Symantec Endpoint Protection: It's like Airborne for Windows workstations.
May 21, 2019
Symantec Endpoint Protection: It's like Airborne for Windows workstations.

Overall Satisfaction with Symantec Endpoint Protection
Symantec Endpoint Protection provides complete endpoint protection for enterprise Windows desktops. Symantec Endpoint Protection provides deployment, agent upgrade, and definition updates management services, as well as client health reporting services. Symantec Endpoint Protection protects a single pane of glass dashboard that allows us to quickly asses and evaluate the state of the endpoint protection status for the whole organization.
- Windows client deployment
- Virus definitions updates
- Endpoint status reporting
- Configuration management
- Global exclusions management/reporting
- Performance statuses from clients
- Schedule reporting
- Reduced amount of workstation rebuilds due to virus infestation.
- Reduced amount of helpdesk calls due to virus infestation.
- Reduced amount of time dedicated to virus updates management.
Symantec Endpoint Protection offered superior centralized endpoint agent deployment, upgrade, and virus definition management solution compared to Microsoft Defender. Symantec Endpoint Protection agent had a lower performance impact on endpoint systems. Symantec Endpoint Protection reports facility was superior to the ope provided to Microsoft Defender agents in Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) product.
Symantec Endpoint Security Feature Ratings
Using Symantec Endpoint Protection
Pros | Cons |
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Like to use Relatively simple Easy to use Well integrated Consistent Convenient | Requires technical support |
- Deploy an end-point agent.
- Create usage/custom report.
- Audit exceptions.
- See the performance impact the agent has on a particular endpoint.