Dell Data Protection | Encryption Enterprise Edition (DDPE) vs. Sophos Central Device Encryption

DDPE is great if you want very specific data encrypted and managed. It's flexible in terms of configuration but also can be quite a pain to get configured right. It requires a lot of exclusions and does not play nice with Windows Updates. Usually the client needs to be updated before updates on Windows can be installed and sometimes a new version is no where in sight. The ATP is great but also requires extensive configurations as otherwise it has way too many false positives.

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We found the incorporated system of both AV and Encryption to be an absolute breath of fresh air for us. It is great for small and mid-sized companies. We rolled this out across our 4 global regions. We created region-specific groups for our endpoints and placed the appropriate endpoints into those groups. [Then] we defined policies for AV and Encryption that would be used inter-region and assigned roles to the different regions' support staff. Great stuff.

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• Silent installation/uninstallation. It was very easy to deploy and remove the software remotely.
• Transparent to users. Users did not see messages from the software or notice performance issues during encryption.
• File or disk level encryption. Includes the option to do file or full-disk encryption to meet your organization's needs.

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• Email encryption, it can encrypt based on the criteria defined. We use regex for this to discover the content.
• We can have a view of what is the content of the email being quarantined.
• We use Sophos together with our Email Exchange

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• The encryption policies require careful configuration to avoid damaging the system
• Encryption does not play nice with Windows OS updates

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• simply the interface
• usability for non technical teams

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We switched to McAfee Endpoint Encryption, which provides full-disk encryption. We saw fewer issues with McAfee Endpoint Encryption full-disk encryption than Credant full-disk encryption.

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The only other one we looked at was Symantec endpoint encryption this seemed less feature reach and less user friendly.

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• Added security to physical disks and removable media
• Protects with very powerful ATP

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• Intangible benefits to the organization data, data is highly secure
• No worries to users and IT for data stolen outside the organization
• Protected from malware and ransomware

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