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I use Symantec alongside other security solutions. For example, I don't use Symantec's Global Intelligence Network. I use a different threat intelligence platform called Mandiant in my environment. I also leverage Microsoft for threat hunting. I don't use Symantec for threat hunting.
In the past, I tried Data Center Security on our servers, but since the normal ICP works for us, we did not decide to use it. I tested the features because I was looking for a solution that can lock down some of my legacy systems. During the POC, I compared it with Carbon Black, the solution I have. Carbon Black does a better job and it's cheaper.
I have a separate solution that I use to manage mobile devices. I'm not using Symantec. There's a solution called Sandblast Harmony that is an add-on for Check Point, which I use as a perimeter firewall. This is a solution that was deployed with it, and I have Sandblast on all my mobile devices.
Before you can install anything like office mail on your mobile devices, you need to be onboarded on that platform before you can set it up. If your device does not have Sandblast installed on it, you won't be able to proceed with the setup. So I don't really even use Symantec to protect my mobile devices.
I have used CrowdStrike, Deep Security from Trend Micro, and Kaspersky. I have also tested Sophos and Check Point Security.
Although in both companies where I have used Symantec it was already there when I started, it has positive evaluations in industry reviews of many anti-malware tools and a good price as well. It provides a good solution at a good price. I expect those are the reasons that these companies chose it.
View full review »We used McAfee VirusScan Enterprise in the past. We transferred to Symantec primarily because our team has prior experience with Symantec. We also considered its Gartner rating. I believe Symantec is in the first or second spot in the endpoint protection category.
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We previously used McAfee for our local machines and switched to Symantec because of its beneficial features. It's updated and upgraded more frequently, which was of primary concern to us.
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AnandAnandharaj
Desktop Support Engineer at Dixit Infotech Services Pvt Ltd
We previously used Trend Micro. We switched to Symantec because it offers better security and prevention. We also get immediate support from the backend team, and data prevention to keep the endpoints safe.
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SagarShah
Cyber Security Manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
I have worked with multiple solutions, such as McAfee, Cortex, and CrowdStrike. McAfee has several components, and if any component stops, it impacts the compliance status and puts everything at risk because the definition will not be distributed. Symantec has an edge there because it does not have too many components. Only with the GUP server, we can distribute the definition in remote locations, which makes it easier. It also provides a view of all the GUP servers in the console.
EDR is a different solution. It provides complete visibility and footprint of zero-day and other threats based on the behavior. Symantec also provides that, but it needs more enhancement on the investigation part.
View full review »I got a chance to work with other products, such as Carbon Black, Palo Alto, and McAfee. They all are very good products. No product is bad because they are coming after so much R&D. They all are investing their time, money, and people to enhance productivity, but Symantec has been there from the start. The way they design their solutions is very important, and now, they have GIN, which is very important.
I once deployed Cylance in a bank. It had endpoint protection and EDR, and two agents were installed on the system. One was for protection and one was for recording the incident on EDR. It would capture so many files, which Symantec doesn't do, and mark them as harmful or not. Based on what I was told, it decided that based on the virus total. When they get the file hash, in the back end, they would run a script, scan it, and then give a report based on the virus total. They don't do any technical evaluation of file structure or file behavior. I found Java files to be a big problem with that solution. Symantec is comparatively a much more mature solution, and their support is also very good. They provide support for the whole product and not just a component.
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Kin Lol
Senior IT Security Officer at Lion International Bank
Prior to Symantec, we used a solution by Kaspersky.
We use other anti-virus products and this one is less resource intensive and more stable than the others. It is also simpler to use.
Symantec Web Security Service (WSS) has some good features that I wish were in this product. Unfortunately, it is another subscription.
View full review »I used to use Trend Micro Quick Scan. I switched because we were getting some attacks, and Trend Micro was not able to detect them.
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Leopold Dapa
Country Director at SOCITECH S.A.
We also use McAfee because of the scalability. It had the issue that it consumed too many resources and for vulnerabilities, sometimes there are some direct varieties you cannot delete.
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Atit Tandon
Director at Tandon Electronics
We're looking at other solutions. We mainly want something that doesn't experience performance degradation during scans or updates.
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Edwin Acquah
Senior Desktop Engineer
We were using Trend Micro. We switched to Symantec because the intrusion level is very low and the alerting system is very good. Symantec gives you an alert whenever you are doing something that is not right. You don't even need a techie to tell you not to do this or that.
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Suryakumar Selvaraj
Security Consultant at InfySec
We are actively using other solutions aside from Symantec because we cater to different clients. We have used CrowdStrike, Sophos, and Palo Alto XDR to name a few.
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Marbella Ibarra
CEO at CT AMERICA
We have not moved to another security solution due to the pandemic, as we have been working irregularly. We have been closed for around one and a half years. Then we have been working some days in the office, some days from home. It has not been a good moment for us to change the solutions, however, we are thinking about it, not due to its scalability or stability, or even due to licensing. We have been talking about changing because of the lack of good technical support.
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Syed Akram
Information Technology Specialist at Wonderla Holidays Ltd
We have around four to five applications. For example, we are using Oracle Fusion Middleware and ERP in-house for our operations.
We have also used Sophos, where it took a little time to put policies in place. It is quite complicated and not that user-friendly. We had a bad experience with them.
Symantec Endpoint Security is better because it has other features, like Application Control and Application Isolation, that can be utilized. It gives us complete control of the endpoint, so we can customize our workflow to control security.
View full review »We have other endpoint security solutions. We bid for many companies. We check what the client wants to achieve, and we also take the price into consideration
Generally, Symantec can provide all the features that our clients commonly require. Its price is also good compared to other solutions such as Cisco AMP. Cisco AMP is very expensive. We only deploy it at the airports.
We have different test cases to show how effective it's against different types of malware, corrupt files, malicious files, etc. It works pretty well. We are happy with it. It's able to detect and stop all types of malware. We also tested it to see how it treats benign files, and it works pretty well.
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reviewer1337973
Computer Systems Administrator at a university with 10,001+ employees
I've been at the organization for 21, 22 years. Originally, before we had Symantec, it was McAfee antivirus. We had that up until maybe about 2010 or so. Now, we are using CrowdStrike Falcon.
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reviewer1069713
Project Manager at a real estate/law firm with 10,001+ employees
We didn't previously use a different solution.
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Gulab Singh
Solutions Specialist Security at COMPAREX India Pvt. Ltd.
We were previously using Trend Micro Smart Protection Complete.
View full review »We didn't use any other solution previously. We have been using only Symantec. It is the best solution for us and our customers.
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Vivek Koradiya
Administrator at a real estate/law firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
I didn’t use any other solution previously.
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reviewer1643460
Director at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
We are using Trend Micro. Many customers seem to be moving over to them as they are losing faith in Symantec's support capabilities.
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reviewer1768896
Infrastructure Architect at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Previously, we had not used any other Endpoint protection products.
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Collins Amaife
System Analyst at Abbey Mortgage Bank
I use Symantec, however, I also use Sophos. I use Sophos for endpoint protection for my server. I use Symantec for my email workstations, et cetera.
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reviewer973497
Manager at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
We did not use any other products in our organization. We have only been using Symantec products.
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Rodrigo Martin
CEO Iberia & Latam at a recruiting/HR firm with 10,001+ employees
Apart from Symantec End-User Endpoint Security, I use other platforms. We have many different systems, such as Sandbox products, and other EDRs.
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Sagar Dandge
Information Technology Executive at JFE Shoji Steel India Pvt. Ltd.
In the past we worked with Sophos, although not with its antivirus product but with Cyberoam Firewall. We recently purchased a new Sophos firewall product, Sophos 101, which is a network firewall solution. The difference is that we did not previously have the appropriate experience with related antivirus products, but now we are in a position to analyze how best Sophos endpoint protection can meet our needs.
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Laeeq Ahmed
IT Security Lead at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
We did have a previous solution. They are all equal in giving the definitions on a timely routine, but the bandwidth extent was an issue for me. This is why we changed to Symantec.
View full review »I have not used other antivirus products as an admin. The Symantec product was already in use at the company when I came here.
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reviewer958518
Architect & Technical Director at a tech consulting company with 11-50 employees
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reviewer2009892
IT Admin at a manufacturing company with 51-200 employees
I have also used Kaspersky, in another job.
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reviewer1309926
Head of IT Department at a construction company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I have not worked on any other solution.
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SystemAdmin677
IT Systems Administrator at a consultancy with 51-200 employees
My understanding is that we were running Kaspersky before this solution was implemented, but I was not here at the time.
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reviewer1392531
Dy General Manager at a real estate/law firm with 501-1,000 employees
Before using this solution we used Trend Micro and McAfee. We have currently changed solutions and no longer use Symantec End-user Endpoint Security and we are back with Trend Micro.
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Lynne Caputi
Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
We are switching because we don't feel that Symantec as a company is keeping up with next-generation trends. They just seem to be resting on their accomplishments too much and don't seem like they are progressive.
The most important criteria when selecting a vendor are a highly rated, good product - that factor is at the top of the list. Also, good functionality, good support, good price, and good margins, since we resell.
View full review »I started with the company after this solution was implemented.
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Mamonoor Rashid
CEO at Tech Valley Networks Limited
We didn't have anything at this scale. We just used Kaspersky as an antivirus, but we are not using it now, we are using Symantec Endpoint Protection which covers everything. Symantec is better, it covers more requirements. Antivirus solutions only cover some basics, but Endpoint Protection is the next generation. It covers antivirus, spamware, ransomware; all this is covered through Endpoint Protection.
We selected Symantec because it is at the top of industry reviews. We also know that globally, Symantec spends a lot of money for R&D and we believe it will remain up to the mark.
We also use Symantec Email Security which improves our productivity and protects our valuable data. Email Isolation is the only feature which the others don't have. When we use it we find that we are free from phishing mail, etc.
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KinjalDangeria
Director Of Services at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I use Google Meet.
We use whatever the customer wants because we are IT, service providers. However, we use Amazon for our internal application.
We also use Linux, most of the time.
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Anthony Ndong
Systems Administrator at a pharma/biotech company with 51-200 employees
We did not use another solution prior to using Symantec.
View full review »It replaced System Center Endpoint Protection. I don't know why this was chosen, it was a corporate decision.
View full review »We have worked with Sophos, McAfee, and F-Secure. All have pros and cons. The console management and policy options are pretty sorted in Symantec, so it always has a upper hand over other products.
View full review »We used another product and we switched to SEP because of the costs.
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reviewer1118802
Account Manager, Cybersecurity at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
We are doing more with Forcepoint. We are not doing as much as we used to with Symantec End-User Endpoint Security.
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reviewer1678515
swEngineer at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees
I have used Eset Antivirus previously.
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Cameron Mottus
Principal Consultant - Security at Insentra
Based on the roles that I've had, I've been working as a Symantec consultant for 10 years, and so I've just been working with SEP. There are people who, as their consulting function would be an endpoint protection guy, would do McAfee, SEP, Trend, etc., whereas my strategy was different. I basically covered off all Symantec technologies. My intent was to be able to be specialized across the entire range of security technologies. I've only worked with SEP.
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Dr. Suresh Hungenahally
Chief Executive Officer at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
Previously we used Trend Micro. The features were not as good as Symantec, so we switched.
View full review »We have been using Symantec since I joined this company.
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Sudeep Amalkar
Director at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
We do system integration and we have expertise in most products, but there is nothing like Symantec.
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Mohamed Belal
Solutions Architect at IP Protocol INC
We were using Kaspersky but we decided to go for Symantec because Kaspersky was missing the DLP part.
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Johnny Hadchity
IT System and Storage Administrator at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
We switched to a new solution because we wanted more security and protection features.
View full review »We used Kaspersky and Bitdefender. We switched due to the company reputation, negotiation terms, commercial benefits, and technical results on the PoC.
View full review »We didn’t have a previous solution.
View full review »Previously we were using McAfee, and we switched to Symantec for ease of operation and stability. This solution has much better performance than McAfee.
My most important criteria when selecting a vendor are price and performance.
View full review »We evaluated Sophos Endpoint Security and Control. We switched due to the scalability and feature set.
View full review »I was using McAfee. Ten years ago, the central administration was a lot better than Symantec.
View full review »Actually, I have not switched to Symantec, but have worked on different clients using different solutions (which include Symantec). I found Symantec to be good and easy to work with.
View full review »From the start we have been using the same product.
Buyer's Guide
Symantec Endpoint Security
March 2024
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765,386 professionals have used our research since 2012.