Documentation is excellent with individual manuals for all of the major functions one will need to perform, such as deployment quick-start, management administration and endpoint agents. Just about everything you need is there, including product downloads and documentation - manuals and such - and a lot of reference material. The website is as complete as one would want. The IPS and firewall rule sets are as comprehensive as any we've seen. Symantec has had a lot of success with anti-malware over the years and that has been parlayed into this much more comprehensive tool set. While not characterizing the tool as a DLP product - which Symantec is not - the tool still has some DLP features that are useful. The feature set is extensive covering all of the endpoint protection features and many of the DLP functions one would expect. Nonetheless, 175 million endpoints and 57 million attack sensors in 175 countries is a pretty healthy telemetry net. In fact, the vendor claims that this telemetry network is the largest civilian network of its type in the world. Like a true next-generation product, this one leverages machine learning, an extensive cloud system with a huge number of telemetry points around the world. Not only was there a summary of these steps, if we had questions, the details were well-covered later on in the administrator's guide. There we set up a group and went through virus and spyware policies, the firewall policy, and determined which files and applications we were going to exclude from scanning. After we deployed the server and an endpoint, we went to the policy editor. These docs cover everything from planning to activating the license to setting up the endpoint protection manager. With step-by-step instructions, the administration manual and the quick-start guide both get you up and running quickly. We won't short them for that, though, because the rest worked so well. This is a nearly full-function tool, lacking only control over files and folders, and removable media. If there was nothing else to this product, that alone would be enough to get our attention. That took about 15-30 minutes and we were done. Then we got to work with configuration, policies and such. We were up and running in about five minutes. We wish all of the products that we test over the course of the year went in as quickly and smoothly as this one.
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