We performed a comparison between Sophos SafeGuard and Symantec Endpoint Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Sophos, Check Point Software Technologies and others in Endpoint Encryption."The malware protection and the scanning features are most valuable in this solution."
"It's easy to use. You have to pay extra for additional, but the basic product is fantastic. It will be a good solution for you, depending on your requirements."
"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."
"The features that I have found most valuable are encryption tools that encrypt the hard disk and the USB sticks."
"The solution can block a virus attack and prevent it from moving across the system."
"Integration with other solutions is one of its strongest points. It's very easy to integrate and automate."
"Policy deployment is easy and quick to do."
"The intrusion detection system."
"The solution's application control feature is very, very powerful."
"Helps to protect our organization from known attacks."
"It is a scalable product and is average stability-wise."
"The technical support is very good. They have an Indian support team, so there are no delays in receiving support."
"I like the malware threat control policy and USB blocker. In Symantec Manager, we use multiple available features, so we created firewall policies to prevent any malware attack from the network or device controls."
"With Symantec, I always know this tool will be reliable and with the latest protection."
"I find it is the most reliable solution on the market."
"The solution detects malware very well."
"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."
"You have to pay extra for some additional features, like data extraction. It would be nice if everything was available in one bundle."
"It just needs a little bit more on the reporting side. Its reporting can be improved a little bit in terms of being able to know that things are in the right status. I should be able to pull a report to make sure that everything is all right. It could also have cloud integration. At the time I was using it, it wasn't a cloud product."
"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."
"Sophos SafeGuard cannot block or quarantine such viruses. Quarantine is a feature with shortcomings that needs improvement."
"The solution's ability to integrate with other solutions, such as a DLP, should be addressed."
"If it's possible, they should make all the features available because it's got a lot of features on offer, but you have to buy the license in order to add those features to the normal Endpoint. If they could make all those features available and/or offer a bundling option it would be better."
"It's a good product, but some are not happy with the boot BCN, and the point-to-point VPN requires the best protection."
"Nowadays, threats are changing, and they are moving more towards script control and zero-day attacks. So, we would like to have more control similar to an EDR solution. Symantec Endpoint Protection has certainly come a long way as a traditional antivirus, but because the threats are changing, we would like to have more EDR features so that we have a detailed view of the source from where the infection entered the environment and whether it has tried to connect any other endpoint. It should provide such a detailed view for investigation. It should protect against zero-day threats, etc. These are the key enhancements that can make it a complete solution for any enterprise. Currently, we have seen organizations going for two solutions: antivirus and EDR. With both these capabilities, it would be a complete package."
"SONAR could be improved. The false/positive rate is a little high."
"The Centralized Management could be improved."
"Overall, the price could be reduced."
"When it was directly with Symantec, the technical support was perfect. After Broadcom acquired Symantec, the level of technical support dropped."
"It seems that its not working very well with VMWare."
"The stability was not the best. There were times when antivirus updates broke it. It wasn't necessarily self-updating - at least, not in terms of the virus signatures. It updated in terms of the executable files. Therefore, when Windows updates would come out, they often couldn't be installed, or the computer would hang due to the fact that the updates weren't compatible with the antivirus."
"The solution is very difficult to uninstall. There isn't really a way to uninstall the product at all, which is quite a headache."
Sophos SafeGuard is ranked 2nd in Endpoint Encryption with 35 reviews while Symantec Endpoint Security is ranked 5th in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 140 reviews. Sophos SafeGuard is rated 8.4, while Symantec Endpoint Security is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Sophos SafeGuard writes "Stable solution that preserves data confidentiality". 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 SafeGuard is most compared with Microsoft BitLocker, Trend Micro Endpoint Encryption, ESET Endpoint Encryption, Cisco Secure Endpoint and McAfee Complete Data Protection, whereas Symantec Endpoint Security is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, CrowdStrike Falcon, Trend Micro Deep Security, Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks and Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business.
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