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Symantec Web Security Service

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What is Symantec Web Security Service?

Symantec Web Security Service (WSS) is a line of defense against modern day cyber threats. It provides secure web services, enables enterprises to control access, protects users from threats, and secures their sensitive data.

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What is Symantec Web Security Service?

Symantec Web Security Service (WSS) is a line of defense against modern day cyber threats. It provides secure web services, enables enterprises to control access, protects users from threats, and secures their sensitive data.

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Product Details

What is Symantec Web Security Service?

Symantec Web Security cloud delivers always-on, advanced malware protection, enforces acceptable use policies, and protects against confidential data loss for businesses looking to protect web use for employees. Support for roaming users extends protection and control outside the corporate network.

Symantec Web Security Service Features

  • Supported: Detect Threats
  • Supported: Control Access
  • Supported: Protect Users

Symantec Web Security Service Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo
Supported CountriesAmericas, Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia

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Vinay Salvanca | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
On our web servers, we monitor, examine, and prevent harmful network traffic using Symantec Web Security Service. It provides a completely isolated network with security. It improves the security perspective for home-based employees and better protects remote workers. Malware and spyware are immediately removed by this antivirus program. Network traffic monitoring shields web servers against sophisticated cyber-attacks in general.
  • Complete web protection.
  • Easy to setup.
  • Great reputation and credibility.
  • Slows down the system.
  • On the costlier side.
It is a cloud-based online security service that offers a variety of tools to guard against risks that may be found on the internet, such as malware, phishing, and advanced persistent threats (APTs). We rely extensively on web-based applications and services, and this software's strong protection against web-based attacks has been one of the main purchase reasons.
  • Cross Platform Support.
  • Web Filtering.
  • Advanced Threat Protection.
  • Slightly on the costlier side.
  • Less risk of security lapse.
  • Extensive protection against web attacks.
Skip; have mainly used bundled/default products before this purchase.
Adil Khan Robin | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Symantec Web Security Service to monitor, analyze, and block malicious network traffic on our web servers. It gives an unidentified network complete network isolation security. In addition, we recently acquired WSS for our network. It protects remote workers best and changes home-based workers' security outlook. This antivirus tool instantly removes malware and spyware. Overall, network traffic detection protects web servers from advanced cyber-attacks. The functionality and features of our multi-vendor integrated network meet all of our requirements. Network security admins give architecture confidence and security.
  • Symantec's security is excellent.
  • Automatic web security from threats.
  • Data loss policies and EDR are good.
  • Easy product configuration and performance GUI.
  • The price is a bit steep.
  • Integrating a company-specific product is challenging.
  • Memory consumption is high, which slows disks with more storage.
Symantec Web Security Service monitors and filters network traffic to protect web servers from cyberattacks. Its single dashboard view, excellent UI/UX, and easy DLP integration make it a market leader. Excellent sandboxing for safe browsing in restricted IT networks. Threat categorization and stateful SSL description of web traffic to identify dynamic threat vectors. However, alerts and notifications only work quickly when large-scale DDoS attacks happen.
  • Access method with granularity.
  • Isolating the web and monitoring.
  • Data PODs are everywhere.
  • DLP/isolation/firewall integration (all Symantec only)
  • Its security and multi-device protection
  • It allows extensive monitoring, analysis, and filtering, and the user interface is intuitive and straightforward to configure.
  • Network traffic detection protects web servers from advanced cyber-attacks that could lead to DoS attacks.
  • It monitors and filters network traffic to protect web application developers and admins from cyber-attacks on web servers.
Symantec Web Security Service is a powerful tool for moderating website traffic and protecting user data. Easy DLP integration makes it a market leader, and it works with Symantec DLP and EDR to protect remote users' browsing activity. Threat categorization and stateful SSL description of web traffic to identify dynamic threat vectors. Unified threat dashboard with seamless alerting. So compared to other solutions, it is standout.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We moved to Symantec Web Security Service 5 years back from Forcepoint and it was expensive but in hindsight i can say it was a wise decision. Today our 130K users use WSS to get the industry standard protection from various internet based threats and in addition, it also take care of APTs and Data security issues. A single store solution is really helping us in better integrations and incident response.
  • Close to no loophole
  • Does what it says
  • One store shop for all security solutions
  • Advanced and targeted attacks
  • Policy granularity
  • better support
If you have a large enterprise with roaming users and high threat risk because of the way your employees are scattered across the globe and work in a
  • Web Filtering & integrated risk rating
  • Data protection for all channels
  • Advanced threat protection
  • Cloud Application visibility
  • No Infra management
  • Almost half the cost compared to legacy on prem infra
  • No Management means we can reduce on the IT personal
  • Better data protection
Paloalto or netskope or zscaler do not offer one store shop for your security solution and that's where Symantec Web Security Service wins big. They have solutions for every need of an enterprise and that too with leading offering for all the products. This helps in easy manageability and little operational headache. The GIN database ensures that we have the best in class intelligence.
The support has become average ever since broadcom acquisition and they moving to GCP. There is no focus of existing customers as the presale do not exist.
Yes we did but its of no use.
Yes
The response time for bug is average . They do fix them but takes lot of time.
I had a query about geolocation policy and they helped same day :)
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