We compared Symantec Endpoint Encryption and McAfee Complete Data Protection across several parameters based on our users' reviews. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below:
Comparison Results: Symantec is highly regarded for its security capabilities and encryption, while McAfee is praised for its comprehensive security features and compliance standards. Symantec's pricing is considered expensive compared to other solutions, whereas McAfee's pricing is rated as moderate and reasonable. Symantec's customer service and support receive mixed feedback, while McAfee's support is commended for its responsiveness and helpfulness.
"We can scale the solution."
"With this solution, the device control is more reliable and more stable."
"The console of the EDR is totally in the cloud."
"All of the Complete Data products are valuable."
"The server software console is exquisitely designed and organized for handy access and manipulation by the administrator."
"Reporting and encryption are its most valuable features."
"With McAfee Complete Data Protection, you can managed all your security solutions from one single server and one interface. This might be the most powerful advantage of McAfee's solution."
"It provides encryption, data protection, and DLP, all under one roof. The deployment, scalability, and reporting is too good. My clients are satisfied with the stability of the product. The solution is highly scalable. The technical support's response time and turnaround time as the solution provider are excellent. The availability of great back-end support and process support makes the product great. The initial setup is straightforward, with simple configurations. I recommend the solution."
"The solution’s installation was easy."
"We use it for protecting accounts, which is its most valuable feature."
"You get updates and other encrypted files easily."
"The best feature of Symantec Endpoint Encryption is the encryption itself. Encryption truly is the way to go because nowadays we are living in an era of widespread server threats, and you need to encrypt your emails and documents because you never know who might get hold of them."
"One notable aspect is the ability to customize alerts and other settings."
"The solution is pretty stable."
"It has reduced the number of incidents related to the loss of information."
"Their cloud features such as Cloud Endpoint security, ransomware modules, malware, and other modules are very effective."
"We encountered several problems with the solution's stability."
"I want simplicity. A new user opening the dashboard will be confused. It needs to be more user-friendly."
"There's a limited coverage of operating systems. The marketing strategies need to change drastically."
"There are some features that do not work with Mac."
"There was an option for SQL setup in the older versions of this product and it has been removed, but we would like to see it made available as an add-on."
"The dashboard is not user-friendly"
"The price is a little high and could be better."
"The product must improve endpoint encryption."
"They have too high of a price tag. That's why they're losing the market share."
"The product can be expensive. Price was a factor in moving away from the product."
"Symantec Endpoint Encryption can improve by being more secure."
"Its remote deployment should be improved. Currently, there is no remote deployment for Symantec Endpoint Encryption. You have to install it manually. There are some issues with AD integration and the time taken to reflect a password on the Endpoint Encryption Manager when a new user has changed the password, but they are already working on these issues, and these will be resolved in the next release."
"More features need to be included in the encryption software."
"The solution presently doesn't let network folder encryption be done on Macintosh."
"We would like some advanced security protection features."
"The program's disk encryption is not very friendly with Microsoft OS updates. We have a problem with updates failing unless we use a time-consuming work-around."
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McAfee Complete Data Protection is ranked 3rd in Endpoint Encryption with 32 reviews while Symantec Endpoint Encryption is ranked 7th in Endpoint Encryption with 34 reviews. McAfee Complete Data Protection is rated 7.8, while Symantec Endpoint Encryption is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of McAfee Complete Data Protection writes "Bandwidth is reduced and online protection does a good job of identifying traits". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Symantec Endpoint Encryption writes "Provides a centralized management console and a straightforward initial setup process ". McAfee Complete Data Protection is most compared with Microsoft BitLocker, Cisco Secure Endpoint and Trend Micro Endpoint Encryption, whereas Symantec Endpoint Encryption is most compared with Microsoft BitLocker, Cisco Secure Endpoint, Digital Guardian, WinMagic SecureDoc and ESET Endpoint Encryption. See our McAfee Complete Data Protection vs. Symantec Endpoint Encryption report.
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