What is Symantec Security Analytics?
Symantec® Security Analytics delivers the network visibility and forensics required to conduct comprehensive real-time and retrospective analysis, enabling you to swiftly react to security issues to protect your workforce, fortify the network, and improve security processes. The solution can capture, inspect, index, classify, and enrich all network traffic (including full packets), which is stored in an optimized file system for rapid analysis, instant retrieval, and complete reconstruction to support all incident response and remediation activities.
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83 Likeliness to Recommend
85 Plan to Renew
86 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
Emotional Footprint Overview
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+95 Net Emotional Footprint
The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.
How much do users love Symantec Security Analytics?
Pros
- Trustworthy
- Fair
- Altruistic
- Client's Interest First
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Feature Ratings
Threat Intelligence Integration
Real-Time Threat and Anomaly Detection
Data Enrichment
Security Machine Learning
Automated Response Integration
Total Traffic Analysis
Dashboards and Visualization
Scalable Data Analysis
Compliance Management
Metadata Generation
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Symantec Security Analytics Reviews
Ernest P.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Jan 2021
Deep analysis and accurate response to threats
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Symantec Security Analytics from other similar products?
A solution that differs from others because it brings with it a large storage capacity, its implementation is flexible so it allows the user to decide if they want a license for a cloud or virtual implementation, its protection guarantees in depth analysis traffic so that only clean and legitimate traffic is handled, as well as being able to visualize the origin of the attacks, to be able to prepare to give a fast, precise and very clear response, in addition to its forensic analysis allowing to observe anomalous traffic behavior network in real time.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
What I like the most is that it makes possible the analysis of network traffic quickly and deeply, which allows abnormal behaviors to be visualized and what their origins are in order to give the answer that is most appropriate to face these threats, the one that has a more flexible implementation and, in addition to its integration with other Symantec software, includes a more powerful protection and according to any type of company.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Its analysis may be somewhat slow but I do not think it is a major inconvenience, because most of the time it is fast, also its controls are sometimes too strict, but as long as it does not allow abnormal traffic to pass, accept it is possible.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Having this software is a vital point when it comes to guaranteeing maximum business protection, as it is usually somewhat strict with traffic but that means that its potential for trust increases, since it does not allow at least illegitimate traffic to pass, which avoids incidents in the business security.
Pros
- Saves Time
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
Celestine M.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Jan 2021
Advanced network traffic analysis
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Symantec Security Analytics from other similar products?
It is a solution that differs from others because it has a flexible implementation, its interface is easy to handle, it allows the user to choose how they want to implement it, either from the facilities, as a virtual device or in the cloud, for what its price depends on, it is capable of granting great visibility of network security, carries out forensic analysis, anomaly detection, as well as performs a quick and accurate inspection of the content that is in network traffic, It also makes it possible to respond more quickly to the presence of cyber attacks, since it gives the origin of these and the scope they may have.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
The aspect that I like the most about this software is that giving them the vision about the scope that an attack will have, it is much simpler to prepare to respond more quickly and accurately and thus reduce the damages or avoid them beforehand, it provides accurate reports on any Anomaly in the network traffic through PDF and in it dictates which are the critical areas so that it is possible to fix what must be faced before, it guarantees the analysis of forensic data in an automated way, so this process is advanced and able to respond to incidents.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Safe traffic is sometimes blocked, this is because it is an extremely strict software which can be really good but at the same time somewhat tedious, because it can delay the flow of legitimate traffic, also sometimes the system is somewhat slow.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
With this software it is possible to eliminate advanced attacks before they occur, this is because it allows IT teams to obtain the forensic tools and traffic analysis to proactively search for possible threats.It is also important to know how to choose the most appropriate implementation, since so the software will respond to the maximum.
Pros
- Saves Time
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
Davis C.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Dec 2020
Fast and detailed analysis of network traffic
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Symantec Security Analytics from other similar products?
Symantec Security Analytics differs from others because it has an easy implementation, being the same in different providers such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud, this gives the advantage of being able to have access to a better observation of the entire business network, it gives a simple and centralized administration making it possible to discover attacks and their scope from a single console, its views are fully customized so that the user can choose to have visibility of summarized information about the network, performs a quick analysis on network traffic and can preserve the packages that are most important.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
What I like the most about Symantec Security Analytics is that it provides highly detailed reports on attacks so that you can see first-hand what the business network is facing, which can be managed from a single console, thus providing a complete view Of all the network traffic, all the traffic that is analyzed by this software and is unknown is sent Content Analysis for further inspection and sandboing, so there is no way that any threat can be missed since this powerful software always looks for the way of giving information about it.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Its analysis can yield safe to unsafe traffic since it is sometimes so strict that it even classifies it as a threat, which can lead to taking time from other activities to solve it, also the system is sometimes slow .
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Keeping abreast of business network traffic is extremely important, so if you want to have it in this software you will find in a very detailed way the origin of attacks or threats that wish to harm it, that is why it is important that you aware of what your business network really needs to get the best out of this software.
Pros
- Saves Time
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable