We performed a comparison between Oracle Advanced Security and Symantec Endpoint Encryption based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Sophos, McAfee and others in Endpoint Encryption."The features that are the most used by the customers and partners are, at the moment, for GDPR, so obviously data encryption and data reduction. Our customers also like the partitioning option."
"The most valuable feature is the data encryption option for columns and tables."
"It is stable."
"Antivirus, URL filtering, and firewall protection are the most effective features for data protection."
"The management console gives us the ability to quickly control who sees what, ensures we are on the latest version, and up-to-date."
"Overall Symantec Endpoint Encryption is a reasonable solution."
"The installation process is pretty straightforward."
"The solution is great for large-scale deployments."
"Disk encryption and file and folder encryption are the most valuable and used features. It is also very well integrated with Symantec Messaging Gateway and Symantec DLP, which is helpful in protecting any kind of information that goes outside. Symantec DLP catches an email and sends it to the encryption server. The encryption server encrypts the email and intimates to the user that confidential information is being sent out. The administrator can then take appropriate action."
"The most valuable features are the messaging features and shared folders."
"It is really constrained as an environment because you cannot change something that would be useful. It is a very good product because it is very similar to what you have on-premises. Yes, it is constrained, but it is expected because it is a platform as a service so it has to be constrained."
"Having a single command to encrypt a table would be an improvement."
"If for example, a user forgets the endpoint key, they cannot access their data. We need a support team that is a single point of contact for the IT entity to be trained and to have documentation for troubleshooting and managing the solution."
"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."
"The initial setup is a bit complex."
"Upgrades from one version to another may only sometimes be straightforward, especially if one needs a clearer understanding of the process."
"There are some issues with the single sign-on with the active directory. We had a few problems related to the synchronization between the active directory and the login features of the Symantec products because the users made many password changes during the day. The time for synchronization with the solutions can be improved. I would like to see mobile encryption. There should be a possibility to include all the mobiles of a company in the console. Many customers are asking about encryptions for tablets or cell phones, but we don't have any product that we are comfortable with to recommend to our customers."
"I can only patch monthly. I don't know what the solution is there, besides being vulnerable for three weeks out of four. But there's got to be an option somehow."
"The solution presently doesn't let network folder encryption be done on Macintosh."
"The UI could be improved."
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Oracle Advanced Security is ranked 12th in Endpoint Encryption while Symantec Endpoint Encryption is ranked 7th in Endpoint Encryption with 34 reviews. Oracle Advanced Security is rated 8.0, while Symantec Endpoint Encryption is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Oracle Advanced Security writes "Good support, stable, and offers encryption at both the column and table level". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Symantec Endpoint Encryption writes "Provides a centralized management console and a straightforward initial setup process ". Oracle Advanced Security is most compared with IBM Security Guardium Data Protection, Microsoft BitLocker, Voltage SecureData Enterprise, Oracle Data Masking and Subsetting and Protegrity Data Security, whereas Symantec Endpoint Encryption is most compared with Microsoft BitLocker, McAfee Complete Data Protection, Cisco Secure Endpoint, Digital Guardian and WinMagic SecureDoc.
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