"Symantec Web Security Service provides robust endpoint protection with ease of use."
January 16, 2023

"Symantec Web Security Service provides robust endpoint protection with ease of use."

Adil Khan Robin | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Symantec Web Security Service

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.
  • 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.

Do you think Symantec Web Security Service delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Symantec Web Security Service's feature set?

Yes

Did Symantec Web Security Service live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Symantec Web Security Service go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Symantec Web Security Service again?

Yes

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.