Fortra Goes Beyond Visibility
Fortra delivers an integrated data security strategy that connects discovery, classification, and protection, helping organizations reduce risk faster and with less complexity. Get actionable data security, combining DSPM, data classification, and DLP in a unified platform that helps organizations find risk, fix risk, and protect valuable intellectual property. Fortra also offers flexible deployment options and streamlined management that can lower operational overhead as environments scale.
Fortra vs. Symantec Feature Comparison
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Unified Data Security Approach
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Combines DSPM, data classification, and DLP to discover, classify, monitor, and protect sensitive data across endpoint, network, cloud, and hybrid environments
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Provides data discovery, classification, DLP, and risk visibility across endpoint, network, email, cloud, and storage repositories, with a strong focus on compliance-driven discovery and governance
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Discovery, Visibility, and Control of Critical Data
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Links discovery directly to protection, allowing DSPM and classification findings to automatically inform DLP enforcement and remediation actions
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Offers broad discovery and classification capabilities but relies more heavily on separate workflows between visibility and enforcement
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User Behavior Context and Coaching
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Delivers contextual user coaching, policy prompts, classification-driven guidance, and real-time notifications at the point of risk
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Uses policy notifications, warnings, and enforcement prompts to guide user behavior when policy violations occur
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Reduced Security Stack Complexity
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Brings DSPM, classification, and DLP together through a unified strategy, simplifying management and reducing the need for separate governance and protection tools
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May require multiple products and services to achieve comparable functionality across discovery, governance, and enforcement
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Budget and Operational Efficiency
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Reduces operational overhead through consolidated data security capabilities and flexible deployment options
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Licensing and administrative costs can increase as environments scale
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Content Detection
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Strong content inspection and classification integrated with Fortra DLP and Fortra DSPM workflows
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Comparable content detection capabilities
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Data Discovery
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Highly scalable network discovery with centralized visibility through Fortra Analytics and Reporting Cloud, combining discovery data and endpoint control events into a single reporting and incident management platform
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Provides broad discovery capabilities but lacks the same level of centralized visibility and workflow integration
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Endpoint Protection
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Consistent feature parity across Windows, macOS, and Linux agents, supporting unified policy enforcement and monitoring
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Has experienced challenges maintaining full feature parity across platforms, particularly with macOS updates
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Cloud Integration
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Strong cloud integration capabilities alongside support for hybrid environments
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Comparable cloud integration capabilities
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Reporting and Analytics
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Fortra Analytics and Reporting Cloud provides advanced reporting, centralized analytics, incident investigation, and workflow management capabilities
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Reporting capabilities are more limited and represent a key area where Fortra differentiates
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Why Organizations Choose Fortra Over Symantec
Simplify your data security strategy with Fortra. Connect discovery, classification, and protection in a single solution that helps your team identify risks, enforce policies, and protect critical data more efficiently.
Data Security from Discovery to Enforcement
Organizations can discover sensitive data, classify it based on risk and business context, and automatically enforce protection policies across the data lifecycle. By linking visibility directly to enforcement, Fortra helps security teams move from finding risk to fixing risk faster. Symantec provides strong discovery and governance capabilities, but Fortra offers a more connected approach that reduces gaps between visibility and protection.
Stronger Protection for Intellectual Property and Data in Motion
Protecting intellectual property requires more than identifying sensitive data. Fortra combines persistent classification, deep endpoint visibility, network DLP, and real-time policy enforcement to help organizations prevent both accidental data loss and intentional exfiltration. By correlating data sensitivity with user activity and movement, Fortra provides greater insight into how critical information is being accessed, shared, and transferred. This helps security teams protect valuable intellectual property as well as regulated data across data at rest, in use, and in motion.
Simplified Management with Flexible Deployment
Fortra delivers enterprise-grade data protection through a streamlined management experience designed for complex environments. Flexible deployment options, consolidated policy management, and a unified data security strategy help reduce operational overhead while maintaining consistent visibility and control. Rather than requiring separate governance and protection initiatives, Fortra simplifies administration by bringing core data security capabilities together, helping organizations scale security programs without adding unnecessary complexity.
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