We performed a comparison between Sophos EPP Suite and Symantec Endpoint Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The price is low and quite competitive with others."
"The setup is pretty simple."
"The console is easy to read. I also like the scanning part and the ability to move assets from one to the other."
"Additionally, when it comes to EDR, there are more tools available to assist with client work."
"It is very easy to set up. I would rate my experience with the initial setup a ten out of ten, with ten being very easy to set up."
"The solution was relatively easy to deploy."
"Fortinet FortiEDR's scalability is quite good, and you can add licenses to the solution."
"We have FortiEDR installed on all our systems. This protects them from any threats."
"It is a scalable platform."
"The protection that this solution offers us is strong."
"Sophos EPP Suite's most valuable feature is ease of use."
"With Sophos, the scanning of viruses and scanning of the disk is done silently in the background."
"The product is stable."
"Intercept X is the most valuable feature in the solution. It's more or less pretty standard. The endpoint feature allows you to basically see what is happening, and stop a wide range of threats. It's been the most unique identifier for Sophos."
"It is one of the good solutions that provides a single well-rounded protection for endpoints and internet security."
"The product interacts well with other Sophos products we have."
"It is a stable product."
"One of the features is the ability to frequently get virus signature updates."
"The administrator's console is very good and easy to manage with it. Deploying patches, definition updates and report is simple."
"Offers good antivirus and local firewall."
"The tool has predefined rules, like which actions to block or allow. This makes it easy because I don't have to figure out what policies to deploy."
"Their threat protection is very good. We are managing a good number of users thanks to the solution and we are pretty satisfied with it."
"One of the most valuable features is its antivirus database, which is current and updated daily. Another valuable feature is its capacity to be managed by a single server. The solution is managed by a secure server, so all the endpoints are managed from a central point."
"Scalability."
"Detections could be improved."
"Everything with Fortinet having to do with their cloud services. They need to invest more in their internal infrastructure that they are running in the cloud. One of the things I find with their cloud environment compared to others' is that they go cheap on the equipment. So it causes some performance degradation."
"Once, we had an event that was locked and blocked, but information about it came to us two or three days later."
"The dashboard isn't easy to access and manage."
"The only minor concern is occasional interference with desired programs."
"We'd like to see more one-to-one product presentations for the distribution channels."
"The solution's installation from a central installation server could be improved because the engineers had a little bit of trouble getting it installed from a central location."
"The solution is not stable."
"The solution could improve in configuration and the central logging and dashboard."
"Sophos does not currently inform users of potential compatability issues with Windows updates."
"The logging issues must be fixed."
"There could be more integration included in Sophos EPP Suite."
"If we could bypass the first couple of levels of support when we have a problem then it would be easier and quicker when we need an issue resolved."
"The solution is not easy to use in comparison to other endpoint security solutions."
"In the next release, I would like to see the phishing attached included in the firewall."
"The solution has a strange technical support process where you need to move through all of these tiers before you can get to someone who can help you. They should streamline the process and make it easier to speak to the correct level of support from the outset."
"There was an administrative feature, which was available in the previous version, which has been removed. We would like that feature to be added again."
"This solution is resource-heavy."
"The enterprise edition does not report attacks on external devices."
"After selling this product, what we have observed is that the system gets slower, which is a major issue."
"Maybe Symantec Endpoint Security could amend their pricing structure, but they always offer a good product."
"It would be helpful if this product provided patch management functionality."
"There is room for improvement in the zero-day threat detection system."
"If there is a suspicious file, it is put into a sandbox where Symantec does an analysis. After the analysis, Symantec marks the file as a risk, but it doesn't blacklist or block the file. If a file is already known to be harmful, I would like them to automatically block or blacklist it to reduce the damage."
Sophos EPP Suite is ranked 27th in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 55 reviews while Symantec Endpoint Security is ranked 5th in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 140 reviews. Sophos EPP Suite is rated 8.0, while Symantec Endpoint Security is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Sophos EPP Suite writes "The solution provides endpoint detection and response with a nice-looking dashboard". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Symantec Endpoint Security writes "The solution has given us visibility into compliance within our whole system and helped us ensure everything is updated". Sophos EPP Suite is most compared with Seqrite Endpoint Security, Trend Micro Deep Security, Trellix Endpoint Security, Coro and WithSecure Elements Endpoint Protection, whereas Symantec Endpoint Security is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, CrowdStrike Falcon, Trend Micro Deep Security and Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks. See our Sophos EPP Suite vs. Symantec Endpoint Security report.
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