We performed a comparison between Avanan and Symantec Data Loss Prevention based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Data Loss Prevention (DLP) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It can retract unsafe emails and remove them from the entire communication channel."
"This technology is one of Check Point's acquisitions, and it is currently a powerful tool that provides all the protection that is not found in other tools."
"Email inspection has saved many employees from spam attacks and viruses from unauthorized sources."
"The threat detection tools enable us to ascertain malware and phishing messages across the email network infrastructure."
"Email Attachment Protection detects any insecure files and quickly blocks them to prevent the spread of viruses to other secure documents."
"The most valuable feature of Avanan is its Anti-Malware solution for Office 365, and box.com."
"When we don't understand some functionalities, the customer support staff responds fast to our calls and provides immediate action."
"Email encryption enhances end to end security of any data before it passes through the networking system."
"It can prevent copying and encoding of HTTP data to various sites like Google, and Webex."
"The most valuable aspect of Symantec DLP is its powerful policy system."
"With respect to the amount of intelligence that they have with respect to how they formed the DLP solution, for example, exact data matching. If you compare Forcepoint with Symantec, Symantec is more sophisticated than Forcepoint."
"The incident response options and reporting features are particularly strong, with the inclusion of Incident Classification Assessment (ICA) for integrated reporting."
"The most valuable aspect of Symantec DLP is its broad coverage. Symantec DLP covers USB, Outlook email clients, and web traffic. If we install the endpoint DLP, we can cover multiple channels, including the clipboard and printer."
"The dashboard, management section, and reporting are good."
"The most valuable features of Symantec Data Loss Prevention are endpoint security, endpoint agent, and DLP. Additionally, we have been satisfied with the policies."
"Users like the product because of its simplicity and the rate of detection."
"It should reduce the amount of time needed for thorough scanning."
"The cost can be reviewed to enable SMEs to acquire it and enjoy great security features."
"Sometimes it seemed like the allow list wasn't working. I've created many allow list rules however, they still seem to be blocked; the same is true with the blocked list rules."
"The system response in a slow computing device affects performance when sending and receiving emails."
"In Avanan, the email channel is one of the channels where data leakage happens, and they need to consider it from a DLP perspective."
"The system could be designed to give corporate emails first priority due to demands."
"The user experience must be improved."
"Familiarization with performance for new teams may take a long time."
"Symantec Data Loss Prevention's AI technology has certain shortcomings where improvements can be made."
"Different departments should manage administration, reporting, normalization and incident management."
"Reporting could be improved."
"It is very difficult to log in to create a support ticket because no one is available to support our queries."
"Data Masking could be improved."
"They could improve the predefined reports because they don't have much information. We would like detailed reports."
"They need to expand the channels they check."
"What could be improved in Symantec Data Loss Prevention is its security. It should be more secure."
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Avanan is ranked 7th in Data Loss Prevention (DLP) with 21 reviews while Symantec Data Loss Prevention is ranked 3rd in Data Loss Prevention (DLP) with 53 reviews. Avanan is rated 9.2, while Symantec Data Loss Prevention is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Avanan writes "We've noticed a significant decline from people accidentally or intentionally clicking on things". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Symantec Data Loss Prevention writes "Consitent, accurate, and simple". Avanan is most compared with Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration, Microsoft Defender for Office 365, IRONSCALES, Perception Point Advanced Email Security and Abnormal Security, whereas Symantec Data Loss Prevention is most compared with Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention, Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention, Digital Guardian, Zscaler DLP and CoSoSys Endpoint Protector. See our Avanan vs. Symantec Data Loss Prevention report.
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