We performed a comparison between Microsoft BitLocker, Sophos SafeGuard, and Symantec Endpoint Encryption based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, McAfee, Sophos and others in Endpoint Encryption."The most valuable feature is the simplicity and integration with the Microsoft Clouds platform."
"The solution has a feature that automatically asks the users to upgrade their password once we set up the process."
"The initial setup is very simple."
"It comes bundled with other Microsoft solutions."
"The ease of use is the most valuable feature. The ability to import data to build your frontend on top of the data is very simple and very useable."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the protection and ease of use."
"Feature-wise we have the ability to encrypt fast."
"It's a straightforward solution for encryption."
"The product is easy to use."
"With Sophos, I only need to generate the password and give that to a user to be able to allow them to login to the admin page of the Endpoint and do whatever they need to do. The user cannot go ahead and uninstall it. It's kept us much more secure because of this. Should any event happen on a particular system, I'm given the username and the system IP address. I get notifications and can deal with issues right away."
"It's quite easy to integrate Safeguard with BitLocker"
"Security-wise, it's one of the best."
"Policy deployment is easy and quick to do."
"The Intercept X feature is the most valuable feature. You can't find this feature in other firewalls because Intercept X works as if it has an interaction between the endpoint and the firewall."
"I like its ease of use the most. The management console is really nice. I like having one pane of glass that does everything. It does the Sophos anti-virus and encryption. Everything that you need is in one place. It is easy to use, and it is also pretty fast. It provides some pretty good details, and it lets you know who has access to a file. You can also add additional people to the encrypted documents, which is pretty good. Its stability and performance are also very good."
"The advantage of Sophos SafeGuard stems from the fact that it is more secure than other products in the market."
"Its management is good, and it is also scalable and mostly stable."
"We can extend it to all of the critical endpoints and the servers, and we can ensure the confidentiality of the data."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of use."
"The most valuable feature is that it works in the background so that the end-users are not aware of what is happening on the laptop."
"The solution is pretty stable."
"I like the management aspect of this solution. 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."
"The solution’s installation was easy."
"The best feature of Symantec Endpoint Encryption is the encryption itself. Encryption truly is the way to go because nowadays we are living in an era of widespread server threats, and you need to encrypt your emails and documents because you never know who might get hold of them."
"There are options which could be implemented to make it a little more like PGP Whole Disk Encryption."
"They could improve cloud integration regarding attribute and encryption key management."
"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."
"BitLocker should be available on standard Windows. We need to spend money on a Pro license to get BitLocker because it's essential to protect our customers' data. We don't want that to fall into the wrong hands."
"The solution could be improved if it was more user friendly."
"The visualization could be better."
"The deployment process regarding prerequisites and automation could be easy to understand."
"Some of the technical internal functions, such as encryption protocols or something similar, could be improved."
"In the next release, I would like to see more automation with the endpoint logging, but it's a special feature that is quite complicated to explain."
"The dashboards lack sufficient information."
"The solution lacks direct connectivity to Azure AD."
"Sophos SafeGuard is a German product. Sophos isn't really active in Europe. The Middle East, Africa, South Africa works with Sophos but their primary users aren't in Europe. They should market and push this solution to the European market."
"The tutorials need to be simplified. The existing ones need to be easier to follow and we could use some tutorials for basic setups. They should aim to be more like Cisco, which offers very good tutorials and materials."
"The solution's ability to integrate with other solutions, such as a DLP, should be addressed."
"The solution is not using other features like booting encryption, because it causes very heavy processing of the workstation. If they could find some way to handle the encryption and decryption to be lighter on the workstation it would be better."
"There are times that this solution takes up too much memory that needs to be resolved. If it is not fixed it will definitely create issues in the future."
"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."
"We would like some advanced security protection features."
"From an administration point of view, maybe it would be ideal to have it centrally managed."
"The GUI could use some enhancement, particularly in making option sets easier to locate on client machines."
"They have too high of a price tag. That's why they're losing the market share."
"It was hard to install and took us about three months."
"What I didn't find helpful in the version we used is the fact that all devices had to be on the same network for us to push through the encryption."
"It's difficult to integrate the solution with the DLP"
