Symantec Endpoint Protection defends businesses from both malware and targeted attacks—protecting against new and unknown threats.
Symantec Endpoint Protection uses Symantec’s Insight platform to collect and collate data from over 200 million systems in 200-plus countries. It uses this data to identify and create a security rating for every file accessed through the Internet. As a result, it stops targeted attacks and advanced, persistent threats with a degree of protection that far exceeds the capacities of traditional anti-virus.
Deployed as an on-premise solution, Symantec Endpoint Protection allows businesses unified management across physical and virtual platforms, with granular policy control for enhanced flexibility and scalability.
Symantec Endpoint Protection is designed for maximum efficiency, enabling hardware to run faster and last longer for performance, and runs on several operating systems, including Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. This award-winning suite is a good fit for medium-sized businesses seeking a more comprehensive range of protections.
PROs:- The management console is mature, simple, and efficient. The antivirus is fully configurable, with a good detection ratio. CONs:- It is sometime CPU intensive, idle computer get high CPU usage. The Mac version is very bad, no client-side exceptions. Recommendations:- This is great software for small to large sized companies but this does require an administrator with a solid understanding of your network and your business rules. It can be processor intensive when scanning so be sure to schedule scans for off peak periods.
Need Better reporting capabilities and also should integrate Endpoint Management Framework agent to have single agent security and management features covered all together.