BitLocker Drive Encryption vs. ESET PROTECT

ESET PROTECT

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
BitLocker	Score 9.1 out of 10	N/A	Microsoft's BitLocker is an endpoint encryption option.	$100 One Time Fee
ESET PROTECT	Score 8.9 out of 10	N/A	ESET provides Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) capabilities via the ESET PROTECT Platform, covering Windows, Mac, Linux, and both Android and iOS operating systems, providing Mobile Device Management functionality. It comes with multi-tenant management, ensuring real-time visibility for both on-premises and off-premises endpoints as well as full reporting for ESET enterprise-grade solutions. ESET PROTECT management platform can be deployed on-premise or in-cloud. For organizations looking to…	$49.99 per year 1 device

Pricing

BitLocker Drive Encryption

ESET PROTECT

Editions & Modules

Windows 10 Home: $100.00
One Time Fee

Essential: $49.99
per year 1 device
Premium: $59.99
per year 1 device
Ultimate: $179.99
per year 5 devices

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
BitLocker	ESET PROTECT
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Optional

Additional Details

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ESET offers are tailored to each customer’s needs. ESET takes pride in working with customers and partners to find the perfect solution for their security challenges at the right price. Contacting an ESET partner or sales representative ensures each solution is made-to-measure and precisely fits the size, complexity of IT environment and level of protection to match the customer’s business requirements. Pricing percentage is dependent on number of years and devices purchased.

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Community Pulse
	BitLocker Drive Encryption	ESET PROTECT
Considered Both Products	BitLocker Verified User Anonymous Chose BitLocker BitLocker is a lot easier to enable. It's a simple flick of the switch inside Intune. Incentivized Helpful? Justin Graves HIPAA Security Officer Chose BitLocker BitLocker Drive Encryption is much more reliable. We used McAfee drive encryption prior to moving to BitLocker Drive Encryption. While McAfee was useful, it's required pre-boot environment always fell out of sync with AD passwords, causing users difficulty to sign into their … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose BitLocker BitLocker Drive Encryption solution offering is cheaper than the one that McAfee offers, it will help you with specific business concerns like "how many encrypted assets do I have?" it's easy to maintain, easy to deploy, and easy to track. It's best suited for companies that … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose BitLocker This was formerly called Symantec PGP encryption. We selected BitLocker since this is what the University has deployed and is currently supporting. BitLocker has many advantages over Symantec PGP, as BitLocker is built-into all Windows computers. With PGP, this was a … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose BitLocker I can't think of any alternative that I know of. Incentivized Helpful? RR Richard Russell Principal Network Administrator Chose BitLocker Previously used TrueCrypt until vulnerabilities were discovered. Overall performance improved when going from TrueCrypt to BitLocker. Incentivized Helpful? Marc-Olivier Turgeon-Ferland System Administrator Chose BitLocker Most other whole drive encryption tools are really not that easy to manage and come with big performance when compared to Bitlocker. Also, a lot of them don't use TPM which in my opinion gives you better protection. As for Truecrypt which was what we were using before, it is not … Incentivized Helpful? Tommy Boucher IT Director Chose BitLocker There is not much alternative to Bitlocker, you may want to try self-encrypted disk, but for a business perspective, it is not as easy as Bitlocker to manage. Self-encrypted may be faster, but recovering data for a system administrator is a disaster. There was more alternative … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose BitLocker There really is no competition with disk encryption at least on a Windows platform. Most Microsoft OS's have bitlocker encryption available to them. Incentivized Helpful?	ESET PROTECT Verified User Anonymous Chose ESET PROTECT User-friendly interface and centralized management, dashboard is innovative, making security management straightforward even without a dedicated security team. ESET PROTECTis easy-to-deploy solution with a user-friendly interface and strong protection. ESET PROTECT real-time … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose ESET PROTECT Both are great products, but the resource footprint on ESET seems to be smaller, and the multitenancy of ESET makes it so much easier to use. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose ESET PROTECT The two main competitors We compared ESET PROTECT against was Bitdefender and Withsecure: Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose ESET PROTECT Much better performance, features and experience ! Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose ESET PROTECT Choosing ESET PROTECT rather than McAfee Security or other secuty softwares helps me more evaluate specific security requirements of the company. Considering the scalability of solution it provides, the ease of use of its interface, the level of support provided by the vendors, … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose ESET PROTECT Our team had used ESET PROTECT in the past and decided to use it again without shopping around for other vendors. Our overall experience has been a great one over the last 10 years of using it. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose ESET PROTECT ESET PROTECT was the easy choice, with the web interface, the ability to be installed on all OSs including Mobile, built-in MDM. Having the ability to package Anti-virus, real-time scanning, Encryption, and Firewall into one package was perfect. The Support team has helped … Incentivized Helpful? Kallie Koortz Owner Chose ESET PROTECT ESET Firewall is better by 20% it is a more stable firewall which remembers previous config after updates. ESET is more expensive than AVG but runs smoother on newer desktops. Management console on ESET is easily better that AVG console. Deployment of ESET has proven easier … Incentivized Helpful? CF Chris Funk IT Director Chose ESET PROTECT We used ThirtySeven4 antivirus before eSet, and we were underwhelmed with its protection and another of our offices was compromised with ransomware under its protection. We had changed to eSet about a month prior and it stopped the attack when one of our staff opened the email … Incentivized Helpful? AR Alex Richards Account Director Chose ESET PROTECT Far more cost effective, doesn't slow computers down as much, far easier to use and better central management. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose ESET PROTECT NOD32 is the only paid antivirus software that is not a memory hogger. That's all that is important. Why would I install software on my PC that hogs up all my memory? And the free ones are full of ads, and popups trying to trick you into getting their paid plans. They were … Incentivized Helpful? Eric Atkinson Customer Service / IT Manager Chose ESET PROTECT eSetEndpoint Antivirus is hands down the best anti-viral application I have come across. This was recommended to me to help cut back on the amount of resources being used on the computer when the antivirus program is running. Incentivized Helpful? Benjamin Young Systems Administrator Chose ESET PROTECT I prefer Eset [Endpoint Antivirus] because it tends to not consume resources on devices like Kaspersky. I have also had better success with Eset [Endpoint Antivirus] in a domain environment than I have with Kaspersky. Incentivized Helpful? ET Eric Tucker I.T. Manager Chose ESET PROTECT We reviewed quite a few solutions when we first started the process of finding a new antivirus/protection suite. There were some other very good candidates such as Kaspersky Endpoint Security, Symantec Advanced Threat Protection, and McAfee Endpoint Security. However as the … Incentivized Helpful? Moris Mendez Ing. de Sistemas Informaticos Chose ESET PROTECT They all offer similar benefits, such as being free of viruses and other types of infections, but when tested and evaluated against Eset Endpoint Antivirus, they all have some weakness--that is, some are very good but consume most of the computer resources, in others the … Incentivized Helpful? Cameron Council Systems and Security Administrator Chose ESET PROTECT It was pre-existing when I came to this company so ESET is dug in deep and removing it would be a process. Defender was nice and is a solution I wouldn't mind moving to. My biggest concern is web protection due to the amount of password compromise request emails the user base … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose ESET PROTECT While the detection rate may not be as great as McAfee, Eset Endpoint Antivirus has offered a more affordable pricing model. Active protection also has less of a performance impact on workstations when compared to Mcafee, making it a generally leaner product overall. It was … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose ESET PROTECT We previously used NOD32 which was a more consumer oriented product. From our research Eset Endpoint Antivirus is a Signiant improvement for MS Virus & Threat protection. Incentivized Helpful? JR Jackie Ramos IT Manager, Services and Support Chose ESET PROTECT For us we thought ESET was stronger that Norton. More well rounded in its all its features for business. Price point was also a big factor and no treats or issues while using this software in the past 7 years. Incentivized Helpful? Chris Oakes Lieutenant Chose ESET PROTECT We have tried the Norton, and Avast, Neither compare to ESET as far as the capability to maintain virus signature databases, also the ransomware protection is great. All aspects of this product are beneficial to whom ever purchases this for their protection. I have been … Incentivized Helpful? Chathuranga Amarasinghe Security Specialist Chose ESET PROTECT Cost is reasonably low and feature-wise it gives all the same capabilities of similar products so we chose Eset as our organization's antivirus solution. Incentivized Helpful? TW Tharanga Wickramsinghe Software Engineer Chose ESET PROTECT When considering the price, price of Eset is reasonable. Also, it has higher threat detection ratio than other products. Another thing is Eset Endpoint Antivirus does not consume high system resources. Incentivized Helpful? Eric Krueger IT Manager Chose ESET PROTECT The overall experience of support and deployment was better with ESET. Any questions we ran into were answered by their support team quickly and accurately. The tools and reporting made our IT department happy by allowing us to put out higher-level reports for upper management … Incentivized Helpful? Martha Batruny IT Manager Chose ESET PROTECT It is playing a significant role in our organization. It offers great features and functions. I would say its services are completely matchless. Incentivized Helpful? Dustin Brilliant Information Systems Engineer Chose ESET PROTECT ESETs best plain AV is very well set up. Incentivized Helpful?

Features

BitLocker Drive Encryption

ESET PROTECT

Endpoint Security

Comparison of Endpoint Security features of Product A and Product B
	BitLocker Drive Encryption - Ratings	ESET PROTECT 8.9 Ratings 4% above category average
Anti-Exploit Technology	00 Ratings	9.00 Ratings
Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)	00 Ratings	9.30 Ratings
Centralized Management	00 Ratings	10.00 Ratings
Hybrid Deployment Support	00 Ratings	8.30 Ratings
Infection Remediation	00 Ratings	8.70 Ratings
Vulnerability Management	00 Ratings	8.00 Ratings
Malware Detection	00 Ratings	9.00 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	BitLocker Drive Encryption	ESET PROTECT
Small Businesses	Bitdefender GravityZone Score 8.0 out of 10	ThreatLocker Score 9.1 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	Symantec Encryption Score 9.9 out of 10	BlackBerry Protect (CylancePROTECT) Score 9.1 out of 10
Enterprises	Trellix Complete Data Protection Score 8.0 out of 10	BeyondTrust Endpoint Privilege Management Score 10.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
	BitLocker Drive Encryption	ESET PROTECT
Likelihood to Recommend	8.1 (0 ratings)	8.6 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)
Usability	9.0 (0 ratings)	8.3 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	8.0 (0 ratings)	9.5 (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	BitLocker Drive Encryption	ESET PROTECT
Likelihood to Recommend	It can be used if you are already familiar with other Microsoft System Center tools, it will provide integration and it will be easy to use from an Administrator's perspective. However, if you want more detailed information related to the troubleshooting, specific fields, or data, it will not be that granular. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Comprehensive threat prevention against a variety of threats, such as viruses, ransomware, and spyware is effectively provided by ESET PROTECT. The cross platform compatibility of this software is advantageous for business with diverse IT environments such as those combination of Windows, macOS, and Linux systems. Some industries, such highly regulated sectors with specific compliance needs, may find it more cost-effective, however it is less suitable for small enterprises with limited IT resources and for organizations with severe budgetary limits. Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	It is fairly easy to use, from both a technician and users point of view. The install itself is pretty simple, and setup of the software is also fairly simple. For users, it is easy to use the software to encrypt the computer. It doesn't seem to use a whole lot of system resources when the encryption is enabled on the computer. You shouldn't experience any slowness of the computer, other than the time it takes to first encrypt the computer. It serves its main purpose very well, and that is to protect computers from intrusions/data breaches. It is particularly good for protecting computers that are accessing/storing sensitive/confidential data. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	ESET provides comprehensive, transparent protection for my MacOS devices without interfering with the efficiency of my operating system. It's easy to install, configure (default settings are great for just about everyone), and update. ESET's customer communications, including a very detailed knowledge base online, make it clear I've chosen the right antivirus solution! Incentivized BP Benjamin Plotkin Technical Project Manager Read full review
Cons	Even if it's the best we tested, I think write performance could be improved. Maybe with dedicated hardware inside the TPM? No integration with OS password is a shame as most others have it and it is Microsoft on Microsoft so they can probably do it better then anyone else and safer. I wish they would support multiple passwords like FileVault on macOS. If it's a shared computer, you have to give the only password to Bitlocker to both users. Incentivized Marc-Olivier Turgeon-Ferland System Administrator Read full review	Price a little expensive - ESET is a great product, but it is priced at a high price and in a market as competitive as antivirus and security tools, this can weigh in the balance. Complexity in creating rules - it's quite complex to create rules in ESET, you end up wasting some time on it, it could be more intuitive. Incentivized Marcio Vizoli Analista de sistema Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	No answers on this topic	I'm giving it a 10, because I would totally have no reservations about staying on with eSet for another 3 years once our contract comes up for renewal. We are looking to transfer to a different product in January, however. This is due to a special pricing contract with the state of Ohio that made a normally much more expensive product very affordable and was cheaper than our coming eSet renewal cost. This is a very special case only available to government and educational organizations, but had that not been offered, we would have gladly stayed with eSet. Incentivized CF Chris Funk IT Director Read full review
Usability	Very easy to enable. Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Provide execllent security agains malware, ransomware, and phishing. Easy to use and monitoring multiple devices and managing security settings remotely. Software firewall ability to secure network traffic and blocking websites and application at software level its gives very easy to configure .Zero-day threats as some other security products is missing with more advanced machine learning and behavioral analysis capabilities. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	Not good nor bad, BitLocker encryption is a symptom of our era, we need to protect ourselves and our data, BitLocker is a tool, as an IT we have to deal with it but it doesn't bring any benefit to my daily operations. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Excellent support from ESET and when we had questions regarding the initial deployment they were there. The questions we put forth were answered immediately with great detail. Any of the items we put forth, scenarios, were given a good solution from ESET to fit our needs. This company stands by their product and are happy to step up when needed. Incentivized Eric Krueger IT Manager Read full review
Implementation Rating	No answers on this topic	Do the full scan at the beginning and be prepared to wait until it is done. It will find things you did not know were there. You can leave on the Apple firewall as well as the ESET firewall. There have been no conflicts. Remember to remove emails from being backed up, so you do not have spam on your backup! This was the mistake I made. Incentivized Robin L. Ore Independent Business Owner Read full review
Alternatives Considered	This was formerly called Symantec PGP encryption. We selected BitLocker since this is what the University has deployed and is currently supporting. BitLocker has many advantages over Symantec PGP, as BitLocker is built-into all Windows computers. With PGP, this was a commercial product that had to be installed on each machine. That product also was not as easy or intuitive to use as BitLocker, and there were also more issues/problems that occasionally occurred with PGP. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	The two main competitors We compared ESET PROTECT against was Bitdefender and Withsecure: · Performance: ESET PROTECT was the lowest performance compared to other competitors. · Console/dashboard: ESET PROTECT had the most intuitive UI, had great automation features and is the only one that has an on prem option. · Security: Bitdefender was the strongest but only by a few % but due to the cost being double there was no way our management would accept the cost difference. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	Protects against data loss and theft, which can be very expensive if PII, SPI, PHI is involved. Fines for this type of loss can be very high, along with the costs of notification, and discovery. Cost is included in Windows O/S, without needing additional licensing costs. Incentivized RR Richard Russell Principal Network Administrator Read full review	My computer operation improved drastically so it was very effective in business execution. I think it is a very easy software to introduce to small and medium-sized businesses at a reasonable price. Even in license management, you will receive an email as soon as possible, so you can handle the renewal procedure in a lot of time. Incentivized Carine Oliveira Marketing Manager Read full review
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