McAfee Total Protection for Data Loss Prevention Reviews

This is our data loss prevention tool. We install it in our AWS instances for our data.

If a user tries to copy from EC2 Instant to any other devices, it'll block the action. Or, if a user tries to upload any file from EC2 Instance to any block-listed URLs, it'll block that as well. It helps keeps our organization's data safe and protected. 

Everything in this DLP is great. It blocks everything. It ensures nothing is shared illegally.

The solution can scale.

The pricing is reasonable. 

In our environment, we need improved network security. We'll be getting DDoS attacks, brute force, or credential theft. These things we need to improve.

While McAfee will work in endpoints, when it comes to networks, it has not helped us. We have AWS GuardDuty and CloudTrail fro that. 

The initial setup is very complex. 

We've been using the solution for one year.

It is pretty stable. It could be better, though. I'd rate it six out of ten in terms of overall stability. 

The scalability is quite good. I would rate it nine out of ten in terms of ease of setup.  It really does its job with 100% satisfaction. I can rate nine out of ten, even though there are some glitches.

We have about 400 or more users on the solution. 

We plan to increase usage only if we increase members with the hiring cycle. 

We do get support from our reseller. We don't get support directly from McAfee. 

We did not previously use another product. this was the first product we deployed. 

I found the initial setup to be complex. If I rated it out of ten, it would be a four for ease of setup.

The deployment itself took one month. 

We had about five people involved in the initial setup process.

We are able to maintain the solution ourselves in-house. We have two people from IT handling maintenance duties.  

We had vendor support in the form of resellers that helped us set up everything.

We have seen a pretty decent ROI. I'd rate it nine out of ten overall in terms of the level of ROI we've received. 

The pricing is pretty reasonable. I'd rate the product eight out of ten in terms of affordability.

We pay a yearly licensing fee. 

I don't have any insights into what, if any, other solutions were evaluated. 

I'm a customer and end-user. 

I would absolutely recommend the solution. 

I'd rate it nine out of ten overall. We are pretty happy with its capabilities. 

We are a solutions provider. We make recommendations to people and companies concerning virtualization solutions, server solutions, file sharing and things of this nature. So we also need to protect servers or client machines or PCs and so often we need to recommend the purchase of some antivirus solutions. McAfee is one of the solutions we use in our recommendations.  

It provides us with an excellent solution to recommend to clients for security.  

One of the most valuable things for us about this product is that we needed some solution that can be used in desktop virtualization. We are not using the antivirus program in common ways. We use antivirus in desktop virtualization.  

The most important solution for us is protecting the virtual machines that we host on our servers. We need security protection for our clients and server solutions, security protection for virtual desktop solutions and security for the cloud-based system solutions. We work in all of these fields.  

One thing that would help us is if the McAfee agent that we install on virtual machines became lighter. It is a bit heavy for installation on virtual machines and it uses too much in the way of resources. It takes a lot of the CPU, the RAM, and other resources in comparison to some other application like Kaspersky. Kaspersky Security Solution is a lighter solution than McAfee. McAfee is a little heavy for many installations and does not work for all clients and situations.  

It would also be good if the McAfee solution contained specialized features just for the virtual desktop. Some brands of security solutions already have this type of feature which makes it easier to use them for desktop virtualization. I can not find that currently in the McAfee product.  

We have been using this product for about 10 years for some internal solutions and for our clients.  

Of course, a product like this has to be designed to be stable. The whole point of McAfee is to be a stable, dependable solution for total security.  

In our experience, the product is easy to scale both on server and desktop visualization.  

The number of clients we have using McAfee Total Protection for data within our company and within our client deployments is hard to say in total. We have lots of clients in various territories. We work in five countries in the Middle East. So I don't know the exact number of users, but I know there are more than 1,000 SMBs, or small to medium businesses, that we have deployed for.  

The users at each site are IT Managers, IT Admin, Security Admins or some type of IT expert for the administration.  

I have previous and current experience in usage of some other security applications like McAfee, like Kaspersky, like BitDefender, and like SOPHOS. So I have experience with a lot of these kinds of products and know which to recommend for particular purposes in deployments. We use McAfee because it fits certain client needs but we still sometimes use other solutions for other clients. Everyone is not the same.  

We also have our own security solutions and we do not use only third-party applications in our company. We have an ISMS (information security management system) that we customize for what we need it to do.  

For the Data Security product, McAfee is easy to install and it is easy to use. This is not the setup and usability that are part of the problem when it comes to this product.  

We do our own implementations.  

I did consider other options from the other vendors I've worked with before. I had kind of a friendly connection with the BitDefender company, for example. But when it comes down to making a choice for clients I have to tell them that the application is the heaviest security program. It uses the most resources of any of the products I know well, so it was not really a good solution for us to recommend. Their solution uses more resources than even McAfee. 

Advice that I would give to others looking into implementing this solution is the same as when our customers ask us for any kind of security solution. We almost always recommended that they go with McAfee. McAfee is a great choice for most cases.  

On a scale from one to ten where one is the worst and ten is the best, I would rate McAfee Total Protection for Data as a nine out of ten. It is very good except for the resource drain.  

We are a consulting firm and this is one of the solutions that we implement for our clients.

Our customers primarily use it to protect local files that they are saving to external devices.

The most valuable feature is the ability to control access to USB drives and other external devices.

The interface is very complicated to use and it is easy to forget how it works.

There needs to be support for blocking the sending of files by email because even if you block or remove an external disk, the files are not protected. As long as the files can still be sent via email, it is useless to protect them from being copied to an external drive.

I have been working with this McAfee data protection product for more than two years.

Scalability is not really applicable because it is only dealing with an endpoint device. There is no impact on scalability.

I have not been in contact with McAfee's technical support.

Symantec has a similar solution available.

The initial setup is complex. The configuration requires that many points have to be considered before it can be done properly.

The price is high for this type of product.

I would rate this solution a five out of ten.

This solution is for credit card protection; credit card numbers, any kind of data storage and data flows from storage to an application, it all goes through DLP filters and policies.

This solution has a rich set of policies and provides a level of protection even for removable devices.

The challenge now is the ability to have sensors, monitoring, and general security and policies on IOT devices. It's a challenge every time I use it and it's been frustrating. There are a lot of vulnerabilities and people can interrogate devices on a network and proliferate different forms of viruses or malware to infect a lot of things within the whole enterprise.

DLP was a very difficult solution to set up and use. It took an expert with a lot of experience to do that for us. It's very hard to implement across the enterprise with the different faces of where the DLP engines live. One of the challenges was that we weren't setting a generic policy, we have many different levels we're dealing with. It touches so many different things that it takes an army to maintain.

The solution is license based and is expensive. Every user, device, file, everything is licensed. There are many layers to licensing costs. It takes a lot of expertise and a lot of work to set that up across the enterprise.

ManTech was a better solution than McAfee but then it was bought out and that sometimes means that development isn't complete and feature richness is lacking. There is a tendency to move backward in capabilities. When it comes to McAfee, DLP works flawlessly while other parts struggle. 

We use the product as an anti-virus solution. It prevents virus attacks on my laptops and mobile phones. 

I am impressed with the tool's firewalls and web protection. 

I would like the solution to improve the AI features for anti-virus detection. I also want the software to include a tool for malware detection. 

I have been using the solution for four years. 

I have used other anti-virus products like Sophos and Kaspersky. I switched to McAfee because it is easier to use and has more features than others. 

The tool is easy to setup. I would rate the product's setup an eight out of ten. The product's deployment takes 10-15 minutes to complete. 

I would rate the solution's pricing a six out of ten. 

I would rate the product a nine out of ten. 

Our primary use for this McAfee product is to provide a capable data protection tool to clients whose needs fit this solution.  

The interface is really the most valuable feature. The administration part is also nice because it is pretty user-friendly as it is. The interface and administration are important because the data protection capabilities are already there. The administration and the interface make it accessible and easy to use. 

Both the pricing and the support for this product could be improved. 

I think the support comes at a very high cost. In our case, there are some regions where we do not pay McAfee for support because they do not provide the support quickly or they do not have the capacity to support our needs completely. It depends on the case and where the client is.  

It is not just the support that is expensive, I would like to see better pricing for the product licensing. Feature-wise, I would like enhancements added to the GUI interface to make it more well-designed, user-friendly, and user-intuitive while adding other features to help users work with the product more easily.  

We have been using McAfee Total Protection for DLP for more than two years.  

McAfee Total Protection is stable. We have no problems with it and neither do our clients who use it.  

The clients that we deploy this solution for are small to medium-sized businesses.  

I think that the technical support can be improved. It should be cheaper, faster and more comprehensive as far as the regions it covers.  

The installation and initial setup are not so hard. I would have to give it a mid-range score. Some of it is easy and some of it more difficult. Let's say fifty-fifty as that is the best way to describe the initial setup: half easy, half hard.  

We did not need the help of a third-party to implement the solution for us. We are a McAfee partner so we implement it for ourselves and our clients.  

The pricing seems expensive both for the license and the support.  

We are often looking for information about different products that we will be able to present to our clients as a solution for what they need. We have done research and comparison of many brands and products. With McAfee Total Data Protection for DLP, we might offer the client a choice of solutions with different advantages and features such as a Fortinet product. It depends on the client's needs.  

My advice to anyone considering this type of data protection solution is that you need to choose a product based on your needs. There are so many products nowadays that do similar things and there are always newer tools and technologies emerging. I'd recommend that people not just take advice from the manufacturer or trust in internet reviews. They should test products out for themselves to be confident in what they choose. Use the trial versions to see how the product works for yourself and do a proof of concept before you decide on a solution and implement it. It would be good to try several products to be able to compare rather than just one.  

On a scale from one to ten where one is the worst and ten is the best, I would rate the product as an eight out of ten.  

Customers mainly use McAfee Total Data Loss Prevention to protect sensitive data on PCs, ATM machines, and email servers. It stops unauthorized data leaks, uses encryption for security, and enforces data rules on devices and networks. It also helps find sensitive info, handles data breaches, and ensures compliance. It is crucial for organizations to keep their data safe in different parts of their IT systems.

The most valuable feature is strong data leak prevention for data protection.

In terms of improvement, it could improve how it deals with solar data. It should be converted to Trellix as soon as possible. We currently don't fully understand Trelix, but we hope to gain a better understanding when they present it to our team. We are looking forward to their presentation, and we believe it will help us provide valuable feedback.

I have been using the solution for three months at my current company, but I have experience with clients using it for numerous years at my previous job.

The solution is scalable and most of our company's clients who use it are enterprise businesses. I would rate it an eight out of ten.

The initial setup is smooth, especially when handling data in Gmail. We typically collaborate with local IT partners who manage email services for our customers, which simplifies the process. It takes about a month and a half to implement the solution at a company with 2,000 users. For a smaller company with 20-50 users, it takes three to four days. The deployment process involves downloading the software, installing it on the servers, and then exploring its functionalities.

Overall, I would rate McAfee Total Protection for Data Loss Prevention an eight out of ten.

My company uses McAfee Total Protection for Data Loss Prevention for data protection.

The most valuable features of the solution are that it is a single agent and single management.

The product fails to offer automatic classification capabilities to its users. The tool should offer automatic classification in future releases.

I have been using McAfee Total Protection for Data Loss Prevention for around ten years. My team uses the product.

In the latest version of the solution, we have faced some issues, as per the feedback from my team. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a seven out of ten.

Scalability-wise, I rate the solution an eight to eight and a half out of ten.

The initial setup process was easy.

The solution is deployed on the cloud and on-premises.

Around 10 to 15 engineers are involved in the maintenance phase of the solution.

Since the tool doesn't offer automatic classification, I rate the overall solution a seven out of ten.