Symantec Data Loss Prevention Pros

Serif Muammer Sak - PeerSpot reviewer
Cyber Security Consultant at a comms service provider with 201-500 employees
The accuracy in terms of the rate of detection is good.
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Meleria Mangaring - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Engineer at Trends and Technologies, Inc
With respect to the amount of intelligence that they have with respect to how they formed the DLP solution, for example, exact data matching. If you compare Forcepoint with Symantec, Symantec is more sophisticated than Forcepoint.
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SK
Associate at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees
We can integrate with some other tools such as Splunk, which is very useful.
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Symantec Data Loss Prevention
February 2023
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RP
Senior Consultant at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
The data-at-rest features are the most valuable because they let us identify data infected with ransomware and prevent employees from being exploited through phishing attacks. If an employee is compromised, the attacker can access servers and deposit ransomware. This enables the attacker to exfiltrate data remotely using employees' credentials. It might be valuable data that could cause a business reputational and financial damage if stolen and publicized. It could also be credit card data or personal health information stored on critical servers.
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DK
Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
The detection capabilities are comprehensive.
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UK
Global Infosec Lead at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
The most valuable aspect of Symantec DLP is its broad coverage. Symantec DLP covers USB, Outlook email clients, and web traffic. If we install the endpoint DLP, we can cover multiple channels, including the clipboard and printer.
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BR
Cyber Security Consultant at I(TS)² Saudi Arabia
An excellent solution for data classification.
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GG
Senior Systems Engineer at a logistics company with 1-10 employees
I like how I have the possibility to check different channels with the same policy set.
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Aleksandar Prodanov - PeerSpot reviewer
System Admin at a government
For detection, it has a great algorithm. It can recognize ID numbers and everything that you put in a policy for the end-users. That is really great for us as an institution where we have sensitive data. It recognizes all the sensitive data when someone tries to transfer it or put in other data.
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PG
Senior IT Architect at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
The exfiltration capabilities are great. You can put all of these rules in the product to detect the patterns and text.
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Symantec Data Loss Prevention Cons

Serif Muammer Sak - PeerSpot reviewer
Cyber Security Consultant at a comms service provider with 201-500 employees
Reporting could be improved.
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Meleria Mangaring - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Engineer at Trends and Technologies, Inc
The one downside for Symantec is that, due to its transition from Symantec to Broadcom, there's been a lot of changes. I am based in the Philippines and we don't have a contact person locally for any Symantec.
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SK
Associate at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees
In the object capture recognition, which we implemented recently, there are a lot of false positives that have been happening.
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Symantec Data Loss Prevention
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RP
Senior Consultant at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
The upgrade process is convoluted. The server and database software must run in line with third-party providers like the Oracle database. If an Oracle database reaches the end of its life, then servers must be decommissioned, and you need to bring new servers online. When the maintenance packages are deployed to the management server, they don't get pushed to the detection servers. Each detection server must be manually installed rather than automatically made from a single server. If it's a large enterprise, you need to manually install it or use a GPO or some other technology, which I never use.
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DK
Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
From a management perspective, it takes a lot of time to manage the infrastructure.
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UK
Global Infosec Lead at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Symantec DLP doesn't provide complete cloud coverage. We need another DLP solution to monitor our cloud applications.
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BR
Cyber Security Consultant at I(TS)² Saudi Arabia
Different departments should manage administration, reporting, normalization and incident management.
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GG
Senior Systems Engineer at a logistics company with 1-10 employees
They need to expand the channels they check.
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Aleksandar Prodanov - PeerSpot reviewer
System Admin at a government
I would like to see changes to the analytics.
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PG
Senior IT Architect at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
The database is a problem for us, as it's running on Oracle and not everybody likes that.
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Buyer's Guide
Symantec Data Loss Prevention
February 2023
Learn what your peers think about Symantec Data Loss Prevention. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: February 2023.
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