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GravityZone Business Security vs Symantec Endpoint Security comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 9, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
6.5
GravityZone Business Security offers cost-effective protection and efficiency, with reduced manual updates and strong threat defense.
Sentiment score
6.2
Symantec Endpoint Security offers significant ROI through reduced incidents, improved efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and minimal administrative needs, enhancing satisfaction.
Comparatively, these American products are much better.
The primary ROI is achieving high safety levels for our network.
Symantec Endpoint Security filled gaps in our toolset, particularly with the ability to control network firewall on hosts remotely, which was greatly appreciated.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
7.5
GravityZone Business Security offers prompt, effective support with quick issue resolution and language-specific assistance, despite occasional response delays.
Sentiment score
6.5
Symantec Endpoint Security's customer service is efficient, while technical support responses vary, affected by locality and language issues.
Services like updates are handled professionally, ensuring stability and operational continuity.
In some cases, it rates as high as ten out of ten, while in others, it can be as low as eight.
There is no support in the German language, which is a problem for many public tenders.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
8.5
GravityZone Business Security smoothly scales with growth, simplifies expansions, and integrates licenses and devices with minimal server changes.
Sentiment score
7.7
Symantec Endpoint Security is scalable and adaptable, handling diverse workloads and seamlessly integrating, despite minor complexity and licensing challenges.
GravityZone has scaled effortlessly as our organization has expanded, accommodating more devices and users without needing additional server purchases.
The effort of managing ten clients and the effort of managing ten thousand clients is insignificant.
It is quite scalable and easily scalable.
Symantec Endpoint Security is quite scalable, and it is very important for large clients.
The scalability of the servers is good, as it requires computational powers.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.7
GravityZone Business Security is praised for stability, reliable performance, ease of management, and superior threat protection despite occasional update issues.
Sentiment score
7.7
Symantec Endpoint Security is stable for many, but some report resource issues, crashes, and support challenges on certain platforms.
Stability is crucial for us, given that the endpoint device is a main gate for attacks or malware.
I have encountered issues where I had to uninstall and reinstall the product on end users' computers to view the logs again.
Previously, we used to have multiple servers such as GUP servers and numerous servers for pushing updates, but we reduced it and transitioned almost 30,000 devices to CrowdStrike, which was easy to manage.
 

Room For Improvement

GravityZone Business Security needs improvements in integration, user interface, performance, and additional features to enhance efficiency and ROI.
Symantec Endpoint Security faces challenges with virus detection, resource consumption, complex management, integration, and needs improved threat protection and support.
It is more than adequate, just needing to keep up with industry changes.
More customization freedom to accommodate unique environment needs could enhance the solution's flexibility.
It's not designed with current standards; it's not HTML5 and doesn't work well for navigation.
Device management is not very good and I am not enabling it in my organization due to security reasons.
I would like to see improvements in the scanning part of the solution, specifically to enhance the CPU and hard disk usage during scanning and updates to prevent disruption during work hours.
It is cumbersome to use, particularly in handling firewall management.
 

Setup Cost

GravityZone Business Security is cost-effective, charging around $1 per device monthly, with competitive three-year licensing deals.
Symantec Endpoint Security provides a reasonably priced solution with discounts for specific sectors, offering value despite cheaper alternatives.
GravityZone is one of the cheapest solutions among its competitors.
Datto is offering a bundle for less than what we pay for Bitdefender.
The pricing is very reasonable.
It seems to be half the cost or more affordable than other solutions.
The pricing is very low compared to other companies like SentinelOne and others.
I rate the pricing, setup cost, and licensing around nine out of ten.
 

Valuable Features

GravityZone Business Security offers comprehensive protection, easy management, cost-effectiveness, and detailed risk analysis, making it highly reliable.
Symantec Endpoint Security provides comprehensive, user-friendly protection with seamless management, offering robust threat detection and prevention across platforms.
The threat detection capability is outstanding with no issues at all.
The best part is the risk management; it gives me real relief, and an overall idea of what all my systems are exposed to, where my weaknesses lie, and how I can address them—whether it's misconfigurations, user behavior creating the risk, or the OS software that isn't getting patched, or critical CVs that aren't getting mitigated.
GravityZone is very light on PCs and offers excellent threat detection capabilities, notably through its anti-malware and anti-virus features.
Symantec Endpoint Security offers many valuable features, such as file explosion, application learning, DLP, injection detection, and EDR solutions for traffic control.
The incident response capabilities allow me to resolve authentication and support issues promptly, ensuring the system operates without downtime.
One important feature is the EDR function, necessary for many public customers due to upcoming laws in Germany, which is available through Symantec Endpoint Security Complete.
 

Categories and Ranking

GravityZone Business Security
Ranking in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP)
30th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
17
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Symantec Endpoint Security
Ranking in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP)
13th
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
145
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2025, in the Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) category, the mindshare of GravityZone Business Security is 1.6%, up from 1.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Symantec Endpoint Security is 3.7%, down from 4.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Symantec Endpoint Security3.7%
GravityZone Business Security1.6%
Other94.7%
Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP)
 

Featured Reviews

Wesam Qashou - PeerSpot reviewer
Achieving nearly complete protection with reliable configuration management and effective technical support
The most valuable features of GravityZone Business Security are its anti-malware and anti-virus capabilities. The firewall policies are considered very powerful, and it prevents many malicious issues. The solution has its own definitions for viruses or malware, providing timely detection updates. Additionally, their technical support is very effective, with knowledgeable engineers handling cases efficiently.
Kumbesh Rajagopal - PeerSpot reviewer
Management becomes easier with minimal complications, but improvement in support tools needed
Regarding areas of improvement for Symantec Endpoint Security, there are many changes, and the support portal tool is complicated compared to other tools. When trying to get service from Symantec, the process is complex. I'm not sure whether it's because of my project or something else. Though it is easy to manage, easy to get, easy to install, and works efficiently for managing policies, we faced a significant disadvantage. We wanted to add multiple hashes because of numerous new alerts coming, but we could only add them one by one, which is a considerable disadvantage in Symantec.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
19%
Comms Service Provider
14%
Government
7%
Manufacturing Company
5%
Computer Software Company
13%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Comms Service Provider
9%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business15
Large Enterprise4
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business69
Midsize Enterprise32
Large Enterprise62
 

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Also Known As

GravityZone Elite
Symantec EPP, Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP)
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Archdiocese, Northstar, SeSa, W&W Informatik, Yamaha Motor Europe
Audio Visual Dynamics, Red Deer Advocate, Asia Pacific Telecom Co. Ltd., Kibbutz Ein Gedi, and AMETEK, Inc.
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