Monday, July 25, 2011

Symantec antivirus on top of Gartner Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection

Based on Gartner Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection (EPP) report for December 2010, Symantec Endpoint Protection v12 solution is at the forefront of threat protection.

Key findings :
a) Symantec continues to perform well in numerous tests of malware effectiveness (AV-Test, NSS Labs, PassMark) compared with peers.
b) Symantec provides good port and device controls, mobile device synchronization and the best firewall of any ranked vendor.
c) The software hass large disk footprint, but is very fast and light on memory usage...

Gartner Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection Platforms (17-Dec-2010)

2 comments:

  1. I don't think that the large amount of bugs and the extremly poor tech support from Symantec were considered.

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    1. I feel Symantec misses out certain hard rooted rootkits......

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