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Symantec Cyber Security Services [EOL] vs eSentire comparison

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Categories and Ranking

eSentire
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
Managed Detection and Response (MDR) (26th)
Symantec Cyber Security Ser...
Average Rating
7.8
Number of Reviews
6
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer2136705 - PeerSpot reviewer
Independent Information Technology Consultant at a non-profit with 1-10 employees
A solid product for security, but the MSP program should be simpler
Their MSP program should be made much more simple. It's too convoluted in its process. They have two different kinds of people that sell their product. They have resellers and MSPs. A reseller would just be a company going and saying that I need licenses, and that in turn goes to eSentire, which then goes to the customer, and they do the transaction. We were on the MSP side. We were the ones who took a potential customer to eSentire, and we were the ones who closed the deals. We were the ones who went through everything, and in the end, it was just a notice saying that let's spin up a new tenant. That's the kind of difference we're talking about. From my standpoint, their MSP program, in general, needed to be worked on. It should be made much more simple. It's too convoluted in its process. I know it was in the process of being revamped, and as of the end of January, it was not finished. That was the last contact I had with eSentire, but I know that, at this point of the year, they were supposed to have rolled that new MSP program out to take care of all of the negative things. They were going through that process and making it much better. Once they get that implemented, they will be a good, solid vendor.
reviewer1042635 - PeerSpot reviewer
Science Technician at a government with 201-500 employees
Easy to use with a good user interface and excellent management capabilities
The solution is very easy to use. It's not very complicated. It's easy to control our users and to block users from accessing the internet, for example. I'm able to easily manage my internet's bandwidth. The firewall is fantastic. It's one of the most valuable aspects of the solution. The initial setup is pretty easy. The solution has good integration capabilities. There's the opportunity to do a seminar with the company, in order for users to help better understand the solution. The user interface is quite good. Everything is easy to find.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Being able to sleep well at night knowing that eSentire is guarding everything that goes in and out of your network was also a good ROI."
"The managed detection response (MDR) product was the most valuable."
"The Managed Detection and Response (MDR) feature was really good and most valuable. We were handling very sensitive data, and we needed a quick response in real-time, which eSentire provided. It was also cost-effective, and their SOC team was very responsive."
"This is not a complex product; it is easy to set up, configure, and use."
"The solution offers good device control."
"The firewall is fantastic, it's one of the most valuable aspects of the solution."
"The most valuable features are the firewall and the IPS."
"Symantec is a wonderful product and they have feature-rich environments that fill the needs of those looking for antivirus but they are more than just a solution for antivirus and cybersecurity services."
"The technical aspects and the features of this product are all good."
"The most valuable feature is the management portal."
"The solution is very easy to use. It's not very complicated."
 

Cons

"From my standpoint, their MSP program, in general, needed to be worked on. It should be made much more simple. It's too convoluted in its process. I know it was in the process of being revamped, and as of the end of January, it was not finished."
"Its GUI can be a lot better."
"The solution needs to improve its reporting functionality. That's lacking right now. They need to change the layout or make it more functional."
"The reporting has fallen behind competing products and needs to be updated to meet or beat the competition."
"At the endpoint, the client memory utilization should be very optimized. The client takes up a lot of memory when processing CPU, so it affects the endpoint performance."
"This solution is expensive."
"The stability of the solution could use a lot of improvement. It was our biggest concern."
"As far as new ransomware and the next-generation malware is concerned, Symantec is not quite up to the mark."
"Overall, the support is very, very bad."
"The part of the product that I think needs the most work is reporting."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The MSP model we were in needed some work. It was not MSP-friendly, which means that an MSP is going to say that I have five thousand endpoints that I will eventually get to you, but for now, we're gonna start moving and let me purchase a thousand. So, you buy a thousand licenses, and you ramp up to that thousand. When you're ready to move on, you buy the next how many. That's the way an MSP likes to work, whereas it was a little bit different with eSentire. You had to purchase specific amounts for specific customers. It wasn't very friendly when it came to pricing for MSPs."
"It was cost-effective and not very expensive. Licensing was on a yearly basis. There were no additional costs to the standard licensing fee."
"The list price is approximately $50 USD annually per user."
"Currently, we are paying about $3,000-$4,000 yearly. I don't believe there are costs above the standard licensing fee."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
12%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Government
9%
Financial Services Firm
7%
Construction Company
18%
Outsourcing Company
18%
Healthcare Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
9%
 

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Large Enterprise
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Small Business
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Small Business1
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise2
 

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