We explored McAfee and FireEye Antivirus Protection.

As a firm we used three or four different products from the top vendors. The slight differences which made us go with Symantec were technical support‎, ease of use, easy deployment of rules, and a better view from the dashboard.

We previously had BitDefender and we have been using it for our advanced protection. We decided to change because we didn't have any product updates from them. We were looking for what upcoming features or additions that they could offer to us, but they didn't, so that's why we tried to search for a better solution that would actually cater to everything. We wanted just one agent that supports multiple endpoint protection like malware, SONAR or network intrusion, advanced threat protection, behavior analysis. Just one agent for everything. We didn't want multiple agents so that's what we were looking for, and we switched.

We've worked with Palo Alto in the past and have just started using Check Point.

We do security scans. We started to detect with security scans that there is no blocking, or we can actually compromise a laptop, we do internal testing and determine if it's time to move to another product.

We previously had a cloud-based solution by Symantec, but switched to this internally managed, centralized solution when we were acquired. The products are similar just meant for different types of organizations: large enterprises (this solution) vs SMBs (cloud-based solution).

When I joined the company, Symantec was already in place.