Symantec Endpoint Security Scalability

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

When you put it on servers and there are performance issues, you can always check the endpoint that's using the most resources and allow that part to not be scanned. 

Symantec has the scalability and flexibility to work in line with what the customer really wants. Some parts of a server are not meant to be scanned. You can still monitor it and get reports. From there, you can decide if it should be excluded. That is one thing I like about Symantec.

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PedroSoares - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Security Information Analyst at Modal Bank

On the cloud, scaling is very easy, of course. But on-premises, we have had some difficulties, although these are the normal difficulties that any on-prem software would have. If I was using any other system on-prem I would also need to be thinking about disaster recovery and backup and load balancing.

We have Symantec deployed on all the company's workstations, on about 1,400 devices. We have also installed it on about 400 Windows Servers. And we are testing it on two Linux servers as a proof of concept, to see if we will install it on all our Linux servers.

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GE
IT Specialist at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Scalability wasn't an issue. It functions and performs well in all environments, from small environments to large enterprise environments, including just medium-size businesses.

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

We haven't tried scaling up because we maintain a stable number of users, but it's fairly easy to add some users to Symantec. It's just like migration.

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

The solution is highly scalable; we can fully scale it according to our organization's requirements.   

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AA
Desktop Support Engineer at Dixit Infotech Services Pvt Ltd

Symantec is scalable. 

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SS
Cyber Security Manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

I have not seen any challenges with the scalability of the solution. I have worked with multiple clients. One of our clients has about 30,000 end users. They are located in eight to nine countries and have about 15 different remote locations.

We have plans to increase the usage of the product, but it all comes down to client requirements. It depends on their environment, its size, and how we want to further enhance that.

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KF
Senior IT Security Officer at Lion International Bank

We have approximately 3,000 users that are protected by this solution. We add branches and more computers weekly, and we don't have problems doing so.

We were able to easily integrate with Active Directory using the Symantec Manager, so I would say it's very scalable.

As we add more branches, our usage of the product will continue to increase.

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Arvind Tiwari - PeerSpot reviewer
Deputy General Manager at CMS

It can be scaled up with EDR and XDR extensions. We have deployed it at multiple locations, and we have plans to increase its usage.

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LD
Country Director at SOCITECH S.A.

It is very scalable.  

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AT
Director at Tandon Electronics

Endpoint Security is a scalable tool. 

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EA
Senior Desktop Engineer

The scalability is also 100 percent. Its ability to grow with the organization is positive. It's something that our company wants to use in the long term.

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SS
Security Consultant at InfySec

It is on the cloud so scaling up is not that difficult. I would rate it a 10 out of 10. It's been helping us for the last three years. We have definitely been growing and Symantec has grown along with us.

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MI
CEO at CT AMERICA

The scalability is pretty good. We can increase the number of computers managed by the solution, and we can increase the passes. We have been using these solutions for the last eight years due to the fact that we don't have any kind of problems. 

That said, when we tried to upgrade, when we got the newest features, the newest protections, we had a lot of problems as we don't have any Symantec specialists available for us to help us, to train us, and to give the appropriate support. That is the main issue that we have right now.

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PD
Project Manager at Dreams Technology

More than 500 users are using this solution in our organization.

I rate Symantec Endpoint Security an eight out of ten for scalability.

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SA
Information Technology Specialist at Wonderla Holidays Ltd

The scalability meets our company's requirements of on-prem and cloud. Therefore, I would rate its scalability as nine out of 10.

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Olajide Olusegun - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Team Lead at Atlas Security

It's scalable. One of the clients has 50 users and another one has 10 users. It's good and pretty fast. It's being used at multiple locations.

It's very easy to increase the number of endpoints. You just need to purchase more licenses. If you have more users, you need more licenses.

We have plans to increase its usage.

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Jawaria Abbas - PeerSpot reviewer
Security Engineer at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

Around 1,300 to 1,400 users were using the solution in my previous organization.

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DB
Operations Manager at Telescope Digital

It is very scalable. This is one of the things I like about it.

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ML
IT Director at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

We have no problem with scalability so far. We are a growing team and company and so far it's been growing with us. It scales well. 

As of today, we have around 4,000 users, however, we are still growing.

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Ammar Jibarah - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Security at Aramex

The scalability of Symantec Endpoint Security is good, and easy to do.

We have approximately 10,000 users using this solution.

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SB
Computer Systems Administrator at a university with 10,001+ employees

It was scalable just due to the fact that had to be installed individually on individual computers. For the unmanaged workstations, it was as scalable as you wanted it to be. There was a new download and a new install on a new computer. There are no limits on that. I'm not sure, however, how true that is, as it wasn't within my area of responsibility. I'm not sure if the managed work points overloaded the servers that were meant to monitor them. I don't think that was the case. The scalability was probably pretty good there too. I never heard any complaints about it not being scalable.

We likely had between 10,000 and 20,000 users on it. The roles would include, since it's a university, students, faculty, staff, and researchers. That pretty much covered the type of people that work at a university.

We don't plan to increase usage as we've completely phased out the solution.

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AM
Senior Infrastructure and Security Engineer at Georgetown University

We had more than 10 users using this solution in my organization.

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PK
IT manager at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees

We're not a big business in Serbia but scalability is easy. We have around 160 workstations and about 130 users. 

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

The resources can be expanded with more load and all, however, I'm not sure how scalable it is in terms of expanding it.

Internally, there are likely 800 users that use this product.

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BJ
Manager at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

We have 13000 Symantec Endpoint Security users in our organization. I rate its scalability an eight out of ten.

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JK
Technical Manager at Digital World

It is scalable. If you get the proper licenses then it scales well. There are no issues with scalability.

We are service providers with many different clients. Some of our customers have 100 users, whereas others have 200, and even as many as 300.

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GS
Solutions Specialist Security at COMPAREX India Pvt. Ltd.

The scalability is okay. I would rate it as a nine out of ten. Users are a bit afraid of the integration with ATP, as it is increasing scan times when downloading up to two to seven seconds.

We have around 2500 employee over all the globe. All the endpoints on laptops or desktops are running Symantec Endpoint Protection. Apart from that, we have multiple customers who have deployed the Symantec Endpoint Protection solution.

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

Its scalability is very good. We are able to scale up to 10,000 users, and it is working fine. There are no issues with it. 

We are working with government institutions and corporations in various industries. We are also working with educational institutes. It is being used in all sectors. 

We don't have any plans to increase its usage as of now.

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VK
Administrator at a real estate/law firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

Its scalability is good. We have more than 50,000 clients in our environment, and Symantec is installed on all the clients. It has been working properly, and it is easily able to detect viruses and malicious files. We currently don’t have any plans to increase its usage.

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SA
Technical lead at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

It's scalable. Our clients plan to increase usage.

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Heritier Daya - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Administrator at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

This product is easy to scale. Normally, such a product isn't easy to scale nor to manage, but this solution is user-friendly and isn't complicated to manage. In my company, this product is deployed on all the workstations—more than 1,700 PCs.

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VS
Director at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

You can scale the solution very well. It's not an issue as well. However, the support is lacking, and it might deter users from wanting to scale. Even the resellers are warning clients that the support isn't there, and the company is not responding well to queries. 

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MN
Manager IS Security at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees

The solution can scale if you need it to. If a company needs to expand it, it shouldn't be a problem to do so.

I can't speak to how many of our users are currently on the product at this time.

As of right now, we do not have plans to increase the usage within our organization.

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AS
Infrastructure Architect at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Symantec End-User Endpoint Security is scalable.

We have very few people in our company who use this solution because we currently outsource our security operations to Symantec. There will only be three or four people that will be working with this product.

It's used every day, at some point.

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CA
System Analyst at Abbey Mortgage Bank

The scalability of the product is decent. I'd rate the ease of scalability at a seven or eight out of ten.

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AB
Manager at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

We have about 700 employees in our company, and a lot of them are using the same protection system.

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RG
Sr. Professional Services Engineer at a computer software company with 11-50 employees

In terms of scalability, it's one of the best out there. I did a project for a major hotel chain that also has rental properties. Some of these places have five users, and then others have 200 users. When you deploy in a company like that, scalability and the ability to protect remote places without having to put a server out there, is critical. And Symantec just really scales up. It's very efficient. It can be used in a company that has a lot of remote users, like oil companies with remote locations. It's a solution that allows you to support a worldwide company that might have offices in dozens of countries, and it just works.

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RM
CEO Iberia & Latam at a recruiting/HR firm with 10,001+ employees

Symantec End-User Endpoint Security is a scalable product.

We have 500 users in our organization.

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Manish Dave - PeerSpot reviewer
Head Of Information Security at Aarti Industries Limited

We had approximately 62,000 using the solution.

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PE
Network Administrator at Cape Breton Regional Municipality

Symantec Endpoint Protection scaled very well. It's actually very easy to use.

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LA
IT Security Lead at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

The scalability of the product is good to where it has had the effect of increasing the workload by adding more machines, so I should have a good scaled back-up for this supporting both lines.

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BD
Manager Operations/ Information Technology at a financial services firm with 1-10 employees

It is scalable. It's being used universally by all workstations in my organization. We have 10 users.

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

Endpoint Security is not that scalable right now because it is hard to even get a new quote. It is part of the problem happening during the transition when they got bought up by Broadcom. The whole process of renewing and buying new licenses has become a pain. It takes forever to get a quote.  

On a daily basis in our company right now there are around 300 people using the product. The system is monitored by the system admin and myself. We have a cooperative situation.  

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TS
Director at a consultancy with 201-500 employees

I don't know enough about the scalability to really have an opinion on it, one way or the other. I wouldn't be able to comment on it.

Currently, we have anywhere between 100 and 500 users on the solution.

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HQ
Architect & Technical Director at a tech consulting company with 11-50 employees

It is a very scalable solution.

I recommend the tool for large-sized organizations.

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BW
IT Admin at a manufacturing company with 51-200 employees

We use it for every laptop, locally. We have about 50 users.

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Faisal Mian - PeerSpot reviewer
CTO at ABM Info. tech

The solution can be scaled to handle different threats. 

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NR
Head of IT Department at a construction company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It is scalable. With on-prem, you have the network limitation. If I migrate to the cloud, it will be easy to scale. 

In terms of usage, currently, we have between 250 to 300 users.

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Heritier Daya - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Administrator at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

It is scalable because it is easy to use and it is fond of multiple features, using the management console.

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RR
Security Technical Consultant at Prosoft Information Systems

This product is scalable.

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NJ
Sr. Officer - Quality Assurance at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

Symantec End-User Endpoint Security is scalable.

We have approximately 850 endpoint clients using the solution.

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ES
Group Brand Manager at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees

The scalability of the solution is great.

Currently, we have around 400 employees using this solution.

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BL
Information Technology at a non-profit with 201-500 employees

We don't have much concern about scalability because we don't expand a lot. It isn't something that we considered or looked into.

We have 30 users in the company.

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GK
IT Systems Administrator at a consultancy with 51-200 employees

We have between sixty and seventy people, both IT and non-IT staff, who use this solution. The latter are primarily working in Microsoft Office and SharePoint environments.

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TD
General Manager at a consultancy with 51-200 employees

The solution could be more scalable. 

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AC
IT Specialist at a educational organization with 201-500 employees

We have scaled without issues.

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MK
Dy General Manager at a real estate/law firm with 501-1,000 employees

I have found the solution to be very scalable, we have 700 employees using the solution in our organization.

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LC
Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

It's fairly scalable. It meets our needs from a scalability standpoint.

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MD
Industrial Automation Analyst at a mining and metals company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The solution is scalable, we have approximately 1400 systems using this solution.

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MW
Project Manager at Realnux

We've found the scalability to be good. If we need to expand it, we can do so.

We have one customer who currently uses the product.

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Karen Yerznkanyan - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Information Technology Officer at AMX

We only have around 30 users so scalability is not an issue. 

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it_user847761 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at TNPL

We have had some little issues and file problems when we are logging the calls through the technical team.

Sometimes, when we are creating a new policy, some of the clients are not being updated with the latest policy.

We have approximately one thousand users with this solution.

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MR
CEO at Tech Valley Networks Limited

Scalability, of course, is good. They acquire different companies sometimes and they adapt their different technologies.

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KD
Director Of Services at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It's a scalable solution.

We have approximately 500 users in our organization.

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PD
Assistant Engineer at Harel Mallac Technologies Ltd

I have approximately five customers using this solution.

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

From my experience, I find scaling this solution is difficult. You have to work your way around it. It takes some time getting used to the admin dashboard before you can make any changes.

We have about sixty users in the company. Two of them are administrators and the remaining are end-users.

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JB
General Manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

The solution is completely scalable.

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DB
IT Manager at Digitalis Reputation

I think it's very scalable, and I think you can manage the implementation as long as it's sort of implemented on the right sort of baseline platform, etc. It makes it pretty easy to scale up and add lots more users and even more servers to the implementation. We do plan to add more clients onto the system in the future.

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

There were no issues with the scalability.

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it_user805980 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at Godimo IT

For us, scalability is fine, there is no problem, no restriction, other than we cannot go beyond our licenses. If we are extending it, of course we need to pay for it. But it's not like something is restricting or blocking it. The scalability is okay. We have connected more than 1,200 computers and they are working well.

We have one staff member who maintains the solution. He is our network security guy and he is also Symantec-certified. We also have second-level support from Symantec. If anything is needed we get support from them. We pay them yearly for that.

Right now, we don't have plans to increase our usage of the solution.

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Lead System Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

We only have 10,000 endpoints so it's not that much, but it's working.

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

I did not encounter any issues with scalability.

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AS
Account Manager, Cybersecurity at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

We have three or four clients who still use this solution.

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

I have found Symantec End-User Endpoint Security to be scalable.

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VN
Service Manager with 51-200 employees

It is highly scalable.

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RP
Manager IT & Infrastructure at a energy/utilities company with 201-500 employees

The solution is scalable.

I would rate the scalability of Symantec End-User Endpoint Security an eight out of ten.

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CM
Principal Consultant - Security at Insentra

From a scalability perspective, in Australia and New Zealand, where I'm using it, it can easily manage any workload that we've got. 

One of the challenges is people going the opposite way, that is, people trying to deploy Symantec Endpoint Protection - which is an enterprise level product - into a small business of a hundred users. It can introduce a lot of complexity that doesn't have to be there.

There are other solutions like SEP.cloud which can make it easier for small businesses to be able to use very similar technologies to Symantec Endpoint Protection.

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DH
Chief Executive Officer at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

The scalability is good.

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

It is scalable. We have around 300 users who use this solution. We don't have any plans to expand its usage.

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SA
Director at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

We have not encountered any issues with scalability.

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KK
Regulatory Specialist at a healthcare company with 501-1,000 employees

We haven't had issues with scalability. We have approximately 1,000 users.

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MB
Solutions Architect at IP Protocol INC

I found the solution scalable, and we faced no issue regarding that. We have approximately four thousand users.

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JH
IT System and Storage Administrator at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees

No scalability issues.

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

We have had no scalability issues at all. Actually, it is far more scalable than other similar products.

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JC
Service Management Officer at a government with 501-1,000 employees

It's very easy to scale.

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

Its scalability is great, no question.

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RR
Executive Cybersecurity Advisor - President at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
it_user1065324 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Associate Manager at a pharma/biotech company with 501-1,000 employees

Scalability can become difficult in the user area. I think that it's costly to add the new hard disk. It's hard to add it. We have about forty users on the solution right now.

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it_user765246 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Consultant - Infrastrute at a tech services company

No, I have not. I have always found Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP) to be scalable.

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

Not at all. Actually, it is far more scalable than other similar products.

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it_user377553 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Security Engineer at Biztronz

There were no scalability issues.

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

There were no scalability issues. I work in medium-sized organizations.

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MS
Software Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

We have no issues with the scalability of the product. 

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it_user635907 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant
it_user200313 - PeerSpot reviewer
Security Consultant at Accenture

It is very scalable.

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it_user760161 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant with 51-200 employees

There are no limitations.

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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.
765,234 professionals have used our research since 2012.