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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention

    Score8 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

    Score7.3 out of 10
    N/ASymantec Data Loss Prevention (DLP) is a data loss protection option.N/A
    Pricing
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    Pricing Offerings
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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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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    92%
    Would buy again
    22 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    19 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    92%
    Happy with the feature set
    22 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    80%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    16 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
    87%
    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
    9.6
    9 Ratings
    16% above category average
    Symantec Data Loss Prevention
    -
    Ratings
    Data Encryption9.69 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Small Businesses
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    Medium-sized Companies
    Forcepoint DLP
    Score8.5 out of 10
    Forcepoint DLP
    Score8.5 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Forcepoint DLP
    Score8.5 out of 10
    Forcepoint DLP
    Score8.5 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Microsoft Purview Data Loss PreventionSymantec Data Loss Prevention
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.1
    (24 ratings)
    9.0
    (6 ratings)
    Usability
    7.6
    (6 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Microsoft Purview Data Loss PreventionSymantec Data Loss Prevention
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Microsoft
    It's well-suited if you're really deep in the tech stack. If you're an exchange organization that's using the O365 suite, that's in Entra, that's in Azure, it's really great visibility. I think it probably falls apart very quickly if you don't have data from all those planes to feed it.
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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
    • I think from a coverage standpoint, it's pretty comprehensive. The areas it covers, of course, include the Microsoft stack, but also focus on using the definitive cloud apps integration to extend visibility and control to third-party cloud apps, endpoints, and even Macs. So those are capabilities.
    • Its comprehensiveness, its simplicity of creating the policies in one place, are definitely one of the plus points the solution has.
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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
    • The main thing is that, within the product's story, some functionalities were deprecated, and traceability was one of them. That meant that before I could tell or pinpoint on a world map where a particular type of access attempt was happening, and now I cannot do that anymore. So that was useful because I could understand how far out a document made it, and then where the issue was. Was an employee trying to open it at home, or was it an external party altogether? I couldn't do that anymore.
    • The second bit that has room for improvement, is the fact that we have quite a lot of legacy documents that were labeled. So they are from previous versions of Office. And at the moment, since November last year, the already labeled documents are not being protected by the labels.
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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
    I think it is very easy for the end user once it's applied. On the configuration side, there's a learning curve to that, but there's always a learning curve for anything. So I think the product does what it needs to do. It is easy enough to use.
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    Broadcom
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    Support Rating
    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    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
    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 functionality of DLP, there are other requirements that they just don't have the features for yet.
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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
    • From an ROI perspective, being able to have a robust DLP capability within 365 and with eShare, again, providing the defensive depth and keeping data 365 gives both us as well as our customers an ROI by being able to not use third party repositories to share data externally and by keeping data inside of 365. It gives me much more visibility into my data landscape. One of the things we advise our customers to do when they're starting to explore the advanced capabilities of Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention, for example, is to use that DLP product to monitor and understand the flows of sensitive data within the organization. By being able to look at that DLP, identify those sensitive niche types, and see which transactions occur internally within the organization, I get a clearer picture of what I'm doing.
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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