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Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention vs. Symantec Data Loss Prevention

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention

    Score7.1 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft Purview Data Loss Prevention is used to provide intelligent detection and control of sensitive information across Office 365, OneDrive, SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, and on the endpoint. It also helps prevent data loss through identifying and preventing risky or inappropriate sharing, transfer, or use of sensitive data on endpoints, apps, and services.N/A

    Symantec Data Loss Prevention

    Score4.3 out of 10
    N/ASymantec Data Loss Prevention (DLP) is a data loss protection option.N/A
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    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Microsoft Purview Data Loss PreventionSymantec Data Loss Prevention
    Considered Both Products
    Microsoft
    Chose Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention
    Symantec or now? Brocom. Forcepoint, GPV. I'm trying to think of, there's a couple more. I can't think of the top of my head. I would say closer to the bottom then rather than the top. So because of the fact that yes, it integrates well. But in terms of the actual …
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    Chose Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention
    Centralized management, supports Hybrid Environment, Easy integration with Microsoft products and cloud features.
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    Broadcom
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    93%
    Would buy again
    13 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    93%
    Happy with the feature set
    13 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    82%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Microsoft Purview Data Loss PreventionSymantec Data Loss Prevention
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    Comparison of Data Preparation features of Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention and Symantec Data Loss Prevention
    Feature
    Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention
    8.5
    7 Ratings
    32% above category average
    Symantec Data Loss Prevention
    -
    Ratings
    Data Encryption8.57 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Medium-sized Companies
    Forcepoint DLP
    Score6.2 out of 10
    Forcepoint DLP
    Score6.2 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Forcepoint DLP
    Score6.2 out of 10
    Forcepoint DLP
    Score6.2 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Microsoft Purview Data Loss PreventionSymantec Data Loss Prevention
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.8
    (13 ratings)
    9.0
    (6 ratings)
    Usability
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
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    Likelihood to Recommend
    Microsoft
    I would highly recommend Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention for companies that are utilizing Microsoft technologies based on the strong integrations. If a company is using other technologies (e.g Google Workspace), then Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention would not be a good fit and would be difficult to implement/manage.
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    Broadcom
    Email, web browser, and data storage areas will fulfill the security of mobile devices very well. It provides multiple methods of data filtering and classification to ensure important data can be well protected. Unfortunately, it does not support you to make regex-based definitions. for this reason, you need to work on the rules a lot. Another disadvantage is that it cannot monitor Linux systems.
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    Pros
    Microsoft
    • Automatic labeling, once we've trained the naming conventions and things like that and we get the labels placed on things. One of the biggest problems that our clients face is the fact that they don't particularly know every single time exactly the data that they're trying to protect, how to identify it when it comes into the system or when they create it, right? So we're using Purview and we're using the abilities that Purview has to auto-label things based off of either taxonomy that you have produced or created or that have been automatically populated through AI. That makes it a lot easier and kind of thwarts possible user error that causes problems for organizations.
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    Broadcom
    • Protection against Data Leakage via the USB channel on endpoints.
    • Protection against Data Leakage via email channel on endpoints
    • Protection against Data Leakage over the Web channel on endpoints.
    • Flexible and configurable for various types of content inspection.
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    Cons
    Microsoft
    • Overall, Microsoft DLP is not my number one choice because there's not much flexibility. There's a lot of restrictions and the way they set up rules a lot really restrictive. Thus it takes a lot more time for my team to build the rules and establish the controls as needed. So it's very clunky in that way and they have not improved it over the years, but I know they're trying to get a better, however it takes time because Microsoft, as we all knows, not a really security centric company.
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    Broadcom
    • Policy tweaking and customizations can be very complex and take a lot of effort and time.
    • API integration is difficult and requires specialized support. Finding an experienced professional can be difficult.
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    Usability
    Microsoft
    Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention is super difficult.
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    Broadcom
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    Support Rating
    Microsoft
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    Broadcom
    Symantec DLP works good for our very simple and low complexity use cases and I would highly recommend it for them. However, I can't speak to highly complex or advanced use cases that might arise in certain industries like finance. I would recommend that if you are seeking an Enterprise DLP solution that you absolutely must explore this product as one of the leaders in the space - not doing so would be negligent in my opinion.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Microsoft
    There are much more comprehensive and granular DLP solutions out there like Trellix and Sophos but ultimately they are expensive and require significant administrative oversight for implementation and deployment. For a company of our size, they are just not economically feasible. We purchased out 365 E5 tenant with Purview DLP integration from a reseller at a price that we couldn't compete with vs a standalone enterprise product.
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    Broadcom
    Symantec DLP is the best. Put it in a head to head competition and it will win. However it can be a bit more expensive than other products so don't compare on price, compare on quality of product.
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    Return on Investment
    Microsoft
    • It has helped us to prevent data breaches and protect them from data loss.
    • It has strong visibility on the activities related to data copy to and from removable devices.
    • It can easily enforce the policies on group of users and also exclude some in the exclusions
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    Broadcom
    • Found data that should have been protected or moved to a different location
    • Helped us understand what type of data is leaving the environment
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    ScreenShots

    Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention Screenshots

    Screenshot of pre-built policy templates to easily get startedScreenshot of DLP analytics to help recommend new policies and fine tune existing onesScreenshot of the step that enables one policy to be applied to several locationsScreenshot of then next step, that enables policies to be scoped to specific users and user groupsScreenshot of composite conditions using groups of AND /OR and exceptions with NOTScreenshot of granular restrictions for different actions