Oct 1, 2018 - SEP for Mac provides Anti-virus/Anti-malware (AV) protection. Go to Applications -> Symantec Solutions -> Symantec Endpoint Protection; the Status. Advanced users (tech savvy) can review more logs by following the.

There are a number of features that all work synergistically to be able to provide the protection. Originally, anti-virus was based on definition. About 10 years ago, the bad guys figured out how to get past that.

So what they've been doing for the past 10 years is adding in additional features to help mitigate any of these other attack vectors that the hackers or malicious people have. So it's just a working together of all these components that makes it special.

And then SEP itself fits into the Symantec ecosystem, and inter-operates with a number of other technologies to provide a comprehensive security portfolio. I think the key thing for me, is interoperability, in that you can deploy it to Windows, Mac, and Linux.

That's been a really important feature in the last two years. Now there's one management console to cover all three OSs. There are two key aspects to how it has improved. One is the threats that it protects the organization from versus the amount of resource utilization; and two is that compatibility has increased. What needs improvement?

From a scalability perspective, in Australia and New Zealand, where I'm using it, it can easily manage any workload that we've got. One of the challenges is people going the opposite way, that is, people trying to deploy Symantec Endpoint Protection - which is an enterprise level product - into a small business of a hundred users. It can introduce a lot of complexity that doesn't have to be there. There are other solutions like SEP.cloud which can make it easier for small businesses to be able to use very similar technologies to Symantec Endpoint Protection. How is customer service and technical support? Most times it's good, but there are instances where there are some challenges in that the people who you're working with don't know how to fix what you're doing. Then you have to ask for an escalation.

Normally what I'll do is I'll work with my Symantec colleagues to help escalate any internal issues, where we see that things are getting bogged down in support. From a Symantec technology perspective I'm very happy with it. However, the support can be wanting, for those reasons.

Sometimes the time to resolution is longer than I would expect. Freedome vpn code 2017 for mac free. Which solutions did we use previously? The initial setup is easy. That's one of the selling features, that you can roll it out in an hour. (They might say 15 minutes or something like that). But the initial rollout, setting up SEPM server, you can do in an hour. Then, the challenge is that you can make it as complex as you want after that.

It's very, very capable, but it can get quite complex. Symantec Endpoint Protection installation and Administration Guide is awesome. The documentation is good. They provide online training and you can also do instructor-led training. There should always be training available, or information available, to help you get where you have to go. That's one of the things I do like.