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"RedSeal integrates the network and gives us a visual or graphical overview of our network. If an organization is geographically dispersed, for instance, with one office in Canada and one office in the Philippines, the whole network, including all devices, is integrated into RedSeal, and you can see from where the traffic is going in and out.""This is the only solution in the world that gives you a digital resilience score.""The most valuable features are network mapping and configuration."

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"The real strength lies in its straightforward approach, offering just two key policies: prevention and detection.""The most valuable feature is the centralized console, which can handle different products that we have.""Good file integrity monitoring features.""The most valuable feature is the endpoint protection system.""The advantage of Data Center Security is its ease of use and that it serves as a single unified platform, where I can apply all my security policies to protect that server.""The console and tools are very user-friendly.""We use the product to prevent unauthorized access to data, systems, and servers. It provides essential features for data center security.""The ability to finely control permissions and restrictions on servers or assets through a customizable rule set is a key strength."

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"Sometimes, it required us to refresh the configuration. When we integrated any of the configurations into the device, sometimes, it could not detect the exact picture of that device. So, we had to reset the device to see that if it was giving true-positive results or false-positive results. In some cases, we were not able to get true-positive results. There was some kind of bug in that version. Its interface is not user-friendly and needs to be improved. It takes time to understand the interface and various options. Skybox has quite a user-friendly interface. They could provide a feature for compliance audit policy if it is already not there. A compliance audit policy ensures that all configurations are based on the best practices standards, such as CIS benchmarks standard or other similar standards. It provides visibility about whether your device configuration is based on best practices or not. Usually, such a feature is provided by other solutions such as Meteor or Tenable Nessus.""The dashboard should be improved to make correlating data easier to do.""One of the areas of concern is the GUI. It is important to our customers that the GUI looks beautiful. It's a Java Client, so you have a Java dependency."

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"A user or administrator making the policy in the DCS should have a very thorough knowledge of the operating system or policy making. You have to be very specific about the data structure.""The support is very bad. They're not fast at all. Trend Micro's support is much better.""It would be advantageous if Symantec or Broadcom, given the rebranding, could simplify the process, enabling users to leverage the antivirus functionality more easily.""There is plenty of room for improvement with this product, and it could start with platform metrics.""The product blocks certain processes, even after allowlisting them.""They need to develop a more flexible product that can be scaled such that it fits well into a small business or a bigger, enterprise-level solution.""Adding more compatibility with common products like Microsoft would be a plus.""This solution clashes with Microsoft defender, which results in performance degradation on the machine."

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  • "The pricing is based on the number of endpoints and devices, and we have seen it range from mid-five figures to low six figures."
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  • "Compared to some other solutions, such as CrowdStrike, Symantec is more expensive."
  • "The product is a bit costly."
  • "It is notably more expensive when compared to other solutions."
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    Top Answer:The granularity of applying the policies is valuable.
    Top Answer:Agent management is a challenging task. We cannot do it from the console. We will have to use other tools.
    Top Answer:One key use case for data center security is protecting files within the data center. This is especially important for Linux systems, where locking down specific files is essential to prevent… more »
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    Overview

    RedSeal’s network modeling and risk scoring platform builds an accurate, up-to-date model of an organization’s entire, as-built network to visualize access paths, prioritize what to fix, so you can target existing cybersecurity resources to protect your most valuable assets. With RedSeal’s Digital Resilience Score, decision makers can see the security status and benchmark progress toward digital resilience.

    Docker containers make it easy to develop, deploy, and deliver applications where containers can be deployed and brought down in a matter of seconds. This flexibility makes it very useful for DevOps to automate deployment of containers. Symantec Data Center Security: Server Advanced provides agentless Docker container protection that allows you to achieve the performance benefits of Docker without sacrificing security. Full application control enables administrator privilege de-escalation, patch mitigation, and protection against zero day threats in today's heterogeneous data centers.

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    United States Postal Service, Pacific Gas and Electric Co., Interval International
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    Government21%
    Computer Software Company13%
    Financial Services Firm11%
    Healthcare Company8%
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    Manufacturing Company15%
    Financial Services Firm15%
    Computer Software Company13%
    Government8%
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    Small Business13%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise75%
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    Small Business18%
    Midsize Enterprise15%
    Large Enterprise67%
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    Small Business45%
    Midsize Enterprise18%
    Large Enterprise36%
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    Small Business14%
    Midsize Enterprise10%
    Large Enterprise76%
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    RedSeal is ranked 21st in Risk-Based Vulnerability Management while Symantec Data Center Security is ranked 11th in Cloud and Data Center Security with 11 reviews. RedSeal is rated 8.2, while Symantec Data Center Security is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of RedSeal writes "Provides a graphical overview of our network and is easy to deploy, but needs a user-friendly interface and a feature for compliance audit policy". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Symantec Data Center Security writes "A robust solution that provides comprehensive protection for data centers, offering agentless security, powerful intrusion prevention, and a wide range of security features". RedSeal is most compared with AlgoSec, Skybox Security Suite, FireMon Security Manager, Ekahau Site Survey and Darktrace, whereas Symantec Data Center Security is most compared with Trend Micro Deep Security, Symantec Endpoint Security, VMware NSX, Akamai Guardicore Segmentation and Illumio.

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