McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator

(+) Good ROI because we're not having to mitigate malware by preventing incursion in the first place

(+) Gained time for IT staff by not having to manage the product daily

(-) Complicated setup to start with, needed to get help when we implemented

Peace of mind that your environment is safe and secure.

Keep your network environment up and running.

Additional resources (consulting or training) may be required if not familiar with the product.

Very complex to setup and configure ( training may be required).

Once configured, it will take care of almost 80% of your tasks.

Protecting all systems & the good reporting.

Very good integrations.

Some evaluations are expensive.

Centralized repository to upload updates for deployment (less time)

DLP feature locks all usb ports from one location (no need to go to every pc)

Email alerts for immediate remediation

Only need to install on the host as opposed to every VM

Increased the productivity by everything under one umbrella

Helps team to analyze the data and identify key concerns or frequent issues faced by user

Need higher CPU system for this to work efficiently

Licenses are based on users - that is great.

Renewals are easy and ROI per year.

Eases our management of desktops and laptops

Eases the management of disk encryption

Keeps our endpoints updated without much ongoing management

It's met our compliance objectives.

It keeps our servers and workstations free of malware.

Assure information security

Identify and mitigate threats

Maintain risk on appetite level

Quick Inform management with detailed reports

Allows us to control threats which can mean less wide-spread virus issues

Allowed the service desk to make sure a computer is safe and up to date before adding it back to the domain. This saves the onsite team time because we can check on this remotely.

Using this product allows us to better manage all of the machines on and off the network.

When a new virus comes into existence it fails in updating its signatures. It really takes long time to get updated if we want to add on our own, because if we rely on McAfee it may detect and delete and if it doesn't, then systems are at huge risk which impacts business reputation.

McAfee need to optimize its CPU utilization as it makes users suffer in performing other jobs and this indirectly affects business if it is a high priority machine.

McAfee is very easy in deploying which doesn't use much resource time in deploying across hundreds of machines globally.

Licensing is always negotiable

Brings together all McAfee products and ROI

Time needs to be spent to make sure the product is defined and set up to perform maximum efficiency otherwise any ROI gains can be lost.

As with most things the price of products goes up and more-so if your business is growing.

We've been able to provide auditors with tangible evidence that our network is protected because of the reporting McAfee ePO provides. Auditors like McAfee because it's been around almost forever and is a mature product.

Being a mature product, though, it's very much set in the way it does things and as such there's not a whole lot of innovation.

Gained back time by having ePO deploy all the necessary products to the endpoints

Better managed environment by seeing which endpoints were not receiving updates and being able to get them up to date.

Had a little bit of a learning curve to get everything working properly.

Ability to report on anything that is going on in the environment.