Symantec Endpoint Security

We use Symantec Endpoint Security for a long time. It meets all our security needs. Symantec Endpoint Security acts as a one platform for endpoint protection, combining prevention, detection, and response to address modern cybersecurity challenges while aligning with business goals like cost reduction and compliance. It includes antivirus, client firewall and intrusion preventions. With it's device protection, controlling the devices plugged into the end-user machine with the device protection feature is really important in terms of security .

• There is no blocking when you exceed the license limit. This is very important for us.
• One of negative impact is performance lag on older devices disrupts workflows.
• Blocking USB based threats (e.g., Autorun.inf) prevents data exfiltration or malware spread.

We use Symantec Endpoint Security to protect our Workstations from the daily threats posed by viruses, malware, ransomware and other cybersecurity attacks. Most of our users are remote and carry their laptops to different offices (both our own and customers) and ensuring that they are protected against the increasing number of threats from outside the business is key. It currently covers around 40 systems.

• Blocking threats at the system level
• Reporting features
• Centrally managed

• Has helped keep our systems free from infection
• Minimising downtime from viruses

Kaspersky Endpoint Security, Bitdefender GravityZone and Webroot Endpoint Protection

Our company uses Symantec Endpoint Security for approximately 500 Windows-based PCs across our organization. In general, Symantec does what it is supposed to and it detects and blocks attacks at the endpoint level. The Symantec software is very easy going on PC resources and does not seem to bog down the system and simply works.

• Endpoint Security, blocking threats
• Centrally managed installs
• Nice reporting features.

• Symantec has kept our PC's free of viruses for over a decade now

Panda Systems Management, Malwarebytes Endpoint Protection and McAfee Advanced Threat Defense

McAfee Advanced Threat Defense, Avast Business Antivirus, Kaspersky Endpoint Security, Cisco Endpoint Security Analytics, Panda Security for Desktops

Our primary use case for Symantec Endpoint Security is threat intelligence and endpoint protection. Their threat protection is very good. We are managing a good number of users thanks to the solution and we are pretty satisfied with it. It is somewhat more than just an antivirus, it also included a firewall that operated in addition to the Windows or Mac firewall.

• Access Controls
• Incident Management
• Access Permissions

• (Positive) Prevents Network Intrusion
• (Positive) Prevents Ransomware
• (Positive) Overall saving us money from getting hacked

RingCentral MVP, Salesforce CMS, Microsoft Windows

• Antivirus
• Behavior analytics
• Reporting

• Symantec [Endpoint Security] cost 50k less than other options while providing similar benefits over the last year
• Cylance conflicted with Symantec [Endpoint Security] and Cisco Umbrella Client (All 3 at the same time) causing us to rebuild many desktops
• Symantec [Endpoint Security] made it easy to detect where issues were and repair them

BlackBerry Protect (CylancePROTECT), CrowdStrike Falcon Endpoint Protection, Cynet 360, Arctic Wolf and Rapid7 Managed Security Services (Rapid7 MDR)

BlackBerry Protect (CylancePROTECT), Cisco Umbrella, Cisco AnyConnect