McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator Reviews

McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator really seemed to have all the best pieces in one platform and the network admin and asst. network admin both had previous experience with the product. The others tend to focus more on singular aspects, whereas McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator has data loss prevention, encryption, anti-virus and other functionality and the excel on each of those points equally.

I have used Symantec Endpoint Encryption before. Symantec and EPO are both good in their own ways. EPO allows integration of other McAfee products. I have been using ePolicy Orchestrator for years. I have a lot of experience with the product. That is why I like it.

McAfee is one of the best security agents that is stable [and has] very little, minor problems in how it works in every system. Strong in a way where other products have problems whenever there is an update or a change in the operating system. [Also] has strong policy configuration [and] task deployment.

If you are using Microsoft Services or newer, cloud ones, it can be worth [it] to try their services but it may be very expensive because of the licensing thing and here Microsoft is very tricky and very difficult to decide the right one.
Malwarebytes is good product and adds another level of security.
From the two above, we decided to choose McAfee because with some premium features it came less expensive than Microsoft and [with] more expertise than Malwarebytes.

Trend micro-endpoint management, Symantec/Norton AV
Compared to these, McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator provides a much more robust and extensible all-around deployment and ongoing management solution.

We selected McAfee EPO partly because we were already using McAfee VSE, but mostly because there are very few other AV management packages out there that offer the same level of enterprise management tools. That's where it really shines - deployment and management of AV in a large organization of Windows servers and workstations.

I think McAfee is a strong competitor and holds up well when compared to other software of its kind. If McAfee antivirus is already being used then it makes sense to go with this product to add another layer of management to the network.

Other products that were reviewed were Symantec's DLP and Forcepoint. The reason we ultimately went the ePolicy Orchestrator route was that we owned other McAfee products and the logic way to bring them together and to gain the maximum information was to bin them together with orchestrator, We also own AlienVault and we had to achieve various workarounds to get the information that was required from this and fed into orchestrator. Therefore is you are predominantly a McAfee shop this product will be the logical selection.

The price and the licensing options are very good. We were able to negotiate our pricing with plenty of flexibility ePO is one of the best administration console in the security world. Capability of deep customization are one of the biggest advantage. Ability to run PDF reports for protection status for agents.

McAfee plays well in not only scanning the endpoint machines like the data which is shared through disks or pen drive but it also helps in internet security. With its wide range threat source it blocks users entering into malicious sites and also blocks suspicious things which are being downloaded from internet.

We have not evaluated any other products in a very long time because moving to another AV product suite would be a very costly and long process. Another AV product would have to provide a very large cost reduction, performance improvements and unknown threat finding. We selected McAfee because it is literally the gold standard for AV.