With Broadcom’s acquisition of Symantec, Symantec DLP customers face increasingly limited functionality, especially in essential features like reporting and incident management. Support challenges add another layer of difficulty, often making collaboration and resolution slow and restricted. Moreover, intellectual property is more at risk due to the minimal improvements Broadcom has made to Symantec’s DLP.
While standalone products might be affordable, achieving a full-featured DLP solution through Symantec typically requires costly add-ons and integrations, creating a complex, fragmented approach to data protection. Fortra’s Digital Guardian offers a streamlined transition with comprehensive DLP coverage that reduces risk and simplifies management.
Why Choose Digital Guardian over Symantec?
Superior reporting and dashboards with no third-party requirements
Fortra’s Digital Guardian provides comprehensive, built-in reporting and dashboards without requiring third-party integrations, offering detailed, actionable insights through its Analytics and Reporting Cloud (ARC). This cloud-based platform uses machine learning algorithms to monitor and analyze data protection events in real time, allowing security teams to detect and respond to threats as they happen. Additionally, Fortra’s managed services team ensures that every DLP solution is thoroughly integrated and tailored to the customer’s specific needs.
Comprehensive protection against unauthorized data egress
Digital Guardian also provides robust protection against unauthorized data egress by supporting automated removable media encryption, MIP integration, and the detection and blocking of hidden egress events. Unlike Symantec, which may require add-ons, Digital Guardian delivers these capabilities in a unified platform that seamlessly integrates with existing security workflows.
Unified network discovery and incident management
Its unified network discovery and incident management features enhance scalability, enabling organizations to capture and report on discovery data and endpoint control events. All incident data is available in ARC for streamlined management, allowing teams to respond more efficiently with a single view of data movement and potential risks across the network.
A Recognized Market Leader
Fortra’s Digital Guardian is a market leader in data loss prevention due to its comprehensive approach to safeguarding sensitive data against internal and external threats. The solution’s unified platform—featuring a single agent, network appliance, and management console—enables streamlined, consistent data protection across environments. Digital Guardian’s flexible deployment options, including SaaS, on-premises, and managed services, allow organizations to tailor DLP to their unique needs. Advanced features such as pre-built policy templates from the DG Content Server and robust Drip DLP detection underscore its commitment to precise, real-time data protection. Additionally, seamless integrations with Microsoft Purview Information Protection and major SIEM, SOAR, and threat intelligence platforms further enhance its adaptability for complex IT ecosystems.
The Time to Switch is Now
Contact us or a certified Digital Guardian partner today to get expert guidance and a demo on switching from Symantec. Our Customer Success team can scope your migration and ensure a smooth transition to Digital Guardian Enterprise DLP.
Once Digital Guardian Network DLP was installed, visibility into our network traffic was significantly improved. We could see exactly what data was being transmitted and where. Today I can’t imagine doing security work without it.
Michael Stridsberg, Information Security Program Manager, NEFCU