Symantec Security Analytics

What differentiates Symantec Security Analytics from other similar products?

It is a solution that differs from others because it has a flexible implementation, its interface is easy to handle, it allows the user to choose how they want to implement it, either from the facilities, as a virtual device or in the cloud, for what its price depends on, it is capable of granting great visibility of network security, carries out forensic analysis, anomaly detection, as well as performs a quick and accurate inspection of the content that is in network traffic, It also makes it possible to respond more quickly to the presence of cyber attacks, since it gives the origin of these and the scope they may have.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

The aspect that I like the most about this software is that giving them the vision about the scope that an attack will have, it is much simpler to prepare to respond more quickly and accurately and thus reduce the damages or avoid them beforehand, it provides accurate reports on any Anomaly in the network traffic through PDF and in it dictates which are the critical areas so that it is possible to fix what must be faced before, it guarantees the analysis of forensic data in an automated way, so this process is advanced and able to respond to incidents.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Safe traffic is sometimes blocked, this is because it is an extremely strict software which can be really good but at the same time somewhat tedious, because it can delay the flow of legitimate traffic, also sometimes the system is somewhat slow.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

With this software it is possible to eliminate advanced attacks before they occur, this is because it allows IT teams to obtain the forensic tools and traffic analysis to proactively search for possible threats.It is also important to know how to choose the most appropriate implementation, since so the software will respond to the maximum.

What differentiates Symantec Security Analytics from other similar products?

Symantec Security Analytics differs from others because it has an easy implementation, being the same in different providers such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud, this gives the advantage of being able to have access to a better observation of the entire business network, it gives a simple and centralized administration making it possible to discover attacks and their scope from a single console, its views are fully customized so that the user can choose to have visibility of summarized information about the network, performs a quick analysis on network traffic and can preserve the packages that are most important.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

What I like the most about Symantec Security Analytics is that it provides highly detailed reports on attacks so that you can see first-hand what the business network is facing, which can be managed from a single console, thus providing a complete view Of all the network traffic, all the traffic that is analyzed by this software and is unknown is sent Content Analysis for further inspection and sandboing, so there is no way that any threat can be missed since this powerful software always looks for the way of giving information about it.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Its analysis can yield safe to unsafe traffic since it is sometimes so strict that it even classifies it as a threat, which can lead to taking time from other activities to solve it, also the system is sometimes slow .

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Keeping abreast of business network traffic is extremely important, so if you want to have it in this software you will find in a very detailed way the origin of attacks or threats that wish to harm it, that is why it is important that you aware of what your business network really needs to get the best out of this software.

What differentiates Symantec Security Analytics from other similar products?

Its the Bare bones of security analytics software.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

There honestly wasn't one I was never ever a fan.

What do you dislike most about this product?

The limited capability and integration of the endpoint dashboard, 100% of the time I wasn't even sure the agent was even active.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Look somewhere else if your a private entity, this is a government bid and run software.