Likelihood to Recommend Symantec Endpoint Security is a well-rounded product that provides a significant amount of functionality and covers many of our endpoint needs without needing to resort to multiple vendors that might clash in unpredictable ways when ultimately deployed to the endpoints in our estate. The default policies are adequate and tuning these requires some time as with all similar EDR products but the product is flexible enough to allow very granular whitelisting/blacklisting which is great. Low resource requirements are also fantastic and we've not had many complaints from developers who were getting slowed down when compiling complex code with other previous solutions.
Read full review Hypervisor based agentless security this product excels at. It provides thorough protection for your VM's. The web filtering product that comes with it also does a great job filtering out malicious websites from being accessed by users with a very user friendly prompt that they are going to a website which has been found to be malicious. This is particularly useful when it comes to VDI.
Read full review Pros The virus and spyware protection has worked well for us, catching several things and quarantining the items or cleaning them. The virus definitions very rarely fail to update for the users, so I feel confident that my client machines are kept up to date. I like the report I get daily telling me about threats found and action taken without having to login to the console to look it up myself. Read full review It's easy to use the console. It has a very similar look and feels to Deep Security Console. It plugs into the Apex Central for easy management. Read full review Cons The system should have a better ability to auto repair, if an item is malfunctioning it should auto reinstall. The cloud platform and the server do not talk well to each other and it would be great to get the same data on both platforms, this may be due to version though. It seems the whitelisting on the cloud platform could use some work. Read full review Trend Micro has very little room for improvement. I am using version 9.6 at this time and it is extremely reliable. Some of the upgrades were not completely intuitive, but in those cases Deep Security support came through with documentation that covered all the bases. Read full review Likelihood to Renew Best of Breed. Symantec Endpoint Protection beats all other end point products I have used, tested and seen in presentation at this point in time.
Read full review It's the best one compared to other security applications
Read full review Usability I think it works great. It's easy to administer. It's easy to see if it's working and how well. There's no real user interaction necessary.
Read full review It is the best application I've used. Its features are effective.
Read full review Reliability and Availability We've used it for years and the software is easy to use. The dashboard is easy to read, and you can easily figure out where to go to troubleshoot or deploy software. Symantec is there for emergencies like backup restoration or file retrieval. It's pretty low maintenance. Symantec is there when your IT infrastructure needs it
Read full review Support Rating Support is completely awful! You can never get anyone to help if you can even find a number to call. The support web portal is a joke and their response time if you're even able to submit a ticket is ridiculously slow.
Read full review Trend Micro's support is pretty decent, we have had issues in the past and they have been fairly responsive to us and our complaints. Depending on how severe the issue was. Any ticket that had a high priority was handled very shortly especially when we contacted our account rep even if it was after hours, we were still able to get support within a short time period.
Read full review Implementation Rating Use a third party deployment tool and not the deployment option within the SEP Manager itself.
Read full review Everything is good
Read full review Alternatives Considered Symantec Endpoint Security offers very similar features to the above products, they all do the same thing in terms of protecting your endpoints against cybersecurity threats. Installation wise the products all install from a central management system and report back to this for central reporting. Ultimately we choose Symantec as the reseller was able to offer additional incentives which made their pricing very competitive.
Read full review We selected trend micro to take the AV scans and filtering out of the hands of the Windows and Linux vm's we have deployed and move it to the hypervisor level. This has led us to be able to deploy only a single DSVA per host and can protect all VM"s that are on that hosts. This has allowed for more time being spent on other priority security tasks.
Read full review Return on Investment The ROI from deploying this has led to fewer security issues which reduces costs. Keeping track of security issues and how the were remedied is easier. Deskside support can work with end users easily if something is triggered and this allows us to not have to overstaff. Read full review 100% positive ROI. Without Deep Security we would have to leverage and endpoint protection management solution like Sophos or SEPM (Symantec). Although both are good products, from a cost perspective it would have hit us much harder. Trend Micro Deep Security scales very nicely. Since Deep Security actually has zero (or at least unnoticeable) resource footprint on monitored VMs, it is a huge cost benefit for us. As previously mentioned, actual antivirus clients installed on each virtual machine (VM) would have significantly affected performance. This would have cost us much more additionally in paying for additional resources to allocate over VMs in the VMware environment. Deep Security is almost completely unintrusive from a resource perspective. Also, from a layered security perspective, it helps us meet our goals; and since the price of Trend Micro Deep Security quite reasonable, it is that much easier to get approval for this specific internal layer of security. Read full review ScreenShots