Symantec Data Center Security Room for Improvement

Shahram Dehghani - PeerSpot reviewer
Security Technical Manager at Modaberan Fanavari Pasargad

There is room for improvement in enhancing its graphical user interface for a more user-friendly experience.

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Ravi_M - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior System Administrator - Cyber Security at Sapiens Technologies India Pvt Ltd

One area where Symantec Data Center Security could improve is in refining its precision, especially when it comes to allowing certain parts. Right now, it is a bit like an all-or-nothing deal, and it could be improved by recognizing specific cases where certain parts should or shouldn't be allowed. Also, adding more compatibility with common products like Microsoft would be a plus. It should play nicely with other tools we commonly use rather than limiting our options, making it more user-friendly and flexible. Currently, with Symantec Data Center Security, we have to manually enable prevention policies to allow these patches. It would be much smoother if, by default, the system recognized and allowed these patches without needing us to intervene each time.

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Dennis O'Reilly - PeerSpot reviewer
Cyber SecOps Principal at Dotcom Security

It faces some limitations in the virtualization domain. While it boasts a robust antivirus component, it's often underutilized due to dependencies on specific infrastructure, such as VMware NSX. It would be advantageous if Symantec or Broadcom, given the rebranding, could simplify the process, enabling users to leverage the antivirus functionality more easily. This would involve making it accessible through the agent rather than restricting it solely to the agentless side of the solution, offering a more versatile and user-friendly experience.

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Atul-Vats - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

The negative aspect of that particular product is the fact it has a very, very, very complex policy structure. A user or administrator making the policy in the DCS should have a very thorough knowledge of the operating system or policy making. You have to be very specific about the data structure.

If you want to secure a Linux server, an administrator should be very confident about how the directory structure of Linux, how Linux works, and where it puts the important logs. You have to be very cautious about the complete path, and you have to write it over there in the policy part. If you are not very specific, there will be a lot of noise in the system. You're going to receive thousands of events that are false positives. The fine-tuning of the policy is a very complex thing in the DCS itself. 

Another negative aspect that I have observed is if the product gets installed on the kernel level of any non-Windows server, it has some issues, comparability issues. Sometimes the product doesn't work properly, so it shuts down the machine and crashes the system. There are many cases in which I've observed the DCS crashing the system.

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ST
Engineer 4- Security Operations at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Agent management is a challenging task. We cannot do it from the console. We will have to use other tools.

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Olhbe456 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Infrastructure/Systems Admin at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees

The product blocks certain processes, even after allowlisting them. It gets difficult to scan the data when servers are blocked for unknown reasons. This particular area needs improvement.

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it_user1204914 - PeerSpot reviewer
Project Manager IT at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Symantec is a little bit behind on the most recent advances, such as products that are more lightweight and more flexible in their deployment to multiple operating systems. They need to develop a more flexible product that can be scaled such that it fits well into a small business or a bigger, enterprise-level solution.

If I want to set up an endpoint solution that is on the cloud or is a hybrid, then there's a dependency on old-fashioned patterns, like hash values, in the internal policies. However, in a next-generation solution, we don't have to work in this traditional way. They are capable of automatically detecting and adapting to new threats that are coming out.

This solution does not offer as many centralized management options as other vendors. for example, you cannot install or uninstall machines using the console.

Better integration with other solutions is needed. Nowadays, keeping costs in mind, people don't want to be restricted to using a single vendor or dedicated platform. They want to be able to integrate with different products from multiple vendors. Better integration allows them to stay flexible and maintain or build a competitive edge.

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CY
IT Security Specialist at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

I'd like to see better reporting capabilities and better support. I had the chance to work with Tripwire Solutions and that solution has some added capabilities, not just checking the folders, but the abilities of the whole configuration. They also have the capability of connection through interface to the network devices and to check specific configurations from the reports that might create a better product. It possibly converts the solution to a complete change management solution and you can follow the integrity of the old configuration, not just the files.

I've also noticed that the support of the newer version of the operating system is not really up to date on the software. I think the support of the newer operating systems version might have updated support more quickly.

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MD
Managing Director at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

There is plenty of room for improvement with this product, and it could start with platform metrics. We are changing certain platforms in terms of preparing them for the system to support it. We always want legacy platforms, or those which need virtual protection or host protection, to be supported no matter how old they are.

We want the speed at which content is delivered to be improved, but not at the cost of complicating the product or reducing its stability.  

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PB
Group Head - Information Security at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

This solution clashes with Microsoft defender, which results in performance degradation on the machine.

Technical support needs more local representation in India.

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Symantec Data Center Security
March 2024
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