We performed a comparison between Check Point Full Disk Encryption Software Blade, Microsoft BitLocker, and Sophos SafeGuard based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, McAfee, Sophos and others in Endpoint Encryption."The solution provides complete security for one's workstation."
"It has addressed storage and data transfer demands efficiently."
"This software has helped individuals in the organization avoid data loss."
"We never had any complaints about the performance of computers with this tool to be able to manage the protection of disks and drives."
"It keeps the devices well monitored."
"The initial setup is easy."
"End-to-end encryption provides full disk encryption, ensuring that all data on the device, including the operating system."
"Its ability to provide a security layer of encryption that allows us to prevent unauthorized access to computers."
"Integration with System Center Configuration Manager (C: and D: logical drives are encrypted before installing Windows via SCCM)."
"The hard drive encryption is very good."
"While it helps mitigate unauthorized data access by enhancing file and system protection through encryption, the tool is really enhanced with the combination of other Microsoft Security and Compliance features like data labeling."
"The most valuable feature is the TPM (Trusted Platform Module), which makes the PC security stronger because somebody who is not from the team cannot access the PC without the decryption PIN."
"BitLocker is completely stable."
"It comes bundled with other Microsoft solutions."
"One significant aspect is that without the BitLocker key, you can't log in to the user's laptop. I appreciate the capability to encrypt the user's hard drive, ensuring access only with the recovery key. In an enterprise setup, we store all BitLocker keys on our server. So, whenever a user attempts to log in, the architecture authenticates with the key. This ensures that our data is secure. Even if the user's laptop is lost, we have confidence that the data remains inaccessible. So far, our user data is well-protected."
"The initial setup is very simple."
"I like that Sophos SafeGuard provides excellent technical support."
"Security-wise, it's one of the best."
"It's the best solution on the market."
"The most valuable feature is the synchronized security. It's a unique feature on the market at this time only offered by Sophos. As a reseller, we often win bids and get clients because of this unique trademark feature."
"The features that I have found most valuable are encryption tools that encrypt the hard disk and the USB sticks."
"The product filters phishing emails."
"It is one of the best products when it comes to stability."
"It's easy to use. You have to pay extra for additional, but the basic product is fantastic. It will be a good solution for you, depending on your requirements."
"The tool is too expensive to be an add-on to the main solution. They could launch it independently so that costs can be lowered."
"Regarding the general topic of support, many have annoyances with it."
"In the future, I would like to see is the ability to decrypt equipment."
"Sometimes the performance rates are not consistent."
"They could improve the latency in the platform when entering the portal."
"The encryption is fast; however, when it comes to generating decryption of the OS disks, it is sometimes very slow, generating a loss of time."
"The price is high for small scale business enterprises."
"There are a few cases of security breaches when the networking system fails and can lead to malware attacks. The next release should focus more on data virtualization and support for all computing devices."
"The people at the first level of support refer you to articles that do not pertain to the problem at hand."
"We recently found some stability issues with Microsoft BitLocker."
"Lacks a portal that can be managed rather than just existing."
"The integration between Active Directory and BitLocker could be better."
"Microsoft BitLocker needs to be an all-inclusive solution. For example, a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) cryptoprocessor is required to use Bitlocker with your computer which keeps Bitlocker from adoption beyond Windows."
"I would like to be able to encrypt our cloud tenancy."
"The migration itself is a nightmare."
"They should offer better login capabilities that are more secure."
"The lack of need for the patch for an extra password is a shortcoming. It will be a great improvement if the patch requires an extra password so that they can find out how to synchronize your Windows password with the same password for Sophos SafeGuard."
"You have to pay extra for some additional features, like data extraction. It would be nice if everything was available in one bundle."
"The Office 360 integration could be improved."
"In the next release, I would like to see more automation with the endpoint logging, but it's a special feature that is quite complicated to explain."
"Sometimes, multiple updates and crashes happen in the tool, making it an area where improvements are required."
"The product's next release could have integration features with different internal and external systems."
"The solution is not using other features like booting encryption, because it causes very heavy processing of the workstation. If they could find some way to handle the encryption and decryption to be lighter on the workstation it would be better."
"An area for improvement in Sophos SafeGuard is the pricing. Pricing should be better when adding a new account or scaling the product."
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