Lead of IT at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Real User
Top 10
Sep 12, 2025
It had its problems. They were rebuilding it while having the old functionality and new functionality layered on top of each other. They were migrating the functionalities to the new solution, which caused significant problems. The mobile device management was not unified with the other endpoint management, creating structural issues.
They could improve the user interface. Currently, everything is pretty good, however, when it comes to the Maniac and Protection, there could be enhancements.
The solution takes a lot of time to run a full scan. The solution should include automatic updates. Users should be mindful of some performance degradation on their laptops because the solution keeps scanning for threats.
Symantec Endpoint Security Complete could improve by integrating more easily with other Symantec security products. In the future, I would like Symantec Endpoint Security Complete to include features for simulating attacks and facilitating collaboration between red, blue, and purple teams for enhanced attack simulation and prevention.
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There is room for improvement, particularly in the realm of behavior detection. Enhancements in malware analysis and behavior detection would be beneficial. Introducing new features could potentially enhance the utility of their EDR capabilities.
Symantec Endpoint Security Complete does not cover everything on the cloud. It does not cover the workstation emails. There are risks associated with it.
Network and System Administrator at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
Real User
Sep 18, 2022
The Threat Defense for Active Directory feature has a problem in that it is not possible to deploy it within a hybrid management architecture. We tried to deploy it within our hybrid management, where the clients are on-prem and the feature is in the cloud, just like the Adaptive Protection, but it's impossible. We would have to migrate all the infrastructure to be managed by the cloud to deploy this feature, so we have not deployed it. We want to be able to manage it in hybrid mode so that we don't have to migrate all the management to the cloud to use this feature. That's the main improvement needed.
Endpoint Consultant at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Consultant
Jul 6, 2022
The overall support level for the solution could be increased. A limited number of hashes can be banned for our IOC. I would like to see that expanded and able to support more file types.
Chief information security officer at a transportation company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Real User
Mar 10, 2022
The installation process for Symantec Endpoint Security Complete could be improved as it's not straightforward, in particular, the remote installation could be better. Installing this product is confusing. Another area for improvement is the packaging of Symantec Endpoint Security Complete. It could be simplified, e.g. instead of making a lot of confusing packages, they could make a single package like what's done in Bitdefender. You have to enable and disable the modules of the package, not different packages, as it's confusing. The console of Symantec Endpoint Security Complete should also be improved, as it is confusing.
Symantec Endpoint Security (SES) Complete delivers comprehensive protection for all your traditional and mobile devices across the entire attack chain. Symantec endpoint innovations include behavioral isolation, Active Directory security, and Threat Hunter technologies to protect your endpoints against sophisticated threats and targeted attacks. For higher return-on-investment and lower total cost of ownership, this single-agent solution supports on-premises, hybrid, and cloud-based deployments.
It had its problems. They were rebuilding it while having the old functionality and new functionality layered on top of each other. They were migrating the functionalities to the new solution, which caused significant problems. The mobile device management was not unified with the other endpoint management, creating structural issues.
They could improve the user interface. Currently, everything is pretty good, however, when it comes to the Maniac and Protection, there could be enhancements.
Instead of the updates, the tool needs to come up with a concept similar to zero trust.
The pricing could be better.
The solution takes a lot of time to run a full scan. The solution should include automatic updates. Users should be mindful of some performance degradation on their laptops because the solution keeps scanning for threats.
Symantec Endpoint Security Complete could improve by integrating more easily with other Symantec security products. In the future, I would like Symantec Endpoint Security Complete to include features for simulating attacks and facilitating collaboration between red, blue, and purple teams for enhanced attack simulation and prevention.
There is room for improvement, particularly in the realm of behavior detection. Enhancements in malware analysis and behavior detection would be beneficial. Introducing new features could potentially enhance the utility of their EDR capabilities.
The product’s scalability must be improved.
Symantec Endpoint Security Complete does not cover everything on the cloud. It does not cover the workstation emails. There are risks associated with it.
The solution's support is not available over the weekends. We also need to have the DLP, endpoint security, and encryption integrated into one agent.
The Threat Defense for Active Directory feature has a problem in that it is not possible to deploy it within a hybrid management architecture. We tried to deploy it within our hybrid management, where the clients are on-prem and the feature is in the cloud, just like the Adaptive Protection, but it's impossible. We would have to migrate all the infrastructure to be managed by the cloud to deploy this feature, so we have not deployed it. We want to be able to manage it in hybrid mode so that we don't have to migrate all the management to the cloud to use this feature. That's the main improvement needed.
The overall support level for the solution could be increased. A limited number of hashes can be banned for our IOC. I would like to see that expanded and able to support more file types.
Symantec could have better support for iOS and Android mobile devices.
The deployment of Symantec components could be improved.
The installation process for Symantec Endpoint Security Complete could be improved as it's not straightforward, in particular, the remote installation could be better. Installing this product is confusing. Another area for improvement is the packaging of Symantec Endpoint Security Complete. It could be simplified, e.g. instead of making a lot of confusing packages, they could make a single package like what's done in Bitdefender. You have to enable and disable the modules of the package, not different packages, as it's confusing. The console of Symantec Endpoint Security Complete should also be improved, as it is confusing.