We performed a comparison between Check Point Harmony Mobile and Symantec Endpoint Protection Mobile based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Mobile Threat Defense solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The easy navigation of the admin portal is a welcome change to how some other admin portals are not very user-friendly."
"Internal applications, data, and folders are published on enrolled mobile devices in a secure way without publishing any of the resources over the internet."
"One of the features that have given us additional value is being able to encrypt and block how data is shared within cell phones or mobile devices."
"We have had a lot fewer attacks thanks to this solution."
"The most impressive thing is the SSL VPN Portal."
"We have applied MFA so that no one can bypass this security and the users/employees can access their resources very easily, securely, and seamlessly."
"It is very easy for my company to get information from the product's support team."
"You can block infected devices from accessing corporate data."
"Symantec Endpoint Protection Mobile is very easy to deploy, and it is really easy to set up the policies."
"The biggest advantage it has is the VPN product that is incorporated into the solution."
"The most valuable feature is to be able to power up a device and wipe the data remotely."
"Your endpoint protection depends on the signature piece, so it's mainly for virus and malware protection, as well as also to control devices and applications."
"The user interface is good. Managing and monitoring tools are also good."
"Integration is good. You can integrate them with an off-brand endpoint solution. It has quite a few integration features you can use."
"One of the features I found very nice in Symantec Endpoint Protection Mobile is that it's good at scanning and fixing issues on its own. The solution is very good at finding a lot of applications and notifying you about systems that have issues. Symantec Endpoint Protection Mobile can run headless without having to report back which I found very nice about it. I also like that the solution would create alerts when a certain amount of time lapsed for systems, and it would recommend going through and scanning the systems. As an actual endpoint protection product, Symantec Endpoint Protection Mobile is good."
"For SandBlast Mobile, the only thing that is lacking is that it wasn't available for all types of users. However, Check Point has since fixed this, with ZoneAlarm."
"Some configuration options inside the management console are a little confusing because the interface is not always user-friendly."
"We had some issues with loopback VPN DNS filtering stopping working periodically, however, this is something that we could probably iron out with support."
"I would quite like to be able to block ads on my phone by blocking known inbound ad websites and services."
"They could make a more beautiful interface."
"The service provided by Check Point at the technical support level is somewhat slow, and they only provide help in English, which limits some clients."
"In the next release, I would like to see a Wi-Fi scanner to be able to identify whether a wireless network is malicious before you join it."
"Harmony has more support for Android OS as opposed to iOS. You need a third-party MDM solution to integrate with iOS. If you don't have an MDM, your app can't scan on an iOS device. The solution can scan everything on Android. It sees all your apps."
"Application and device control needs to be improved. We also need to enhance login features for management to have good visibility of the events."
"I'm not sure if there's anything lacking; I personally don't use the solution too much, so I'd have to look at it a bit and do some more research. I'm more on the operation side of things."
"Having better, real-time support would be an improvement over having to send an email."
"The price is too expensive for the Egyptian market here. Compared to other products or the other competition here in the local market, they need to be more competitive cost-wise."
"For a lot of the issues my team experienced from Symantec Endpoint Protection Mobile, Symantec said that getting the issues resolved would mean going through the partner that sold the product and creating an incident report to get the team to work on the actual company environment. A lot of the problems my team has been having from Symantec Endpoint Protection Mobile were associated with Outlook for endpoint users who were being locked out of the Outlook application. Another area for improvement in Symantec Endpoint Protection Mobile is its central web hub, where you're supposed to be able to update all of the endpoints because it wasn't reaching the endpoints. For example, even if the central web hub was able to see the endpoints and do the required scans, whenever you'd go to do a policy change, the policy change wouldn't propagate down to the endpoints. The central web hub allows you to monitor all of your endpoints and allows you to choose actions you'd want to do to each of the endpoints such as pushing down on updates or scanning the system. The problem my team usually gets is that majority of the time, whenever my team would do policy updates, the updates won't propagate down to the users, so it was very inconsistent. Needing to manually go through and scan systems is also an area for improvement in Symantec Endpoint Protection Mobile. Currently, there's no way to automate its scanning process. A lot of the other issues started appearing in Symantec Endpoint Protection Mobile during situations when people wanted to customize different applications. Symantec doesn't like people doing a lot of customizations. For example, the main problem in my company is users losing access to Outlook, but then my team discovered that there was a specific policy set that you could disable, and it would fix a lot of the Outlook issues. However, when you'd go to change that policy set and attach that to a user to overwrite policies on the user side, it just wouldn't do anything for that user. It wouldn't even show that the policy was updated, so this is what needs to be improved in Symantec Endpoint Protection Mobile."
"When there is an attack attempt on mobile, there doesn't seem to be much of a notification."
"It would be nice to have more flexibility regarding deployment."
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Check Point Harmony Mobile is ranked 1st in Mobile Threat Defense with 45 reviews while Symantec Endpoint Protection Mobile is ranked 5th in Mobile Threat Defense with 7 reviews. Check Point Harmony Mobile is rated 8.8, while Symantec Endpoint Protection Mobile is rated 7.2. The top reviewer of Check Point Harmony Mobile writes "Easy to implement, simple to maintain policies, and does not disrupt end-user functionality". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Symantec Endpoint Protection Mobile writes "An easy-to-deploy solution for mobile devices that has high stability and scalability". Check Point Harmony Mobile is most compared with Check Point Remote Access VPN, Lookout, Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client, Fortinet FortiClient and VMware Workspace ONE, whereas Symantec Endpoint Protection Mobile is most compared with VMware Workspace ONE and Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks. See our Check Point Harmony Mobile vs. Symantec Endpoint Protection Mobile report.
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