McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator vs Symantec Data Loss Prevention comparison

The compared McAfee and Broadcom solutions aren't in the same category. McAfee is ranked #13 in SOAR , with an average rating of 8.8, and holds a 0.6% mindshare in the category. Broadcom is ranked #3 in DLP , with an average rating of 8.0, and holds a 6.3% mindshare. Additionally, 81% of McAfee users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 90% of Broadcom users who would recommend it.

McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator

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Symantec Data Loss Prevention

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90% willing to recommend

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator and Symantec Data Loss Prevention based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

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Categories and Ranking

McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR) (13th)

Symantec Data Loss Prevention

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Data Loss Prevention (DLP) (3rd)

Mindshare comparison

McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator and Symantec Data Loss Prevention aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator is designed for Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR) and holds a mindshare of 0.6%, down 0.7% compared to last year.
Symantec Data Loss Prevention, on the other hand, focuses on Data Loss Prevention (DLP), holds 6.3% mindshare, down 10.0% since last year.

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DavidJones7

Head of Content at Pharmaflow

Offers automation alert features with easy integrations and impressive scalability

I would rate the initial setup an eight out of ten. There are a few technical challenges with the deployment, but it can easily solved by an experienced professional but not by a beginner user of the tool. The complete implementation and migration to McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator will take around three months. If someone is using a software platform already with implemented use cases in their environment, it might be difficult to implement the same use cases when the customer is migrating to McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator. The conditions and prior alert settings needs to be accurate when migrating to McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator, otherwise false positive alerts might get generated.

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ARAVINDAN K

Information Security Engineer 4 at Amadeus

Strengthened security operations with endpoint-level protection but database flexibility could improve

Symantec Data Loss Prevention has proprietary metadata and is well-suited for endpoint-level security. It stands out for supporting multiple protocols like email and SMTP without needing user profile login for endpoint agents. Once policies are downloaded to the local system, they function independently of a user's login. The solution helps enhance security operations when integrated with ServiceNow and offers robust incident response capabilities.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The graphical interface of the solution is its most valuable aspect."

"I like the solution's feasibility. McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator is also better and easier to use than other ePOs."

"The best part is management in McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator."

"It is a highly scalable solution. Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."

"The central management console is the solution's most valuable aspect."

"The policy auditing, policy management, and device auditing are all valuable features. Our customers appreciated the ability to get alerts to system-wide events from a single view."

"The most valuable feature of the McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator is agent communication."

"If you set it up right, it can really manage a very complex environment which require fine tuning where there are a lot of exceptions. That's what it caters to. It can just do those specifics in those exceptional situations, which is good."

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"Technical support is very professional and responsive."

"The solution can easily scale."

"The initial setup is easy."

"The exfiltration capabilities are great. You can put all of these rules in the product to detect the patterns and text."

"The incident response options and reporting features are particularly strong, with the inclusion of Incident Classification Assessment (ICA) for integrated reporting."

"The dashboard, management section, and reporting are good."

"The accuracy in terms of the rate of detection is good."

"I found Symantec to be user-friendly and easy to use."

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Cons

"They have to do something to make the solution more resilient or recoverable from power failure events, which may include creating their own database."

"The impact of the agent on the endpoint's performance - the resources it takes. Additionally, the difficulties we experience with inheriting and breaking inheritance on the organization's structure breakdown for policy inheritance and then for rules inheritance. We are actually struggling with this."

"Features such as full drive encryption are lacking in the cloud version."

"The areas of concern where improvements are needed are related to the product's assignment policy and tag assignment, where users can assign the policies with the help of tags and sort out the systems."

"The solution sometimes has some false positives on IP addresses, from the web control aspect of the product. This needs to be improved."

"There needs to be support for Mac computers. Currently, McAfee does not work on iOS."

"McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator should improve its integration with other tools."

"Some drawbacks include difficulty in supporting improvements because we don't get proper response from Trellix support, so there is a need to improve the support."

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"Symantec Data Loss Prevention's setup needs to be easier and support needs to be improved."

"The product's pricing and support services need improvement."

"There should be more documentation with Symantec Data Loss Prevention. We had trouble with the first few deployments."

"Their support program needs a lot of improvement. If you are stuck somewhere, getting their support can be difficult."

"The solution is not user-friendly."

"Virtualization is not currently supported."

"A significant area for improvement in the product is reducing the number of agents required and improving integration as a unified client ecosystem."

"Since being acquired by Broadcom, the support has really degraded for small and medium enterprises."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator is not an expensive solution."

"$The price of McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator is expensive, it is approximately $6,000 to $9,000 per license annually."

"It is attractively priced. It is a fraction of what we're going to pay for CrowdStrike or SentinelOne, but it only has a fraction of the capabilities as well."

"For large enterprise companies, the price should be alright, but for small businesses, the uptake might be slow because, for these clients, the price doesn't look very attractive."

"It's an expensive solution"

"This solution is priced in the mid-range."

"Compared to other Antivirus products, the cost of this solution is a bit high."

"McAfee tries to package different things into different products, then sell them as different products with different licenses. They just split everything up into multiple things. That's just their sales pitch and how they do it."

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"I think it is an expensive tool."

"The solution should be less expensive to allow more people the opportunity to use it. Some of their competitors are less expensive. There is a license required to use the solution and we purchased an annual license."

"DLP could be a bit cheaper."

"The pricing and licensing are based on per user endpoints."

"The product is high-priced."

"The product charges a little on the higher side."

"The price of Symantec DLP is fair. I don't recall the cost of the license, but it wasn't outrageous enough that it was an obstacle to approval. I'm not concerned with how much per seat or server, but I know they charge a lot."

"The tool's licensing costs are yearly."

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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm

13%

Computer Software Company

11%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Financial Services Firm

21%

Computer Software Company

13%

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Comms Service Provider

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Questions from the Community

Which is better - Mcafee's MVision ePO or ePolicy Orchestrator?

Our organization ran comparison tests to determine whether Mcafee's MVision ePO or ePolicy Orchestrator network security software was the better fit for us. We decided to go with Mcafee's ePolicy O...

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What do you like most about McAfee MVISION ePO?

McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator's performance is good.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for McAfee MVISION ePO?

It's an expensive solution.

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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.

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

I do not have an idea about pricing, as it is handled by another team responsible for procurements.

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What needs improvement with Symantec Data Loss Prevention?

A main disadvantage of Symantec DLP is its reliance on Oracle, especially compared to other products like Forcepoint, which offer MSSQL database options that are more convenient.

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Also Known As

McAfee ePO, ePolicy Orchestrator, Intel Security ePolicy Orchestrator, McAfee MVISION ePO

Symantec DLP

Overview

McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (McAfee ePO) is the most advanced, extensible, and scalable centralized security management software in the industry. Unifying security management through an open platform, McAfee ePO makes risk and compliance management simpler and more successful for organizations of all sizes.

McAfee

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

Broadcom

Sample Customers

Brelje & Race, Cognizant, Sutherland Global Services, Eagle Rock Energy, Arab National Bank, Bank Central Asia, Kleberg Bank, Leading Mexican Bank, SF Police Credit Union, Macquarie Telecom, Seagate Technology, Blackburn & Darwen Council, California Department of Corrections & Rehabilitation, IRCEP, Major U.S. State Government, State of Alaska, State of Colorado, Cemex, Deutsche Edelstahlwerke

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

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