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Index › IT › Products › Symantec Endpoint Security · November 2026 Edition

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Symantec Endpoint Security

Symantec Endpoint Security is an endpoint protection and endpoint detection and response product from Broadcom · broadcom.com ↗

#65Best rank (enterprise)

13/14Models named it

0First choices

24Warnings

November 2026 Edition · all company sizes counted.

Ranked inEndpoint protection #65 enterprise Endpoint detection and response #32 Extended detection and response #77

Why models recommend it

“The community consistently rates these highly: ... and Symantec Endpoint Security.”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Negative question · alternative

“SMBs/Regulated: Sophos or Symantec for ease and compliance.”Grok 4.20 · Comparative question · alternative

What gives them pause

“Received universally negative feedback in one analysis, with all labels recommending against it.”Mistral Small · Negative question · warning

“CVE-2025-3599 — Elevation of Privilege via ERASER Engine”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Negative question · warning

“Be cautious with legacy legacy suites (e.g., un-modernized configurations of older Symantec, Trellix/McAfee, or legacy Trend Micro deployments)”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Negative question · warning

“Ongoing criticisms include high system resource usage ... frequent false positives, intrusive alerts”Grok 4.20 · Negative question · warning

Also on the shortlist

The products named in the same answers as Symantec Endpoint Security, over the 42 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.

Product	Named together	Picked instead
Sophos Intercept X	25	1	View →
SentinelOne Singularity	23	5	View →
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint	23	3	View →
Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR	20	0	View →
CrowdStrike Falcon	19	6	View →
Bitdefender GravityZone	14	0	View →
ESET PROTECT	13	0	View →
Trellix Endpoint Security Suite	12	0	View →
CrowdStrike	11	1	View →
SentinelOne Singularity Endpoint	11	1	View →

A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.

At a glance

Stated on Symantec Endpoint Security's own site, not checked by Gane.

For: Customers
Also from Symantec: Symantec Email Security.cloud, Symantec Endpoint Protection, Symantec Endpoint Security Complete, Symantec Identity Governance and Administration, Symantec Privileged Access Manager

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How this is measured

Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.

Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.

Read the method →

Sources returned with these answers

The sites and pages the answers that named Symantec Endpoint Security came back with. A fact about retrieval, not a cause of the answer.

Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 37 of the 42 answers that named Symantec Endpoint Security and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

g2.com17

reddit.com15

selabs.uk13

av-comparatives.org12

docs.broadcom.comIts own site12

huntress.com12

microsoft.com11

deel.com9

expertinsights.com9

capterra.com8

106 of the 118 domain citations in answers naming Symantec Endpoint Security came from a third party's page.

Pages cited

av-comparatives.org/tests/endpoint-prevention-response-epr-test-202410

docs.broadcom.com/doc/kuppingercole-leadership-compass-endpoint-protection-detection-and-r10

deel.com/blog/best-endpoint-protection-for-business9

axis-intelligence.com/best-endpoint-security-solutions-20267

selabs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/enterprise-advanced-security-detection-comparison-q3-7

huntress.com/enterprise-cybersecurity-guide/best-endpoint-protection-solutions-compared6

huntress.com/internal-it-cybersecurity-guide/best-endpoint-protection-for-small-businesses6

g2.com/categories/endpoint-protection-platforms5

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

By model

How each model answered on Symantec Endpoint Security across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

Model	Alternative	Mention	Warning	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	2	0	2
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	1	1
Perplexity Sonar	0	1	1	2
Grok 4.20	1	0	1	2
Mistral Small	0	0	1	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	0	0	1
Llama 4 Maverick	0	1	0	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	1	1	2
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	0	0
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	0	0	0	0