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Symantec Advanced Threat Protection vs Trend Micro Deep Discovery [EOL] comparison

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Symantec Advanced Threat Pr...
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
16
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Trend Micro Deep Discovery ...
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
29
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Featured Reviews

Dennis O'Reilly - PeerSpot reviewer
Cyber SecOps Principal at Dotcom Security
Provides end-to-end antivirus protection and has good stability
Symantec Endpoint Protection provides end-to-end protection. Along with antivirus protection, it has a lot of key areas, including intrusive prevention, firewall features, and application and device control. It can integrate with other Broadcom solutions, such as Symantec Messaging Gateway and Symantec DLP. If you want to send an email, it gets scanned through endpoint protection and DLP. We get all Symantec functionality in a single pane.
RJ
Director at Business Automation Indore Private Limited
Long-term threat visibility has reduced customer incidents and supports steady recurring revenue
The real-time visibility on network traffic provided by Trend Micro Deep Discovery is good, and my customer is satisfied. My customers have indeed utilized the Threat Intelligence Sharing feature of Trend Micro Deep Discovery. The impact of the Threat Intelligence Sharing feature on overall defense and security is positive. The benefit that Deep Discovery brings to our organization is that we get fewer calls from customers, allowing me to focus on other businesses, and we receive year-on-year revenue for renewals.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Endpoint to network is a good feature, it can protect the line."
"What I like most about Symantec Advanced Threat Protection is its notification capability."
"The Application Control code and the easy integration are valuable features."
"Technical support has been helpful and responsive."
"Real-time threat analysis is quick and takes action on threats immediately."
"The technical support services are excellent."
"The most valuable feature is Click-time URL protection."
"You don't have to buy a separate email security platform. You can enable that using their endpoint, and I like that. You don't have to have two agents running on the same box."
"The tool's most valuable feature is its collaboration with other products. Integrating with other security products was simple and easy."
"Generally speaking, it just gives us a broad understanding of exactly what kind of threats occur. The submission point, analyzing point, and virtualization are within the environment that it supports. It helped us to improve our security levels and protect our internal network from any threats outside."
"The tool's stability and performance are good."
"The HTML file sandboxing is very good."
"Trend Micro has divided most of the solutions into different sectors, and if you want to go for the end-to-end solution, they are very much in a position to provide that because Trend Micro covers almost everything."
"The environment is imported inside the sandbox and in this way, Trend Micro is the leader in the world's markets of sandbox solutions."
"The solution has extension-based features that help it to analyze the environment. The environment can have different platforms like Windows, Linux, and Mac. The tool will give a report which can confirm the analysis of the issues. You can also get clear information on threats or suspicious files."
"Trend Micro Deep Discovery Email Inspector includes its ability to perform mail detection and mail filtration against various email attacks such as phishing and spam, serving as an email gateway for both inbound and outbound traffic."
 

Cons

"Entire threat protection is not available for the advanced features."
"An improvement could be made on the reporting because then it would be easier to collect information and submit it for compliance."
"The endpoint protection looks old."
"The administration interface needs a lot of improvement. It should be UI based, and simple. They need to improve it. It's pretty much not that friendly compared to what we were using as Bitdefender before. It's okay but is improving, actually."
"The support team that Symantec offers didn't know how to solve issues even though they referred to themselves as "engineers"."
"The administration interface needs a lot of improvement. It should be UI-based and simple."
"One area for improvement could be the pricing model."
"The product's support services need improvement."
"This solution could be improved with faster technical support and cheaper licensing prices."
"The main issue is its high cost."
"All issues we faced related to false positives regarding many hashes and URLs specifically for mail gateway and sandboxing, which led us to open a threat ticket with Trend Micro support for validation."
"The stability of the solution could be improved. It should be 100% stable, but it's not there right now."
"I would like the ability to analyze all files in our internal network, at the same time on different operating systems. Not just three of them, but as many as possible."
"Some of the end users may not be technically proficient, so they occasionally face problems due to a lack of knowledge."
"The solution needs to be able to integrate better with third-party infrastructure."
"Trend Micro Deep Discovery's technical support could be improved, and it could be made more active."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price is quite expensive."
"Symantec Advanced Threat Protection's pricing is comparable."
"Symantec Endpoint Protection has an average price."
"Pricing is good. It is nice to have a great product at a fair price."
"The pricing of this solution is inexpensive and affordable."
"Trend Micro Deep Discovery is quite expensive compared to other endpoint security products."
"The pricing is okay for some, and sometimes, some people find it expensive."
"Overall, the price is good."
"The licensing cost is a bit pricey. We pay a yearly subscription."
"The price of the solution is lower compared to the competition."
"The tool's licensing costs are yearly. There are no additional costs associated with the product."
"The tool’s licensing costs depend on the customers."
"Compared to its competitors, Trend Micro Deep Discovery is a little expensive."
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Top Industries

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Outsourcing Company
19%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Marketing Services Firm
7%
Outsourcing Company
11%
Construction Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Comms Service Provider
7%
 

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Small Business9
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise13
By reviewers
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Small Business14
Midsize Enterprise7
Large Enterprise11
 

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What needs improvement with Trend Micro Deep Discovery?
Server Protect is not commonly used. When considering the Sandbox feature, it only inspects small files, and not all types of files are supported. The solution is very expensive. The solution is no...
What is your primary use case for Trend Micro Deep Discovery?
I am working with Microsoft solutions, specializing in cyber security. I work with XDR, Apex One, Apex Central, Deep Security, Deep Discovery Inspector, and Deep Discovery Analyzer for monitoring t...
 

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