Netwrix Endpoint Protector vs Symantec Data Loss Prevention comparison

Netwrix Endpoint Protector vs. Symantec Data Loss Prevention

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Review summaries and opinions

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ROI

Sentiment score

6.5

Cloudflare users experienced increased performance, security, and cost-effectiveness, leading to improved loyalty and revenue despite difficult ROI calculations.

Sentiment score

7.1

Netwrix Endpoint Protector provides compliance, data security, and reduced IT workload, preventing breaches and satisfying auditors.

Sentiment score

6.2

Symantec DLP increases ROI by reducing costs, improving response times, and enabling efficient data monitoring and policy configuration.

For the small project I was working on, using the basic tier provided a huge improvement at zero cost.

Wellington Malagutti

Security Specialist at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

In terms of return on investment with Cloudflare, it costs my time to set them up, but basically once they're set up, it's done.

Herb Angle

Owner at Hga consulting

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Customer Service

Sentiment score

7.0

Cloudflare's customer service is quick, but technical support feedback is mixed, with improvement needed in responsiveness and detailed assistance.

Sentiment score

7.7

Netwrix Endpoint Protector support receives mixed reviews, praised for responsiveness, but some cite delays and communication issues.

Sentiment score

6.3

Symantec Data Loss Prevention support is mixed, with responsive staff but concerns over slow responses and knowledge gaps.

Cloudflare does not offer hands-on technical support to fix customer problems but rather a self-service model.

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Senior Consultant CDN at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

I would rate the technical support with Cloudflare as excellent every time I've had to call them.

Herb Angle

Owner at Hga consulting

I have primarily worked not with the tool's customer support but with the product's sales engineers and technical sales engineers, who seem to know their stuff.

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Principal Cyber Prevent and Defense Engineer at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

I would rate the technical support for Netwrix Endpoint Protector as a nine because we have trained engineers, and I am also trained.

Head of Sales and Technical - Malaysia at Halodata

I never needed to contact the vendor for technical support because we faced very few issues.

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Senior System Administrator at Exotel Techcom Pvt. Ltd

The support provided from both Symantec Turkey and distributor companies enables us to support customers and partners effectively.

Technical Team Leader at Redington (India) Ltd

The support team changed from MTechPro to a different partner, affecting our experience.

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Information Security Engineer 4 at Amadeus

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score

8.1

Users praise Cloudflare for seamless scalability, effective traffic management, easy upgrades, and robust global infrastructure without disruptions.

Sentiment score

7.3

Netwrix Endpoint Protector is efficient and scalable, though some face challenges with policy management and non-Windows OS compatibility.

Sentiment score

7.6

Symantec Data Loss Prevention is highly scalable, favored by enterprises, though some face challenges with virtualization and browser integrations.

It is a SaaS tool, but the fact that they have workloads deployed across the world proves that it is a highly scalable tool.

Carlos Alam Hernandez Baruch

Principal Cyber Prevent and Defense Engineer at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

The tool offers very good performance, even during high-traffic periods.

Engineer at SITMEXICO

I rate the solution’s scalability an eight out of ten.

Prajith Chowthee

Independent Consultant at Unaikui

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Everything starts from the endpoint, and we maintain the Endpoint DLP in many cases while working alongside existing DLP systems.

Head of Sales and Technical - Malaysia at Halodata

This solution is scalable because prior to onboarding it, we took references from the vendor, the implementation vendor, and the CoSoSys team.

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Senior System Administrator at Exotel Techcom Pvt. Ltd

When using native proxy solutions, scalability issues are minimized, and the solution remains stable.

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Information Security Engineer 4 at Amadeus

Stability Issues

Sentiment score

7.6

Cloudflare is highly rated for stability and uptime, with few past issues, especially on higher-tier plans.

Sentiment score

8.2

Netwrix Endpoint Protector is praised for high stability, reliable performance, minimal downtime, and excellent support across environments.

Sentiment score

7.7

Symantec Data Loss Prevention is stable and reliable, with minor glitches and maintenance needs primarily on Windows and cloud features.

I rate the solution’s stability an eight out of ten.

Prajith Chowthee

Independent Consultant at Unaikui

The service is very stable with no impacts during high-traffic periods.

Carlos Alam Hernandez Baruch

Engineer at SITMEXICO

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The product has been around for over 15 years now and is very stable because I started using them from version three.

Head of Sales and Technical - Malaysia at Halodata

Stability-wise, the solution is stable; we experienced no downtimes during our two years of usage.

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Senior System Administrator at Exotel Techcom Pvt. Ltd

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Room For Improvement

Enhancements needed in Cloudflare: analytics, CDN latency, API integration, user support, DNS, pricing, documentation, server coverage, WAF, and cache.

Netwrix Endpoint Protector needs improvements in customization, installation, UI consistency, alert notifications, and network DLP features across platforms.

Symantec Data Loss Prevention struggles with complexity, costly pricing, integration challenges, and requires improvements in support, features, and detection.

Despite these challenges, overall, Cloudflare remains the preferred solution compared to Azure, AWS CloudFront, and Google Cloud Armor.

Bilal Mujahid

Managed Services Manager at Adapture Technology Group

Areas like how assessment, discovery, and payload are dealt with and how it all comes into your organization can be considered when trying to make suggestions to Cloudflare for improvements.

Darryl Wethington

Senior Cloud Solution Architect at Integrated Technology Solution Group (ITSG)

There are some performance considerations when it comes to dynamic content that involves fetching data from databases or using APIs.

Animesh.Kumar

Senior Solutions Architect at Think Power Solutions

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Netwrix is known as the best DLP for Apple Macintosh computers, which is noteworthy.

Head of Sales and Technical - Malaysia at Halodata

Not all the policies applied to the Linux clients were as effective as those for Mac and Windows.

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Senior System Administrator at Exotel Techcom Pvt. Ltd

Symantec responded by creating an OCR module, enabling the capability to search within images.

Technical Team Leader at Redington (India) Ltd

They can improve their product and the features mainly to focus on how we can prevent that data within the organization, over the cloud, whatever it is, as that is important.

Abhishek Sawant

System Manager at Randstad

A main disadvantage of Symantec DLP is its reliance on Oracle.

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Information Security Engineer 4 at Amadeus

Setup Cost

Cloudflare offers scalable pricing, from free to enterprise plans, providing significant value especially for mid-sized companies.

Netwrix Endpoint Protector offers competitive pricing, flexible subscriptions, and aligns costs with features for organizations of various sizes.

Symantec Data Loss Prevention has high pricing, with costs varying by deployment, database needs, and licensing options, suitable for enterprises.

I find it to be cheap.

Carlos Alam Hernandez Baruch

Engineer at SITMEXICO

I rate the product’s pricing a five out of ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive.

Animesh.Kumar

Senior Solutions Architect at Think Power Solutions

The tool is a premium product, so it is very expensive.

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Principal Cyber Prevent and Defense Engineer at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

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Symantec Data Loss Prevention is more expensive compared to competing solutions.

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Technical Team Leader at Redington (India) Ltd

If it is a large target, then of course your cost will be high.

Abhishek Sawant

System Manager at Randstad

Valuable Features

Cloudflare enhances performance and security with CDN caching, DDoS protection, and an easy-to-use dashboard, benefiting many users.

Netwrix Endpoint Protector offers device control, content-aware protection, robust compliance, and security controls for cross-platform data protection.

Symantec Data Loss Prevention provides comprehensive features, including data monitoring, machine learning, endpoint protection, network DLP, and advanced management.

The most valuable features of the solution are performance and security.

Darryl Wethington

Senior Cloud Solution Architect at Integrated Technology Solution Group (ITSG)

Techniques like minification and image compression reduce the size of assets, leading to better performance and faster user load times.

Animesh.Kumar

Senior Solutions Architect at Think Power Solutions

The solution has been able to compare it to the market, and I think the product has taken great strides in automating quite a bit of things, and they use a lot of AI.

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Principal Cyber Prevent and Defense Engineer at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

Assuming if there's a breach, we will be able to know exactly where the breach has occurred and what has occurred, and they are quite granular in how they report their information, including their logs.

Head of Sales and Technical - Malaysia at Halodata

Netwrix Endpoint Protector works on Linux and macOS to block USB ports, control internet access, and manage other peripheral ports.

Mohammad Amir Hossain

Head of IT Infrastructure at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

License utilization was a concern as when we were changing the hostname from asset category to asset tag and from personal hostnames to asset tags, it started taking multiple licenses.

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Senior System Administrator at Exotel Techcom Pvt. Ltd

Symantec's OCR module enhances image analysis, crucial for detecting data loss via screenshots, improving the overall security posture against data breaches.

Technical Team Leader at Redington (India) Ltd

Symantec Data Loss Prevention has proprietary metadata and is well-suited for endpoint-level security.

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Information Security Engineer 4 at Amadeus

The centralized management console in Symantec Data Loss Prevention helps me understand the data flow analysis part from each and every department.

Abhishek Sawant

System Manager at Randstad

Categories and Ranking

Cloudflare

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Herb Angle

Owner at Hga consulting

Has helped manage client domains with streamlined access control and threat visibility

I don't know what areas could be improved with Cloudflare WAF; Cloudflare is constantly improving and adding features to their feature set. They're doing a good job, and as far as DNS and support for any domains that I create or my clients create, it's mandatory for me to make sure that they have Cloudflare as their DNS provider. The Cloudflare load balancing capability hasn't really helped in enhancing my website's uptime and resiliency because we don't really get that much traffic; it's mostly remote users, and web hosting is done by a web hosting service. It doesn't pay to try to host your own website.

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Provides robust compliance with advanced threat protection and user-friendly interfaces

Head of Sales and Technical - Malaysia at Halodata

The features of Netwrix Endpoint Protector that I have found most valuable so far are the two main key modules which are Content Aware Protection (CAP) and Device Control (DC), which is the hottest selling item from my perspective as a consultant. I find CAP and DC valuable because they are very granular in nature and it's easily understood and easily configured. That's why it's easy for us to actually position this product to any organizations with no complications. My impression on the multi-layered protection features of this solution is quite positive because now they've expanded to more things in the DLP itself, that are as good as an enterprise DLP solution. Therefore, I feel that in terms of its pricing values and so on, it is very competitive. I assess the value of the comprehensive reporting and auditing capabilities provided by Netwrix Endpoint Protector as very good because I am a user myself prior to this, before becoming a reseller and now a distributor. I am actually a walking dictionary for this particular product. The comprehensive reporting and auditing capabilities are quite granular in terms of gaining insights. We can actually deep dive into quite a lot of things and find a lot of information that they already have. Assuming if there's a breach, we will be able to know exactly where the breach has occurred and what has occurred, and they are quite granular in how they report their information, including their logs. Therefore, they conform to all compliance regulatory bodies too. My impression of the centralized management console feature of Netwrix Endpoint Protector is that it is one of the simplest centralized monitoring features that even a kid would understand, which is what we need in today's world—nothing complicated. My impression of the data encryption and control over portable storage devices features of this solution is that they are very good, especially the device controls, which I really enjoy using, particularly when it comes to portable devices USBs and the encryption tools that they have, which is another module called E-lock, or enforce encryption, that they do have. They are well-protected along those lines.

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Experienced implementation enhances security with robust detection and centralized management

Technical Team Leader at Redington (India) Ltd

A significant case highlighted an improvement need when a banking company lost 500 customer information pieces through screenshots. The data theft occurred through individual screenshots of credit note pages rather than taking complete PDF files. This incident led to the suggestion for implementing image detection methods, as Data Loss Prevention solutions needed to analyze image details. Symantec responded by creating an OCR module, enabling the capability to search within images. The pricing structure remains an area for improvement. We lost a POC despite installing 2,000 endpoints because Symantec Data Loss Prevention is more expensive compared to other solutions. Although the competing product couldn't match all the best practices, the price difference influenced the final decision.

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

12%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Comms Service Provider

10%

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

10%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Manufacturing Company

10%

University

Financial Services Firm

15%

Manufacturing Company

13%

Computer Software Company

12%

Comms Service Provider

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	46
Midsize Enterprise	8
Large Enterprise	25

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	15
Midsize Enterprise	9
Large Enterprise	6

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	23
Midsize Enterprise	12
Large Enterprise	28

Questions from the Community

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Which would you choose - Cloudflare DNS or Quad9?

Cloudflare DNS is a very fast, very reliable public DNS resolver. It is an enterprise-grade authoritative DNS service...

What do you like most about Cloudflare?

Cloudflare offers CDN and DDoS protection. We have the front end, API, and database in how you structure applications.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Endpoint Protector?

When we started, the price was reasonable, but it has been increasing over time. I rate the price as four, indicating...

What needs improvement with Endpoint Protector?

The licensing issue was eventually resolved by the team, but the Linux client issue persisted. Not all the policies a...

What is your primary use case for Endpoint Protector?

Our main use case involved compliance requirements stating that we wanted to have DLP functionality on our endpoint d...

What do you like most about Symantec Data Loss Prevention?

It can prevent copying and encoding of HTTP data to various sites like Google, and Webex.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Symantec Data Loss Prevention?

I am not aware of the licensing cost for Symantec Data Loss Prevention because the licensing cost is up to senior man...

What needs improvement with Symantec Data Loss Prevention?

In future updates of Symantec Data Loss Prevention, I would like to see improvements based on the many attacks happen...

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Also Known As

Cloudflare DNS

CoSoSys Endpoint Protector

Symantec DLP

Overview

Cloudflare enhances web performance and security with features like CDN caching and DDoS mitigation while providing easy DNS management and intuitive setup through its user-friendly dashboard.

Cloudflare is recognized for its comprehensive web security and performance solutions. Speed improvements are achieved through caching mechanisms and DDoS protection, combining ease of DNS management with flexible page rules. The robust analytics and threat insight tools provide valuable data, assisted by a user-friendly dashboard allowing quick setup and configuration. An API offers dynamic DNS settings ensuring low latency and high performance across the globe.

What are Cloudflare's key features?

CDN Caching: Enhances website speed through content delivery network caching.
Web Application Firewall: Protects websites from online threats.
DDoS Mitigation: Shields against distributed denial-of-service attacks.
DNS Management: Offers easy-to-use and flexible domain management.
SSL Certificates: Ensures secure connections between users and servers.
Analytics: Provides insights with robust analytics tools.

What benefits and ROI should users evaluate?

Enhanced Security: Strengthening web security with DDoS and firewall protection.
Speed Improvement: Faster content delivery with CDN caching.
Operational Simplicity: Simplifies website optimization through a user-friendly interface.
Scalable Solutions: Scales with global reach, lowering latency for improved performance.
Cost Efficiency: Offers layers of valuable functionality with pricing options.

Cloudflare finds utility across industries for DNS management and defense mechanisms. Its content delivery network assures fast content distribution and fortified security. Businesses integrate features like web application firewalls, load balancing, end-to-end SSL, and zero trust to protect websites from cyber threats while ensuring resilience and reliable performance.

Cloudflare

Content Aware Protection
Scanning data in motion
Monitor, control and block file transfers. Detailed control through both content and context inspection.

Device Control
USB & peripheral port control
Lockdown, monitor and manage devices. Granular control based on Vendor ID, Product ID, Serial Number and more.

Enforced Encryption
Automatic USB encryption
Encrypt, manage and secure USB storage devices by safeguarding data in transit. Password-based, easy to use and very efficient.

eDiscovery
Scanning data at rest
Discover, encrypt and delete sensitive data. Detailed content and context inspection through manual or automatic scans

Netwrix

Keeping sensitive corporate information safe and compliant has never been easy. But today, you’re faced with a totally new set of data protection challenges. Sensitive information is leaving the safety of your corporate network as more employees share files over consumer cloud storage services and access those files on their own mobile devices. The number of targeted cyber attacks continues to grow, as cybercriminals develop effective new methods for defeating traditional security measures and stealing corporate information. And as all of these factors converge, it becomes increasingly difficult to manage corporate information and protect it against loss and theft.

Symantec Data Loss Prevention (DLP) provides a comprehensive approach to information protection that embraces today’s cloud- and mobile-centered realities. With DLP, you can:

• Discover where data is stored across all of your cloud, mobile, network, endpoint, and storage systems

• Monitor how data is being used, whether your employees are on or off the network

• Protect data from being leaked or stolen—no matter where it’s stored or how it’s used

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Sample Customers

Trusted by over 9,000,000 Internet Applications and APIs, including Nasdaq, Zendesk, Crunchbase, Steve Madden, OkCupid, Cisco, Quizlet, Discord and more.

Samsung, Toyota, Philips, Zeppelin, Western Union, eBay

Hadassah University Hospital, Her Majestys Government (HMG), United Kingdom, Hitachi Consulting Software Services India Pvt Ltd., Hua Nan Bank, Hyundai Department Store Group,JW Marriott Hotel Seoul, Lake Health, McCann Erickson Israel, Molina Healthcare Inc., PGi, Quilvest Switzerland Limited, State of Nevada Public Employees Benefits Program, Symantec Corporation (Enterprise Security), The Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust, The Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust (DLP), The Saudi Industrial Property Authority, TSO cloud, Visa, Yunnan Power Grid Company

Netwrix Endpoint Protector vs. Symantec Data Loss Prevention