I am a customer of McAfee Complete Data Protection. While the decision to use it was made by my enterprise, I have found it to be quite accurate and there haven't been many issues while using complete protection. Licensing-wise, McAfee Complete Data Protection offers comprehensive and flexible licensing with various options. Regarding cost savings, while I cannot specify exact figures, the solution offers competitive pricing compared to other products in the market. McAfee Complete Data Protection is both a scalable and stable solution. On a scale of 1-10, I rate McAfee Complete Data Protection a 5 out of 10.
I would recommend using it. Some of my relatives/colleagues are also using it because I recommended it. In the five years I've used it, I haven't had any virus in my system. Overall, I would rate the solution a ten out of ten. It keeps evolving. As long as the threats are advancing, I believe McAfee will continue to update and advise us effectively.
I would recommend this solution because, first and foremost, if you’re looking at a data protection strategy, even for an SMB. You have employee data. You have the ins and outs data that you need to also have secured because you don’t want employees seeing each other’s pay slips or any sensitive information. And those InsideOps work makes all set to employees everywhere. Even if you’re trying to protect the sanity of your environment, you can leverage this product to actually give you that peace of mind where you understand that only the person who needs to see something sees it. Trends around data protection: Data protection is shifting away from being solely an on-premises concern. It's massive in the cloud now. There's a lot of data residing in the cloud. People use SAP, which is often hosted in the cloud. They use OneDrive, Office 365, SharePoint, and countless other cloud offerings. Data is everywhere in the cloud – databases, workloads, even entire organizations operate entirely in the cloud without any on-premises presence. Believe me, data protection will continue to be a challenge indefinitely. That's where the synergy between Trellix and Skyhigh comes in. As sister companies, there's seamless integration. If you choose to have your DLP on-premises and perform classification there, you can extend that classification to your Skyhigh instance. You can maintain the same level of protection, policies, and enforcement across your cloud offerings. In terms of data protection, it's still very much present on-premises, but it's also heavily focused on the cloud. That's where people are facing the biggest challenges. The good news is the strong relationship between Trellix and Skyhigh. People can leverage that partnership to ensure data protection, whether it's on-premises or in the cloud. It's all McAfee, no matter where the data resides. Overall, I would rate it an eight out of ten.
Learn what your peers think about McAfee Complete Data Protection. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: December 2025.
My suggestion to those planning to use the solution is that they need to research more before implementing it, especially about the compatibility. Since we encountered some issues still, even though this product is already mature enough, I rate the overall solution a six out of ten.
Cyber Security Engineer at a security firm with 11-50 employees
Real User
Nov 28, 2022
We are using the latest version of the solution. I'd likely recommend the solution to others. It's a good place to start in terms of developing a security strategy. I'd rate the solution seven out of ten.
We are a platinum partner of McAfee. We’re using the latest version of the solution. It is on-premise. However, it is also connected to the cloud as the McAfee solution, when we work in the EDR console, is cloud-connected to the on-premise console with the intelligence on the cloud. The product is excellent. However, it is very complex to implement from scratch. Therefore, it’s good to have a partner that can assist you and help you with the setup. I’d rate the solution eight out of ten.
We are service providers, not customers. We're a platinum partner. I'd recommend the solution to other companies. It's more than just an antivirus. It helps with compliance. However, I would advise a company that is considering buying it to understand what it can do and how it works in order to ensure it meets the needs of the organization. I'd rate the solution at an eight out of ten. We're mostly quite satisfied with its capabilities.
Senior Technical Team Lead at Foresight Software Solutions Pvt Ltd
Reseller
Mar 12, 2021
We need to check a customer's environment and infrastructure before recommending this solution. Based on that, we can then decide on the type of setup they'll require. Later on, when their new environment increases, they're able to scale up easily. On a scale from one to ten, I would give McAfee Complete Data Protection a rating of nine.
I would tell potential users that automatic update distribution would be very useful for such solutions. Doing it manually is very hard work. On a scale from one to ten, I would give McAfee Complete Data Protection a nine.
Lead Cyber Security Consultant at a security firm with 501-1,000 employees
Consultant
Feb 19, 2021
We can see that a lot of things are moving to the cloud, and I want to see more cloud solutions and more integration where we can make use of them. As time goes on, we can see that there are more customers on the cloud. I would rate this solution a seven out of ten.
McAfee Complete Data Protection is the best product on the market and I recommend it. It is very simple and anyone can easily understand it. I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.
On a scale from one to ten where one is the worst and ten is the best, I would rate this McAfee Complete Data Protection product as an eight or even a nine-out-of-ten. Just for the encryption part, I think I will say nine. The solution is actually quite stable and otherwise, it is quite good. I would definitely recommend this product to other users. The core of McAfee has been my end solution for all types of situations for me for a long time. If I have not switched yet to work with any other solution, obviously, I think it is a good one and I definitely recommend McAfee. On the DLP side, I am not sure if there is much they can change in that system, because I think one part compliments the other. But on the DLP you do not have the same type of endpoints control you have in the cloud. So I think on the DLP side, they must provide better controls so the solutions are more similar in that way from both ends. If there is a way to balance from what you have on-premises and what you have in cloud, then it becomes a better product from the user perspective. For data encryption, I think they need to work on the interface and the configuration and make it easier. If it could work more like a comprehensive management system, it will make more sense. It will make more sense and it will actually create more market value for end-users than just doing file and folder encryption. The possibilities for integration with McAfee CDP are important. You can integrate with that solution. Not all people in all environments want to run McAfee for Endpoints. Some people also want to have that kind of synergy McAfee has in DLP and encryption. So if you are trying to encrypt the network for a sensitive environment and you have a checkpoint policy to use McAfee on your endpoint and on your DLP, configure it to mask or to encrypt a file. There has to be that type of relationship between DLP and encryption for it to work properly and accomplish these ultimate goals. Some organizations use other solutions for the DLP and they also have that in the architecture. I have not yet seen that scenario, but I can imagine that there can be environments that start with McAfee endpoints and they have access to encryption and they want to extend that integration. It might be possible to do but it seems to me that it is not actually a very common way of doing things.
Senior Cyber Security Consultant at Ingram Micro Inc.
Real User
Mar 16, 2020
I'm a consultant. Our company is a partner as well as a distributor. I would recommend companies who want some solid security products to consider this solution. McAfee is well known in the market, and it has a good reputation specifically surrounding the EPO encryption. I would recommend them. I'd rate the solution eight out of ten. I'd rate the solution higher if the navigation to the settings and propagation were more clear inside McAfee.
Presales Manager at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
Real User
Dec 23, 2019
The advice I have for people considering this type of security solution is not to listen to what all the companies advertise. You can see bad reviews, maybe good reviews as well, but you need to use that information from the reviews as a starting point for your own observations and not just believe what reviews say. I know some reviews on the internet are fair, but some reviews are not. Try to do a POC (Proof of concept) and conduct testing for yourself. Define your policies as per your requirements for your situation and your company and choose products that meet the needs of that model. If you want to install any solution with the default policies, it will probably not fit your requirements exactly. You will need to do enhancements and fine-tune the solution, so you will need a solution that can be tuned. Give the solutions a try. Do the POC for one or two months and then you can decide if it is a good solution for you. On a scale from one to ten where one is the worst and ten is the best, I would rate this product as an eight of ten. To make it ten or even a nine, they need to resolve the issues with how the solution consumes PC resources.
We use the on-premises deployment model. I'd recommend the solution. It's modern, simple, scalable and reliable. I'd rate the solution eight out of ten.
I've been using the solution since 2005. We're partners with McAfee. I would rate the solution nine out of ten. For them to get 10, I think they also need to make sure they are still compatible with earlier versions of Windows. In this part of the world, in Africa, you find that there are companies that are still using the earlier editions of Windows, like Windows XP. They need to make sure they incorporate those operating systems even if they've reached the end of life for Windows, like Windows XP. Right now, the new version doesn't support XP.
My advice to others who are looking for a DLP solution, a data protection solution, would be to go for it. Along with the antivirus protection, I would definitely suggest the company to go for the next generation in antivirus or EDR or sensing technology which is currently more available in the market. There is more, newer technology on the market today. And antivirus properties of McAfee technology, like scanning the viruses and things like that, is more traditional, conventional technology. I will not say to go ahead with the antivirus, but McAfee's DLP data protection is still very good and it is one of the stable solutions on the market. I will rate it a seven out of ten.
Global IT Manager at a pharma/biotech company with 501-1,000 employees
Real User
Apr 12, 2018
When you're searching for a vendor, first of all you want to be secure and comfortable with the partner that you're working with. The partner can see many vendors in the industry, and is working with many companies. When he's recommending a vendor, I'm more comfortable working with that vendor. So I'm listening to my partner's recommendation, and then I start to check out those vendors. The criteria include that it is a stable vendor, has been in the market a long time, has a good solid, financial base so it can support the product that I'm working with. My advice would be to speak with other companies who have implemented the solution to get references. I would rate this solution a nine out of 10. When I'm looking for a product like this, I don't want it to interfere with the performance of my database or system. The purpose of database security is to protect our ERP system database, and if the performance is going to be harmed or affected, from a business point of view that's a big issue. This product did not affect performance.
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I am a customer of McAfee Complete Data Protection. While the decision to use it was made by my enterprise, I have found it to be quite accurate and there haven't been many issues while using complete protection. Licensing-wise, McAfee Complete Data Protection offers comprehensive and flexible licensing with various options. Regarding cost savings, while I cannot specify exact figures, the solution offers competitive pricing compared to other products in the market. McAfee Complete Data Protection is both a scalable and stable solution. On a scale of 1-10, I rate McAfee Complete Data Protection a 5 out of 10.
I would recommend using it. Some of my relatives/colleagues are also using it because I recommended it. In the five years I've used it, I haven't had any virus in my system. Overall, I would rate the solution a ten out of ten. It keeps evolving. As long as the threats are advancing, I believe McAfee will continue to update and advise us effectively.
I would recommend this solution because, first and foremost, if you’re looking at a data protection strategy, even for an SMB. You have employee data. You have the ins and outs data that you need to also have secured because you don’t want employees seeing each other’s pay slips or any sensitive information. And those InsideOps work makes all set to employees everywhere. Even if you’re trying to protect the sanity of your environment, you can leverage this product to actually give you that peace of mind where you understand that only the person who needs to see something sees it. Trends around data protection: Data protection is shifting away from being solely an on-premises concern. It's massive in the cloud now. There's a lot of data residing in the cloud. People use SAP, which is often hosted in the cloud. They use OneDrive, Office 365, SharePoint, and countless other cloud offerings. Data is everywhere in the cloud – databases, workloads, even entire organizations operate entirely in the cloud without any on-premises presence. Believe me, data protection will continue to be a challenge indefinitely. That's where the synergy between Trellix and Skyhigh comes in. As sister companies, there's seamless integration. If you choose to have your DLP on-premises and perform classification there, you can extend that classification to your Skyhigh instance. You can maintain the same level of protection, policies, and enforcement across your cloud offerings. In terms of data protection, it's still very much present on-premises, but it's also heavily focused on the cloud. That's where people are facing the biggest challenges. The good news is the strong relationship between Trellix and Skyhigh. People can leverage that partnership to ensure data protection, whether it's on-premises or in the cloud. It's all McAfee, no matter where the data resides. Overall, I would rate it an eight out of ten.
I recommend the solution. Overall, I rate it a nine out of ten.
It's a really good solution, especially with Zero Trust coming up. McAfee also has the ability to patch. Overall, I rate the tool a nine out of ten.
The solution is easy to manage, configure, and monitor. It also has a good UI. I rate it an eight out of ten.
My suggestion to those planning to use the solution is that they need to research more before implementing it, especially about the compatibility. Since we encountered some issues still, even though this product is already mature enough, I rate the overall solution a six out of ten.
I would rate this solution as 10 out of 10.
We are using the latest version of the solution. I'd likely recommend the solution to others. It's a good place to start in terms of developing a security strategy. I'd rate the solution seven out of ten.
I rate McAfee Complete Data Protection 10 out of 10.
We are a platinum partner of McAfee. We’re using the latest version of the solution. It is on-premise. However, it is also connected to the cloud as the McAfee solution, when we work in the EDR console, is cloud-connected to the on-premise console with the intelligence on the cloud. The product is excellent. However, it is very complex to implement from scratch. Therefore, it’s good to have a partner that can assist you and help you with the setup. I’d rate the solution eight out of ten.
It is a pretty good product. Overall, I would rate it a seven out of ten.
We are service providers, not customers. We're a platinum partner. I'd recommend the solution to other companies. It's more than just an antivirus. It helps with compliance. However, I would advise a company that is considering buying it to understand what it can do and how it works in order to ensure it meets the needs of the organization. I'd rate the solution at an eight out of ten. We're mostly quite satisfied with its capabilities.
We need to check a customer's environment and infrastructure before recommending this solution. Based on that, we can then decide on the type of setup they'll require. Later on, when their new environment increases, they're able to scale up easily. On a scale from one to ten, I would give McAfee Complete Data Protection a rating of nine.
I would tell potential users that automatic update distribution would be very useful for such solutions. Doing it manually is very hard work. On a scale from one to ten, I would give McAfee Complete Data Protection a nine.
We can see that a lot of things are moving to the cloud, and I want to see more cloud solutions and more integration where we can make use of them. As time goes on, we can see that there are more customers on the cloud. I would rate this solution a seven out of ten.
McAfee Complete Data Protection is the best product on the market and I recommend it. It is very simple and anyone can easily understand it. I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.
On a scale from one to ten where one is the worst and ten is the best, I would rate this McAfee Complete Data Protection product as an eight or even a nine-out-of-ten. Just for the encryption part, I think I will say nine. The solution is actually quite stable and otherwise, it is quite good. I would definitely recommend this product to other users. The core of McAfee has been my end solution for all types of situations for me for a long time. If I have not switched yet to work with any other solution, obviously, I think it is a good one and I definitely recommend McAfee. On the DLP side, I am not sure if there is much they can change in that system, because I think one part compliments the other. But on the DLP you do not have the same type of endpoints control you have in the cloud. So I think on the DLP side, they must provide better controls so the solutions are more similar in that way from both ends. If there is a way to balance from what you have on-premises and what you have in cloud, then it becomes a better product from the user perspective. For data encryption, I think they need to work on the interface and the configuration and make it easier. If it could work more like a comprehensive management system, it will make more sense. It will make more sense and it will actually create more market value for end-users than just doing file and folder encryption. The possibilities for integration with McAfee CDP are important. You can integrate with that solution. Not all people in all environments want to run McAfee for Endpoints. Some people also want to have that kind of synergy McAfee has in DLP and encryption. So if you are trying to encrypt the network for a sensitive environment and you have a checkpoint policy to use McAfee on your endpoint and on your DLP, configure it to mask or to encrypt a file. There has to be that type of relationship between DLP and encryption for it to work properly and accomplish these ultimate goals. Some organizations use other solutions for the DLP and they also have that in the architecture. I have not yet seen that scenario, but I can imagine that there can be environments that start with McAfee endpoints and they have access to encryption and they want to extend that integration. It might be possible to do but it seems to me that it is not actually a very common way of doing things.
I'm a consultant. Our company is a partner as well as a distributor. I would recommend companies who want some solid security products to consider this solution. McAfee is well known in the market, and it has a good reputation specifically surrounding the EPO encryption. I would recommend them. I'd rate the solution eight out of ten. I'd rate the solution higher if the navigation to the settings and propagation were more clear inside McAfee.
So far, we are satisfied with the overall results and the product welcomed by end-users with few complaints.
The advice I have for people considering this type of security solution is not to listen to what all the companies advertise. You can see bad reviews, maybe good reviews as well, but you need to use that information from the reviews as a starting point for your own observations and not just believe what reviews say. I know some reviews on the internet are fair, but some reviews are not. Try to do a POC (Proof of concept) and conduct testing for yourself. Define your policies as per your requirements for your situation and your company and choose products that meet the needs of that model. If you want to install any solution with the default policies, it will probably not fit your requirements exactly. You will need to do enhancements and fine-tune the solution, so you will need a solution that can be tuned. Give the solutions a try. Do the POC for one or two months and then you can decide if it is a good solution for you. On a scale from one to ten where one is the worst and ten is the best, I would rate this product as an eight of ten. To make it ten or even a nine, they need to resolve the issues with how the solution consumes PC resources.
We use the on-premises deployment model. I'd recommend the solution. It's modern, simple, scalable and reliable. I'd rate the solution eight out of ten.
I've been using the solution since 2005. We're partners with McAfee. I would rate the solution nine out of ten. For them to get 10, I think they also need to make sure they are still compatible with earlier versions of Windows. In this part of the world, in Africa, you find that there are companies that are still using the earlier editions of Windows, like Windows XP. They need to make sure they incorporate those operating systems even if they've reached the end of life for Windows, like Windows XP. Right now, the new version doesn't support XP.
We are partners with McAfee. I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.
My advice to others who are looking for a DLP solution, a data protection solution, would be to go for it. Along with the antivirus protection, I would definitely suggest the company to go for the next generation in antivirus or EDR or sensing technology which is currently more available in the market. There is more, newer technology on the market today. And antivirus properties of McAfee technology, like scanning the viruses and things like that, is more traditional, conventional technology. I will not say to go ahead with the antivirus, but McAfee's DLP data protection is still very good and it is one of the stable solutions on the market. I will rate it a seven out of ten.
This product is perfect, just too expensive. I would rate this solution a seven out of ten.
When you're searching for a vendor, first of all you want to be secure and comfortable with the partner that you're working with. The partner can see many vendors in the industry, and is working with many companies. When he's recommending a vendor, I'm more comfortable working with that vendor. So I'm listening to my partner's recommendation, and then I start to check out those vendors. The criteria include that it is a stable vendor, has been in the market a long time, has a good solid, financial base so it can support the product that I'm working with. My advice would be to speak with other companies who have implemented the solution to get references. I would rate this solution a nine out of 10. When I'm looking for a product like this, I don't want it to interfere with the performance of my database or system. The purpose of database security is to protect our ERP system database, and if the performance is going to be harmed or affected, from a business point of view that's a big issue. This product did not affect performance.