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."The valuable feature of the McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator is the management of the policies."
"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."
"Technical support is very helpful."
"The general endpoint protection is valuable, and it is easy to manage."
"McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator has a built-in advanced pattern, which is very useful because it can detect any pattern."
"The most valuable features of McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator are the easy-to-use console, and lots of reports, such as customized reports and inventory reports. Additionally, overall the centralized management is very good where you can see the compliance levels and inventory."
"The feature that I have found most valuable is its general purpose of protecting our endpoints from infections, malicious files, and all those kinds of things. The fact that there are organized policies and policy inheritance. The general management."
"The most valuable feature of the McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator is agent communication."
"The most valuable features of Symantec Data Loss Prevention are endpoint security, endpoint agent, and DLP. Additionally, we have been satisfied with the policies."
"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."
"Technical support is very professional and responsive."
"I like how I have the possibility to check different channels with the same policy set."
"Good end point encryption and data loss prevention."
"I have found the most valuable feature to be partial enlisting."
"We can integrate with some other tools such as Splunk, which is very useful."
"McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator support has been helpful. However, sometimes when I raise the case they take a while to answer. For example, the last time I used them it took them two weeks to reply back by email. No one has contacted me back since. They should improve their service."
"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."
"The solution could improve the EDR component in many areas, such as the zero-day and persistent threats. The implementation is also complex for this feature."
"Sometimes agents hang. We have to reinstall the agents."
"I would like to see McAfee reduce the amount of manual work required."
"As for improvements, I think that putting everything on a cloud and one console would be a great idea and would be useful for customers."
"There should be more insights and completeness into the cyber kill chain, similar to CrowdStrike and SentinelOne. It just seems a little outdated in being 100% signature-based without all of the insights and protections that come with CrowdStrike and SentinelOne. Overall, they've got some catching up to do if they plan to compete in the comprehensive EDR space."
"McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator could improve by supporting container microservices, such as Docker and Kubernetes."
"There should be more information about the features of the solution and what they do. This way we would be able to use all the features that are available."
"There should be more documentation with Symantec Data Loss Prevention. We had trouble with the first few deployments."
"I would like to see an improved interface, with better documentation and integration with other products."
"The deployment is complex."
"The solution is not user-friendly."
"The solution relies on and Oracle database which is not financially feasible for many customers."
"They need to expand the channels they check."
"The database is a problem for us, as it's running on Oracle and not everybody likes that."
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McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator is ranked 7th in Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR) with 9 reviews while Symantec Data Loss Prevention is ranked 2nd in Data Loss Prevention (DLP) with 20 reviews. McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator is rated 7.4, while Symantec Data Loss Prevention is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator writes "Improves endpoint security well but takes a lot of resources to do so". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Symantec Data Loss Prevention writes "Great Data Loss Prevention technology with impressive granularity and good stability". McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator is most compared with McAfee MVISION ePO, Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention, Palo Alto Networks Cortex XSOAR, Splunk Phantom and Exabeam Fusion SIEM, whereas Symantec Data Loss Prevention is most compared with Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention, Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention, Trend Micro Integrated Data Loss Prevention, Endpoint Protector and Amazon Macie. See our McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator vs. Symantec Data Loss Prevention report.
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