We performed a comparison between Sophos EPP Suite and Symantec Endpoint Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two EPP (Endpoint Protection for Business) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The solution was relatively easy to deploy."
"The most valuable feature is the analysis, because of the beta structure."
"The main thing is that I feel safe. Because the processes that have been used to get a handle on the attackers are much better than other competitors"
"It is stable and scalable."
"he solution is an anti-malware product that integrates well with other vendor products such as firewalls, SIEM, etc. It captures threat intelligence and gives you better visibility. The product also has sandboxing features."
"The ease of deployment and configuration is valuable. It's very easy compared to other vendors like Sophos. Sophos' configuration is complex. Fortinet is a lot easier to understand. You don't need a lot of admin knowledge to do the configuration."
"The setup is pretty simple."
"Fortinet FortiEDR's firewalling, rule creation, monitoring, and inspection profiles are great."
"The most valuable feature is endpoint detection and response."
"The solution efficiently protects the servers for our customers."
"The solution's most valuable aspect, for us, is the DLP portion of the product."
"The solution's setup is straightforward and doesn't take much time to complete."
"It's very light on the endpoints."
"The product is stable and has a user-friendly dashboard. It has good security features."
"The most valuable feature is the central administration and management."
"The central management of the anti-virus features for our end user is a very valuable aspect of the solutions."
"I think the key thing for me, is interoperability, in that you can deploy it to Windows, Mac, and Linux. That's been a really important feature in the last two years. Now there's one management console to cover all three OSs."
"We use the Symantec Global Intelligence Network (GIN), and it's an excellent feature as Symantec is a leader in security solutions. The product has all the security features we require as an organization, including intelligent features such as notification alerts and predicting future attacks. The threat intelligence and detection are excellent, and the solution provides great visuals and logs so that we can analyze any attacks on our servers. GIN is a powerful tool in terms of detection capability across endpoints, email, and web traffic, as it can scan them with its advanced threat intelligence. The product can detect threats, report them to us, and quarantine them."
"This solution helps in that I can control quite a few computers from our central location, with ease."
"It is a solid antivirus security product."
"Endpoint Protection is the next generation. It covers antivirus, spamware, ransomware..."
"The feature I find most useful is the console for reporting."
"We never expect downtime. There is also great ease of use for my admins."
"The anti-virus and firewall policies are the most valuable features of this solution."
"They can include the automation for the realtime updates. We have a network infrastructure with remote sites. Whenever they send updates, they are not automated. We have to go into the console and push those updates. I wish it was more automated. The update file is currently around 31 MB. It could be smaller."
"FortiEDR could add a separate scanning dashboard. In incident management, we prefer to remove the endpoint system from the environment and scan the system. We typically use Symantec for that, but if we want to use FortiEDR for that, then we need a scanning tab to clarify things."
"Making the portal mobile friendly would be helpful when I am out of office."
"The solution is not stable."
"The solution's installation from a central installation server could be improved because the engineers had a little bit of trouble getting it installed from a central location."
"The security should be strong for the cloud. Some applications are on-prem and some are on the cloud. Fortinet should also have strong security for the cloud. There should be more security for the cloud."
"We find the solution to be a bit expensive."
"ZTNA can improve latency."
"In terms of improvement, the main challenge is setting up VPN connections."
"It would be ideal if the price could be lowered a little bit."
"In my country, having an on-premises deployment model is preferred. In this part of the world, on-premises is still the way many companies want to go. Therefore, they should supply some sort of option that allows for that reality."
"Technical support needs to be improved."
"I would like to have the capability to support legacy operating systems because the majority now don't support Windows XP, and Windows 2000."
"Sophos EPP Suite demands significant resources just to operate. For example, it takes up more than 50% of the resources on our laptop to run it. So, even if we buy a laptop i7 and use 50% resources for Sophos, it will cost us more because every computer needs energy. I don't know why or what the exact problem is."
"Deployment and central management need to be improved."
"The solution needs to perform better or update its anti-ransomware and anti-malware engines to keep up with the latest hacking techniques."
"In the next release of this solution, I would like to see more to do with malware, encryption technology, and controlling mobile devices."
"This latest version has proven unreliable for management and installation."
"The solution has become quite complicated since Broadcom acquired Symantec, and we no longer sell it or try not to sell it."
"The management of the server is a bit complex."
"It would be nice to see more antivirus features for USB control."
"The technical support could improve because when you reach level one support there is a lot of delays."
"Reporting in this solution needs improvement."
"Need to improved orchestration for broken clients fixes."
Sophos EPP Suite is ranked 26th in EPP (Endpoint Protection for Business) with 52 reviews while Symantec Endpoint Security is ranked 5th in EPP (Endpoint Protection for Business) with 138 reviews. Sophos EPP Suite is rated 8.0, while Symantec Endpoint Security is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Sophos EPP Suite writes "The solution provides endpoint detection and response with a nice-looking dashboard". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Symantec Endpoint Security writes "The solution has given us visibility into compliance within our whole system and helped us ensure everything is updated". Sophos EPP Suite is most compared with Trend Micro Deep Security, Seqrite Endpoint Security, Trellix Endpoint Security, SentinelOne Singularity Complete and Xprotect , whereas Symantec Endpoint Security is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, CrowdStrike Falcon, Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks and Trend Micro Deep Security. See our Sophos EPP Suite vs. Symantec Endpoint Security report.
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