McAfee Complete Data Protection Reviews

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.

The most important feature of McAfee Complete Data Protection to my customers is the ePO or the management console. It's easy to use and it's scalable. You can also generate the reports you want on the console. It's a mature management console. The features that McAfee Complete Data Protection has, for example, anti-spam features and other features can also be found on other solutions, but the most unique feature you can find in the solution is the ePO itself, the management console.

Though there may be some ransomware detection modules now in McAfee Complete Data Protection, it's a field that McAfee should focus on, particularly having integration with some EDR or other add-ons. This is so McAfee Complete Data Protection would have more accuracy in detecting new ransomware in the market.

What I'd like to see in the next release of the solution is for its pricing to be more cost-effective because some competitors have cheaper pricing, so McAfee Complete Data Protection can't compete. Sometimes, some new vendors offer other solutions rather than McAfee Complete Data Protection, to win customers over, and this is a loss for McAfee.

I've been working with McAfee Complete Data Protection since 2010, so twelve years now. The most recent work I've done with the product was three or four months ago.

McAfee Complete Data Protection is mostly stable.

McAfee Complete Data Protection is a product that's easy to scale.

I got in touch with the support team for McAfee Complete Data Protection about certain cases such as enhancement inquiries, some bugs, and features that needed to be fixed, so I contacted the team many times. The support team was very helpful.

I'd rate McAfee Complete Data Protection support four out of five.

I find the initial setup for McAfee Complete Data Protection simple, but for someone who's just getting to know the solution, it would be difficult.

The cost of McAfee Complete Data Protection isn't that high but isn't that cheap as well, so it's in the middle.

For a fair comparison, I'd say McAfee Complete Data Protection is comparable to Symantec Endpoint Protection and CrowdStrike.

I'm a reseller of McAfee Complete Data Protection. My company has a partnership with McAfee.

Most of my customers, around 80 percent to 90 percent, deployed McAfee Complete Data Protection on-premises.

For a hundred users of McAfee Complete Data Protection, only one person is required for the maintenance of the product.

In my opinion, what makes McAfee Complete Data Protection better than other solutions is that it's comprehensive. You can manage different McAfee solutions from one console. For example, you can choose McAfee DLP, antivirus, endpoint protection, application control, and encryption solutions, then manage all via just one management console, so it's the strongest point of McAfee Complete Data Protection.

I'm rating the solution eight out of ten.

We use the product for antivirus protection for all devices. We also use it for server protection for both Windows and Linux. We use endpoint encryption for laptops, too. Web protection is embedded in the browser.

I like all the features provided by the solution.

The product must improve endpoint encryption. Sometimes, it has issues syncing with Active Directory.

I have been using the solution for eight years. I am using the latest version of the solution.

The product’s stability is nearly 100%. It works seamlessly as long as it's well configured and the policies have been put properly.

The solution is very, very scalable. We just configure policies, and it automatically detects and deploys across any device not added to ePO. There are more than 2500 endpoints that are using the product. If the company grows, we will increase the usage of the tool. There's no reason to move to any other provider.

There are instances where McAfee interferes with business applications. So, in those cases, we require an investigation to determine the issue and put the appropriate policies. In McAfee, it's all about the policies. If we find out what the issue is and put appropriate policies, it should work. If the process is a bit complex and we cannot do it ourselves, we escalate it to the vendor.

The setup was not complex, but it wasn’t straightforward either. We have to deploy the agent, and the agent deploys the antivirus. We face some issues with this process. We have deployed the product in more than 2000 endpoints. It took us a couple of weeks. We needed four consultants from the local partner to deploy the product.

We had a local partner and a professional services engineer to help with the deployment. To deploy the tool, we push it from Windows into the ePO server, which is integrated into Active Directory. If we enter the relevant credentials, it detects the machine and pushes the deployment automatically. We do not need many staff for deployment and maintenance because it is automated. A standard IT team manages the solution.

There is definitely an ROI on this product. We have reports that demonstrate protection. If there is any ransomware or malware attack, it gets detected. The solution works.

We pay an annual licensing fee for the product. It is bundled with the suite. It's pretty straightforward.

It's a really good solution, especially with Zero Trust coming up. McAfee also has the ability to patch. Overall, I rate the tool a nine out of ten.

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.

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.

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 primarily use this solution for folder and disk encryption. One encrypted folder in Drive D: for each PC user and disk encryption for all notebook PCs, especially for sensitive or confidential data.

The McAfee Policy Orchestrator did a fair job in overall control and management of encryption. A centralized repository of various functions is provided in an excellent user interface and menu system.

The most valuable features are effective folder and disk encryption, and the practical server console-started agent/encryption module deployment to endpoints are highly commendable.

The server software console is exquisitely designed and organized for handy access and manipulation by the administrator.

Encryption user assignment and key generation can be performed fast enough.

Well expectedly, the upgrade process from Orchestrator v5.32 to 5.91 will be a bit painful for a lengthy and hardly completed client saturation (i.e. ensuing endpoint upgrade, if not done after server & SHA cert update committed, the client(s) will completely fail to work again) for our 1300+ endpoints. These included PCs and offline notebooks, which cannot be easily kept online over an extended period of time waiting for saturation in an undetermined upgrade order. I would like to have an easier and less-hassle upgrade process in future releases of the software, and extra license renewal price discounts too.

Procurement/license renewal options should also be devised by McAfee for continually incremental buying by an organization over its lifetime of usage.

Additionally, export and re-import of encryption keys in a batch could also be available as an extra orchestrator module for seamless transfer in case of server migration/re-installation.

Noticeably, the disk encryption process is far swifter on PCs/notebooks equipped with SSD drives but a speed improvement should better be available in future releases for mechanical disk drives for still being existent in the years to come.

I have been using McAfee Complete Data Protection for three years.

Apart from the disk encryption process that has a couple of times failed to transfer the initial encryption login password to the client PCs, in which token recovery was required, we have come across very few issues.

Good variety of modules and easy incorporation.

We have raised support cases to McAfee and they responded in a professional and helpful manner and completed with successful resolutions.

Our previous experience with Symantec encryption has left a lot of room for improvements such as deployment/redeployment ease and Active Directory integration. We, therefore, chose McAfee for its feature-richness and a reasonable price with good market acceptance and knowledge availability.

The initial setup can be done in two days or so, highly recommended with the assistance by experienced solution contractors.

We hired a contractor I.T. company to have initially installed everything and configured the total solution to work successfully. The organization-wide deployment from scratch at the beginning is simple, fast and problem-free, enough though we preferred using remote execution of DOS scripts to copy and run the installer at client endpoints.

In a word, it was a good and satisfactory start.

This solution is reasonably priced.

So far, we are satisfied with the overall results and the product welcomed by end-users with few complaints.

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.