ESET PROTECT vs. Symantec Endpoint Security

Symantec Endpoint Security

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
ESET PROTECT	Score 9.2 out of 10	N/A	ESET provides Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) capabilities via the ESET PROTECT Platform, covering Windows, Mac, Linux, and both Android and iOS operating systems, providing Mobile Device Management functionality. It comes with multi-tenant management, ensuring real-time visibility for both on-premises and off-premises endpoints as well as full reporting for ESET enterprise-grade solutions. ESET PROTECT management platform can be deployed on-premise or in-cloud. For organizations looking to…	$49.99 per year 1 device
Symantec Endpoint Security	Score 6.3 out of 10	N/A	Symantec Endpoint Protection is the company's flagship antivirus / endpoint security product.	$29.99 1 year 100-249 devices

Pricing

ESET PROTECT

Symantec Endpoint Security

Editions & Modules

Essential: $49.99
per year 1 device
Premium: $59.99
per year 1 device
Ultimate: $179.99
per year 5 devices

Endpoint Security, Initial Hybrid Subscription License With Support: $29.99
1 year 100-249 devices
Symantec Endpoint Security Enterprise, Initial Hybrid Subscription License with Support: $34.99
1 year 1-99 devices
Endpoint Security, Initial Hybrid Subscription License With Support: $90.99
3 years 100-249 devices
Symantec Endpoint Security Enterprise, Initial Hybrid Subscription License with Support: $99.99
3 years 1-99 devices
Symantec Endpoint Security Complete, Initial Hybrid Subscription License with Support: $200
3 years 1-99 devices

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
ESET PROTECT	Symantec Endpoint Security
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

Optional

No setup fee

Additional Details

ESET offers are tailored to each customer’s needs. ESET takes pride in working with customers and partners to find the perfect solution for their security challenges at the right price. Contacting an ESET partner or sales representative ensures each solution is made-to-measure and precisely fits the size, complexity of IT environment and level of protection to match the customer’s business requirements. Pricing percentage is dependent on number of years and devices purchased.

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	ESET PROTECT	Symantec Endpoint Security
Considered Both Products	ESET PROTECT Verified User Anonymous Chose ESET PROTECT User-friendly interface and centralized management, dashboard is innovative, making security management straightforward even without a dedicated security team. ESET PROTECTis easy-to-deploy solution with a user-friendly interface and strong protection. ESET PROTECT real-time … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose ESET PROTECT Both are great products, but the resource footprint on ESET seems to be smaller, and the multitenancy of ESET makes it so much easier to use. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose ESET PROTECT The two main competitors We compared ESET PROTECT against was Bitdefender and Withsecure: Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose ESET PROTECT Much better performance, features and experience ! Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose ESET PROTECT Choosing ESET PROTECT rather than McAfee Security or other secuty softwares helps me more evaluate specific security requirements of the company. Considering the scalability of solution it provides, the ease of use of its interface, the level of support provided by the vendors, … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose ESET PROTECT Our team had used ESET PROTECT in the past and decided to use it again without shopping around for other vendors. Our overall experience has been a great one over the last 10 years of using it. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose ESET PROTECT ESET PROTECT was the easy choice, with the web interface, the ability to be installed on all OSs including Mobile, built-in MDM. Having the ability to package Anti-virus, real-time scanning, Encryption, and Firewall into one package was perfect. The Support team has helped … Incentivized Helpful? Kallie Koortz Owner Chose ESET PROTECT ESET Firewall is better by 20% it is a more stable firewall which remembers previous config after updates. ESET is more expensive than AVG but runs smoother on newer desktops. Management console on ESET is easily better that AVG console. Deployment of ESET has proven easier … Incentivized Helpful? CF Chris Funk IT Director Chose ESET PROTECT We used ThirtySeven4 antivirus before eSet, and we were underwhelmed with its protection and another of our offices was compromised with ransomware under its protection. We had changed to eSet about a month prior and it stopped the attack when one of our staff opened the email … Incentivized Helpful? AR Alex Richards Account Director Chose ESET PROTECT Far more cost effective, doesn't slow computers down as much, far easier to use and better central management. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose ESET PROTECT NOD32 is the only paid antivirus software that is not a memory hogger. That's all that is important. Why would I install software on my PC that hogs up all my memory? And the free ones are full of ads, and popups trying to trick you into getting their paid plans. They were … Incentivized Helpful? Eric Atkinson Customer Service / IT Manager Chose ESET PROTECT eSetEndpoint Antivirus is hands down the best anti-viral application I have come across. This was recommended to me to help cut back on the amount of resources being used on the computer when the antivirus program is running. Incentivized Helpful? Benjamin Young Systems Administrator Chose ESET PROTECT I prefer Eset [Endpoint Antivirus] because it tends to not consume resources on devices like Kaspersky. I have also had better success with Eset [Endpoint Antivirus] in a domain environment than I have with Kaspersky. Incentivized Helpful? ET Eric Tucker I.T. Manager Chose ESET PROTECT We reviewed quite a few solutions when we first started the process of finding a new antivirus/protection suite. There were some other very good candidates such as Kaspersky Endpoint Security, Symantec Advanced Threat Protection, and McAfee Endpoint Security. However as the … Incentivized Helpful? Moris Mendez Ing. de Sistemas Informaticos Chose ESET PROTECT They all offer similar benefits, such as being free of viruses and other types of infections, but when tested and evaluated against Eset Endpoint Antivirus, they all have some weakness--that is, some are very good but consume most of the computer resources, in others the … Incentivized Helpful? Cameron Council Systems and Security Administrator Chose ESET PROTECT It was pre-existing when I came to this company so ESET is dug in deep and removing it would be a process. Defender was nice and is a solution I wouldn't mind moving to. My biggest concern is web protection due to the amount of password compromise request emails the user base … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose ESET PROTECT While the detection rate may not be as great as McAfee, Eset Endpoint Antivirus has offered a more affordable pricing model. Active protection also has less of a performance impact on workstations when compared to Mcafee, making it a generally leaner product overall. It was … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose ESET PROTECT We previously used NOD32 which was a more consumer oriented product. From our research Eset Endpoint Antivirus is a Signiant improvement for MS Virus & Threat protection. Incentivized Helpful? JR Jackie Ramos IT Manager, Services and Support Chose ESET PROTECT For us we thought ESET was stronger that Norton. More well rounded in its all its features for business. Price point was also a big factor and no treats or issues while using this software in the past 7 years. Incentivized Helpful? Chris Oakes Lieutenant Chose ESET PROTECT We have tried the Norton, and Avast, Neither compare to ESET as far as the capability to maintain virus signature databases, also the ransomware protection is great. All aspects of this product are beneficial to whom ever purchases this for their protection. I have been … Incentivized Helpful? Chathuranga Amarasinghe Security Specialist Chose ESET PROTECT Cost is reasonably low and feature-wise it gives all the same capabilities of similar products so we chose Eset as our organization's antivirus solution. Incentivized Helpful? TW Tharanga Wickramsinghe Software Engineer Chose ESET PROTECT When considering the price, price of Eset is reasonable. Also, it has higher threat detection ratio than other products. Another thing is Eset Endpoint Antivirus does not consume high system resources. Incentivized Helpful? Eric Krueger IT Manager Chose ESET PROTECT The overall experience of support and deployment was better with ESET. Any questions we ran into were answered by their support team quickly and accurately. The tools and reporting made our IT department happy by allowing us to put out higher-level reports for upper management … Incentivized Helpful? Martha Batruny IT Manager Chose ESET PROTECT It is playing a significant role in our organization. It offers great features and functions. I would say its services are completely matchless. Incentivized Helpful? Dustin Brilliant Information Systems Engineer Chose ESET PROTECT ESETs best plain AV is very well set up. Incentivized Helpful?	Symantec Endpoint Security Verified User Anonymous Chose Symantec Endpoint Security I have worked on many antivirus tools, but according to my opinion, this is a stable and reliable product. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Symantec Endpoint Security The versions of Mcafee that we've tried don't really cover our small business needs like Symantec Endpoint Security does. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Symantec Endpoint Security Symantec Endpoint Security seems to be a more mature solution compared with CrowdStrike, particularly when CS was just recently getting their USB blocking functionality rolled out for macOS endpoints this year. Another differentiator with CrowdStrike is that Symantec ES still … Incentivized Helpful? Tony Ryan CIO (Chief Information Officer) Chose Symantec Endpoint Security Symantec Endpoint Security offers very similar features to the above products, they all do the same thing in terms of protecting your endpoints against cybersecurity threats. Installation wise the products all install from a central management system and report back to this for … Incentivized Helpful? BS Brett Stone Network Operations Manager Chose Symantec Endpoint Security Symantec Endpoint Security stacks up very well against the competition. One thing that is very different about Symantec compared to the competitors is that Symantec will not steal all your PC resources and will run fine with most applications. Some other AV products are … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Symantec Endpoint Security We've completed a POV on Crowdstrike Falcom Endpoint Protect and are very excited to move over to that platform and away from the Symantec protect suite. Crowdstrike has behavior based analysis and scanning, vulnerability detection, and best of bread support and managed … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Symantec Endpoint Security In comparison with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Symantec Endpoint Security has, in my opinion, more scalable file inspection/spyware/antivirus settings. Plus it is more stable in a multi-OS user environment. But it also has numerous issues with itself and related Symantec … Incentivized Helpful? EF Earl Foggs Computer and Information Systems Manager Chose Symantec Endpoint Security Haven't had to use or consider another product. SES Does it all and more Incentivized Helpful? SM Sean Muller IT Security Manager Chose Symantec Endpoint Security Cylance: (Active Engage) (Cost 4x Symantec [Endpoint Security]) Cylance is a good product but we have it through an MSSP and only have read-only. The certification and training for the entry [are] like 3 hours of videos but a smart person can just go in and look as the system … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Symantec Endpoint Security We have evaluated McAfee, it degrades the performance of computers and also the feature set were not properly working, it also lacked the key features that we require, the cost is also higher, on other hand we also evaluated Microsoft system center endpoint protection it has … Incentivized Helpful? DM Drew Moen CEO / CTO Chose Symantec Endpoint Security Simply superior in every way in my opinion. These others were not in the market when we started with SEP. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Symantec Endpoint Security Symantec Endpoint Production is hands down my least favorite endpoint projection software on the market today. It's a difficult endpoint to deploy, manage and remove. It's a heavy client so once you get it installed it consumes a large amount of resources on the endpoint. … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Symantec Endpoint Security I have used competing software from different vendors such as McAfee, Eset, and Trend Micro. I found that Symantec Endpoint Security distributes its updates flawlessly and sends a very clear and comprehensive daily report. I also find the customer service very helpful once it … Incentivized Helpful? Muhammad Mulla Systems Administrator, Core Infrastructure & Microsoft Systems Chose Symantec Endpoint Security Symantec Endpoint Protection really shines against its competitors when it comes to centralized management. It falls a little short when it comes to cloud deployments. Incentivized Helpful? Eric Krueger North America IT Field Services Manager Chose Symantec Endpoint Security More robust options and protections than Malware Bytes. Better overall detection and alerting to security issues. The overall ROI was better for us and we felt would also give us a stronger line of defense in our overall security strategy. We chose Symantec Endpoint because it … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Symantec Endpoint Security Symantec Endpoint Protection outperformed all other competitor front-line antivirus products with more accurate signature detections and less false positives. We ultimately chose to pair SEP with Malwarebytes Anti-Malware to provide a more comprehensive security solution that … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Symantec Endpoint Security I have used Symantec Endpoint Protection for many years successfully. I truthfully have not compared it to any of the other major alternatives out there, as Symantec Endpoint Protection has continued to get the job done. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Symantec Endpoint Security Eset is better for on-premises integration. You install the administration console on a local machine, unlike Symantec Endpoint Protection, which is entirely cloud-based, and you can scan your network and perform silent installs. They seem to have a reasonable level when it … Incentivized Helpful? MH Mike Hernandez Operations Manager Chose Symantec Endpoint Security The functionality is about the same. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Symantec Endpoint Security Malwarebytes and Norton Internet Security Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Symantec Endpoint Security We did use a mix of Symantec and ClamWin AV and after that a mix of Symantec and AVG for our store locations. We also tested Comodo and McAfee at one point. McAfee was too expensive for our budget and Comodo I believe just didn't deploy to our store locations easily. We did … Incentivized Helpful? Prince Matema Accounting Assistant Chose Symantec Endpoint Security We haven't evaluated any other products that compare. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Symantec Endpoint Security Our company has used both the Norton and Symantec systems for years. Therefore, I have never used any other system. We are so pleased with Symantec and have never seen a need to use any other programs. Incentivized Helpful? Denis Pereira Programmer Analyst Chose Symantec Endpoint Security The company decided to opt for Symantec Endpoint Protection because of efficiency and what it promises to do. Besides being an investment which has been used for more than 10 years. For any and all problems, the software presents a solution at the time, in addition to sending … Incentivized Helpful? Paul Li Senior Associate Chose Symantec Endpoint Security Symantec Endpoint Protection stacks up well against its competitors. It's priced very competitively. It's easy to install. Most important of all it catches viruses and prevents them from attacking one's computer. Incentivized Helpful?

Features

ESET PROTECT

Symantec Endpoint Security

Endpoint Security

Comparison of Endpoint Security features of Product A and Product B
	ESET PROTECT 9.3 Ratings 8% above category average	Symantec Endpoint Security 9.2 Ratings 7% above category average
Anti-Exploit Technology	9.20 Ratings	8.90 Ratings
Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)	9.60 Ratings	9.90 Ratings
Centralized Management	9.20 Ratings	8.90 Ratings
Hybrid Deployment Support	9.00 Ratings	8.80 Ratings
Infection Remediation	9.40 Ratings	7.90 Ratings
Vulnerability Management	9.70 Ratings	9.80 Ratings
Malware Detection	9.40 Ratings	9.90 Ratings

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User Ratings
	ESET PROTECT	Symantec Endpoint Security
Likelihood to Recommend	9.6 (0 ratings)	9.7 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	10.0 (0 ratings)	9.1 (0 ratings)
Usability	8.0 (0 ratings)	9.1 (0 ratings)
Availability	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	9.5 (0 ratings)	1.0 (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	10.0 (0 ratings)	6.4 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	ESET PROTECT	Symantec Endpoint Security
Likelihood to Recommend	Comprehensive threat prevention against a variety of threats, such as viruses, ransomware, and spyware is effectively provided by ESET PROTECT. The cross platform compatibility of this software is advantageous for business with diverse IT environments such as those combination of Windows, macOS, and Linux systems. Some industries, such highly regulated sectors with specific compliance needs, may find it more cost-effective, however it is less suitable for small enterprises with limited IT resources and for organizations with severe budgetary limits. Verified User Anonymous Read full review	We have found that Symantec Endpoint Security is better suited to newer systems running faster processors and more than 8GB RAM otherwise the client agent takes up too many resources and slows the system down. However, if you have a reasonably modern fleet of systems it does everything you would expect from an Endpoint Protection solution and works well as part of a multi-layered cybersecurity policy. Incentivized Tony Ryan CIO (Chief Information Officer) Read full review
Pros	ESET provides comprehensive, transparent protection for my MacOS devices without interfering with the efficiency of my operating system. It's easy to install, configure (default settings are great for just about everyone), and update. ESET's customer communications, including a very detailed knowledge base online, make it clear I've chosen the right antivirus solution! Incentivized BP Benjamin Plotkin Technical Project Manager Read full review	The virus and spyware protection has worked well for us, catching several things and quarantining the items or cleaning them. The virus definitions very rarely fail to update for the users, so I feel confident that my client machines are kept up to date. I like the report I get daily telling me about threats found and action taken without having to login to the console to look it up myself. Incentivized Debbie Johnson Systems Administrator Read full review
Cons	Price a little expensive - ESET is a great product, but it is priced at a high price and in a market as competitive as antivirus and security tools, this can weigh in the balance. Complexity in creating rules - it's quite complex to create rules in ESET, you end up wasting some time on it, it could be more intuitive. Incentivized Marcio Vizoli Analista de sistema Read full review	Removing dead clients from the console. This is nearly impossible to do, and makes keeping the console clean a very difficult task. Poorly tested versions are sometimes released that cause serious issues for users. This ranges from browsers malfunctioning to BSOD errors. Malware detection is good but not great. We are not confident in SEP by itself to neutralize malware threats. It's detection rate just isn't high enough for next generation and zero day threats. Kurt Ferguson Lead Desktop Analyst Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	I'm giving it a 10, because I would totally have no reservations about staying on with eSet for another 3 years once our contract comes up for renewal. We are looking to transfer to a different product in January, however. This is due to a special pricing contract with the state of Ohio that made a normally much more expensive product very affordable and was cheaper than our coming eSet renewal cost. This is a very special case only available to government and educational organizations, but had that not been offered, we would have gladly stayed with eSet. Incentivized CF Chris Funk IT Director Read full review	Continued satisfied support. The saying "if it ain't broke, don't fix it..." comes to mind. It works, and we'll continue to use it and support Symantec. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Usability	Provide execllent security agains malware, ransomware, and phishing. Easy to use and monitoring multiple devices and managing security settings remotely. Software firewall ability to secure network traffic and blocking websites and application at software level its gives very easy to configure .Zero-day threats as some other security products is missing with more advanced machine learning and behavioral analysis capabilities. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	The rating reflects Symantec Endpoint Security's ability to balance enterprise grade security with user-friendly workflows or advanced configurations require extra effort. For most organizations, the streamlined management and robust automation justify the high score. Management GUI is old fashined and need to be improve. Older devices may experience slowdowns during full scans without careful configuration. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Reliability and Availability	No answers on this topic	We've used it for years and the software is easy to use. The dashboard is easy to read, and you can easily figure out where to go to troubleshoot or deploy software. Symantec is there for emergencies like backup restoration or file retrieval. It's pretty low maintenance. Symantec is there when your IT infrastructure needs it Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	Excellent support from ESET and when we had questions regarding the initial deployment they were there. The questions we put forth were answered immediately with great detail. Any of the items we put forth, scenarios, were given a good solution from ESET to fit our needs. This company stands by their product and are happy to step up when needed. Incentivized Eric Krueger IT Manager Read full review	Support is completely awful! You can never get anyone to help if you can even find a number to call. The support web portal is a joke and their response time if you're even able to submit a ticket is ridiculously slow. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Implementation Rating	Do the full scan at the beginning and be prepared to wait until it is done. It will find things you did not know were there. You can leave on the Apple firewall as well as the ESET firewall. There have been no conflicts. Remember to remove emails from being backed up, so you do not have spam on your backup! This was the mistake I made. Incentivized Robin L. Ore Independent Business Owner Read full review	Use a third party deployment tool and not the deployment option within the SEP Manager itself. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	The two main competitors We compared ESET PROTECT against was Bitdefender and Withsecure: · Performance: ESET PROTECT was the lowest performance compared to other competitors. · Console/dashboard: ESET PROTECT had the most intuitive UI, had great automation features and is the only one that has an on prem option. · Security: Bitdefender was the strongest but only by a few % but due to the cost being double there was no way our management would accept the cost difference. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Symantec Endpoint Security seems to be a more mature solution compared with CrowdStrike, particularly when CS was just recently getting their USB blocking functionality rolled out for macOS endpoints this year. Another differentiator with CrowdStrike is that Symantec ES still provides both on-demand scanning & real-time signature-based detection in addition to solely real-time machine learning detection whereas on-demand scanning and signatures are not available on CrowdStrike. This means there is a doubt as to whether we can use CS to comply with some of our PCI DSS obligations which specifically require the use of signature-based antivirus solutions. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	My computer operation improved drastically so it was very effective in business execution. I think it is a very easy software to introduce to small and medium-sized businesses at a reasonable price. Even in license management, you will receive an email as soon as possible, so you can handle the renewal procedure in a lot of time. Incentivized Carine Oliveira Marketing Manager Read full review	Symantec [Endpoint Security] cost 50k less than other options while providing similar benefits over the last year Cylance conflicted with Symantec [Endpoint Security] and Cisco Umbrella Client (All 3 at the same time) causing us to rebuild many desktops Symantec [Endpoint Security] made it easy to detect where issues were and repair them Incentivized SM Sean Muller IT Security Manager Read full review
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