McAfee Complete Data Protection Reviews

We are using it internally for the company.

We are using it for two things. One is for the disk encryption on the machines, on the laptops and the other is for USB protection.

I have found the USB part most valuable.

The disk encryption is great.

It is straightforward to set up.

The solution can scale well. 

The disk encryption can be improved.

They need to improve the performance of the USB protection module, which is where I'm seeing many issues come up. And for the hard disk encryption, they should have a much easier deployment method for different laptops and desktops. New customers should test it first. If a new customer, let's say, has a standardized set of laptops and desktops, then it is not a problem for them. However, if they have a variety of systems, they could have a problem. They need to improve the compatibility across different systems.

I've been using the solution for more than four years. 

I'd split the stability between the disk encryption and the USB protection parts of the solution. For USB protection, the stability has been very poor, actually, over the past year. It is more the end user systems utilization, CPU, or memory that is getting increased. Other than that, it's stable. 

It is not a challenge to scale as necessary. 

We have 20,000 people using the solution. That's end users across all roles. It's used by the entire organization, in essence. 

Right now, I have no plans to increase usage in the future. However, it'll all depend on how my user base increases. The solution would match any growth in my user base. 

We started with McAfee. It's been more than four years since I joined the organization - after the McAfee rollout started.

The solution is simple to set up and easy to implement. I'd rate the ease of implementation a four out of five. 

We were able to implement everything within three months. It wasn't overly difficult.

We did the implementation in-house. We did not need outside help. We didn't use integrators or consultants. 

I have witnessed an ROI while using the product.

The product features are meeting some of our very edge cases. We sometimes have a lot of edge cases that are one-off cases or which are unique in nature. The rich feature set of this product can meet those edge cases. 

We could deploy the product internally rather than use an external consultant, and it was fairly easy to deploy. That also gave us a return on investment rather than engaging with external partners. 

It's easy to manage, aside from issues around performance. That said, overall, it's easy to manage, and we can have an internal team manage rather than look for outsourced partners.

The licensing is based on a three-year contract.

I'm not aware of the cost itself. The price negotiation is done by a different team. I wouldn't have insight into the exact cost.

That said, my understanding is that it is competitive. I'd rate it 3.5 out of five in terms of affordability.

It has multiple components. I don't remember the exact version number we are on, however, we are on the latest version.

I would recommend potential new users do extensive testing with the latest version due to the stability or the performance issues we have seen in their latest versions. We are using the latest versions, and it is in the newer versions where we've seen performance issues. So test with the latest versions first and test on a variety of laptops and desktops.

I'd rate the solution five out of ten. 

It helps prevent my machine from hacking and wireless attacks.

It's easy to use, and so far, it's been successful for me.  I receive updates quite frequently.

It's user-friendly and has been performing well for me for the past five years.

The advanced threat prevention capabilities are pretty good; my laptop is well-secured.

The price could be improved.

I have been using it for five years now. 

I would rate its overall performance and stability an eight out of ten. I consider eight to be excellent, but there's always room for improvement.

I'm only using it on my laptop, and it's working fine.  

I've never had to reach out to the support.

The initial setup was easy. 

It worked for me: it's easy to use and has been very effective.

The return on investment is that my machine is safe. It's working well for me; no viruses, no unauthorized access.

The licensing is yearly, and the cost is pretty reasonable. I've only used the standard licensing options. I don't have to pay for the extra costs. 

It's not the cheapest; I'd rate it around six out of ten, with ten being the highest and one the cheapest.

I chose McAfee because it was referred to me by a friend.

I would recommend using it. Some of my relatives/colleagues are also using it because I recommended it.

In the five years I've used it, I haven't had any virus in my system.

Overall, I would rate the solution a ten out of ten. It keeps evolving. As long as the threats are advancing, I believe McAfee will continue to update and advise us effectively.

We use McAfee Complete Data Protection to ensure compliance with regulations such as HIPAA, PCI, PII, and GDPR, ensuring that personal or confidential data remains within the organization.

The product is completely data-based, and I have no words to say. It's truly amazing. It provides encryption, data protection, and DLP, all under one roof. Usually, many competitors don't offer such a consolidated and easily manageable solution. The deployment, scalability, and reporting is too good.

There are some areas that need improvement. Firstly, the limited coverage of operating systems is a concern, as McAfee Complete Data Protection currently supports only Windows, leaving out Mac and Linux users. Network DLP integration may not be an advantage then. Furthermore, no US security solution is included in the complete data protection. It is available on the CASB front.

Additionally, the availability of presentations and sample reports is lacking, making it challenging for presentations and road shows. The absence of roadshows in India from the solution's end is affecting the introduction of new technologies to Chief Administrative Officers (CAOs). The marketing strategies need to change drastically. I had a deal for seven thousand users, and there's a competitor ready to step in. Being a more aggressive partner could help secure deals and upsell other McAfee products to customers.

We have been using this solution since the time of its inception. Presently, we are working with its latest version, which is 11.6.

My clients are satisfied with the stability of the product. I rate it a perfect ten.

The solution is highly scalable. We exclusively cater to enterprise-level companies. Our client base ranges from a minimum of 6000 endpoints to a maximum of around 1,25,000 endpoints. I rate the scalability a nine out of ten.

The technical support's response time and turnaround time as the solution provider are excellent. They go the extra mile to help us out by assisting us with log analysis and various aspects. Unlike other vendors who might refuse to help, the support here is great.

Positive

Forcepoint is a competitor. However, McAfee Complete Data Protection stands out mainly due to its exceptional backend support. The availability of great back-end and process support makes the product great.

The initial setup is straightforward, with simple configurations and the availability of a comprehensive dictionary that is used in covering most compliances. While many are transitioning to cloud deployment, the current setup is still on-premises and requires expertise for proper implementation. 

Setting up everything can be done in a day if you have the necessary knowledge and resources. Personally, I've successfully implemented it for 6000 endpoints within a week.

When it comes to pricing, I've observed an increase recently.

I recommend the solution. Overall, I rate it a nine out of ten.

We use the solution to manage all incoming and outgoing traffic of the user's laptop.

The solution has good monitoring and interface features for the DPM layer.

The solution's pricing could be better compared to Kaspersky Endpoint Security.

I have been using McAfee Data Protection for three to four years.

Stability-wise, the solution works properly.

I rate the solution's scalability an eight out of ten. We have 150 users in our organization.

The solution's customer support team's response time is good. We raise the ticket on a support portal and communicate with the technical team. They provide the best solution as soon as possible.

Positive

We have used Kaspersky Endpoint Security before. We switched to McAfee because of the pricing.

The solution is easy to manage, configure, and monitor. It also has a good UI. I rate it an eight out of ten.

We use this solution for outfitting our customers.

We have a hybrid deployment.

We have many Complete Data products in versions 11.6 and 11.7.

Complete Data products have helped our organization. For example, some customers require that we have products with Bluetooth, pen drives, hard drives, and external and internal drives for logging into our organization.

All of the Complete Data products are valuable. We haven't had any issues.

We had to migrate and upgrade the DLP, and then customers were experiencing some unknown issues. We had to upgrade the Microsoft package on our system.

It's stable.

We haven't had any issues with scalability.

Initial setup was complex.

I would rate this solution as 10 out of 10.

Some users were concerned about their employees' information. They needed to protect this data from leakage and from any type of exploitation. Therefore, the DLP was deployed in their environment to protect them and to test the actual requirements. This is why we primarily use the solution.

The solution is excellent for protecting users from data being exploited. It's also great for preventing data leakage. 

The solution is simple.

Accessing the DLP is easy.

The solution needs more advanced features.

Customers tend to not like the navigation that is offered.

While accessing the DLP is easy, navigating inside of it is difficult.

The policies and propagation need to be improved.

The solution should integrate more into the Cloud. McAfee is not focusing too much on the Cloud. They need to do so.

I've been working with this solution for about 16 to 18 months.

We've contacted technical support in the past and in general, they are quite good.

We've previously used Symantec and Trend Micro. They all have similar features. All of them use privacy encryption technology, and they are all simple in terms of just deploying the agent. They offer encryption of the endpoint. There's no major difference between any of them.

The initial setup is straightforward. It's not complex. They make it very easy to implement the solution.

For a company with approximately 100 users, deployment takes approximately ten to eleven days.

I'm a consultant. Our company is a partner as well as a distributor.

I would recommend companies who want some solid security products to consider this solution. McAfee is well known in the market, and it has a good reputation specifically surrounding the EPO encryption. I would recommend them.

I'd rate the solution eight out of ten. I'd rate the solution higher if the navigation to the settings and propagation were more clear inside McAfee.

The primary use case is to protect the database from privileged use, weak authentication, database exposure, SQL injection, and database platform vulnerability. This product answered those five and more. 

I found ways to add more rules within the product, to a different area in the database, which helps me use the product in addition as a kind of DLP solution. If one of the users makes heavy requests from the database, and take exception reports, I get an alarm, or I can automatically block those transactions.

The improvement is from the management point of view because, when implementing database security, you don't see any improvement in performance or productivity. The purpose of the product is to give visibility to management that the heart of the company is secured in the maximum way possible, and this solution is giving us that.

The report that I present to the management team shows this, that it's safe, that we are monitoring the database all the time, and the vulnerability of the database is prevented, thanks to this solution. The improvement is the security that it provides.

With this product, the performance of the database wasn't affected at all.

In addition, it is easy to use, and you can define rules that protect the database beyond the built-in rules of the product. I found another purpose for the product besides the basic things that it does, protecting the database: privileged use, weak authentication, SQL injection and and database platform vulnerability.

I came to this solution because there was a data leak from one of the internal users who was taking information from inside the company, from the ERP system. When she left the company, she was giving it to our competitors. I found a way with this product to also create a DLP solution. I got two products in one solution, so it is very efficient.

Maybe a better GUI platform; that would make it easier to present information to management, so I would not need to fix the data before I present it.

The stability is very, very good. I was very impressed that it didn't effect the performance of the database at all. At first I put it in monitoring mode, so I could see that it's stable, and not affecting the database performance. After a month running on monitoring, I put it in prevention mode, and it did it without any performance issues. So that was great.

I think scalability is very good. You can grow the product, you can add more databases to it. It depends on the license that you purchase. You can grow with the product without any issues.

I'm working with a security company called Intensity. After doing my own PoC, and also checking an IBM solution, I was fine with this product. Intensity, the partner, implemented the product, and they were working with customer support of the product.

Customer support is very good, because we didn't run into any issues that weren't resolved. The implementation ran very smoothly on Oracle Database. So I would evaluate support as very good.

I didn't use database security before this. I was protecting the data of the company with other products, not directly on the database. But when we ran into data leaks from one of the users, I searched for a DLP solution. DLP solutions, to implement in a company, are very, very complex. So I searched for another solution that would gives us the same result but in a different way, and this product did it.

It's not straightforward. You need to have database knowledge to know which parts of the data you want to protect within the database, to map your data and tables in order to make the rules. For the basic things that the product does, the knowledge you need is straightforward for system integration. But when you're diving into the product and you want to enhance the solution, you need a DBA to protect your database in a significant way, as I was implementing it.

I also evaluated Nyotron. I went with McAfee for the stability, that it's handled by McAfee and they are an experienced company.

When you're searching for a vendor, first of all you want to be secure and comfortable with the partner that you're working with. The partner can see many vendors in the industry, and is working with many companies. When he's recommending a vendor, I'm more comfortable working with that vendor. So I'm listening to my partner's recommendation, and then I start to check out those vendors.

The criteria include that it is a stable vendor, has been in the market a long time, has a good solid, financial base so it can support the product that I'm working with.

My advice would be to speak with other companies who have implemented the solution to get references.

I would rate this solution a nine out of 10.

When I'm looking for a product like this, I don't want it to interfere with the performance of my database or system. The purpose of database security is to protect our ERP system database, and if the performance is going to be harmed or affected, from a business point of view that's a big issue. This product did not affect performance.

We primarily use the solution to protect sensitive data and general protection.

The protection on offer is very good at protecting the organization. We can protect our assets and our IP.

The data protection has been very good. Customers like the product based on the amount of protection they are getting.

We can scale the solution.

It's a stable product.

The UI could be improved a bit.

Other than that, the solution has been very good.

I've used the solution for about a year. 

It's been stable and reliable so far. There aren't bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. 

The solution is scalable. 

We've never escalated any issues to technical support. I can't speak to how helpful or responsive they would be. 

The solution has a moderately difficult setup. It's not easy or difficult. It's intermediate. We can deploy the product in 15 to 25 minutes on average.

At this time, I haven't noticed any necessary maintenance.  

I'm not sure of the exact pricing of the product.

We are using the latest version of the solution. 

I'd likely recommend the solution to others. It's a good place to start in terms of developing a security strategy.

I'd rate the solution seven out of ten.