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What is McAfee Device Control?

McAfee Device Control protects your data from falling into the wrong hands via removable storage devices and media.

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McAfee Device Control protects your data from falling into the wrong hands via removable storage devices and media.


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Varun R.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"One of the most granular Device Control"
First of all its very much easy to implement just install the extension and chek in the packages of the product and then share the UNC path and af...
Tharun J.
TJ
Tharun J.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"Comprehensive Data Protection"
USB Device control can be done specifically to the particular serial of the device which is still missing in other vendors
Bharath R.
BR
Bharath R.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Data encryption is most secured with McAfee device control"
The the console as it's all the option which is Easy and efficient for administration, agent upgrades can be done from the console instead of do it...
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VR
Technical Consultant
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about McAfee Device Control?

First of all its very much easy to implement just install the extension and chek in the packages of the product and then share the UNC path and after that you are then good to go with the configuartion.

Mcafee Device control is very much granular it has the basic requirement of removable storage media like other solution has but it also detcts SCSI devices when connected to system on any port. Yo can also create multiple rules such as fixed hard drive rule, plug and play device rule which are mostly uesd in Mcafee Device control. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about McAfee Device Control?

Dislikes as such no for the product but the custome support is very bad of the Mcafee. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is McAfee Device Control solving and how is that benefiting you?

If users are connecting their personal USB's or hard drives in the organziation it prevents the data from getting copied into their personal devices which helps in the prevention of data breach as organiation's data beacomes more safer due to the device control policy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Dani H.
DH
Security Engineer
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about McAfee Device Control?

Device control can choose to you, if you need a tools for blocking USB in a policy based.

I am very sattisfied about technology inside Mcafee Device Control.

In product competitor. I dont found same technology than Mcafee. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about McAfee Device Control?

Because device control can be handled by policy, some time you need took a long time for applying that policy to the endpoint.

Maybe you need check connection and healtg check Mcafee agent in endpoint. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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McAfee Device Control powerful tools if you want to be a Data protection High Level. Such as Blocking Port USB and any data port physical technology Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is McAfee Device Control solving and how is that benefiting you?

In device control some time is failure applied if Mcafee agent cant communicate to the server ePO. So for the first you must ensure that agent is running and communicate with server. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Bharath R.
BR
Senior Engineer
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about McAfee Device Control?

The the console as it's all the option which is Easy and efficient for administration, agent upgrades can be done from the console instead of do it directly in the end user equipment, once the solution is in place you can have a complete summary of the agents and version that are installed in the equipments everthing in one console Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about McAfee Device Control?

Sometimes the agent does not report to the server and is necessary re-intall it, when you are uninstalling the agent some times there will be necessary remove some key registry in the local computer, sometimes the exception wont work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is McAfee Device Control solving and how is that benefiting you?

The usb protection and complete data is encrypted and secured with McAfee device control.which help us to be more productive with storage protection yes business increased its performance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Tharun J.
TJ
Cyber Security Lead
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about McAfee Device Control?

USB Device control can be done specifically to the particular serial of the device which is still missing in other vendors Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about McAfee Device Control?

CPU Utilization in both VSE and ENS - some patch makes it worst Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is McAfee Device Control solving and how is that benefiting you?

Device and Product specific Protection Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Wakkas A.
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Implementation Specialist Endpoint Security
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about McAfee Device Control?

It's a very good tool to tighten the Application security control. We can decide what we want to allow in our company and what we want to block so we can protect our environment in a better way. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about McAfee Device Control?

McAfee Application portal needs to be made more familiar for Technicians. It's a very old portal so in case the McAfee team can change the portal look then it will be great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is McAfee Device Control solving and how is that benefiting you?

I was allowing and Blocking applications as per the Business need. We were having one environment where we were supposed to tightened security so we implemented McAfee Device Control. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Prajwal P.
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Technical Lead
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about McAfee Device Control?

The feature which has the blocking options on different devices has great options. You can simply block USB sticks and any data transfer devices. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about McAfee Device Control?

Some times policy will fail on the endpoint because of communication failure, i recommended always check the agent communication before to avoid such failures. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering McAfee Device Control:

If you need ine stop solution to avoid data leakages go for it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is McAfee Device Control solving and how is that benefiting you?

With single policy you can avoid major issues like data leakage. Data protection can be handled smoothly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Lalit K.
LK
Lead Cyber Security
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about McAfee Device Control?

McAfee DLP Nice Product and work smootly on all layer to stop the data loose Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about McAfee Device Control?

There is no single point to dislike the product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering McAfee Device Control:

For new users mgmt console very difficult to manage so if possible simplify mgmt level. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is McAfee Device Control solving and how is that benefiting you?

It slove the problem ro aviod the risk to any user not able to upload and download any files without compliance policy Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Suyog A.
SA
Jr. Technical Officer
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about McAfee Device Control?

Real-time event monitoring with report generation with very less efforts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about McAfee Device Control?

right now I don't find anything to not like about. i just hope updates are more frequent and detailed Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering McAfee Device Control:

McAfee is an amazing security motive technology I have ever used.

I recommend all people looking for appropriate software to meet their needs. i am sure you will find it here Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is McAfee Device Control solving and how is that benefiting you?

Some problems i am solving is the device management, It has been easy to manage devices through this technology Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jagat P.
JP
Cyber Security Consultant
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about McAfee Device Control?

To use, shortcuts and feasibility is great with performance it give for malware analysis and detection. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about McAfee Device Control?

Nothing in particular, only thing is it should be used everywhere. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering McAfee Device Control:

I recommend as a cyber security consultant as it is great malware analysis and detection product to use in all type of organization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is McAfee Device Control solving and how is that benefiting you?

It detects and clean malware and allows you to easily configure policies to manage quarantined items. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Khurram S.
KS
Assistant Manager IT Infrastructure
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about McAfee Device Control?

For Secure complete Infrastructure, it is useful for customers or consumers. About features, I like all its features and trying to use all tools which help me to use this product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about McAfee Device Control?

Difficult to deploy in the environment. Not very much user-friendly. If we looking for hardware resources so it is resources hungry and difficult to push on Linux-based OS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is McAfee Device Control solving and how is that benefiting you?

For Scanning complete infrastructure and managing devices under protection. If any device looks suspicious then this product help to identify and discover complete information. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.