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McAfee MVISION Mobile vs Symantec Endpoint Encryption comparison

 

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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 (8th)
Symantec Endpoint Encryption
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.2
Number of Reviews
38
Ranking in other categories
Endpoint Encryption (3rd)
 

Mindshare comparison

McAfee MVISION Mobile and Symantec Endpoint Encryption aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. McAfee MVISION Mobile is designed for Mobile Threat Defense and holds a mindshare of 4.9%, up 4.3% compared to last year.
Symantec Endpoint Encryption, on the other hand, focuses on Endpoint Encryption, holds 7.9% mindshare, down 9.5% since last year.
Mobile Threat Defense Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
McAfee MVISION Mobile4.9%
Zimperium26.1%
Lookout18.9%
Other50.1%
Mobile Threat Defense
Endpoint Encryption Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Symantec Endpoint Encryption7.9%
Microsoft BitLocker17.8%
ESET Endpoint Encryption8.0%
Other66.3%
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.
KD
Security Risk Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Remote management capability ensures efficient security implementation for endpoints and servers
I use Symantec Endpoint Encryption for endpoint and server security. My current role involves preparing a design document for implementing security features for the product Symantec Endpoint Encryption is easy to use and manage. The solution's remote management capability is helpful, and it…

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."
"This product is a solid, all-in-one solution for enterprise data management."
"The solution was stable and did not crash."
"I like the management aspect of this solution, because you don't want to have end-users tweak or set it themselves, so the fact that you could do it from a central point helped us a lot."
"We use it for protecting accounts, which is its most valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of use."
"It is stable."
"It's satisfying our requirements at a very high level."
"In general terms, it is working properly and according to our expectations, and the comfort of feeling secure is the most valuable."
 

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."
"We'd like the solution to be lighter. Symantec used quite a lot of memory."
"I do not recommend Symantec Endpoint Encryption. The support needs to be improved."
"The solution does not have endpoint control."
"More features need to be included in the encryption software."
"The program's disk encryption is not very friendly with Microsoft OS updates. We have a problem with updates failing unless we use a time-consuming work-around."
"One feature that is lacking is integration with Symantec Information Centric (ICT). As it is now, I don't see how to integrate the encryption with ICT, and in my opinion this is an area that certainly requires encryption, even though it's no longer supported by Broadcom."
"They have too high of a price tag. That's why they're losing the market share."
"Its decryption time needs to be improved. Currently, its decryption time is very long, and it takes double time than encryption. They need to work on that. Its encryption time is fine."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"Considering the fluctuation in exchange rates in our part of the world, we find it generally affordable."
"The solution is good, but it is more expensive than other solutions in the market. Other solutions, such as BitLocker are less expensive."
"They have two solutions for encryption including Symantec Endpoint Encryption and PGP Endpoint Encryption. With one PGP license, you can deploy the two solutions. The PGP license gives you two options."
"The cost of this solution is a little on the higher side."
"There is a license required for this solution."
"Symantec Endpoint Encryption is not expensive."
"Although the performance and stability of this solution are good, our challenge is the price tag. You buy the solution once, but you also have to keep on buying the licenses yearly."
"It can be expensive. However, if you plan to scale or are at a large enterprise company, this product could be what you need."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
12%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Construction Company
7%
Government
7%
 

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Company SizeCount
Small Business19
Midsize Enterprise7
Large Enterprise16
 

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Based on my experience, technically, the product already meets all our requirements. The only improvement would be if the prices of Symantec Endpoint Encryption could be lower to compete better in ...
 

Also Known As

McAfee MDP, MVISION Mobile
Symantec Drive Encryption
 

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Sample Customers

LeadQual
Citrix Systems Inc., City of Lansing, Commercial & Industrial Property, France T_l_visions, Fujian Mobile Co. Ltd., Group Lotus plc, Hall Booth Smith & Slover, P.C. (HBSS), Portugal Telecom, PostFinance, Public Pension Agency
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