McAfee Total Protection for Data Loss Prevention Reviews

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.

I work in a banking environment and we use this solution for security. We are end users and I'm a system administrator. 

There are some good protection features here such as prohibiting people from taking screenshots or taking data that is copied on their external devices. It's easy to use, provides good security and has many valuable features.

It was a struggle prohibiting email content from being sent outside the company. We have some restrictions and obligations from the Central Bank of Jordan and the corporate and ISO and PCITS list. That was a problem for us. I'd like to see GDPR regulations included in this solution as it would enhance the security of the DLP for protecting data. 

I've been using this solution for about 18 months. 

The solution is scalable, but you need to plan ahead and identify your scope very well, including the asset management and asset values. Without that, DLP won't work properly. 

With some initial supervision, the initial setup is straightforward. 

I recommend this product and rate it seven out of 10.

We use the solution for data.

The solution is simple with simple settings. It provides good protection for our data.

The product’s pricing could be cheaper.

I have been using McAfee Total Protection for Data Loss Prevention for five years.

The product is stable.

I rate the solution’s stability a nine out of ten.

The solution is easy to scale.

Around 3000 users are using the solution.

I rate the solution’s scalability a nine out of ten.

The initial setup is simple and quick, but the configuration is complex. We have to put documents and other pieces which cannot be sent to an outside company.

Overall, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.

The beauty of McAfee Data Loss Prevention is, for one, it's in a single management product for all other McAfee solutions. It's also a single-agent platform. That's one really unique aspect of Data Loss Prevention. 

The configuration of McAfee is also pretty straightforward. 

On the data loss prevention side, it's pretty straightforward. It's capable of doing the basic tasks such as basic data loss prevention capabilities that any DLP can do. 

With respect to its capability of being able to block, being able to provide responses and justification, and the management of the DLP in itself, it is pretty straightforward. 

One thing that I like about McAfee is the Tamper Protection and the help desk feature. Symantec also has that, however, the help desk feature from McAfee is more user-friendly but also it's more strict and more secure, as compared to the one in Symantec.

The pricing of the product is excellent. It's very affordable. 

In my experience, it's not really user-friendly for me, in terms of how I navigate with the ePolicy Orchestrator. They need to upgrade their management console. 

You can't navigate McAfee without going through all of the administration and product guides. You have to read everything first before you navigate it. That's how it was for me, at least, in my experience. However, in my colleague's case, that didn't happen and I don't know why I can't just navigate the McAfee management console without reading first the administrator or product guide. What's really tedious about reading those things is that the documents are separate. The product guide and the administrator guide for the DLP solution are quite different from the administrator guide and product guide of the ePolicy Orchestrator.

They need to improve more with partial matching and exact data matching. The partial matching and the exact data matching are features of Symantec. There, it's pretty sophisticated. If McAfee wants to catch up with that, they have to upgrade their partial matching capabilities.

We also had a client who wanted to have at least three, two to three, set of conditions on a single policy or on a single rule, to have that kind of combination. For example, a combination of a serial number from a device, from a removable device, plus a user and a computer or the hosting or the workstation. That's three combinations. User, computer, and removable device. What they wanted is to have the three pieces of that combination in a single rule, however, we were not able to do that as McAfee conditional statements are only limited to two. That's something that they need also to improve. They need to make it more flexible.

I've used McAfee for three years at this point. It's been a while. 

McAfee offers very good technical support and we have been very happy with its capabilities. We find support to be helpful and responsive. 

I also work with Symantec. It's a bit more expensive, and I find McAfee offers a few better, more advanced features. 

This is one of the least expensive solutions on the market right now. It's even less expensive than Symantec.

I'm using the latest version of the solution at this time. 

The clients I work with are mostly enterprise-level businesses. 

I'd rate the solution at a seven out of ten. For the most part, I have been pleased with its capabilities, however, there are some improvements that could be made. 

We are a consulting house for various clients. We provide consultancy to our clients in terms of which product they should use based on their requirements and environment.

Our clients use this solution for DLP. They are using it for the basis of endpoint protection, prevention of malware infection, detection, and management of the endpoint.

The client has not fully utilized the DLP because they have not done the data classification well enough to actually get the full value of the DLP solution.

If a DLP is implemented correctly, the value is that you can address the human error issues. You can manage your compliance in line with legislation such as GDPR and POPIA. 

The value proposition is great if it is implemented correctly.

If you do not have a team that is supporting your DLP implementation, there may be a challenge, which is a concern.

The support in South Africa should have more knowledgeable and professional McAfee resources.

Our client is not very happy with the lack of support, the skills, and the effectiveness of the tool.

Our client has been using McAfee Total Protection for Data Loss Prevention for three years.

It works and is stable if it is implemented correctly.

It is a scalable solution. We have two customers who are using it and one who will be moving onto another solution. They are considering Cynet or CrowStrike.

The support in South Africa could be much better.

I was the chief information security officer at one of the largest banks in Africa. I have used all of the products including McAfee DLP, McAfee Endpoint, and Forcepoint DLP as well.

I wasn't involved in the implementation for this client in particular. 

My experience with McAfee from a vendor perspective is if you have the right skills, it can be deployed quite easily. The only challenge is it uses a lot of hardware.

The time it takes for deployment depends on the variety of clients. Some clients have 1,000 users, so it's quite easy. 

The actual deployment before rollout to all of your users is not long. It takes approximately two weeks.

The number of people required to maintain this solution depends on the scale of the project, the customer itself, and the number of users. There is a lot of awareness that needs to go into DLP and Endpoint DLP to train the user.

We utilized specialists to implement it for us because we are not a vendor. 

We are vendor agnostic. We advise our clients, and then we get professional people like McAfee Professional Service to install it. We wouldn't get involved in it.

We use integrators.

If the client purchases the entire suite of McAfee Endpoint, the license is included.

We evaluated Cynet and CrowdStrike in comparison to McAfee. Our client wants to find an alternative to McAfee Endpoint Security.

We are purely consultants. We do not get involved primarily with the implementation. 

What we do is advise clients. For example, we are doing a lot of work for Coca-Cola and we advise them on how to configure.

It doesn't matter whether you're using Defender, or whether you are using MCAS as a cloud solution, we help you configure according to the standard that is applicable, whether it's a legislative standard or an internal policy. 

We ensure that the necessary implementation and configuration settings are aligned. Then we give it back to the technical integrators to implement according to the standard that we have set. That is the level of involvement we have. We don't do the implementation, but we advise on how the implementation should be done in line with the internal policy or the legislation.

I would not recommend this solution to others. I think there are better products available at the moment.

I would rate this solution a six out of ten.

We primarily used the solution for data loss prevention.

It is for national identity purposes, for our management, office management of mail, for sending office documents, and for monitoring bad behavior via email or writing.

The solution is stable and reliable.

It can scale. 

The product is very easy to maintain.

The product is difficult to use. 

I don't like the McAfee product and have had a negative user experience. 

They really need to simplify their offering. The interface is not so good.

McAfee needs to clarify its rules. 

If you don't know what you are doing, scaling can be challenging.

I used the solution for four months. 

We never had a complaint from IT. The solution seemed to have been stable. 

We had 150 people using the solution. 

If you know what you are doing, it's scalable. That said, if you use the interface and you are not a qualified person for that, it gets complicated. 

We did not directly reach out to McAfee, the corporation, in terms of support. We can get help from their partners. If we have questions, we'll ask the partner, not McAfee directly. 

We've moved from McAfee products as we changed our environment, and we focus mostly on Microsoft now. 

I now prefer Microsoft. If you had asked me nearly eight months ago, I would have said I hate Microsoft. While I'm still not a huge fan, I appreciate the scalability and visibility. It's a native environment of Windows 10, Windows 8.1 servers, and Android and iPhones. The price is very low as well for CRM and ERP solutions. Now, there is no need to buy any antivirus for the ERP solution if you've got licenses, of course, from Microsoft.

The solution was already pre-installed in an on-premises environment by the time I arrived. I wasn't a part of the initial implementation. 

The maintenance is pretty straightforward. 

I'm not sure what the exact pricing is. 

We were using the latest version of the solution. 

I'd warn new users to prepare for the interface, which is not user-friendly.

I'd rate the solution six out of ten.

Our main use case of this DLP solution is for endpoint protection of data breaching. Systems have to be protected both internally and externally. Our company offers multiple solutions for endpoint security, network security, data loss prevention and firewalls. We are a service provider and a partner of McAfee. Here in Pakistan, very few companies take data loss prevention seriously. We work with the financial sector and they all need that level of security. I'm an assistant manager of technical support.

Of course the data loss prevention is the most valuable feature. The solution also enables us to customize in that space and that's why I prefer this product. We can add different file types, and different scenarios or implement McAfee DLP on-site for our customers. The solution fulfills the vast majority of our customers' needs. This is a sharp and intuitive solution. 

For our new engineers, it is difficult to understand the McAfee DLP interface, or configure it in the deployment scenario. The UI needs to be simplified. 

I've been using this solution for six years. 

McAfee DLP is very stable. I've compared it with other solutions and it's a very mature and comprehensive solution. 

The solution is scalable. 

The initial setup is quite complex. Each scenario is different depending on our customers. We have multiple teams providing multiple services. I have three engineers who work with McAfee and we also provide support. 

My advice to any organization is to support appropriate security levels because following Covid many people have moved to online work and that needs supporting on a security level. Companies should be working in a zero-trust environment.

I rate this solution eight out of 10. 

When this solution is used it requires a lot of administration because the users can have difficulties using it and require assistance. The administrators are continuously modifying the policies for the users. Technical support will be used frequently.

I have been using McAfee Total Protection for Data Loss Prevention for a few years. 

The stability of the solution can be good. However, the configuration takes a long time for it to be done properly.

We have approximately three customers using this solution.

McAfee Total Protection for Data Loss Prevention is scalable.

The support from McAfee Total Protection for Data Loss Prevention could improve.

The initial setup of McAfee Total Protection for Data Loss Prevention is complex. The configuration can be complex. For example, configuring the policies and filters.

Our team did the implementation of the solution.

The price of the solution could improve, it is expensive. We typically sell one and three-year licenses.

The amount of staff needed for maintenance depends on the size of the company.

I rate McAfee Total Protection for Data Loss Prevention a seven out of ten.