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 If you're looking for basic signature-based anti-virus at a reasonable price, F-Secure Protection for Business could be a good choice. It does a good job for anti-virus but doesn't include the more advanced features of more expensive products like intrusion detection, forensics, and protection of zero day exploits. It may work well in combination with other tools.
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 Anti-virus (classic signature-based). This is a classic anti-virus tool without some of the fancy bells and whistles of more expensive products. Real-time protection. The product can do filesystem scheduled scans as well as real-time analysis of files. Browser protection. It comes with a decent browser plugin that can block access to malicious sites. 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 It does not provide "next gen" features like zero day protection, forensics, intrusion detection and analysis. The management interface is clunky and difficult to use. Real-time protection and firewall services can interfere with legitimate activities at times and make it difficult to troubleshoot. 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 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 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 Implementation Rating Use a third party deployment tool and not the deployment option within the SEP Manager itself.
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 F-Secure stacks up very well against competitors like
McAfee and Norton. Cost is very reasonable, performance is great, and it does as good (or better) a job of these more well-known products. F-Secure particularly works well for non-profits looking to negotiate for a more reasonable rate.
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 Positive - very generous discounts for non-profits make this inexpensive compared to other products. F-Secure has caught some (but not all) malware incidents on our workstations, which have saved us time and money. The cost/benefit ratio is very high. For what you're getting, this is a reasonably priced product. Read full review ScreenShots WithSecure Elements Endpoint Protection Screenshots