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Digital Guardian vs. Symantec Encryption

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    Digital Guardian

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AThe Digital Guardian Platform from Fortra (formerly HelpSystems, acquired in late 2021) is a cloud-delivered data protection platform purpose-built to stop data loss by both insiders and outsiders on Windows, Mac and Linux operating systems. Additionally, Digital Guardian User Activity Monitoring enables users to detect, investigate and mitigate suspicious user actions to ensure sensitive data doesn’t get out. And Digital Guardian for Data Discovery provides visibility and auditing of sensitive…N/A

    Symantec Encryption

    Score9.9 out of 10
    N/ARegulatory compliance, data privacy concerns, and brand reputation often become powerful motivating factors for organizations to take advantage of encryption technologies. Organizations are challenged to protect their sensitive information and ensure compliance with limited resources. Symantec Encryption offers an integrated management platform to allow organizations to: Quickly deploy and manage their endpoint encryption solution from a single console Have the right…N/A
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    User Testimonials
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    Fortra
    Digital Guardian has excellent data-preventing solutions, which locate and protect [that] database that [is] super sensitive. More so, Digital Guardian offers complete coverage of endpoint safety and network monitoring. Again, Digital Guardian has a team of elite professionals, who screens and detect any cyber threats. Finally, Digital Guardian has improvised and detailed attack response, very efficient in making the right controls.
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    Broadcom
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    Pros
    Fortra
    • Email data leaks - DLP software must prevent certain actions to work well. Let's say you try to copy and paste an SS # to an email, or upload sensitive data to your personal email account. Guardian Edge can prevent that, and then alert administrators that it happened
    • Unauthorized file copies - Guardian Edge can also prevent users from copying files from a sensitive restricted area to somewhere else where they might be able to more easily exfiltrate it. A good example would be from a company file share to a less secure server or their own home drive
    • Alerting Administrators of suspicious activities - Any time a user uploads a file to an upload service or personal email, it is logged and reported as an event to be reviewed. If it found nothing in scanning the data, it will still notify you that it happened so you can review it yourself to confirm it wasn't a false negative.
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    Broadcom
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    Cons
    Fortra
    • Digital Guardian is perfect in database protection, hence, no complaint.
    • Digital Guardian makes the detection process effective, hence, reliable.
    • Finally, Digital Guardian is cloud focused or delivered, hence, concrete and efficient.
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    Broadcom
    • The process to set up a user account is a real pain. Symantec requires the user answer a bunch of security questions if they need to reset their password, but no one ever remembers the answers to the questions that they selected.
    • Since we use this for remote users who don't always connect to our VPN, when they change their network password it isn't always reflected in Windows and the Symantec Endpoint Encryption (SEE) passwords frequently get out of sync. When the user eventually does connect to the VPN, they do sync and really throw the user for a loop in which passwords to use.
    • We found a huge problem with SSDs where an encrypted drive operated twice as slow as a mechanical drive. I believe this was addressed in a later release.
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    Fortra
    DG is the only DLP platform I've used at my current employer. I used it at my previous employer as well, and we ended up abandoning future deployments of it due to many problems caused by it, especially with web browsers. This was in 2015, rather than the 2018 version I used with my current employer, but I feel it still warrants mentioning. DG works great...when it works. When it doesn't, it's a disaster.
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    Broadcom
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    Return on Investment
    Fortra
    • The professional threat detectors and cyber security analysts [increase] the reliability of the company database.
    • Cloud coverage allows easy deployment and efficient systematic controls.
    • Lastly, Digital Guardian [values] and monitors the procedures or the roles that every player makes in the company.
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    Broadcom
    • Keeps our company compliant with HIPPA and other requirements that our customers have.
    • Does not affect user's day to day work.
    • Increased security for mobile employees.
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