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Amazon Macie vs Symantec Data Loss Prevention comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 3, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Amazon Macie
Ranking in Data Loss Prevention (DLP)
16th
Average Rating
7.4
Reviews Sentiment
5.2
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Symantec Data Loss Prevention
Ranking in Data Loss Prevention (DLP)
3rd
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.5
Number of Reviews
61
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Data Loss Prevention (DLP) category, the mindshare of Amazon Macie is 1.5%, down from 2.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Symantec Data Loss Prevention is 4.2%, down from 6.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Data Loss Prevention (DLP) Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Symantec Data Loss Prevention4.2%
Amazon Macie1.5%
Other94.3%
Data Loss Prevention (DLP)
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer2069877 - PeerSpot reviewer
Vice President at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Provides real-time alerts and efficient data governance with easy integration
The best features of Amazon Macie include sensitive data identification, particularly for PII, which is pre-built and helpful because we don't have to define it ourselves. Those features are already embedded, which was beneficial. Additionally, some insights and alerts were coming up that were also pre-configured. It's not difficult to do that, but it's more of a build versus buy decision. These features were of great help to us. My experience with Amazon Macie's ability to provide alerts for suspicious activity in real-time has been good. We utilized the alerts for threat detection. Customizable features of Amazon Macie have helped significantly in maintaining fine-grained control over access and usage of sensitive information, offering a good combination of personalized options and out-of-the-box solutions.
OT
Technical Team Leader at Redington (India) Ltd
Experienced implementation enhances security with robust detection and centralized management
A significant case highlighted an improvement need when a banking company lost 500 customer information pieces through screenshots. The data theft occurred through individual screenshots of credit note pages rather than taking complete PDF files. This incident led to the suggestion for implementing image detection methods, as Data Loss Prevention solutions needed to analyze image details. Symantec responded by creating an OCR module, enabling the capability to search within images. The pricing structure remains an area for improvement. We lost a POC despite installing 2,000 endpoints because Symantec Data Loss Prevention is more expensive compared to other solutions. Although the competing product couldn't match all the best practices, the price difference influenced the final decision.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The tool gives confidence that our configuration is safe."
"The tool's performance is good."
"The detailed reports on data privacy risk provided by Amazon Macie are really good and have contributed positively to our data governance strategies."
"The accuracy in terms of the rate of detection is good."
"We find the product is easy to manage and maintain."
"The incident response capability has been instrumental in mitigating potential data loss."
"What I like about Symantec Data Loss Prevention is the technical support it provides. It's good."
"The data matching features are the most valuable due to the easy policy setup and implementation."
"I'm able to track everyone who is trying to send information outside the environment and to know if they are not supposed to be sending it. I'm also able to see the people who are accessing or maybe try to access the information they are not supposed to be accessing based on their level of classification. It gives me overall control of who has got access to what and at what point. And who can do what with specific information."
"The dashboard, management section, and reporting are good."
"They have a feature on the management side called the document indexer. Let's say you have a unique document with many near identical versions, which have one or several values that change, while the rest of the content stays the same. You can collect 50 of those documents and put them into this feature of the Symantec DLP system. It will compress them and create a profile specifically for that document."
 

Cons

"Amazon Macie is expensive."
"We need to have agent auto-parsing."
"The Symantec DLP solution is very complex, and installation requires many components."
"Once you deploy any security tool, of course, you are not 100% confident. As we say, the zero trust model applies."
"Symantec could be better with infrastructure."
"Technical support is pathetic."
"The deployment is complex."
"There are some features that are not available which are required by every data loss prevention solution."
"The console is not the best one. There is room for improvement in the management console."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"You need to pay per usage."
"The tool's licensing costs are yearly."
"The price of Symantec Data Loss Prevention could be reduced."
"The solution should be less expensive to allow more people the opportunity to use it. Some of their competitors are less expensive. There is a license required to use the solution and we purchased an annual license."
"Pricing is above average."
"I think it is an expensive tool."
"The platform is not very expensive. I rate its pricing an eight out of ten."
"Pricing is reasonable."
"For pricing, I rate Symantec DLP an eight out of ten."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
22%
Computer Software Company
8%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Comms Service Provider
7%
Financial Services Firm
15%
Manufacturing Company
12%
Computer Software Company
11%
Comms Service Provider
10%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
No data available
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business23
Midsize Enterprise12
Large Enterprise28
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Amazon Macie?
From my perspective, Amazon Macie can be improved by extending PII to make it more collaborative between the customer and the out-of-box features. Not only should it focus on PII information, but d...
What is your primary use case for Amazon Macie?
We are trying to use Amazon Macie for pattern matching, which is one of the things that we are doing, along with sensitive data storage and protection of sensitive data. We use Amazon Macie in the ...
What advice do you have for others considering Amazon Macie?
I haven't used the automated data discovery feature of Amazon Macie. We wanted to assess the multi-account management feature through AWS Organizations, but unfortunately, we couldn't fully impleme...
What do you like most about Symantec Data Loss Prevention?
It can prevent copying and encoding of HTTP data to various sites like Google, and Webex.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Symantec Data Loss Prevention?
I am not aware of the licensing cost for Symantec Data Loss Prevention because the licensing cost is up to senior management's decision. I really don't know what the cost of that is. It is based on...
What needs improvement with Symantec Data Loss Prevention?
In future updates of Symantec Data Loss Prevention, I would like to see improvements based on the many attacks happening around the world. They can improve their product and the features mainly to ...
 

Also Known As

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Symantec DLP
 

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Sample Customers

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Hadassah University Hospital, Her Majestys Government (HMG), United Kingdom, Hitachi Consulting Software Services India Pvt Ltd., Hua Nan Bank, Hyundai Department Store Group,JW Marriott Hotel Seoul, Lake Health, McCann Erickson Israel, Molina Healthcare Inc., PGi, Quilvest Switzerland Limited, State of Nevada Public Employees Benefits Program, Symantec Corporation (Enterprise Security), The Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust, The Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust (DLP), The Saudi Industrial Property Authority, TSO cloud, Visa, Yunnan Power Grid Company
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