Symantec Cloud Workload Protection Reviews

Name: Symantec Cloud Workload Protection
Brand: Broadcom
Rating: 4.0 (2 reviews)

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What is Symantec Cloud Workload Protection?

Symantec Cloud Workload Protection automates security for public cloud workloads, enabling business agility, risk reduction, and cost savings for organizations, while easing DevOps and administrative burdens. Rapid discovery, visibility, and elastic protection of AWS and Azure workloads enable automated security policy enforcement to protect applications from unknown exploits.

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Symantec Cloud Workload Protection is the #37 ranked solution in Cloud Workload Protection Platforms. PeerSpot users give Symantec Cloud Workload Protection an average rating of 8.0 out of 10. Symantec Cloud Workload Protection is most commonly compared to AWS GuardDuty: Symantec Cloud Workload Protection vs AWS GuardDuty.

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Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP)

April 2025

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Symantec Cloud Workload Protection mindshare

As of April 2025, the mindshare of Symantec Cloud Workload Protection in the Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) category stands at 0.1%, down from 0.2% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Key learnings from peers

Valuable Features

"The most valuable features in Symantec Cloud Workload Protection are endpoint protection and active directory features. The active directory features in the product are very good, and in terms of security, the most valuable feature in Symantec Cloud Workload Protection is threat defense or threat protection."
"It will read various logs, diagnose what is wrong, and then alert you."

Room for Improvement

"One area for improvement in Symantec Cloud Workload Protection is integration. Other features that could be improved are defense control and encryption, particularly in the USB. For example, users should be able to control the USB and have the capability of blocking and allowing USB reading and writing. Having a USB encryption feature in Symantec Cloud Workload Protection would also be very useful."
"In the future, we may need to use features that are only available in one of the competing products."