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    PingSafe

    Score9.8 out of 10
    N/APingSafe is a Cloud Security platform with knowledge of the attackers’ modus operandi. PingSafe helps businesses across various sizes and verticals transform cloud security and eliminate all hidden and exploitable vulnerabilities at blazing-fast speed and scale. It does this by scanning the user's cloud infrastructure from an attacker's lens. The security lapses are identified, prioritized, and auto-remediated to eliminate unwanted business impacts.N/A

    Symantec Client Management Suite

    Score2.5 out of 10
    N/ASymantec Client Management Suite is designed to automate time-consuming and redundant tasks for deploying, managing, patching, and securing desktops and laptops so organizations can reduce the cost and effort of managing Windows, Mac, Linux, and virtual desktop environments.N/A
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    PingSafeSymantec Client Management Suite
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    PingSafeSymantec Client Management Suite
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    User Ratings
    PingSafeSymantec Client Management Suite
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.9
    (14 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
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    9.1
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    Support Rating
    -
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    5.0
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    User Testimonials
    PingSafeSymantec Client Management Suite
    Likelihood to Recommend
    PingSafe
    It’s is well suited for a any sized organisation that wants to keep its proactively work on its security posture. Useful in latest compliance status and also track OSINT vulnerabilities.
    Secret tracking in blocking mode can prevent secret leakage.
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    Broadcom
    Whenever you have computers that aren't easily accessible or you have a big site to cover (or multi location), Symantec Client Management Suite (CMS) is really great to manage all your computers, if it's for installation, software, licenses or even status. Setting up all you need from CMS can take some time, especially when you're in a multi-location site. We had to ask the Symantec engineers to help us a couple of times and set things up because even if we followed the documentation, it wasn't an easy task. But at least, the Symantec engineers are people that know what they do and they're really efficient at it.
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    Pros
    PingSafe
    • Issue detection
    • Compliance standard reporting
    • Auto remediation
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    Broadcom
    • Patch Management: We are able to easily deploy patches to all our workstations and accurately report on compliance.
    • Software Delivery: We do a lot of software deployments to our end users and with CMS we can quickly create policies or tasks to perform these deliveries and get quick results on our success or failures.
    • Inventory: Ease of use to get reports of what workstations have what software installed, patch levels, or hardware specifications.
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    Cons
    PingSafe
    • More details and issues on Azure
    • More integrations with other SAAS applications
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    Broadcom
    • More transparency with the roadmap would be a welcome change. New and upcoming features are usually a surprise until a major Symantec Event takes place but little is heard about those features before and even after, in some cases, leading up to a release.
    • Documentation for some items is poor. Especially around the Workflow product. It was intended that the documentation for the elements in a workflow would be crowd-sourced, which is a good idea, but in order for that to happen, more people need to be using it and taking the time to draw up the documents.
    • Cost. Its always a big topic, especially in higher-ed, but Symantec could do more to lower its costs for some product lines in order to gain more acceptance and support. If that was done and more institutions could get their student workers to use the product, once they leave college and go into the "real-world" there is a possibility that they would start recommending Symantec products because of their use in College.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    PingSafe
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    Broadcom
    So far so good - no major issues with that technology.
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    Support Rating
    PingSafe
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    Broadcom
    Support at Symantec isn't that great. Client Management Suite isn't even listed on the Support Portal when trying to open a ticket. Your best bet for support is actually the user groups that Symantec hosts. The members of the groups are usually very responsive. With Broadcom buying Symantec, I've seen a huge jump in personnel leaving Symantec, so I'm assuming the support is just going to get worse. Recently for a simple question, I reached out to 5 people just to find out 4 of the 5 had left the company.
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    PingSafe
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    Broadcom
    Although there are other tools that can be utilized I don't believe those tools are as robust as Symantec Management Platform. The Symantec Management Platform was chosen because of the value it returns internally and for our customers. You can pull just about any data element from an endpoint and provide detailed reports or great graphs for the C-Level
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    Return on Investment
    PingSafe
    • Helped to proactively mitigate known vulnerabilities
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    Broadcom
    • SMP allows us to centrally manage all of our endpoints with little to no end user interaction.
    • With the new P2P downloading our bandwidth constraints have been almost completely removed.
    • Cloud Enabled Management (CEM) allows our remote users to receive the same updates as in-network devices without the need for a VPN connection.
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