Symantec Data Loss Prevention Reviews & Product Details

When you implement Symantec DLP you can escalate from endpoint information security to an enterprise environment. You have detection server that add a strongest security and analysis of the information and the solution is always looking for the last technologies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I think the weakest link on Symantec DLP es the mobile security, the need to improve the mobile integration with iOS and Android, maybe incorporating a sandbox like security. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The detection techniques are very good, its ability to adapt to on-premises and cloud environments are excellent and everything managed from a single administration console. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nothing, it is an excellent solution for DLP Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It’s fast and it comes in one pack of services. It would be good for an average user. Nothing complicated. It has an affordable price.Easy to use. There’s improved MDM features. It is trusted and established name. User interface is easy and simple. There is also 60-day free trial available which is great. It is safe and I think that is the most important part of this security program. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It’s perfect for small and mid-size companies and I think it does a great job. I think it lacks better protection for anti-phishing. I’ve hear that there are some vulnerable side of this security program, but I personally have not encountered them and can’t say much about it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Flexibility of available rule sets for criticality of incident Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Customization of messaging to end user when an act of non compliance - too generic Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The management console is very easy to learn. Being able to configure agents and groups without interacting the the workstation is very convenient. It is not difficult to investigate alerts due to the high amount of information that is included along with them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The technical support could use a little bit of improvement. It is difficult to resolve conflicts with other monitoring software it the technical support team for Symantec DLP is on a completely different time zone. There seem to be a few limitations when is comes to tuning the alerts, specifically for social security numbers and other personally identifiable information. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Automated Data Classification makes it a little easier to identify what's what and saves time without having to go through each bit of data for accuracy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Support can be a nightmare when you call in to get assistance trying to either find the account your referencing or the technical expertise is not enough at that specific level that you have to escalate the call to the next line of support which causes it to take longer to resolve the issue and get it back up and running like it was supposed to be running to start with Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like how quick discover scans are. The integrations with Proxy is also quite neat. There are a lot of pros to this product, and as the product grows it continues to get better. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There isn't much to dislike. If i had to pick something it would be the custom Data Identifiers, if you are scripting you need to learn Symantec DLP's scripting language. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The most important functionalities I like for this method are versatility and policy enforcement. Help to vendors and a wide network of services. It offers excellent security. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

You must be sure that the documents which you classify are used in the next step (creation of rules) in the classification component. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We have used Symantec DLP as a tool for not only securing our environment, but as well as teaching our users. They are mostly unaware of the risk of transmitting sensitive data in an unsecure manner. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Some of the configuration took longer than expected. Also, some of the Network Prevent pieces required data streams we could not provide. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The right to obstruct actions and to change policies to suit your needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The design and endpoint settings must be designed. This can significantly influence the quality of endpoints. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Easy usability interface. As the rules are rapidly enforced and the allowances are deleted, the user quickly had no competitor access to information during a recent shutdown. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

They achieve what they say, but want more power possibilities. The rules need to be tailored to suit your needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It takes into account my needs as a user, with a very good perfectly detailed configuration that allows me to host all my information at the moment.

Without interruptions or loading failures, very good performance and speed, the hosting is also excellent in that it allows large files to be organized in detail. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Consume enough resources in the background. The option to host documents without an internet connection does not work properl Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I find Symantec Data Loss Prevention Cloud to be extremely beneficial in regards to securing my data. They are great at notifying me on a regular basis should an issue come up! I like that I am confident that it is always working in the background and is an effortless back up on my end. Just one more thing off my plate I don’t have to worry about. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The only downside is that there are constant notifications. This program is very informative, but when busy- can be difficult to read up on what the error is. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I love this application is a tool that provides easy protection for all types of files and configurations, thanks to its protection services for access to specific web sites, protection for all types of personal or corporate emails, in short, this is a complete solution for the protection of all types of access and access to personal information. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

This tool works well, but it must be complemented with other protection applications, I do not like it very much, its little compatibility with applications that are not of the same brand of them, it seems that they want to force you to buy more products from them, so that the application provides its greatest potential, that is not good at all, in our company, we use different protection systems, and this tool is difficult to complement with many of them, we have had to look at different ways to complement this tool, with those we use to other protection services, we do not move to all the products sold by Symantec, simply because we do not like them, so every application they sell, should be versatile and adapt to all kinds of applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

My company uses Symantec for storage and protection purposes. We deal with a lot of sensitive information and this program works really well for our office. We also deal with large quantities of files and programs on our system, and this program ensures all of those files are protected. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I think the downside of this program is how dependent all of our files are on this system. While all of our files are confidential and also safe, if this program were to go down, management would be scrambling. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The ability to secure end to end protection. Our company (The Project and Client) deals with declassified patient data and we need a protocol like this to ensure our data security and privacy. Ease of storing multiple formats. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Difficult to configure and use, sometimes restricts us to implement our company specific workflows. Integration to other systems is challenging at times. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Simplistic GUI and scalability to deploy multiple modules across your environment and centralized management console with good integration capabilities. Multiple tiers of architecture methods give the flexibility to deploy multiple detection components in the heterogeneous environment and easy to configure fail over options. Best part is the policy configuration framework provided in DLP with the concepts such as policy groups which provide isolation capabilities for policy application. Reusable sender/recipient patterns makes life easy for administrators when there is frequent change in exceptions. In terms of incident management, there are plenty of smart and automatic response rules can be configured and integrated with your ticketing systems. Policy constructs such as data identifiers and profiles cater to both structured and unstructured data. Multiple detection servers cater to active as well as passive monitoring of the user activities. Overall a great product to have in your environment in current age of compliance regulations and legal liabilities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Lack of compliance reporting which can be configured out of the box. Also dashboards can be quite rigid. One needs integration with data insight for more detailed incident analysis which comes with additional license and hardware requirements. Also, Database Exact data profiles limitations for dynamic databases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I have been using this from last 3 years, I would say no other product can beat this. What I really like about this is Easy to deploy, user-friendly console, good reporting etc, I am very familiar with Installation/Deploy, creating policies, agent deployment. provides more details regarding db health, agent status, and grouping for DLP policies. it is one of our primary security solutions. It has been widely adapted in the enterprise. Good this is that users don't even know it's there unless something is flagged

I would suggest evaluating this at least once. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I would say reporting part is the little bit tricky, you need to get IT Analytics installed to get the reports, It could be better if reports can be accessed from console directly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Symantec is easy and simple to use. I don’t have any complaints. It seems to keep my computer clean of any viruses. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There really isn’t anything that I dislike. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Blocking/Notify Users when confidential data has been transferred. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

the monitoring itself like inventory, some of it was not that accurate Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

DLP is powerful, flexible and extensible. Whatever your issue, you can probably use DLP in a creative way to protect your data. Obviously there is the bread and butter such as discover scanning, but I particularly like Flex Responses. Flex Responses add a lot of extensibility to the DLP platform, suddenly you can write your own plugins that can be triggered by DLP to automate many processes. Personally I have worked on flex responses that integrate symantec products that have no native integration (such as ICT). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The platform is somewhat inconsistent in terms of how it has been built and what you can use where. Take for instance Flex Responses; Agent flex responses are written in python and Server flex responses are written in Java. I would like to see more standardisation for the DLP platform in terms of development standards.

Also the UI is fairly outdated and in some places unusable, anyone who's used the browser to go back feels my pain... if you know, you KNOW! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The UI makes navigating incidents, developing policies, administration work, and updates all very easy. The ability to create simple to extremely complex rules is great to have. Utilizing the DLP solution as part of the mail solution was also extremely simple as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I wish there was a Linux client available. This has been the only issue I have ran into but there are work around depending on the reason for the need of DLP on Linux. I wanted to scan Apache logs, so instead I export the logs to a smb share for scanning. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

this tool is easy to deploy and use. This tool has an intuitive UI which is great to use. You have insight in the use of data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It doess’t support Linux clients unfortunately. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I love Symantec Data Loss Prevention Cloud, it has a way of extending security to both the physical components and everything installed in the cloud. It really allows a detection of data loss points that affect the performance of the applications and in some cases compromise information or data.

Its encryption seems to me excellent we have done distant tests and simulations being successful until the moment the form with its AI solves the situation.

And of all that I like most is to identify the most risky users and thus be able to approach the situation of a totally preventive approach. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The aspects that can be improved are in my opinion to propose and improve the protocol for DLP. Make the initial approach to the solution a little easier since it was initially confusing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

DLP policy template are flexible to use with wide range of option to add key words, content. With GDPR compliance in row it easier to implement the policy.

Symantec DLP is well matured product compared to other vendors.

With integration of solution with counter part Symantec solution has made it ease of management. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Fine tuning of policy is quite time consuming, however once policy are ready it works well. Fetching attribute from LDAP also does not work. User level its difficult to understand the policy. Special session need to be taken to understand the complete DLP solution. Support is way to slow. For instance, if I create case, I get call from support after two or three days. If Symantec can come up with single console for all solution will be very helpful & easy to manage wide range of solution in single console. Database support needs to be extended for SQL. Customer prefer SQL over oracle database. Even management of database is easier compared to oracle. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.