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Dell Data Protection - Endpoint Security Suite [EOL] vs Symantec Endpoint Security comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Dell Data Protection - Endp...
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
3.9
Number of Reviews
6
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Symantec Endpoint Security
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
146
Ranking in other categories
Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) (17th)
 

Featured Reviews

Alexander Zhuravel - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Network and Server infrastructure department at JSC Alfa Bank Ukraine
A highly scalable tool that ensures its users face no problems while using it as a backup system
The tool is scalable and is currently being used on over 2,000 nodes. So, our company doesn't count the number of clients we have, but we do count the number of nodes, specifically referring to file system nodes, backup nodes, database nodes, virtual machine nodes, and blockchain nodes, which we use for file-based applications. According to the traffic, a backup of five petabytes of data can be done for a month.
Kumbesh Rajagopal - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Security Delivery Analyst at Accenture
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.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The security engine is effective at catching potential threats."
"The most valuable features of the solution are its speed, backup speed, and restore speed."
"Dell Data Protection has a decent service and integrates well with users' active directories."
"It is a stable solution. Our company faces no problems with the backup system…The initial setup wasn't complex."
"There's a really they have a really nice way to test it first. Before you adopt it. And so I would suggest trying to they they create a test site for you, and they give you a link to it, and you can basically try out all the features on your own for I think we did it for a month."
"It is a stable solution."
"The backup speed and deduplication are the most valuable features."
"The product has been quite stable."
"Offers good antivirus and local firewall."
"One of the most valuable features is its antivirus database, which is current and updated daily. Another valuable feature is its capacity to be managed by a single server. The solution is managed by a secure server, so all the endpoints are managed from a central point."
"It is a stable product."
"Symantec Endpoint Security positively impacts our organization through its behavioral SONAR, which stops ransomware by restoring files within minutes, avoiding more than 20 hours of recovery time compared to other tools such as Trend Micro that take much longer for remediation."
"The most valuable features of Symantec Endpoint Security are endpoint protection, antivirus, firewall, and policy creation."
"There is no other endpoint solution that will help you in preventing lateral-movement attacks on Active Directory. And Active Directory is one of the more critical assets within an organization."
"Symantec's detection capabilities are strong. It involves run protection and behavioral analysis."
 

Cons

"Implementation in a beta environment is necessary before rollout to the larger community."
"The backup speed and deduplication are the most valuable features."
"I consider the product pretty expensive, so from an improvement perspective, I would like the pricing to be better."
"The solution could be more user-friendly."
"Whenever we talk about reporting, I have a chance to look at the reporting, and in my opinion, it's not user-friendly."
"The solution’s user interface should be made more user-friendly."
"Its interface needs improvement. Its interface is very old, and it needs a new look. Other solutions, such as Sophos and BitDefender, have a better and more modern interface, whereas Symantec has had the same interface for a while. There has been no enhancement in the interface. They should update and provide a better interface in 2022 for a better user experience for their customers."
"We must have complete dissolution with advance care protection but we are finding out that we need more Symantec technical specialists. We have identified a need to hire at least one more technical specialist familiar with Symantec to improve our solutions capabilities."
"The management of the server is a bit complex."
"The Sandboxing and ATP functionality does not integrate very well, improving this would be helpful."
"About four years back, Symantec's signature was very heavy and their signature patch was around 200MB or 300MB files."
"The support can be wanting. Sometimes the time to resolution is longer than I would expect."
"As for some features I would like to see, I'd like a retrospective action feature similar to Cisco Secure Endpoint's. Some antiviruses don't allow you to re-scan a product that was in the former scan—for example, if a file was classified as proper, but then for some reason the file was changed, we need an antivirus with retrospective capability. We need EPP and EDR products in a secured environment."
"Users mostly complain that the solution slows down the system whenever something is scanned."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"You'll need to pay more than the product's original price for the support."
"It is more expensive than one of its competitors."
"It is an expensive solution."
"Its price should be reasonable."
"Its price is fair."
"I thought the pricing was reasonable."
"It's pretty awesome price-wise. That's why we give it to most of our clients. It isn't very expensive. Compared to Cisco AMP, which is very expensive, its price is okay. It's also cheaper than Malwarebytes."
"We receive a discounted price for this solution because we are a non-profit organization."
"The pricing is pretty much at the market standard... Symantec is not that cheap and it's not that expensive compared to CrowdStrike. I would put them in the 'middle block.'"
"There is a yearly license."
"It could be cheaper."
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Comms Service Provider
11%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Computer Software Company
9%
 

Company Size

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Small Business
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Company SizeCount
Small Business5
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise2
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business69
Midsize Enterprise32
Large Enterprise63
 

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Also Known As

DDP, ESS
Symantec EPP, Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP)
 

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Sample Customers

MEIZU, TBG West, Ackerman Charter School District, Church of the Highlands
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