What is Symantec Data Loss Prevention?

Keeping sensitive corporate information safe and compliant has never been easy. But today, you’re faced with a totally new set of data protection challenges. Sensitive information is leaving the safety of your corporate network as more employees share files over consumer cloud storage services and access those files on their own mobile devices. The number of targeted cyber attacks continues to grow, as cybercriminals develop effective new methods for defeating traditional security measures and stealing corporate information. And as all of these factors converge, it becomes increasingly difficult to manage corporate information and protect it against loss and theft.

Symantec Data Loss Prevention (DLP) provides a comprehensive approach to information protection that embraces today’s cloud- and mobile-centered realities. With DLP, you can:

• Discover where data is stored across all of your cloud, mobile, network, endpoint, and storage systems

• Monitor how data is being used, whether your employees are on or off the network

• Protect data from being leaked or stolen—no matter where it’s stored or how it’s used

Also known as

Symantec DLP

Symantec Data Loss Prevention customers

Hadassah University Hospital, Her Majestys Government (HMG), United Kingdom, Hitachi Consulting Software Services India Pvt Ltd., Hua Nan Bank, Hyundai Department Store Group,
JW Marriott Hotel Seoul, Lake Health, McCann Erickson Israel, Molina Healthcare Inc., PGi, Quilvest Switzerland Limited, State of Nevada Public Employees Benefits Program, Symantec Corporation (Enterprise Security), The Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust, The Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust (DLP), The Saudi Industrial Property Authority, TSO cloud, Visa, Yunnan Power Grid Company

Symantec Data Loss Prevention Archived Reviews (More than two years old)

Birzu Alexandru-Adrian

ITSM & AntiFraud Consultant with 51-200 employees

Jun 19 2017

Data Insight helps clients gain visibility over data usage, ownership and permissions.

What is most valuable?

The Network Monitor component is the most advanced on the market. Combined with the other Network DLP components (Prevent for Web, Prevent for Email, Discover and Prevent), Symantec offers one of the… more»

How has it helped my organization?

Data Insight is a very good component that steps outside the standard DLP functions, but helps the client to gain visibility over the data usage, ownership and permissions.

What needs improvement?

The Symantec DLP solution is very complex, and installation requires many components. Also, Oracle is only the DB used by Symantec.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

Symantec only sells the DLP software. When you buy, it you should budget the server licenses, the storage and the hardware. Scale your implementation when you have your exact number of the monitored… more»

What other advice do I have?

We are a system integration firm, and we also sell McAfee DLP and WebSense DLP (Forcepoint).

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

We also evaluated McAfee DLP, WebSense (Forcepoint) DLP, and Digital Guardian.

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