Dell Encryption Enterprise [EOL] vs McAfee Complete Data Protection comparison

"Dell EMC has remarkable support and whenever there is a ticket open it will be handled within four hours at the maximum."

"One place where I can give them top level is the tiered administration, whereby you can assign roles to the support team to say, "You would be responsible for changing passwords. You would be responsible for system management and configurations, and you are the major admin of this." They have that on lockdown. The active directory integration is also pretty okay. It is not so bad. It does have normal features that most of the encryption tools have, such as full-disk encryption, volume encryption, and external drive encryption. I am not sure if they do file-level encryption and if DLP is integrated with the encryption product. I would like to assume that these features are there."

"One place where I can give them top level is the tiered administration, whereby you can assign roles to the support team to say, "You would be responsible for changing passwords, you would be responsible for system management and configurations, and you are the major admin of this," and they have that on lockdown."

"Considering the features included in the solution and the support we get from the back-end team, I think the pricing is fair."

"We like the auto-decryption features. For example, a file is auto-decrypted when it is moved to a different location, either over the network, through email, or through upload to a web server."

"The technical support provided by Dell EMC comes with proactive technical support."

"With proper policies and configuration, it prevents sending corporate data to both cloud storage or to flash drives and data extraction."

"The classification front-end and the features for the endpoint are great aspects of the product, it works absolutely fine for the customer requirements, it's user-friendly and easy to navigate, the initial setup is very easy, technical support is very helpful, the stability is good, and the product can scale."

"The disk encryption is great."

"The best features of McAfee Complete Data Protection are DLP and encryption; compared to other products in the market, these features are quite intuitive."

"It works seamlessly as long as it's well configured and the policies have been put properly."

"They offer very good accepted standards, the solution is compliant and offers good support, and they offer pretty good security due to their standards compliance."

"The beauty of McAfee is that they are not looking at encryption from one single standpoint, it is a broader solution."

"With respect to data loss prevention, I think it is helpful to the customer."

"It is not working properly for us because of which we had to decrypt all our encryptions."

"As soon as we introduce any new tools or applications, we have to work with the back-end team to handle new problems that are created. Once they're figured out, the solution will stabilize, but the problems keep coming up whenever we introduce a new tool or application. It has been a challenge."

"Some customers have less security in the solution regarding their data. We need to use multiple security applications and a set of security protocols."

"Some customers have less security in the solution regarding their data."

"It is not working properly for us because of which we had to decrypt all our encryptions. I have not used it much, and based on what I have heard, it is very tough to manage. Managing this system is not as easy as it should be. The central management is awful, and the encryption process is tedious. There are too many issues with even recovering passwords. Its ease of deployment is awful. Their support needs to be improved. It is just my fifth week working with this organization, and since I got here, it has been about, "Oh! We have these issues with Dell, and it is not working properly. It is so hard to work with, and please get on with the support team so we can get this resolved as soon as possible." To get the support on the phone is usually a big problem, and by the time they call you back and tell you it is going to take, for instance, about an hour, we end up spending like four hours, and we don't get anything done. The firm has finally decided that Dell is not going to be the way to go. We are now exploring other encryption products. In terms of new features, it should have cloud tenancy encryption. Everything is moving to the cloud, and it would be cool if the next version of Dell encryption can offer that. Based on my research, it seems that a few solutions can do that right now, particularly the McAfee Complete Protection suites. It would be good if Dell can also move away from on-prem. The solution that we're working with is an on-prem solution. I don't know if it is available in the cloud, but it would be good if they can make it available in the cloud. This probably would also help with the cloud tenancy encryption. Another feature that I would've loved them to have is for the passphrase self-recovery for a user. Such a feature would reduce some bit of burden on the help desk team. Currently, people forget their passphrase every single week, and they have to get to the help desk to reset their password. It would have been pretty cool if a passphrase self-recovery option was available for a user."

"The initial setup was complex and a pain because there were a lot of issues, and the solution took time to stabilize in our environment."

"The solution needs a next generation or AI firewall that doesn't rely on signatures to detect traits."

"The product consumes too much RAM and CPU for its processing and this can lead to resource issues on PCs."

"The price is a little high and could be better."

"I think in looking at this as to how it can be improved, the drive encryption side is not as straightforward as it could be. It is a little bit heavy on the configuration part."

"I don't like this solution because it is difficult to manage endpoints, policies, algorithm engines, and products."

"The UI could be improved a bit."

"The refresh feature needs improvement. You need to refresh it manually yt going to the address bar, clicking on it and pressing enter, or pressing F5. There should be a button you can click on to refresh or have it so every five seconds it's refreshing."

"On a technical level, when I draw a comparison between McAfee Complete Data Protection and CrowdStrike, McAfee Complete Data Protection is a one out of ten, and then CrowdStrike is a ten out of ten."

"On a scale of one to ten, where one is a low price and ten is a high price, I rate the solution a seven."

"The pricing is quite reasonable compared to other vendors."

"This solution is reasonably priced."

"I think the price could be a little bit less."

"The price is good, it's a low-cost solution."

"When it comes to pricing, I've observed an increase recently."

"The licensing is yearly."

"The pricing of the cloud offering seems confusing."