We performed a comparison between Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention and Symantec Data Loss Prevention based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Data Loss Prevention (DLP) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."There's a good amount of documentation in case you run into any problems."
"It has helped our clients to reduce the time to action on insider threats because it can be integrated."
"The auto-labeling feature is definitely the most valuable feature. It goes in and labels the documents for you in different repositories. It covers the Outlook and Exchange repositories along with SharePoint and OneDrive. It is really helpful in those areas."
"Because everything is on Microsoft and we use Azure, integration with the product is easier. That's the most important thing when you use many Microsoft products. It's easier to integrate everything in one place."
"DLP's most valuable feature is compliance."
"DLP's most valuable feature is that it's more granular in terms of creating block-based policies, which gives you more options to create policies in a filtered way."
"Technical support is very professional and responsive."
"An excellent solution for data classification."
"The most valuable feature of Symantec Data Loss Prevention is the ease of modification."
"I like how I have the possibility to check different channels with the same policy set."
"The tool's really working well, and the agents are good."
"With respect to the amount of intelligence that they have with respect to how they formed the DLP solution, for example, exact data matching. If you compare Forcepoint with Symantec, Symantec is more sophisticated than Forcepoint."
"There is a lot of ambiguity when you are setting up labels, such as sensitive information labels. It is a little daunting at first if you don't have prior knowledge, and there is a little bit of a learning curve for setting up the labels. Some of the setup wizards could be more helpful from an AI perspective. They can streamline the setup through more AI technologies so that you don't have to jump through so many hoops and different menus and dropdowns. It would be useful to have a setup wizard that is more hands-off and engaging for setting up the information type labels. If you tell them this is what we're trying to protect, it should basically start to lead you down that path of best practices. Such a feature would be great."
"There is no AIP for Linux systems. That's a setback. Another thing it's lacking is libraries to work with Python. It has libraries for C# and C++, for example, but not for Python and, these days, Python is very useful."
"I would like Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention to be on the source code or SQL databases. It is difficult to do classification and labeling when you have a third-party source code or a third-party Oracle database. It is seamless when it comes to Microsoft documents but is not so with third-party source codes. Microsoft needs to work on it a little bit more."
"Technical support is awful."
"Symantec Data Loss Prevention could improve by having better system resource management, cloud option, and more features."
"What could be improved in Symantec Data Loss Prevention is its security. It should be more secure."
"Since being acquired by Broadcom, the support has really degraded for small and medium enterprises."
"The database is a problem for us, as it's running on Oracle and not everybody likes that."
"The solution could offer improved more informative documentation."
"The solution is not user-friendly."
"I would like to see an improved interface, with better documentation and integration with other products."
"DLP could be improved by implementing a cloud-based console."
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Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention is ranked 6th in Data Loss Prevention (DLP) with 4 reviews while Symantec Data Loss Prevention is ranked 2nd in Data Loss Prevention (DLP) with 21 reviews. Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention is rated 8.2, while Symantec Data Loss Prevention is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention writes "Gives us great visibility into data governance, and integration with Microsoft solutions is easier". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Symantec Data Loss Prevention writes "Great Data Loss Prevention technology with impressive granularity and good stability". Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention is most compared with Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention, Zscaler Cloud DLP, Amazon Macie, Digital Guardian and McAfee Total Protection for Data Loss Prevention, whereas Symantec Data Loss Prevention is most compared with Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention, Trend Micro Integrated Data Loss Prevention, Endpoint Protector, Digital Guardian and GTB Technologies Inspector. See our Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention vs. Symantec Data Loss Prevention report.
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