We performed a comparison between Symantec Endpoint Security and VMware NSX based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, SentinelOne, CrowdStrike and others in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP)."NGAV and EDR features are outstanding."
"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."
"Fortinet is very user-friendly for customers."
"I like FortiClient EMS. FortiEDR has a lot of great features like lockdown mode, remote wipes, and encryption. I can set malware outbreak policies and controls for detecting abnormalities. You can also simulate phishing attacks."
"We have FortiEDR installed on all our systems. This protects them from any threats."
"The setup is pretty simple."
"Forensics is a valuable feature of Fortinet FortiEDR."
"Fortinet FortiEDR's firewalling, rule creation, monitoring, and inspection profiles are great."
"Symantec End-User Endpoint Security is a stable solution."
"Endpoint protection has improved our operations by protecting our servers from potential cyber threats."
"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."
"It's good at detecting signature-based stuff and stopping that."
"It is very easy to use and keeps us secure."
"Symantec is very user-friendly, the interface and functions are very simple for everyone to understand. Additionally, it's a very robust system."
"With Symantec, I always know this tool will be reliable and with the latest protection."
"Helps to protect our organization from known attacks."
"The organization of it is logical, useful, and intuitive."
"I have found the solution to be stable."
"VMware NSX is a very good solution. It's also a scalable solution."
"The solution's customer service is good."
"I am impressed with the tool's protection."
"The most valuable feature is the integration with the firewall."
"Any administrator with basic networking knowledge, in a couple of days, can be in full control of their networking without going through a networking engineer."
"The most valuable features of VMware NSX are the tight integration with the VMware Hypervisor natively and the management console. We have a lot of other integrations where you are able to see the virtual machine's end-to-end visibility."
"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."
"To improve Fortinet, we need to see more features and technology areas at the endpoint level introduced."
"The solution is not stable."
"We've had a lot of false positives; things incorrectly flagged that require manual configuration to allow. Even worse, after we allow a legitimate program, it sometimes gets flagged again after an update. This has caused a lot of extra work for my team."
"The SIEM could be improved."
"The dashboard isn't easy to access and manage."
"The solution should address emerging threats like SQL injection."
"We find the solution to be a bit expensive."
"The tool switches off automatically, and I have to restart it. Also, we had to manually fix some issues that cropped up while using the tool."
"If the agent can be minimized so that it can work with in-memory concepts, that would be ideal. As of now, it is file-based, signature-based."
"We are not satisfied with this solution. It needs a lot of improvements. It doesn't detect the most recent malware and unknown threats. With most of the users working from home these days, there is also a need for some extra security layer. That's why we are thinking of going for a better solution that will take care of all of our endpoints and work from home situation. Symantec also has to work on EDI technology. Vendors like Palo Alto and Cisco are coming with their own intelligence and cloud infrastructure in which unknown threats are regularly watched and monitored, and they are reported to the admin."
"It seems that its not working very well with VMWare."
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"It would be helpful if this product provided patch management functionality."
"The Symantec Endpoint Manager is very difficult to use and extremely old."
"We are not satisfied with the technical support."
"The training costs a minimum of $3,000, which is expensive and should be reduced."
"It could be cheaper!"
"We've have had good and bad experiences with them. We don't always find them to be so impactful. Sometimes the support guy isn't so on top of resolving the issue and it can take a while to sort out."
"It was stable for one year, there was no impact. In the last two months, we had two big incidents."
"The solution could benefit from improvements in its pricing and scalability."
"I would rate this product an eight because it's a good product but it needs more work. They should fix some of the bugs."
"They need to enhance their technical support."
"We would to have a reverse proxy. This would add great value to the solution."
Symantec Endpoint Security is ranked 5th in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 139 reviews while VMware NSX is ranked 2nd in Network Virtualization with 93 reviews. Symantec Endpoint Security is rated 7.6, while VMware NSX is rated 8.0. 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". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware NSX writes "Allows for seamless micro-segmentation and the support is exceptional". Symantec Endpoint Security is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, CrowdStrike Falcon, Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks and Trend Micro Deep Security, whereas VMware NSX is most compared with Nutanix Flow Network Security, Illumio, Cisco ACI, Akamai Guardicore Segmentation and Cisco Secure Workload.
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