One thing I will say about Symantec is the horrendous support. One thing you will notice is that the first site does not even consider Defender as a corporate solution, so take that for what it is. Beyond that, Governance, Risk Management, Compliance and an increase in security awareness from the boardroom to the ground floor is making the more mature organizations leaner, agiler and less likely to suffer a data breach.īetween Symantec and Defender, the best of the two is Symantec for detections and false/positive rates. Threat Hunting is the new norm and every organization should look beyond Endpoint Protection to an early detection and reduction in infection time by implementing an advanced Threat Hunting posture. Today only a holistic approach toward a foundational implantation of fundamental security controls at all levels will decrease the growing number of data breaches, reputational damage and monetary losses. However, the number of zero-day threats that can bypass the total of all anti-virus solutions has risen in recent years and the problem is that even though solutions such as SEP 14.1 are moving to machine learning detection engines, the number of data breaches continues to increase exponentially as the malicious actors are beginning to use AI to create and distribute Advanced Persistent Threats and it is a lucrative industry being run by organizations with a corporate structure mimicking the actual corporate structures of legitimate business. My current experiences have also show that Symantec detects a far greater number of the zero-day threats than Windows Defender. Powered by Sonar and now a Machine Learning Cloud interface in SEP 14.1, it is in most expert’s options the leader in Endpoint Protection. In my 25 years as an IBM lead security engineer, I observed that SEP was chosen by IBM to protect its mobile workforce and also was the leader in Endpoint Protection chosen by the world’s largest banks, retailers and organizations. SEP is always near or at the top of Gartner’s Magic Quadrant both in execution and completeness of vision. Symantec Endpoint Protection is a purchased product, but the cost is worth the price. Microsoft has made great progress in its free edition of Windows Defender in Windows 7 and improved version in Windows 10. Symantec Endpoint Protection and Windows Defender both have their strong points.
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