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McAfee MVISION Mobile vs Microsoft BitLocker comparison

 

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

Categories and Ranking

McAfee MVISION Mobile
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
8.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
Mobile Threat Defense (9th)
Microsoft BitLocker
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
66
Ranking in other categories
Endpoint Encryption (1st), Mobile Data Protection (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

McAfee MVISION Mobile and Microsoft BitLocker aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. McAfee MVISION Mobile is designed for Mobile Threat Defense and holds a mindshare of 4.5%, up 4.3% compared to last year.
Microsoft BitLocker, on the other hand, focuses on Endpoint Encryption, holds 16.5% mindshare, down 39.0% since last year.
Mobile Threat Defense Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
McAfee MVISION Mobile4.5%
Zimperium26.1%
Lookout18.5%
Other50.9%
Mobile Threat Defense
Endpoint Encryption Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Microsoft BitLocker16.5%
Symantec Endpoint Encryption8.1%
Sophos SafeGuard7.7%
Other67.69999999999999%
Endpoint Encryption
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer1066482 - PeerSpot reviewer
Managing Director at a consultancy with 1-10 employees
A market leader that integrates nicely with other McAfee security products and is quite stable
We are just customers and end-users. We are using the most up-to-date version available at this time. I'd advise potential new users that the key thing is to clearly understand what your requirements are and what your use cases are, and both your business requirements, your technical requirements, and your regulatory requirements. It's important to understand all of those. A company needs to clearly understand all the use cases it needs to manage and make sure they do the appropriate due diligence to find a product that can achieve all those requirements and handle all those use cases. It was an extensive process for us. We did about four to six months of paper-based due diligence - not even a field trial - to make that we were picking the right product. We leveraged a lot of outside vendor-neutral sources like Gartner. So far, I'd rate the solution at a nine out of ten.
Ibrahin Gamal - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Technology Specialist at ITE Corp
Data protection improves while users adapt to user access complexities
Recovery options are useful with Microsoft BitLocker. When we get the recovery key from Microsoft, people who we show how BitLocker works did not know the facts about BitLocker. When we tell them about recovery keys, it is very difficult for them to get to the users who have issues in their PCs and do not have the knowledge. When IT asked about the scenario, it was difficult for them. They needed something where they could go to the administration portal to unlock the PC for the user, but we tell them that when a user asks for a recovery key, it consists of 32 numbers to unlock their PC. They observed cost savings after implementing Microsoft BitLocker because they requested BitLocker with System Center. They found that it did not have a high cost, as it is a built-in feature in Windows. When they asked about other solutions, it was very expensive for large numbers in other corporates or organizations. They were very satisfied with Microsoft BitLocker with System Center Configuration Manager.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The product is one of the market leaders, according to Gartner, on mobile protection."
"Due to the fact that we bought a number of McAfee security products, one of the significant benefits for our company was the integration across multiple security controls, giving us a single pane of glass to monitor, administer, and manage multiple security controls."
"The solution works the way it's supposed to - stability and scalability are fine."
"We have not seen any bugs or glitches, so the stability is good."
"The solution is included in Windows 11."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the protection and ease of use."
"One significant aspect is that without the BitLocker key, you can't log in to the user's laptop. I appreciate the capability to encrypt the user's hard drive, ensuring access only with the recovery key. In an enterprise setup, we store all BitLocker keys on our server. So, whenever a user attempts to log in, the architecture authenticates with the key. This ensures that our data is secure. Even if the user's laptop is lost, we have confidence that the data remains inaccessible. So far, our user data is well-protected."
"We use Microsoft BitLocker for our endpoints, including laptops."
"While it helps mitigate unauthorized data access by enhancing file and system protection through encryption, the tool is really enhanced with the combination of other Microsoft Security and Compliance features like data labeling."
"The ease of administering and integrating the solution is great."
 

Cons

"The one thing that I know that they're working on, that's not quite there in the product, is the artificial intelligence aspect."
"The one thing that I know that they're working on, that's not quite there in the product, is the artificial intelligence aspect."
"They can improve the security of the application and include an encryption disk in the next feature."
"Microsoft BitLocker is far away from the threats in data security. It is not the number one solution for security, but I think it is a good layer in this process."
"If the encryption was faster then it would make the experience more pleasant."
"There are options which could be implemented to make it a little more like PGP Whole Disk Encryption."
"For improvement, as it is now, I do not have any support from anyone. There should be a web interface to manage BitLocker. But for now, all I do is just install a new product on the user's machine and create it. I would like to be able to see everything that is happening, even if it is just through a web interface. I would also like to be able to see how many users are provisioned, which users are using BitLocker, and how to disable or enable it. That's what I would like to see."
"Although drive encryption could be running in the background, it took a long time to encrypt a drive."
"The biggest one for us is revoking access. So, even though someone downloads something to a device, we want the ability to cloak that device or data and bring it back or make that data unusable for that person. Currently, BitLocker doesn't give us that ability."
"I would recommend BitLocker only because of the economic side, not the technical side."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"The solution is cost efficient."
"Microsoft BitLocker's pricing is included in the Microsoft license, and you don't have to pay an additional fee for it."
"The tool is cheap compared to the products offered by competitors. If one is cheap and ten is expensive, I rate the tool's price as one."
"The cost of this solution is bundled in with part of the subscription for the Microsoft Cloud. We have users subscribed to Enterprise E5 and it comes with E5"
"The solution is expensive."
"Microsoft BitLocker is a free feature when you are using Microsoft solutions."
"It's not about pricing, because we are working with Enterprise companies that already have Windows Enterprise, so BitLocker comes already included as a Windows feature. It's free for Enterprise users. The price is only for deployment. The customer will pay for McAfee, however."
"Microsoft BitLocker's pricing is fair; I rate it a four out of ten."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
10%
Government
9%
University
9%
Manufacturing Company
9%
 

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Company SizeCount
Small Business35
Midsize Enterprise10
Large Enterprise25
 

Questions from the Community

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What should one take into account when replacing PGP with Microsoft BitLocker?
Beware to make backup of useful data, then use reverse decryption policy from Symantec panel/McAfee ePO to decrypt the DE partitions while it is sometimes more straightforward and faster to reinsta...
Would you choose Microsoft BitLocker or McAfee Complete Data Protection?
Microsoft BitLocker is very intuitive and easy to maintain. It is basically the global standard solution for drive encryption and successfully fulfills regulatory needs in terms of data protection....
How does Microsoft BitLocker compare with Symantec Endpoint Encryption?
Microsoft BitLocker is very intuitive and easy to maintain. It is basically the global standard solution for drive encryption and it successfully fulfills regulatory needs in terms of data protecti...
 

Also Known As

McAfee MDP, MVISION Mobile
BitLocker, MS BitLocker
 

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Sample Customers

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ACV, Proaxis Therapy, Choice Hotels International, adnymics GmbH, Intermedia, NMBS/SNCB
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