jamescv7 said:
There are some statements that Endpoint security did better than NIS but however its pointless when they are literally same used from Engine and Sonar capabilities.
Viruses are more prevalence on business than home however signatures are primarily same to delivered on all products.
I agree with you that the NIS and SEP Signatures, Patterns Rules & Data and SONAR Signatures are being both supplied from the same update feature in both packages.
The very database itself in SEP and NIS are in no way the same, and one other important part is that the threshold for Detecting, Monitoring and Removal of both engines and its Zeroday & Proactive Defense Protocols are differently calculated. Not to mention that SEP its endpoint collective data gathering is also another way to fight Zeroday malware.
Which is not being used by NIS.
So long story short both solutions are from the same VENDOR and appear to use the same database, engine and algorithm fact is however, thats SEP cannot be compared to NIS as they are 2 very different programs in virtually everything.
So you are both right and wrong at the same time.
Another very big difference is that the out of the box config on both are fundamentally different.
In fact according to Symantec itself, if a costumer would use SEP in a home environment without configuring it properly it would be just as useless as using NIS in a industrial environment, as every single aspect from configuration up to the very workings of the program are not even remotely comparable.
So both packages are specially designed to work from a specific configuration, where NIS is tuned to fit home purposes and SEP is purely tuned for Industrial purposes, that being said the updates that go along with those packages as well the engines are tuned in the same way.
Cheers