Symantec Endpoint Security Previous Solutions

Hakeem_Abdulkareem - PeerSpot reviewer
Head, Security Technology & Engineering at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

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.

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PedroSoares - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Security Information Analyst at Modal Bank

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.

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Nicolo De Jesus - PeerSpot reviewer
Security Operations Manager at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

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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Prateek Agarwal - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager at Indian Institute of Management Visakhapatnam

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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AA
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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SS
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.

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Muhammad Ejaz ul Hassan - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO at RISE Technologies

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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KF
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.

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Arvind Tiwari - PeerSpot reviewer
Deputy General Manager at CMS

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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LD
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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AT
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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EA
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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SS
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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MI
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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SA
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.

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Olajide Olusegun - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Team Lead at Atlas Security

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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SB
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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MS
Project Manager at a real estate/law firm with 10,001+ employees

We didn't previously use a different solution.

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GS
Solutions Specialist Security at COMPAREX India Pvt. Ltd.

We were previously using Trend Micro Smart Protection Complete.

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Saurabh Patel - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Support Executive at Adit Microsys Pvt Ltd

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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VK
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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VS
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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AS
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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CA
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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AB
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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RM
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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SD
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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LA
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.

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Saddam Lateef - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Security Admin at a retailer with 201-500 employees

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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HQ
Architect & Technical Director at a tech consulting company with 11-50 employees
BW
IT Admin at a manufacturing company with 51-200 employees

I have also used Kaspersky, in another job.

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NR
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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GK
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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MK
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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LC
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.

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it_user847761 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at TNPL

I started with the company after this solution was implemented.

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MR
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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KD
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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AN
Systems Administrator at a pharma/biotech company with 51-200 employees

We did not use another solution prior to using Symantec.

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it_user381717 - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Security Senior Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

It replaced System Center Endpoint Protection. I don't know why this was chosen, it was a corporate decision.

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it_user676365 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Security Administrator at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

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.

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it_user676353 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Project Manager at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

We used another product and we switched to SEP because of the costs.

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AS
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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AD
swEngineer at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees

I have used Eset Antivirus previously.

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CM
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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DH
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.

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Angus  Yeung - PeerSpot reviewer
System Analyst at a security firm with 11-50 employees

We have been using Symantec since I joined this company.

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SA
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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MB
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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JH
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.

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Pablo Dewes - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Technical Consultant (SE and Strategic Project Manager) - Email Fraud Protection - LATAM at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees

We used Kaspersky and Bitdefender. We switched due to the company reputation, negotiation terms, commercial benefits, and technical results on the PoC.

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it_user693255 - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Security Manager at a energy/utilities company with 201-500 employees

We didn’t have a previous solution.

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it_user900123 - PeerSpot reviewer
Partner at a consultancy with 1-10 employees

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.

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it_user294141 - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Security Manager at a logistics company with 1,001-5,000 employees
it_user377553 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Security Engineer at Biztronz

We evaluated Sophos Endpoint Security and Control. We switched due to the scalability and feature set.

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it_user701514 - PeerSpot reviewer
Responsable de Infraestructura at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

I was using McAfee. Ten years ago, the central administration was a lot better than Symantec.

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it_user200313 - PeerSpot reviewer
Security Consultant at Accenture

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.

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it_user760161 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant with 51-200 employees

From the start we have been using the same product.

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Buyer's Guide
Symantec Endpoint Security
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about Symantec Endpoint Security. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
765,386 professionals have used our research since 2012.