. I would recommend companies who want some solid security products to consider this solution. McAfee is well known in the market, and it has a good reputation specifically surrounding the EPO encryption. I would recommend them. I'd rate the solution eight out of ten. I'd rate the solution higher if the navigation to the settings and propagation were more clear inside McAfee.JonathanChawatama
IT Security Consultant at ZOL Zimbabwe
Excellent endpoint protection with good technical support and good stability
Pros and Cons
- "The McAfee Threat Protection and McAfee Web Protection are valuable aspects of the solution. They're better than other features that come with the endpoints."
- "The solution needs to reduce the number of false positives. There are too many of them."
What other advice do I have?
I've been using the solution since 2005. We're partners with McAfee. I would rate the solution nine out of ten. For them to get 10, I think they also need to make sure they are still compatible with earlier versions of Windows. In this part of the world, in Africa, you find that there are companies that are still using the earlier editions of Windows, like Windows XP. They need to make sure they incorporate those operating systems even if they've reached the end of life for Windows, like Windows XP. Right now, the new version doesn't support XP.See 3 more McAfee Complete Data Protection Reviews
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