McAfee Total Protection for Data Loss Prevention Other Advice

VivekGupta7 - PeerSpot reviewer
DGM at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

I was a customer and end-user. I recently retired. 

I'd warn new users that the initial configuration will be challenging, and if they run into trouble, they should reach out to McAfee as soon as they can, as sometimes it takes a while to resolve things. 

I'd rate the solution eight out of ten. 

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Jagdish Lomte - PeerSpot reviewer
Founder & CEO at StreaMplify

My advice to others is McAfee Total Protection for Data Loss Prevention is a good solution, it is expensive but if you look for a less expensive solution they are not ideal for the long term. MacAfee has a good roadmap ahead and they have added more features and have good support. I recommend this solution to others.

I rate McAfee Total Protection for Data Loss Prevention a nine out of ten.

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Amir Jafari - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Security Manager at Middle East Bank

I would rate this solution 8 out of 10.

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AR
Deputy Group Manager - Systems at Titan Company Ltd

New users should negotiate the solution's support contract at the time of purchase.

Overall, I rate McAfee Total Protection for Data Loss Prevention an eight out of ten.

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SC
Sr. IT Business Analyst at Citigroup

I would recommend McAfee Total Protection to others who may want to start using it because it's a good product.

I'm rating McAfee Total Protection eight out of ten.

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RathinVaidya - PeerSpot reviewer
Vice President (Technical) at Shaligram Infotech LLP

I would recommend this solution to others.

I rate McAfee Total Protection for Data Loss Prevention an eight out of ten.

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Syed M Sarfaraz Hussain - PeerSpot reviewer
System Administrator at CyberGen

I rate the solution a ten out of ten. The solution is good and has many features, but the user interface can be improved.

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Harish G - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Analyst at SISA Information Security

I'm a customer and end-user. 

I would absolutely recommend the solution. 

I'd rate it nine out of ten overall. We are pretty happy with its capabilities. 

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Shrikant Pillay - PeerSpot reviewer
Service Management Consultant at Tata Consultancy

I would recommend the solution to others. I'm happy with its capabilities. I'd rate the solution eight out of ten.

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JL
Manager Engineering at Sri Lanka Telecom Services

I would rate the product a nine out of ten. 

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MK
CEO/IT Manager at rahaco

Advice that I would give to others looking into implementing this solution is the same as when our customers ask us for any kind of security solution. We almost always recommended that they go with McAfee. McAfee is a great choice for most cases.  

On a scale from one to ten where one is the worst and ten is the best, I would rate McAfee Total Protection for Data as a nine out of ten. It is very good except for the resource drain.  

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VT
Technical Consultant at TRUST Global Services

Overall, I would rate McAfee Total Protection for Data Loss Prevention an eight out of ten.

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BK
Owner at xconsult

I would rate this solution a five out of ten.

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MF
Sales engineer at Mavisco Resources Sdn Bhd

I rate the solution a ten out of ten. 

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Meleria Mangaring - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Engineer at Trends and Technologies, Inc

I'm using the latest version of the solution at this time. 

The clients I work with are mostly enterprise-level businesses. 

I'd rate the solution at a seven out of ten. For the most part, I have been pleased with its capabilities, however, there are some improvements that could be made. 

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Muco Aga - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Security Solutions Consultant at CloudCan

We were using the latest version of the solution. 

I'd warn new users to prepare for the interface, which is not user-friendly.

I'd rate the solution six out of ten.

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Assistant Manager Technical Support at Syscon

My advice to any organization is to support appropriate security levels because following Covid many people have moved to online work and that needs supporting on a security level. Companies should be working in a zero-trust environment.

I rate this solution eight out of 10. 

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SS
Information Technology Solutions Manager at UBG

My advice to anyone considering this type of data protection solution is that you need to choose a product based on your needs. There are so many products nowadays that do similar things and there are always newer tools and technologies emerging. I'd recommend that people not just take advice from the manufacturer or trust in internet reviews. They should test products out for themselves to be confident in what they choose. Use the trial versions to see how the product works for yourself and do a proof of concept before you decide on a solution and implement it. It would be good to try several products to be able to compare rather than just one.  

On a scale from one to ten where one is the worst and ten is the best, I would rate the product as an eight out of ten.  

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Vivek Sathaye - PeerSpot reviewer
Director at Benelec

The amount of staff needed for maintenance depends on the size of the company.

I rate McAfee Total Protection for Data Loss Prevention a seven out of ten.

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BT
IT consultant at a insurance company with 501-1,000 employees

Overall, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.

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SA
AIX System Administrator at Housing Bank

I recommend this product and rate it seven out of 10.

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PP
Management Executive at a security firm with 11-50 employees

We are purely consultants. We do not get involved primarily with the implementation. 

What we do is advise clients. For example, we are doing a lot of work for Coca-Cola and we advise them on how to configure.

It doesn't matter whether you're using Defender, or whether you are using MCAS as a cloud solution, we help you configure according to the standard that is applicable, whether it's a legislative standard or an internal policy. 

We ensure that the necessary implementation and configuration settings are aligned. Then we give it back to the technical integrators to implement according to the standard that we have set. That is the level of involvement we have. We don't do the implementation, but we advise on how the implementation should be done in line with the internal policy or the legislation.

I would not recommend this solution to others. I think there are better products available at the moment.

I would rate this solution a six out of ten.

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Ebenezer D - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Security & Data Management Admin at Digitaltrack

Around 10 to 15 engineers are involved in the maintenance phase of the solution.

Since the tool doesn't offer automatic classification, I rate the overall solution a seven out of ten.

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PN
Chief Information Security Officer at Romsons

We're just customers. We don't have a relationship with McAfee.

We're using the most up to date version of the solution. The EP is version 6.0.0.197 and the host edition is 8.0. The DLP endpoint version is 11.4.0.452.

I would never recommend this solution to other organizations. I'd rate it four out of ten overall.

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NT
IT Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

I would recommend this solution to others who are interested in using it.

I would rate McAfee Total Protection for Data Loss Prevention a seven out of ten.

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Kamal Abdelrahman - PeerSpot reviewer
Country Manager at Magarah

I rate McAfee Total Protection for Data Loss Prevention a seven out of ten.

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TH
Cyber Security at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

We were a service provider and reseller.

We had the solution in a lab environment for about three weeks, so we weren't a longterm user of it. We had a client that had familiarity with other aspects of McAfee protection solutions, and they were looking to just expand it to get more into whitelisting. They wanted to use it as a stop-gap for the deficiencies in the other aspects of their technology. We were looking for it to provide protection against more advanced malware and unknown malware attacks. That's what we did in the lab environment. We tested it.  

I don't know which version of the solution we tested.

I would advise other companies to take care of understanding the environment that the solution is going to deploy in. They need to be cognizant of the challenges with dynamic and heterogeneous environments, as it relates to how the technology is deployed and how easy it is to deploy and maintain. Finally, they should be wary of the limitations in the protection efficacy, as it relates to some of the most advanced types of malware attacks, where we found the product to be deficient in some areas.

The biggest lesson we learned from using the solution was that there's a high expectation that as a company, McAfee implements this type of a solution to expand upon their solutions in the AV that they came from. What we've learned is that the step change in protection is not as great as we had hoped. The ability of it to stop the most advanced malware and other unknown types of attacks didn't live up to the expectations that were associated with a whitelisting solution.

I'd probably rate the solution six out of ten. It's not a bad product. It has some deficiencies, however. We found other technological approaches that offered much higher efficacy in protection and were easier to maintain. 

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AS
Information Security Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

We're systems integrators. We aren't McAfee customers.

I would recommend this solution to other companies. It's stable and strong in data loss prevention. It works quite well.

Overall, on a scale from one to ten, I'd rate the solution at a nine. If it offered more responsive support and better usability, It would get higher marks from me.

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March 2024
Learn what your peers think about McAfee Total Protection for Data Loss Prevention. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
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