Symantec Endpoint Security Reviews and Ratings

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We use Symantec Endpoint Security for a long time. It meets all our security needs. Symantec Endpoint Security acts as a one platform for endpoint protection, combining prevention, detection, and response to address modern cybersecurity challenges while aligning with business goals like cost reduction and compliance. It includes antivirus, client firewall and intrusion preventions. With it's device protection, controlling the devices plugged into the end-user machine with the device protection feature is really important in terms of security .

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A file often exploited by malware to auto-execute malicious code when USB devices are plugged in. When a USB device is connected to an end-user machine, we need to blocking the Autorun.inf file. This was done using Symantec Endpoint Security in an extremely easy way. As a result, a significant security risk was eliminated.

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We are using this product for more than 90K users worldwide, and we are working in a team to support our client. The main issue is that some end-user devices show offline, so it's difficult to troubleshoot remotely. This product does its job for HI policy, using this feature, we are able to fetch complete reports of end devices.

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It has been able to detect and prevent malware, as well as warn us quickly when it has found malware.

Sometimes you will face device offline issues so required to troubleshoot manually and during remote installation you will face installation failed issues if there is any other third-party tool file present in the directory.

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We have it installed on our server and workstations to help protect against viruses and malware. The installation and deployment process was quick and easy. The server-side program allows for easy deployment and updates to all the workstations which is a huge time saver.

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It's easy to set up and deploy on both the servers and workstations. The price point is a little high and we have had some issues installing 3rd party software, but the product is worth it.

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Symantec Endpoint Security is our EDR solution which helps ensure our machines stay free of infection and remain compliant with our organisational policies by providing an extensive range of functionality that we employ e.g. honeypots to waste the time of any attacker which might have gotten through, application control and isolation, ability to quarantine infected machines, ransomware protection, host-based IDS, etc.

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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.

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We use Symantec Endpoint Security to protect our Workstations from the daily threats posed by viruses, malware, ransomware and other cybersecurity attacks. Most of our users are remote and carry their laptops to different offices (both our own and customers) and ensuring that they are protected against the increasing number of threats from outside the business is key. It currently covers around 40 systems.

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We have found that Symantec Endpoint Security is better suited to newer systems running faster processors and more than 8GB RAM otherwise the client agent takes up too many resources and slows the system down. However, if you have a reasonably modern fleet of systems it does everything you would expect from an Endpoint Protection solution and works well as part of a multi-layered cybersecurity policy.

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We activated Symantec endpoint to secure our servers through anti-malware that prevents attacks on our systems and minimizes our server vulnerability. It also detects breaches in our servers and provides an automated resolution response. It provides us with a single simplified cloud console architecture that has made governance simple and reinforces our general security endpoint stance. Automated intelligence has really been effective in fortifying and managing our APM.

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Symantec endpoint has wonderfully centralized cloud console architecture that we are able to fine-tune to our preferences. It has great anti-malware and anti-virus. However, the anti-malware is not totally effective. There was a time the Trojan Horse Virus was made through our architecture and we didn't detect it leading to a few systems crashing down.

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Our company uses Symantec Endpoint Security for approximately 500 Windows-based PCs across our organization. In general, Symantec does what it is supposed to and it detects and blocks attacks at the endpoint level. The Symantec software is very easy going on PC resources and does not seem to bog down the system and simply works.

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Symantec Endpoint Security is well suited for any Windows-based operating system and their centrally managed software will help corporations of all sizes maintain their installs. The endpoint security product might not be the best product for home-based users but Symantec offers many flavors of its product for those customers.

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We currently use Symantec Endpoint Protect (SEP), Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR), and Email Cloud Security for our full security suite of our environment. This satisfies the business need to have security on our endpoints, users, network, and email. We've been using Symantec for security for about 5 years now.

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It's almost impossible to get any kind of support with any of the Symantec products (Endpoint Protection, EDR, or Email Security), ever since they were purchased by Broadcom. Even when trying to purchase a renewal and ask questions about products/licenses that were changed without our knowledge, still it was very difficult to get any type of assistance, or even a quote. And the product is only OK, it's nothing great anymore. I always thought Symantec was pretty good, but ever since they were purchased by Broadcom, I have no faith at all in the brand.

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We used to use Symantec Endpoint Security for a long time and were completely satisfied with the quality-price value. The antivirus provides a good level of defense from viruses and malware but has some bugs with web-application scanning (I had an issue with Chrome). Files and network inspection is one of the best in the security market as well.

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Symantec Endpoint Security as a multiplatform software is one of the best solutions in end-users protection market. From my experience, it is equally good on Windows and Mac desktops. But contemporary IT world requires a complex solution for enterprise security and the other Symantec (Broadcom) products (like Symantec Message Gateway) do not as good as Endpoint Security.

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Our primary use case for Symantec Endpoint Security is threat intelligence and endpoint protection. Their threat protection is very good. We are managing a good number of users thanks to the solution and we are pretty satisfied with it. It is somewhat more than just an antivirus, it also included a firewall that operated in addition to the Windows or Mac firewall.

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In our company, we use it for all the employees. Our IT department has full control over the adjustments of all the installations. Employees don't need to worry about scheduled scannings, updatings, fine tunning or anything else. It's pre-installed on all the machines and is there to protect, not to disturb. It's awesome!