We performed a comparison between Symantec Data Loss Prevention and Zscaler DLP 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."The most valuable features of Symantec Data Loss Prevention are endpoint security, endpoint agent, and DLP. Additionally, we have been satisfied with the policies."
"The most valuable feature is file-level DLP."
"What we like about Symantec Data Loss Prevention is that it's a very good product. We never faced any problems with its performance. It has very good performance. There was this RAM issue, but it was an internal issue which we've sorted out. Apart from the RAM issue, there are no other issues with Symantec Data Loss Prevention."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is endpoint security."
"Symantec Data Loss Prevention is the number one product in its field. It does its job well and it has all the necessary features. It is definitely better than any other solution on the market."
"The product is very stable."
"The incident response capability has been instrumental in mitigating potential data loss."
"The exfiltration capabilities are great. You can put all of these rules in the product to detect the patterns and text."
"Zscaler Cloud DLP provides you with basic DLP features that you get out of the box such as keywords, regular expressions, and data identifiers, for example, your social security numbers, and credit card numbers, with everything built into the product, so you can directly use those features within the policies. You don't need to create it from scratch, and to me, this is the biggest benefit of Zscaler Cloud DLP. You have a lot of templates to choose from in the solution, rather than having to create templates from scratch or reinvent templates."
"Its impressive scalability allows the combination of multiple dictionaries and using them as one engine, resulting in narrower data loss gaps."
"You can close your data protection gaps with Zscaler. You can quickly find all the classified, sensitive data across the cloud."
"It's one of the easier products on the market as far as set-ups and deployments. Even across their whole product suite, they've made it pretty simple."
"The UI is easy to use."
"The product’s most valuable features are inbound and outbound scanning and API control."
"The customer service and support are very good."
"The most valuable aspect of Zscaler Cloud DLP is its automatic DLP feature."
"There should be more documentation with Symantec Data Loss Prevention. We had trouble with the first few deployments."
"I would like for the administrator management interface to improve. It's kind of old and slow. Updating it would make this solution better."
"The solution could offer improved more informative documentation."
"The solution is not user-friendly."
"The Symantec DLP solution is very complex, and installation requires many components."
"Symantec Data Loss Prevention's AI technology has certain shortcomings where improvements can be made."
"They could improve the predefined reports because they don't have much information. We would like detailed reports."
"There should be more information about the features of the solution and what they do. This way we would be able to use all the features that are available."
"The product must allow users to check logs for an entire year in the local console."
"There could be a feature to view the VPN tunnel activities in terms of configuration."
"Price-wise, it is a costly product and it should be reduced."
"There aren't really any missing features that I have witnessed."
"The only issue with Zscaler Cloud DLP is that it only gives you DLP protection from web traffic, which is flowing out, while a full-blown DLP solution such as Forcepoint or Symantec gives you DLP coverage for multiple channels. Zscaler Cloud DLP doesn't give you coverage for email, fax, and USB channels, and this is the only challenge or room for improvement in the solution. It's just an extension on top of what you're buying on the proxy, so it's just an added layer, and it doesn't cover DLP on a very broad level. I'm unsure if Zcaler is in the business of competing with a full-blown DLP solution, and if there's a plan to expand the features of Zscaler Cloud DLP beyond the web channel because you'll have to deploy a full-blown agent for it. I'm unsure if this is on the cards because the solution is just an added layer that you get with your proxy. I've asked the Zcaler team whether there's a plan to go full DLP in the future, but I didn't get a positive response. There isn't any feature I'd like added to Zscaler Cloud DLP currently, because anything you could think of that should be in cloud or SaaS solutions is already there, except for machine learning, as it's the only functionality that seems to be lacking in the solution. Machine learning is an additional policy available in other DLP solutions in the market, but my team didn't find it in Zscaler Cloud DLP."
"The customers would benefit from more robust documentation and conversations around configurations, as it is slightly complex."
"Another area of improvement is implementation through non-client connectors. The solution can be implemented in two ways. One uses the back file; the other one uses client connectors. So the client connector is pretty fast, but when it comes to non-client connectors and procedures, it's kind of delayed and slow."
"There could be additional ways to define proximity. Additionally, they should provide some exclusion options for specific policies and an ability to control the DLP engine."
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Symantec Data Loss Prevention is ranked 3rd in Data Loss Prevention (DLP) with 53 reviews while Zscaler DLP is ranked 4th in Data Loss Prevention (DLP) with 15 reviews. Symantec Data Loss Prevention is rated 8.0, while Zscaler DLP is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Symantec Data Loss Prevention writes "Consitent, accurate, and simple". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zscaler DLP writes "Provides a range of security measures to protect network traffic". Symantec Data Loss Prevention is most compared with Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention, Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention, Digital Guardian, CoSoSys Endpoint Protector and Trend Micro Integrated Data Loss Prevention, whereas Zscaler DLP is most compared with Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention, Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention, CoSoSys Endpoint Protector, Varonis Platform and Digital Guardian. See our Symantec Data Loss Prevention vs. Zscaler DLP report.
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