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Contents
Vendor Directory 4
Top Vendors 5-6
Top Solutions by Ranking Factor 7
Focus on Solutions
Microsoft Defender for Office 365 8 - 10
Proofpoint Email Protection 11 - 13
Cisco Secure Email 14 - 16
TitanHQ SpamTitan 17 - 19
Fortinet FortiMail 20 - 22
IRONSCALES 23 - 25
Perception Point Advanced Email Security 26 - 28
Barracuda Email Security Gateway 29 - 31
Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration 32 - 34
Mimecast Email Security with Targeted Threat Protection 35 - 37
Answers From the Community 38
About This Report and PeerSpot 39
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Vendor Directory
Abnormal Security Abnormal Security Micro Focus Micro Focus Voltage SecureMail
Area 1 Security Area 1 Horizon Microsoft Microsoft Exchange Online Protection
Armorblox Armorblox Microsoft Microsoft Defender for Office 365
Avanan Avanan Mimecast Mimecast Email Security with Targeted

Threat Protection
Barracuda Networks Barracuda Email Security Gateway
mxHero mxHERO for Legal
Barracuda Networks Barracuda Essentials
N-able N-able Mail Assure
Broadcom Symantec Messaging Gateway
OPSWAT MetaDefender Email Security
Check Point Check Point Anti-Spam and Email Security
Software Blade Perception Point Perception Point Advanced Email Security
Check Point Check Point Harmony Email & Proofpoint Proofpoint Email Protection
Collaboration
Retarus Retarus Email Security
Cisco Cisco Secure Email
RPost RPost RMail
Cisco Cisco Secure Email Cloud Mailbox
SonicWall SonicWall Email Security
Clearswift Clearswift SECURE Email Gateway
Sophos Sophos Email
CSIS Security Group PhishDB
TESSIAN Tessian Defender
Cyren Cyren EmailSecurity
TESSIAN Tessian Enforcer
datto Bitdam
TESSIAN Tessian Guardian
Egress Egress Intelligent Email Security
TitanHQ TitanHQ SpamTitan
ESET ESET Mail Security
TitanHQ EncryptTitan
Forcepoint Forcepoint Email Security
Trellix FireEye Email Security
Fortinet Fortinet FortiMail
Trend Micro Trend Micro Email Security
Fortinet Fortinet FortiMail Cloud
Trend Micro Trend Micro InterScan Messaging Security
GoSecure GoSecure Email Security Platform
Trustwave Trustwave Secure Email Gateway
GreatHorn GreatHorn Email Security
Vade Security Vade Cloud Email Security
HelpSystems Agari
Valimail Valimail Defend
Hornetsecurity Hornetsecurity Email Encryption
VIPRE Security VIPRE Email Security Cloud
INKY Technology INKY
VIPRE Security VIPRE Email Security Server
IRONSCALES IRONSCALES
Xcitium Comodo Dome Secure Email Gateway
J2 Global VIPRE Email Security
Zix Zix Email Encryption
Kaspersky Kaspersky Security for Mail Server
Zix AppRiver Email Security
Kiteworks Kiteworks
Zix Zix Email Threat Protection
Menlo Security Menlo Security Email Isolation
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Top Email Security Solutions

Over 636,558 professionals have used PeerSpot research. Here are the top Email Security vendors based on product reviews,
ratings, and comparisons. All reviews and ratings are from real users, validated by our triple authentication process.
Chart Key
Views Comparisons Reviews Words/Review Average Rating
Number of views Number of times compared Total number of reviews on Average words per review Average rating based on
to another product PeerSpot on PeerSpot reviews
Bar length
The total ranking of a product, represented by the bar length, is based on a weighted aggregate score. The score is calculated as follows:
For each ranking factor of Reviews, Views, and Comparisons, the product with the highest count in each ranking factor gets a maximum 18
points. Every other product gets assigned points based on its total in proportion to the #1 product in that ranking factor. For example, if a
product has 80% of the number of reviews compared to the product with the most reviews then the product's points for reviews would be 18
* 80% = 14.4.
Both Rating and Words/Review are awarded on a fixed linear scale. For Rating, the maximum score is 28 points awarded linearly between 6-
10 (e.g. 6 or below=0 points; 7.5=10.5 points; 9.0=21 points; 10=28 points). For Words/Review, the maximum score is 18 points awarded
linearly between 0-900 words (e.g. 600 words = 12 points; 750 words = 15 points; 900 or more words = 18 points). If a product has fewer than
ten reviews, the point contribution for Rating and Words/Review is reduced: 1/3 reduction in points for products with 5-9 reviews, two-thirds
reduction for products with fewer than five reviews.
Reviews that are more than 24 months old, as well as those written by resellers, are completely excluded from the ranking algorithm.
All products with 50+ points are designated as a Leader in their category.
1 Microsoft Defender for Office 365
19,790 views 14,987 comparisons 12 reviews 549 words/review 8.0 average rating
2 Proofpoint Email Protection
3 Cisco Secure Email
13,238 views 8,869 comparisons 10 reviews 1,523 words/review 8.7 average rating
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4 TitanHQ SpamTitan
5 Fortinet FortiMail
6 IRONSCALES
7 Perception Point Advanced Email Security
2,300 views 569 comparisons 13 reviews 1,304 words/review 9.1 average rating
8 Barracuda Email Security Gateway
9 Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration
10 Mimecast Email Security with Targeted Threat Protection
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Top Solutions by Ranking Factor

Views
VIEWS
1 Microsoft Defender for Office 365 19,790
2 Proofpoint Email Protection 16,703
3 Cisco Secure Email 13,238
4 Fortinet FortiMail 9,156
5 Microsoft Exchange Online Protection 8,979
Reviews
REVIEWS
1 TitanHQ SpamTitan 54
2 Barracuda Email Security Gateway 18
3 Proofpoint Email Protection 18
4 Check Point Harmony Email & 14

Collaboration
5 Fortinet FortiMail 13
Words / Review
WORDS /
REVIEW
1 Cisco Secure Email 1,523
2 TitanHQ SpamTitan 1,504
3 Avanan 1,443
4 IRONSCALES 1,426
5 Perception Point Advanced Email 1,304

Security
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Microsoft Defender for Office 365 See 14 reviews >>
Overview
Microsoft Defender for Office 365 protects all of Office 365 against advanced threats like business email compromise and
credential phishing, and automatically investigates and remediates attacks. With Defender for O365 you get Integrated threat
protection for all of Office 365 that gives you:
- Native protection for Office 365 with built-in protection that simplifies administration, lowers total cost of ownership, and
boosts productivity.
- Unparalleled scale and effectiveness with powerful automated workflows to improve SecOps efficiency.
- A complete solution for collaboration that protects you from attacks across the kill chain.
To learn more about our solution, ask questions, and share feedback, join our ...
SAMPLE CUSTOMERS
Microsoft Defender for Office 365 is trusted by companies such as Ithaca College.
TOP COMPARISONS
Proofpoint Email Protection vs. Microsoft Defender for Office 365 … Compared 21% of the time [See comparison]
Mimecast Email Security with Targeted Threat Protection vs. Microsoft Defender for Office 365 … Compared 14% of the time [See
comparison]
Fortinet FortiMail vs. Microsoft Defender for Office 365 … Compared 8% of the time [See comparison]
REVIEWERS * VISITORS READING REVIEWS *
TOP INDUSTRIES TOP INDUSTRIES

Computer Software Company … 20% Comms Service Provider … 25%
Comms Service Provider … 11% Manufacturing Company … 25%
Government … 8% Financial Services Firm … 13%
Financial Services Firm … 7% Logistics Company … 13%
COMPANY SIZE COMPANY SIZE

1-200 Employees … 28% 1-200 Employees … 33%
1001+ Employees … 55% 1001+ Employees … 40%
* Data is based on the aggregate profiles of PeerSpot Users reviewing and researching this solution.
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Microsoft Defender for Office 365 Continued from previous page
Top Reviews by Topic
VALUABLE FEATURES See more Valuable Features >>
Some of the valuable features on the email side are anti-phishing, anti-malware, and Safe Links. Anything that has the word
"safe" in it is essentially made to defend against the common email vulnerabilities that you would see in similar products.
Without these features, it does not have nearly the capabilities. On the information protection side, the best features are
reviewer150 probably the data loss prevention policies that cover the whole suite of Office 365 applications. I will explain it a little more,
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from an information protection standpoint, Defender ... [Full Review]
The most valuable feature is the score. By looking at the score, you can identify if you are at risk or not. It also gives the
vulnerability status according to the versions you have selected. Let's say you have Google Chrome. It mentions the versions it
has, and it updates. Within two hours of an update, it is reflected in the dashboard. That's really nice to have. It gives me
Rajitha everything I need, visibility-wise. It also helps prioritize threats across our enterprise and that's very important. That means we
Jayasekera
can identify the critical vulnerabilities ... [Full Review]
Defender for Office 365 can help your organization configure policies, analyze threats to your organization and respond to
attacks. It is important to note that there are different levels of protection and capabilities depending upon which version of
Office365 license you have. The best features we found most valuable are Forwarding Report, Safe Attachment Files Types,
Vishnu- Treat Protection Status, Malware Detected in Email, URL Threat Protection and many more. [Full Review]
Reddy
The basic features are okay and I'm satisfied with the Defender. The initial setup is pretty simple. It's easy to configure.
Microsoft products are always easy to use. The solution has been stable and reliable. [Full Review]
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ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT See more Room For Improvement >>
There needs to be an improvement in having the product work across multiple operating systems and have better support for
non-Microsoft file types. Defender for Office 365 handles the Microsoft supported file types, but MIP is limited. This solution
does what it needs to do, but it does not go to the depth of if it was working with MIP, a holistic information protection system.
reviewer150 It does not support all the file types an organization might use. For example, AutoCAD B1 for manufacturing or defence-
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oriented companies, they have to add a third-party add-... [Full Review]
In one of the reports, I can get the exact place where a vulnerable file resides. But for that, I need to explicitly go into the
device and check. If they could include that file part in the report, without my having to go to the device itself, that would help.
[Full Review]
Rajitha
Jayasekera
The custom alerts have to improve a lot. Though the system is very good, we have to go and check inside the admin panel to
look at all kinds of reports. We won't get any mail alerts that highlight for us, for example, "today this many of spam attacks
have happened". Or "these many emails have been blocked." We have to manually go into the admin panel and have to check
Vishnu- it out. It would be nice if there are custom email notifications/alerts. Right now, there are additional features such as mobile
Reddy
device management and data loss prevention, or eDiscove... [Full Review]
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Microsoft Defender for Office 365 Continued from previous page
I was looking for some advanced features, like if I would receive an email that contains a legitimate file type, but the content is
malicious, how I can protect against that? Normally, we are dealing with so many phishing and spam emails. I'd like some
additional features any product can give me to protect our environment in a better way. There is always a chance to continue
reviewer175 to improve the product in some way. [Full Review]
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PRICING, SETUP COST AND LICENSING See more Pricing, Setup Cost And Licensing >>
Microsoft licensing should include Microsoft Defender for O365 in their E3 and E5 licenses. Currently it is all or nothing unless
you purchase an add-on which we advise enterprise customers to do. [Full Review]
reviewer150
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I would recommend Microsoft Defender for Office 365. If you already have a deployment method, like CCM or something
similar, it will be easy. Even if not, there are several other deployment methods that could support any scenario. [Full Review]
Rajitha
Jayasekera
The pricing is pretty good and was a major factor in choosing it. The pricing is reasonable when compared with Cisco or some
other products. If it is an IT company, the budget allocation will be more and focused on the IT part. However, when it comes to
a manufacturing company, the budget focus will be more on manufacturing and the budget allocation will be very low in terms
Vishnu- of IT. For us Office 365 was better in terms of Pricing. [Full Review]
Reddy
I haven't actually evaluated the cost against other products. For example, it's bundled with the licenses that we have procured,
so everything is included in that. We haven't purchased the Defender separately. We cannot just say that it's a product which is
costly as compared to the other products available in the market or not, as it's a bundled offer. We can calculate the price of
reviewer175 one license or an Office 365 license with any other cloud service partner's license cost, however, we cannot just compare the
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price of any specific feature with the serv... [Full Review]
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Proofpoint Email Protection See 19 reviews >>
Overview
Proofpoint Email Protection is a machine learning email gateway that catches both known and unknown threats. Through
Target Attack Protection, emails will be analyzed and potentially blocked from advanced threats while users gain visibility
around these threats. The technology can also classify various types of email and can be deployed both on premises or as a
cloud service. In addition, users can tag suspicious emails to help raise user awareness and track down any email quickly.
Proofpoint Email Protection offers Advanced BEC Defense, which can precisely detect and block different types of emails,
even if they don’t involve a malicious payload, such as business email compromise (BEC). Email Protection, which is powered
by NexusAI, is... [Read More]
SAMPLE CUSTOMERS
Blocket, University of Waterloo, Lincoln Memorial University, WellSpan Health, U-Haul, Carestream Health, Westinghouse
TOP COMPARISONS
Cisco Secure Email vs. Proofpoint Email Protection … Compared 16% of the time [See comparison]
Microsoft Defender for Office 365 vs. Proofpoint Email Protection … Compared 12% of the time [See comparison]
Palo Alto Networks WildFire vs. Proofpoint Email Protection … Compared 11% of the time [See comparison]

Computer Software Company … 18% Retailer … 27%
Comms Service Provider … 13% Consumer Goods Company … 18%
Financial Services Firm … 8% University … 18%
Government … 6% Construction Company … 9%

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Proofpoint Email Protection Continued from previous page
The solution offers very good flexibility. You can blacklist or whitelist with ease. Their entire dashboard is excellent. It's
completely user-friendly, it's easy to navigate. Anything you need to get done, you can do right from the dashboard, which is
incredible. What makes it so easy is the features of Proofpoint and how secure it is. You could have no IT experience and go in
reviewer151 there and control Proofpoint. If your company says "Hey, we need somebody to control Proofpoint," you could hire a kid out of
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high school to learn it. That's how easy it is. [Full Review]
There's Microsoft Office 365 email protection. The one good thing they have over Microsoft is their incredible search engine.
That's why our clients like it. They like the search engine because they can search anything to do with their messages
incredibly easily. This allows them to find troubleshooting issues. That's a big selling point. There are some tools within it that
reviewer150 are amazing. Even from a configuration standpoint, it's a hardened system. It's never been penetrated, so that's another great
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feature about Proofpoint. They handle combined atta... [Full Review]
The targeted attack protection that we use has been great, as has the email filtering and the rules that we have set for
Proofpoint. The quarantine capabilities are very useful. You can scale the solution. It's a mature product. It does a good job in
detection. [Full Review]
Sathish Mani
I like all the features with Proofpoint, such as how it filters the spam and marketing mail, lost reality mail, blocks phishing
attacks, blocks malicious attachments, and stops phishing links. Also it can defend against the business email compromise
impersonation technique. It is a complete solution for all email attacks. It filters for the bad, malicious attachments. If there is
reviewer130 any executable file, it can be deleted. It is a good, complete solution. Additionally, the user interface is good, it's easy to use.
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Whoever has good technical skills can u... [Full Review]
The Secure Mail aspect should have an Outlook add-in, instead of an external dashboard that outside users have to access. If
we send a payment to one of our customers or an ACH or a form to fill out, they have to go through this entire subscription
process on a separate website to read the secure mail. It should be like Ignite, where you can access the internal portal so
reviewer151 then our customers aren't having to go through all these hoops just to read an email that we're trying to send them securely.
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That would be the one thing I would change. Basically, ... [Full Review]
Not one of them is one hundred percent when it comes to reputation scores. It doesn't matter which solution — none of them
are. Not one of them is a hundred percent on false negatives or false positives. Proofpoint scores way up there along with
Cisco. You used to have a choice with Proofpoint which one you use. They may be using multiples now, too. Proofpoint is the
reviewer150 main tool for blocking spam because it denies the connection altogether. I know for a fact that I can set Proofpoint up to what
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they call SYN attacks. SYN attacks basically open a conne... [Full Review]
The false positives are an issue. There are many false positives that come in, which you report to Proofpoint. Sometimes they
take time to update those things. They say there's an option that we can use to report false positives. However, it is not a quick
remedy. You go and report it, and still, you have to take action on it and clear those emails getting blocked. It's too
Sathish Mani cumbersome. We don't have the option to scan a password-protected attachment. I have to either blindly whitelist it as it will
get blocked since an email with attachments normall... [Full Review]
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Proofpoint Email Protection Continued from previous page
It can be improved pricing-wise. One downfall of the product from the SMB side is the pricing. Currently, everybody can't afford
it. Everybody wants a Mercedes, but not everyone has the budget for it. I want Security Awareness Training in there as a
package deal. A lot of companies are starting to value email security a little bit more and take it a little bit more seriously, and
reviewer162 the great product that we link together with a lot of these sales is a training product called Security Awareness Training. It is an
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upsell that we do with Proofpoint, and ... [Full Review]
The licensing is basically $8/user. We pay yearly, however, they do allow for month-to-month billing. It's just a straight licensing
fee. For support, you'll pay extra for that. If you want to move up to a higher tier, I don't know how much it is, however, I know
you pay more to get a higher level of support. Tier One support is way cheaper than Tier Four. You are paying pretty much to
reviewer151 have your own project manager. Proofpoint literally assigns someone to you. When you call, it's getting taken care of by his or
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her team. That's pretty expensive, how... [Full Review]
Proofpoint is fairly expensive. Most people, when they go to buy their M365 licenses, they buy them in a bundle. It's more than
just email protection. It's actually lots of different protections. [Full Review]
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Depending upon your company's revenue, you can make up your mind about whether you want to invest that money or not.
However, the offering is niche in the market today compared to other products, like Exchange Online Protections, which is an
evolving product. It's growing. In contrast, Proofpoint has been around in the listing for quite some time, so they mature in
Sathish Mani terms of detection of suspicious emails and its email filtering system. Of course, while the pricing is rather fair, clients would
always prefer to pay less. I cannot speak to the exact p... [Full Review]
Proofpoint is a little bit expensive. The pricing could be more competitive. Mimecast and Barracuda prices are cheaper than
Proofpoint. But there are other vendors, like Firefly and others whose prices are not cheap. But they provided me a good price
because I was a Symantec customer moving to Proofpoint. I think the price is significant, it's not too expensive but not cheap.
reviewer130 Just a little bit expensive. But everything is included. [Full Review]
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Cisco Secure Email See 10 reviews >>
Overview
Customers of all sizes face the same daunting challenge: email is simultaneously the most important business communication
tool and the leading attack vector for security breaches. Cisco Email Security enables users to communicate securely and
helps organizations combat Business Email Compromise (BEC), ransomware, advanced malware, phishing, spam, and data
loss with a multilayered approach to security.
SAMPLE CUSTOMERS
SUNY Old Westbury, CoxHealth, City of Fullerton, Indra
TOP COMPARISONS
Proofpoint Email Protection vs. Cisco Secure Email … Compared 19% of the time [See comparison]
Fortinet FortiMail vs. Cisco Secure Email … Compared 16% of the time [See comparison]
FireEye Email Security vs. Cisco Secure Email … Compared 10% of the time [See comparison]

Computer Software Company … 19% Energy/Utilities Company … 19%
Comms Service Provider … 17% Retailer … 14%
Government … 7% Financial Services Firm … 10%
Financial Services Firm … 7% Healthcare Company … 10%

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Cisco Secure Email Continued from previous page
The bulk of the email stopped would be marketing. Spam-related email tends to be our biggest issue. The most dangerous
contain malicious content, and those tend to be the worst. The biggest issues are the social engineering and phishing. A lot of
the spammers are actually quite good at spear phishing attacks and social engineering our emails. We obviously do checks.
Andrew We run some simulations for our staff, where we try and train them so they are aware of what not to click on. Also, we have
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installed Umbrella and had it for a long time as well. Therefo... [Full Review]
A few of the big features are ones that we found that we missed terribly when we moved over to Microsoft. One of them is
simply the logging that they have in the reporting. For example, if I wanted to get logs about emails since last week, from a
certain address, with native Office 365 I would have to submit the search requests and I would get an email a few hours later
reviewer151 with the results. With Cisco, it's not only a lot more detailed information, but it's nearly instantaneous. So if you have to do any
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sort of research into an issue, whether it's secu... [Full Review]
The most valuable feature is reputation filtering. In the beginning, it was based on just the IP source. but it has now evolved to
domain reputation. It allows you to classify different IP sources and different sender groups, where you can reject to throttle to
whitelist from any IP sources, domains, etc. Based on the reputation gathering, the reputation is powered by Talos security. It is
Enrique Diaz a super powerful feature. That alone gets rid of more than 50% of the crap from the traffic flow, before even hitting the anti-
Jolly
spam or antivirus. If you have some... [Full Review]
The malicious URL scanning, as well as the anti-malware features, have been really useful for us in our environment.
Specifically, the URL scanning has helped to knock down quite a few phishing attempts that come into the organization. The
broader blanket automated attempts get knocked down pretty quickly since those URLs typically get flagged early on, and
Mark then the appliance just picks up on those URLs and knocks them down. It is the same with malicious attachments. The malware
Rodrigue
scanning that's done via AMP, which is deployed elsewhere in the organi... [Full Review]
I would like more functionality and how to use it for Level 2 type staff. The biggest issue is it needs to be easier to use and
navigate. I know there are a lot more documents in the later versions about how to do things. This is a great improvement from
a few years ago when you would have to call a tech to get them to assist you, which they're more than happy to do, but now
Andrew there are a lot more how-to guides. If they could continue to do that, then it would make the product even more usable. Also, it
Fisher
needs more detail/documentation around what diff... [Full Review]
The interface is dated. It has looked pretty much the same for 15 years or so. It would be helpful to be able to do everything
from one spot. The centralized quarantine and reporting are completely separate from policy administration. [Full Review]
reviewer151
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You can consolidate on SMA if you want to spam or threats quarantined for multiple devices. It is not advisable for a single
device, because if it fails, you are left without any email. I would like to see a few changes to the UX. There is space for
improvement with data loss prevention, particularly with third-parties integration. Data loss prevention is quite important,
Enrique Diaz though most customers have some third-party or other elements in their network doing data loss prevention, specifically for
Jolly
email. However, if it could be possible to integrate wit... [Full Review]
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Cisco Secure Email Continued from previous page
The UI is definitely one area of improvement because it doesn't match other interfaces and the navigation can be a little clunky.
Generally speaking, it is just dated, and I know that they're working on enhancing it for later versions. They should continue to
develop their integration with Office 365 or Hosted Exchange since a lot of organizations, ours included, are moving primary
Mark Exchange services to the Microsoft Cloud. Being able to integrate tighter with that environment is important. [Full Review]
Rodrigue
With respect to transferring policies and licenses, Smart Licensing has really improved the overall licensing model for Cisco.
We've been really happy with Smart Licensing. There are additional fees for adding features. For example, things like AMP are
additional licenses. Because it's all done via the Smart Licensing portal, when new licenses are acquired they're dropped in our
Mark bucket, so to speak, and then the solution just grabs those licenses. There is no back and forth required. The license ends up
Rodrigue
in the bucket and then the solution syncs with... [Full Review]
At times, we feel the pricing is a bit too high, but then, there is also room for discounts. We enjoy a lot of discounts, and that is
why we are still with them. There are no costs in addition to the standard licensing fees. [Full Review]
Charles
Nana
The licensing was all transferred. A fair amount of the configuration had to be done by hand. We didn't transfer the people safe
list and block lists. There were a number of things that we didn't transfer because they were in the cloud. It was a matter of
going through and reconfiguring. [Full Review]
Ray LaCasse
Cisco Secure Email and the support are priced well. It's not cheap, but there are other solutions that offer less and cost so
much. For example, Microsoft is more expensive than Cisco. [Full Review]
Daniel
Martínez
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TitanHQ SpamTitan See 62 reviews >>
Overview
SpamTitan blocks spam, viruses, malware and other email threats by over 99.9%. We provide sophisticated email security for
your business without making it complicated.
SAMPLE CUSTOMERS
De Montfort University, Scope Services, Park County School District, NRC, Quality Smith, Toyota, CarTrawler, Videotron
TOP COMPARISONS
Barracuda Essentials vs. TitanHQ SpamTitan … Compared 17% of the time [See comparison]
Microsoft Exchange Online Protection vs. TitanHQ SpamTitan … Compared 12% of the time [See comparison]
Microsoft Defender for Office 365 vs. TitanHQ SpamTitan … Compared 12% of the time [See comparison]

Computer Software Company … 20% Manufacturing Company … 24%
Construction Company … 17% Construction Company … 15%
Comms Service Provider … 11% Financial Services Firm … 6%
Educational Organization … 6% Government … 6%

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TitanHQ SpamTitan Continued from previous page
The filter rules are valuable. The software itself will automatically filter out things that it thinks are suspicious. However, the filter
rules are the most helpful because, if we need to, we can block entire domains and subdomains with the click of a button. In
addition, if one specific email address is a problem, but not the entire domain, we can drill down and specifically block it
Benjamin without affecting anyone else in that domain. They also have something called Pattern Filtering, which has been a godsend.
Jeffrey
While the software can only do so much, as ... [Full Review]
We have just one place to go and look at things, which makes it a lot easier for us. Our users like the fact that it is granular
when they look at it. Some guys are really proficient in certain areas and this lends itself to that, which is good. They can then
learn the other parts that they didn't have when we were on other systems. You can just log into the back-end and can see
David everything or whatever you want to see. If you need to actually go through the email and look for one to release, it is easy to
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find. When the client gets it, we show them h... [Full Review]
It is easy to work with. SpamTitan is visible right away. You go to the portal, log into your page, and everything is visible there,
e.g., your whitelist, blacklist, etc. So, it is very good. SpamTitan has a cool vehicle called IP delivery pools. We have 20 domains
with various products and are using this feature to send mass emails. [Full Review]
George
Kajaia
One of the most valuable features is the opportunity to quarantine things. In addition, the option to have somebody manage
the quarantine on behalf of users, or to let the system send out daily reports so that users can manage things on their own, are
both very straightforward. Slightly larger customers in particular have different requirements from those at the very small end.
Simon For the larger ones, applying global rules is difficult because, even within one organization, there are many teams, such as
Davison
sales at one end and accounts at the other end. T... [Full Review]
The only thing that threw me off a little bit, when it first came out, was the Pattern Filtering. There didn't seem to be a huge
amount of documentation on how to properly use it. If you want to block the term "hot dog," it's pretty straightforward. You just
select, "if the email contains this phrase, block it for everyone." But, if you want to block an email address with .com.biz, which
Benjamin seems like it's legit but that .biz at the end throws it off, you have to get a little more detailed regarding how you type out what
Jeffrey
the Pattern Filtering looks for... [Full Review]
Before, I didn't know what some of the things would do if turned on, i.e., things that we hadn't used previously. Now, I see that
they give you further information on it and take you right to a web page. That is something that I wanted done before and can
see that it is there now. I did check this just the other day. That would have been a complaint, but it is not now. Sometimes,
David things can get caught back in spam that you had previously released. Without going in, releasing the whole domain, and
Mosley
opening it up, since you don't want to do that often ... [Full Review]
In history on the reporting graph, when you are trying to search for sender by address, it won't search by domain. I could send
an email from SendGrid with my domain, but with SpamTitan, if you search by that domain then it wouldn't search it. It only
searches from the field, not in the envelope field. Unfortunately, mass mailing companies, like SendGrid, send email with the
George form address and that completely differs from the domain envelope form address. There is no way to search for the envelope
Kajaia
form. So, I gave them an idea to improve this filterin... [Full Review]
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I have noticed that TitanHQ adds new features quite frequently. If I have one little feature request, it would be that they shout a
little bit more about the new features they're adding. I haven't blocked them from sending me marketing emails and I wouldn't
be averse to having more of them, particularly for the new features. That's really important because it gives us an opportunity
Simon to go to customers and prospects and say, "Look, this is our preferred product, and here is what they've just brought out now."
Davison
Also, false positives may be an area for ... [Full Review]
When we started with this company they had fewer features. Neither the geo-IP blocking was available, nor was the Pattern
Blocking. But throughout the two and a half years that we've been with them, they've added them, and they have not increased
our cost. They've not even asked us to sign on for additional features. They just added them to their product and they were
Benjamin available for us to use. Having the same costs that we've been paying and having new features added is awesome. They give
Jeffrey
you an update without charging you more for it. I like that a ... [Full Review]
When it comes to the scalability of it, it really doesn't matter much because of the way that it is priced. You can put it on
somebody who is small or big. I am not big enough to worry about growing out of anything that they are doing. You can put it
on a different server for a bigger client, and that is not a big problem. I can still manage it from one place. [Full Review]
David
Mosley
The pricing is ideal. A lot of other anti-spams are integrated in Exchange, counting technical mailboxes that are not sending
any emails outside. So, they are not scanned and only for internal communication. SpamTitan only counts the emails that it
scans. This is one of the best licensing models that I saw for anti-spam solutions because it is counting dynamically the number
George of emails that senders are sending. It counts these uniquely by week. It provides a very realistic picture. This is very useful
Kajaia
because we are not counting the emails doing inbo... [Full Review]
It's a very good product and the pricing and licensing are exceptionally reasonable. TitanHQ's partner program is fine when it
comes to partner profitability. I do potentially have a question about the pricing policy. It works on the basis of billing per
mailbox. I thought, "Oh, that's a bit weird," when I first looked into it. On a Microsoft setup—almost everybody we deal with has
Simon Microsoft 365—you can have a lot of aliases. In a very small company that has a dozen users, they'll have a dozen mailboxes,
Davison
but they may have 50 aliases. The SpamTitan p... [Full Review]
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Email Security
Fortinet FortiMail See 17 reviews >>
Overview
FortiMail appliances and virtual appliances are proven, powerful email security platforms for any size organization — from
small businesses to carriers, service providers, and large enterprises. Purpose-built for the most demanding messaging
systems, FortiMail appliances employ Fortinet’s years of experience in protecting networks against spam, malware, and other
message-borne threats.
SAMPLE CUSTOMERS
Magromer Cueros y Pieles S.A.
TOP COMPARISONS
Cisco Secure Email vs. Fortinet FortiMail … Compared 24% of the time [See comparison]
Barracuda Email Security Gateway vs. Fortinet FortiMail … Compared 21% of the time [See comparison]
Proofpoint Email Protection vs. Fortinet FortiMail … Compared 10% of the time [See comparison]

Comms Service Provider … 29% Government … 17%
Government … 8% Computer Software Company … 17%
Manufacturing Company … 4% Comms Service Provider … 8%

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Fortinet FortiMail Continued from previous page
The biggest implementation my team has done for Fortinet FortiMail was for more than five thousand people, and the most
valuable feature was its anti-spam feature. [Full Review]
Sorin Cucu
The GUI isn't hard to use. When we do a demo and explain the features of Fortinet products to our customers, they understand
very quickly. They can easily manage their systems without us. But other products are a little more complicated. For example, if
we're talking about firewall systems, I use Palo Alto, but I prefer the Fortinet solution because it's easier to use. They're
Ahmet effortless. When I try to configure the SD-WAN, it's just one or two clicks. I can route all applications with the destination. It's no
Coruk
problem for me. The other configuration... [Full Review]
FortiMail is extremely flexible and very easy to learn. Compared to other email security products that we've tried, it is mainly the
ease of configuration that makes FortiMail valuable to us. It doesn't take an engineer to be able to get up and running with
FortiMail, and one can get by with little more than the online documentation and YouTube, for example. [Full Review]
Giorgi
Sakhokia
This solution has a very clean user interface. It's agnostic to whatever environment you're using behind it. My email servers are
HCL Domino servers now and it's easy to implement - they have very good sandbox for checking email without the danger of
opening them. [Full Review]
Dikeos
Davakis
It's difficult for me to talk about areas for improvement in Fortinet FortiMail because I'm the general manager of the company
and I'm an engineer with knowledge about the solution, but I'm not deeply involved in its implementation. As I mentioned
previously, Fortinet FortiMail is also being used within the company, and I'm happy with its functionality, but sometimes, attacks
Sorin Cucu pass and avoid the Fortinet FortiMail filters, but those could be very sophisticated attacks. There could still be an improvement
in the filtering feature of the solution, thou... [Full Review]
I have little to say about possible improvements, but the configuration for content blocking could be better. So, for example, if
the email text and/or subject includes any kind of keyword and/or phrase, for example "You have a Bitcoin", I would like it to be
easier to block it before it enters an inbox. Fortinet could maybe offer better or simpler help on how to do this properly.
Giorgi Besides that, I feel that we have everything we need for our company with FortiMail. [Full Review]
Sakhokia
I think their statistics and the BI in general could be improved. By that I mean the feedback the admin can take from the
reporting. We're in the process of moving to Microsoft 365. We have discussed employing the Fortinet cloud solution with
them, because right now we're using the on-premise solution. I don't know how it's going to play out in the cloud version. [Full
Dikeos Review]
Davakis
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So far I don't need any improvements right now. I'm quite happy with the product as-is. At some point, FortiMail and Fortigate
should merge together in one box. If they did that, it would be really helpful for the user. [Full Review]
Nikorn
Soemklang
I have no information on pricing for the competition because right now, my company is working only with Fortinet, but I can say
that in general, the price for Fortinet FortiMail was accepted by the customers easily. The POC is also important when a
customer is buying a solution. The customer wants to see how the product runs, and as Fortinet FortiMail is a stable product
Sorin Cucu that runs without big issues, it has a bigger chance of getting chosen by customers over its competitors, even if its price may
be a little higher. Pricing for the solution is compe... [Full Review]
I don't know the price of other products, but the cost of FortiMail is moderate. The customers don't want to haggle. When they
see what the solution can do, they are willing to pay for it. They are most likely getting quotes from various companies, and the
Fortinet product is the most cost-effective. The performance is very high because they're trying all the products on their site. At
Ahmet the end of the day, they look at the performance and the price, and Fortinet covers all the bases. [Full Review]
Coruk
In terms of licensing, we are using a virtual machine license for the single virtual server which it runs on. Doing it this way
enables us to cut costs by only licensing FortiMail for our exact use case. If you need to expand in future, you can later buy
extra licenses per virtual machine. [Full Review]
Giorgi
Sakhokia
We're using two products, the FortiSandbox, which is actually the sandbox environment of FortiMail and FortiMail. We're paying
about 9,000 Euros per year for those two products. It is pretty cost-effective for Greece. Fortinet is very aggressive with their
pricing. [Full Review]
Dikeos
Davakis
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Email Security
IRONSCALES See 10 reviews >>
Overview
IRONSCALES is an industry-leading email security solution which combines email security and security awareness training into
a single, comprehensive solution.
Every day criminals launch billions of new phishing attacks. No company is immune. Legacy solutions can't keep up & cloud
providers struggle to stop advanced attacks with native controls. IRONSCALES’ powerfully simple email security solution helps
you fight back fast and keeps your company safe in today’s cloud-first world.
How is IRONSCALES different?
IRONSCALES is fast to deploy, simple to manage and highly effective in stopping all types of email threats.
IRONSCALES delivers email security in the mailbox using anomaly detection; this is the most effective way to stop all... [Read
More]
SAMPLE CUSTOMERS
Allegheny Millwork, Ayrshire College, Nium, Orris, Paramount School District, Pres Les, PRT Staffing, Recovery Unplugged, Telit,
WebHelp
TOP COMPARISONS
Microsoft Defender for Office 365 vs. IRONSCALES … Compared 19% of the time [See comparison]
Proofpoint Email Protection vs. IRONSCALES … Compared 17% of the time [See comparison]
Avanan vs. IRONSCALES … Compared 10% of the time [See comparison]
TOP INDUSTRIES COMPANY SIZE

Comms Service Provider … 20% 1-200 Employees … 29%
Computer Software Company … 17% 201-1000 Employees … 71%
Construction Company … 7%
Retailer … 6%
COMPANY SIZE
1-200 Employees … 34%
201-1000 Employees … 19%
1001+ Employees … 47%
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IRONSCALES Continued from previous page
We like IRONSCALES because it's easy to use and saves us some time. The reporting is good because it has all these tracking
features and metrics. It's still evolving, but it's great to have information about automated detection and response, phishing
campaigns, simulations, etc. I would say the most valuable feature is what they call Themis. It's like a virtual analyst that uses
reviewer189 the decisions that system admins make to generate a score for whether an email is legitimate, spam, or phishing. It gets better
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based on the decisions that we make over time... [Full Review]
For me, the mobile app is most valuable. All other features are also very useful, but the mobile app makes it really easy for me
to manage on the go. I don't have to be at my desk. I could be at the shops, or it could be in the evening when I am out, and I
can get a notification on my phone that there is an incident that has been raised. I can sort it out very quickly without having to
MatthewGre be at my work PC. The awareness campaign has also been useful. Once you've completed the Phishing Awareness campaign
en
for the users, you get the reporting functionalit... [Full Review]
The fact that it is set-and-forget is valuable. Once you turn it on, you very rarely have to micromanage it, whereas, with a lot of
spam filters, you have to go in very often. Its nicest feature is that other users in our company can flag something as spam, and
it'll automatically flag it for everybody else in the company. It'll pull that out of your mailbox before it becomes an issue. This
Seth way 50 people don't get the same notice. One person clicks it, and it automatically goes away. [Full Review]
Wasserman
The report function through Gmail is probably the most valuable feature. The next most valuable features are simulation and
training. I would say IRONSCALES is probably one of the best products of its class that I've seen. I've seen some other
companies that offer similar technology and a similar product, where the training is an afterthought or add-on. IRONSCALES do
Scott V. offer premium training, but the regular training is very well-rounded. The integration of excellent reporting, single sign-on, and
freedom from logins and passwords for end-users makes ... [Full Review]
In addition to integrated training, they should also have personalized training that you don't have to do as part of a phishing
campaign or a simulation. It could be launched separately as a learning management system, a squirm file, or something like
that. IRONSCALES is working on that, so hopefully, we'll have that soon. In the last four or five months, we started a new
reviewer189 security operation center. We had to train and onboard the employees. We tried to get IRONSCALES audit logs into our SIM,
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rather than it going from cloud to cloud, but it does not ... [Full Review]
I speak to the customer success manager regularly, and he does update me on what they're working on. They're always
releasing new updates. There is a feature called Account Takeover, which isn't what I want it to be able to do. I know that
they're working on that, but when they first started the Account Takeover feature in incident management, it didn't have much
MatthewGre information. It didn't have any usability to it. I already had tools in place that were better. Some elements of the Phishing
en
Awareness campaign need to be improved. When you're creating a ... [Full Review]
Its UI could be improved. My pet peeve with a lot of these cloud-based systems is that a lot of times, the interface for the
management is a little clunky. If you live and breathe IRONSCALES all day long, you'll obviously know where everything is just
from muscle memory, but the system is not designed for people to be in it all day long. You're only supposed to occasionally
Seth look at it. When things get moved around, it is not necessarily that intuitive. I'm an IT guy, and I can pretty much take the worst
Wasserman
UI and figure it out, but the menus and the op... [Full Review]
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IRONSCALES Continued from previous page
I would love to see the indication of compromise and how the solution utilizes open source resources. It would be good to see
that included in the paid versions. It would be a small addition but add a lot of value for clients. [Full Review]
Scott V.
I don't know about its pricing because I don't run the budget or pay the bills, but if it was extortionate, we probably would be
looking to scrap it, and because we are not, I assume its price is okay. [Full Review]
MatthewGre
en
We pay $3000 plus a little more a year for the number of employees we have, and we're not even that big. The solution is at
the higher end in terms of cost. It's not the most expensive product, but I would say it's worth the price if you have a high
volume of email traffic. In our case, the solution has inspected over 162,000 emails between three and four months. It saved us
Scott V. a lot of time and money. It's a worthwhile investment because a bad actor only has to succeed once; we must defend against
everything in our business. IRONSCALES offers a sense ... [Full Review]
The pricing is right down to what we wanted to spend. Obviously, time is money. The amount of time that we were spending
per day was costing us effectiveness, was costing our users' time, and was costing us money due to the time that it took out of
our day. For what was being offered with IRONSCALES, I feel like we got an incredible deal. [Full Review]
Jesse A.
Considering the value it provides, it is definitely worth the cost. We don't have to do manual analysis and remediation of
phishing emails, which saves us a lot of hours. Its licensing is based on the number of users being supported and the number
of email addresses being protected. I'm not aware of any additional costs. [Full Review]
Tamunoibito
n Adoki
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Perception Point Advanced Email Security See 15 reviews >>
Overview
Perception Point is a Prevention-as-a-Service company, offering fast interception of any content-based attack across all
collaboration channels including email, cloud storage, CRM apps, and messaging platforms. The company prevents phishing,
BEC, spam, malware, Zero-days, N-days well before it reaches the enterprise’s end-users. Deployed in minutes with no
change to the enterprise’s infrastructure, our solution conforms with any policy and requires zero fuss from IT teams. On top of
that, the company offers a significant added value service through our Incident Response team that serves as a force
multiplier to the enterprise’s SOC team.Perception Point's unique technology, which folds 7 different detection layers to
provide a single verdic... [Read More]
SAMPLE CUSTOMERS
TOP COMPARISONS
Microsoft Defender for Office 365 vs. Perception Point Advanced Email Security … Compared 32% of the time [See comparison]
Proofpoint Email Protection vs. Perception Point Advanced Email Security … Compared 19% of the time [See comparison]
Fortinet FortiMail Cloud vs. Perception Point Advanced Email Security … Compared 8% of the time [See comparison]

Comms Service Provider … 12% Hospitality Company … 18%
Manufacturing Company … 10% Transportation Company … 18%
Real Estate/Law Firm … 8% Financial Services Firm … 9%

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Perception Point Advanced Email Security Continued from previous page
The most valuable features of the solution are the ones that are related to finding impersonation attacks and detecting
attempts to steal credentials. In scenarios where attackers get you to follow URLs to a malicious site that looks similar to a
good site, and then ask for the user credentials to try to steal them, it is very useful. It also has features for detecting branding
reviewer173 impersonation. And specifically, when it comes to protecting our VIPs and avoiding BEC (business email compromise) attacks,
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that is another important part for us. It scans pr... [Full Review]
The way that they scan all embedded links in an email. One of their features is a scan engine. It scans every link, then tries to
determine if it is an active site. So, if they saw a threat and the website was down, then it is not really a threat. If there is a link in
an email, they still pass the email through because they can't determine that it is a problem. However, when they scan them
Neal and see a problem, then we can see these results in the portal, which is good as well. If we have clients who say, "Hey, I didn't
Granick
get this email," or "Look at th... [Full Review]
They don't have a lot of features. They have very straightforward basic features. As a mail relay, I am very satisfied with the
product because it really defends against all malicious activity from the Internet. It catches a lot of stuff, such as attachment
files on body headers. It really works well on SharePoint when you upload a file or save a file. Advanced Email Security scans if
Nadav it is malicious and identifies issues. It can do some forensics on its console, which is nice. The UX/UI is quite straightforward
Aharon-Nov
and good. You don't have a lot of set... [Full Review]
The most valuable feature is the hardware-assisted platform module. The HAP is hardware-based and does not exist in many
products. It is a unique CPU technology that can detect ransomware attacks. The notification system is helpful. We received
two notifications a day, which include the false positives. [Full Review]
Sameer
Babu
There is still room for improvement with BEC. There is more work to be done by Perception Point on machine learning and
neuro language as well. BEC is very difficult if you don't have a computer language looking into the content of the email and
trying to make a determination through that. With BEC you often don't have an attachment or a URL. That is an area where
reviewer173 there is certainly room for improvement. [Full Review]
8866
Their marketing and training need improvement. When some of their new features come out, they don't do a great job of
notifying or educating us, e.g., sending emails such as, "Hey we..." Just to create a new customer, we used to have to go
through their support team. The last time that I had a new customer, they said, "By the way, we have a new feature. You can do
Neal it yourself," and that was fine. They just don't do a good job of promoting themselves. They seem like a typical busy IT
Granick
company who is just working on fixing problems and making technolog... [Full Review]
They could add some more features or interesting stuff that we could integrate. From a forensics point of view, it could improve
a bit more from a threat intelligence aspect. So, if I find a malicious email, they could have more investigations about sources,
headers, where it comes from, if they have seen it in other campaigns before, etc. I would like a little bit more from a threat
Nadav intelligence point of view so I can understand who else might be affected and attacked as well as the vectors of attack. [Full
Aharon-Nov
Review]
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Perception Point Advanced Email Security Continued from previous page
Email alerts should be available in real-time. Alternatively, emails should be sent more often. It would be better to get between
six and eight emails per day to help us understand what is happening. At this time, we don't have an option to customize alert
emails for our customers. They come directly from the vendor and we have no control over them. The reports should be more
Sameer customizable. [Full Review]
Babu
There is room for improvement for them with an MSP partner. The pricing is good and fair. Our customers don't complain. The
only thing is that it's a little bit old school. They don't have a system that automatically checks the number of users that our
customers have so we can just update the licenses ourselves through a website. It is still done manually. They have a person
Neal who checks invoicing monthly to determine if there have been any changes. A nice improvement would be if they could get
Granick
automated licensing counts. [Full Review]
It fits every budget. It has a low price. I can't go ahead and sell it for any price I want. They are quite strict. They say, "This is the
price that you can sell it for and this is the price for you as a reseller." That is it. It is not a lot of money. I will not become rich
from it, but I like that they keep a standard for everyone. They are a fair company. [Full Review]
Nadav
Aharon-Nov
The price of this solution was within our budget and I think that it will suit most SMBs. There are no additional costs beyond the
standard licensing fees. [Full Review]
Sameer
Babu
They are not the most expensive vendor. There are much more expensive vendors. They are not cheap, but they are not the
most expensive. They are somewhere in the middle. The pricing is for the number of emails. There are additional costs for the
number of files and scans. [Full Review]
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Barracuda Email Security Gateway See 21 reviews >>
Overview
Barracuda Email Security Gateway is a robust security solution that allows users to protect themselves from external threats as
well as from potential data leaks. It can be managed and monitored from a centralized location. Users can efficiently and easily
keep track of every aspect of their security suite all at one time. Customized protections can also be set up in a matter of
minutes.
Benefits of Barracuda Email Security Gateway
Some of the benefits of using Barracuda Email Security Gateway include:
Provides users with a comprehensive and robust suite of security features. Barracuda Email Security Gateway employs a suite
of security features to keep users safe. It has an email filter that scans outgoing emails to keep sensitive da... [Read More]
SAMPLE CUSTOMERS
Evolution Recruitment Solutions, Evans Delivery Company, Osoyoos Credit Union, Synovis Life Technologies, Camden County
Technical Schools, DEK, Evans Delivery Company, Colgate Rochester Crozer, Hemmera, South Carolina Heart Center, Ferma
Corporation, Major League Baseball (MLB), Healy Brothers Automotive Group
TOP COMPARISONS
Fortinet FortiMail vs. Barracuda Email Security Gateway … Compared 28% of the time [See comparison]
Cisco Secure Email vs. Barracuda Email Security Gateway … Compared 15% of the time [See comparison]
Proofpoint Email Protection vs. Barracuda Email Security Gateway … Compared 13% of the time [See comparison]

Comms Service Provider … 19% Manufacturing Company … 22%
Computer Software Company … 18% Financial Services Firm … 17%
Government … 8% Construction Company … 11%
Manufacturing Company … 5% Government … 11%

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Barracuda Email Security Gateway Continued from previous page
There are many customizable options: * Attachment filtering, where we are filtering attachments according to our requirements.
* IT-based configurations, where we allow domains. We are blacklisting domains that we do not want to pass through. * Rate
Control feature, where we have the user license for 10,000 incoming and outgoing emails. Therefore, 10,000 users can use this
Mohammed device. The client has the option to blacklist or whitelist any email address or domain based on the sender and recipient filters.
Shah Newaj
If they want, they can restrict any IP addresses... [Full Review]
The spam filtering, in particular, is very important for us. We have a large volume of emails each month, something like
200,000, and Barracuda filters about 85 percent of the spam, malware, and phishing that comes in. It prevents our users from
receiving this content on their computers. [Full Review]
Igor
Gutierrez
All of it has been quite useful. All features it provides on the cloud environment are very, very useful, including the antivirus that
is enabled on it. It also has a threat management tool on it. It does a self-scanning so that it actually does zero-day tolerance.
It's able to look at other Barracuda databases and is able to find the latest data and protect the network. There are a number of
Sameer features that it has that we actually use to protect our network from email. The setup is straightforward. [Full Review]
Narayan
It's a good solution. Maybe if we switch to the cloud version, it will be more up-to-date. It's a good one. It catches a lot of things
and has the ability to add domains as well as add senders and update their things. It could be more automated. Many solutions
in the industry are now receiving automatic updates. This one, we believe, is not; however, a later version may be better. [Full
reviewer193 Review]
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The solution has to improve in a very specific way. When we allow our customers to send or scan email through our Barracuda
Email Security Gateway, we are permitting their email server IP address, but not any domain. One of our customers has an
email server where they are hosting five domains within their server. They are sending and receiving email through that server
Mohammed by using Barracuda Email Security Gateway. Therefore, we allow their IP address to send email through our Barracuda Email
Shah Newaj
Security Gateway, then we declare MX for receiving email on b... [Full Review]
Barracuda itself should be actually working on their DMARC setup. There is a little bit of downtime in terms of that. There are
some times when legit emails are trapped on Barracuda and we are unable to get that information unless we actually log on to
the network to find out. The good thing is that we get logs now and you can schedule the logs and you'll be able to see the
Sameer logs in the event. The user gets to see the logs. In the event you don't receive the email, so you can schedule it for every hour
Narayan
or whatever schedule is important for the organi... [Full Review]
It's good, but some spam isn't always detected. It doesn't always detect the most recent signatures or spam. The database is
not updated automatically. Other solutions, such as Microsoft Exchange Online, automatically receive the most recent threat
data and malware data types. I believe the Barracuda database is not being updated. That is why we are looking, and we are
reviewer193 evaluating whether Defender for Office 365 or a Microsoft solution is better than Barracuda. That is why we are downloading
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all of this research to see which of the market leaders we ... [Full Review]
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Barracuda Email Security Gateway Continued from previous page
In the past, I would have said that the reporting could be improved, but they've gotten better at that in recent versions.
Although I don't use reporting routinely, it's something I do when I need to check something or pull some kind of statistical
report. Also, I had some difficulty in the past with the system getting swamped and overwhelmed trying to process all incoming
reviewer829 traffic. The appliance didn't have the resources to keep up. Obviously the network is getting more and more spam and virus
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traffic which adds to the problem. Since I had a service... [Full Review]
This is one of the major points for integrating this solution in any organization. Barracuda Email Security Gateway needs to
make it a bit more tolerable for customers because it is increasing every year. They should create a plan for reducing the cost. I
have observed that the price if I purchase from an American/European site, a European vendor, a European distributor, or
Mohammed Barracuda distributor in the European, Canadian, or American regions online, they are selling the virtual Vx model license for
Shah Newaj
less than subcontinental distributors. For example,... [Full Review]
Barracuda has the best price. Every year we need to renew our license, and every year I need to compare Barracuda to two or
three other players in the market. Barracuda always has a price that is 30 to 40 percent less than the other players' prices. Last
year we paid for the possibility of changing our hardware every three years. But now, because we changed the licensing
Igor model to a virtualization model, we don't need that. We just pay for the product and the support. There are two separate costs.
Gutierrez
[Full Review]
It's pay-per-user licenses. We pay around 5,000 Fijian dollars for probably 50 users. The pricing is pretty good for the type of
support they give us. We are not looking at anything more expensive than what we're currently paying. Globally, it's used pretty
extensively and it's regarded as one of the top three packages. [Full Review]
Sameer
Narayan
The pricing is fine. It's somewhere in the middle if you look at the market. There are certainly other products with higher and
lower price points. We don't find their pricing unreasonable, however. We're willing to pay for it. [Full Review]
Riaz Masum
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Email Security
Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration See 14 reviews >>
Overview
Check Point Harmony Email and Office is a cloud-based software offering complete protection to stop malware attacks
through emails. The software is designed to provide protection for organizations using Office 365, G Suite, Google
Workspace, and all other collaboration and file-sharing apps. Access permissions can be granted and custom policies can be
defined for any user of choice.
Check Point Harmony Email and Office identifies and blocks advanced malware, phishing, and ransomware attacks in real
time before they reach the user’s inbox. In turn, this also helps protect sensitive business data from breaches. Harmony Email
and Office was the first solution to implement machine learning, API, and AI for email security, and will ultimately... [Read More]
SAMPLE CUSTOMERS
Helvetia, Denham Capital, Daymark Solutions, Neopharm Group
TOP COMPARISONS
Check Point CloudGuard Posture Management vs. Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration … Compared 38% of the time [See
comparison]
Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks vs. Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration … Compared 33% of the time [See comparison]
Microsoft Defender for Cloud vs. Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration … Compared 9% of the time [See comparison]

Computer Software Company … 24% Energy/Utilities Company … 23%
Comms Service Provider … 21% Computer Software Company … 15%
Financial Services Firm … 6% Financial Services Firm … 8%
Manufacturing Company … 5% Government … 8%

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Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration Continued from previous page
The mail firewall and the Office 365 Control are its two most valuable features. It is very intuitive. It is a point and click type of
deal. The other slick thing is it has a cleanup process. So, we can set it up and tell it to just deliver files that have been cleaned
or transformed to a clean type of document. [Full Review]
David Ulloa
In terms of technical features, this is the best solution that I have worked with so far. For example: * URL Filtering * Application
control * Threat Prevention * Sandboxing We have found threat prevention using sandboxing from Check Point, after buying
the Threat Prevention license, helped with the malware prevention rate and reduced zero-day attacks. For Threat Prevention, I
Vishnu was impressed with this feature and the solution's effectiveness. It has been very good. Getting reports and finding threats in
Ravichandra
n the console is easy. [Full Review]
We have found several features that are very valuable. One of them is the integration with Office365. In addition to that, it is
fast and has a very simple, easy integration. In addition to that, it integrates with other Office 365 products. The false positives
are minimal, almost nil. That is very important since it will not generate an absurd amount of emails. The functionality of the tool
Adriamcam is very easy to configure and manage. The platform is friendly and makes its integrations even more, so this tool is very
efficient. [Full Review]
API-based integration is the most valuable aspect as it will not degrade the email delivery features. UBA is one of the features
which monitors the user behavior and takes actions accordingly. The product blocks malicious attachments before reaching
out to user mailboxes while not impacting business productivity. We are able to protect sensitive business data and maintain
Mantu Shaw regulatory compliance with advanced data leak prevention (DLP). We can block sophisticated social engineering attacks such
as impersonation, zero-day phishing, and Business Email C... [Full Review]
The NAVEX metrics that I have been using on the CloudGuard dashboard cannot be exported. If they were to add report
exporting capabilities on each of metric objects on the dashboard, that would be awesome. [Full Review]
David Ulloa
The false positive rate is one of the problems that we had faced with Check Point's information. For example, we have a
number of false positives in both CloudGuard SaaS and CloudGuard IaaS, which has been quite disappointing when we find
them. However, the moment when we whitelist or blacklist false positive things, the solution gives us more efficient security
Vishnu than other solutions. When I teach Check Point IaaS, I feel like it is putting devices into learning mode and feeding more stuff to
Ravichandra
n the solution, which gives me more efficient security. We d... [Full Review]
Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration presents a problem similar to the other Check Point tools that it was able to
manage, and that is the access to its administrative functions. Since the portal to the management and administration entry
sometimes has performance problems and takes a long time to respond to what has arrived, the handling of the tool is difficult.
Adriamcam It presents problems in the management of technical support since the SLA is not optimal, causing delays. This means that
security problems may arise since it does not provide a quick... [Full Review]
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Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration Continued from previous page
The implementation could definitely be better. We had great support from Check Point, but there were some "got-you"
moments where we got surprises as we were setting it up. When Check Point talks about it, it's all "plug and play," but it's not
really one of those platforms where you can just jump in and click a few buttons and everything works. You need to have a bit
TauraiMuso of knowledge about what you're doing and it's a bit more complicated than they advertise. In the future I would like to see
ni
something similar to what Proofpoint has, where users can ac... [Full Review]
The pricing and licensing are always negotiable. You can get CloudGuard as part of Infinity. When you do the solution through
Infinity, it's a per user type of license cost. That is how we have been looking at it. We are in a point in time where we are going
to have to renew our Endpoint Security licensing. When we do that, we will take advantage of the SaaS management console
David Ulloa and just concentrate there. At that point, we will have the SmartConsole, CloudGuard, and Gateway on the SaaS. However,
we're not there yet. [Full Review]
When it comes to Threat Prevention pricing and licensing, it has felt a little costly. For some clients, who are looking at security
as their primary concern, then it's better for them. I'm in this business as a system integrator, so I need to suggest Check Point
to some customers who are comparing products. I sell Check Point, Fortinet, and Palo Alto solutions. In terms of licensing, this
Vishnu solution is quite competitive but very costly. For someone looking at security as a primary concern, they should only invest in
Ravichandra
n Check Point. For a customer who is... [Full Review]
Like all security tools, they are expensive tools. However, Check Point competes in the market and its accessibility is good, so
paying for a tool that provides security is worth it. [Full Review]
Adriamcam
The product has a simple and easy to set up. The initial setup is critical - so plan it accordingly. Email is one of the key
components of any organization, so implement it with proper planning. [Full Review]
Mantu Shaw
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Mimecast Email Security with Targeted Threat Protection See 10 reviews >>
Overview
Mimecast’s Advanced Email Security with Targeted Threat Protection uses multiple, sophisticated, detection engines and a
diverse set of threat intelligence sources to protect email from spam, malware, phishing, and targeted attacks delivered as a
100% cloud-based service.
SAMPLE CUSTOMERS
Azizi Developments, Affinity Credit Union, Aftercare, Al Abbar Group
TOP COMPARISONS
Microsoft Defender for Office 365 vs. Mimecast Email Security with Targeted Threat Protection … Compared 44% of the time [See
comparison]
Microsoft Exchange Online Protection vs. Mimecast Email Security with Targeted Threat Protection … Compared 8% of the time [See
comparison]
Fortinet FortiMail vs. Mimecast Email Security with Targeted Threat Protection … Compared 6% of the time [See comparison]

Computer Software Company … 23% Financial Services Firm … 25%
Comms Service Provider … 9% Engineering Company … 13%
Financial Services Firm … 6% Museum Or Institution … 13%
Government … 5% Retailer … 13%

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Mimecast Email Security with Targeted Threat Protection Continued from previous page
The piece that is most valuable from the Mimecast standpoint will be the sandboxing feature. They have a process where
whenever they receive an email with an attachment, they process the attachment through a sandbox. Depending on your
configuration, this is a customer-specific configuration, you can tell it to do a bunch of things. You can block the attachment,
reviewer144 you can create a safe version of the attachment, or you can tell it to let it go or put it in a help queue for either user moderator
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or administrator review. [Full Review]
We have found email security very good. The gateway is excellent. We have found the archival services to be very valuable. It's
really quite user-friendly. In terms of technical superiority and the product itself, there are no complaints. It is really cutting
edge. The initial setup is straightforward. [Full Review]
reviewer146
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What I like about the integration is that it is directly into Microsoft 365, users can use their Microsoft 365 credentials to log into
the portal and access their mail. It does have integrations, and there is an app that can be added to Outlook to allow them to
do what they need to do. While some of the setups are probably not as user-friendly as some of the other platforms, there is a
TC2 lot of customization that you can do to the platform to help you pull up a lot of stuff that shouldn't be going into users'
mailboxes. I believe the world is going th... [Full Review]
The security on offer is very good. It's great at preventing users from accessing malicious sites or email. The filtering features
are excellent. It allows you to any links an email might have. For example, when a user receives an email with a link, Mimecast
takes that link and scans it, checking for any malicious content. If it's okay, then it passes on the email to the user. If it's not
reviewer153 okay, or it's not sure about the content of the link, it then sends a notification to the user. It helps users to look at the user to
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see if it is a trusted source... [Full Review]
The detection rates are an area for improvement. The other opportunity area I see with Mimecast is that when you're searching
inside of the admin console and you detect malicious emails that bypass Mimecast security: let's say you had a hundred of
those messages there. Mimecast doesn't have a way to group those and submit one single report to Mimecast. You have to do
reviewer144 one at a time which is not really very conducive — it's very time-consuming. Those are the main two points. If they work to fully
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resolve those two issues, that would make this an aweso... [Full Review]
It was not so much about the product itself, however, their business model needs improvement. We have subscribed to an
archival service, and yet, when we have to get our data out, we have to pay a fee to get our own data. They charge an
extraction fee. This is something which really worries us as a company. [Full Review]
reviewer146
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There is always space for them to improve. As a user, the user interface of the management console could be upgraded, for
example. They can definitely improve their management console interface. The solution could always add more features and
expand its offering. [Full Review]
reviewer153
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Mimecast Email Security with Targeted Threat Protection Continued from previous page
Their support should be improved. They are notorious for sending you to knowledge-based articles rather than actually talking
to you, but that is, unfortunately, kind of becoming a trend with everything. In terms of features, I haven't had any complaints.
However, I don't like the fact they moved to a paid training subscription model. They used to have a lot of free webinars for
reviewer156 training, but they have started to charge for them in the past year. [Full Review]
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The licensing costs are per-user for the product that you get with them. It varies a lot. Then you have different discount tiers
depending on the size of your organization or the partner you're using. I mean, there's a lot of quoting with the Mimecast
solution. As far as additional costs are concerned, there are some for product licenses that you also have to pay — also, the
reviewer144 support on Mimecast, the base support doesn't include email or phone calls, I think. In other words, there is a big fee for
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additional support on top of the per-user cost. [Full Review]
We typically use a subscription service. If there are version upgrades. We automatically get upgraded to the latest version, as
it's a software as a service setup. We don't need to update it as Mimecast takes care of it. If you need to extract data from their
archival service, there is an additional fee involved. As we are an enterprise customer and we have a relationship with them,
reviewer146 what we are told by the reseller is that we pay about 40% of their list price for this product. It's an expensive solution. There are
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other competitors, like Barracuda, ... [Full Review]
I'm always going to say the price needs to be lower, but it's reasonable. We pay annually for licensing, support, and training. It's
about eight and a half million RENs. [Full Review]
Clinton
Ramkelawan
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Answers from the Community
What is the best email encryption software for small enterprises using Office 365?
Hi community,
What is the best email encryption software for small enterprises using Office 365?
It needs to:
Support 20 users
Most staff are at remote sites
Staff are mostly technical but not IT experts
Needs to be robust
Need to be easy to install and use
Thanks! I appreciate the help.
The first question is what version of Office 365? It may already be included... Office Message Encryption or OME:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-...Office 365 Message Encryption is offered as part of Office 365 Enterprise E3 and E5, Microsoft
Enterprise E3 and E5, Microsoft 365 Business Premium, Office 365 A1, A3, and A5, and Office 365 Government G3 and G5. You don't
James need additional licenses to receive the new protection capabilities powered by Azure Information Protection.
OConnor
For third-party Email Encryption we work with ZIX.
Robert
Hilliker
In many years of working in secure environments, I have found a combination of MS BitLocker on the local machines O365 E3-E5 and
adding on Barracuda Essentials https://www.barracuda.com/prod... works great. Encryption is only a very small part of protecting
against cyber threats. Encryption in transit and Encryption at rest are important. But, most email threats and vulnerabilities are in the
PatrickWhe payload itself. Barracuda allows you to control what your users can send and receive via emails, has a plethora of other features and is
aton
affordable for small businesses.
See all 5 answers >>
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Top Vendors 5-6

Top Solutions by Ranking Factor 7

Microsoft Defender for Office 365 8 - 10

Proofpoint Email Protection 11 - 13

Cisco Secure Email 14 - 16

Perception Point Advanced Email Security 26 - 28

Barracuda Email Security Gateway 29 - 31

Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration 32 - 34

Mimecast Email Security with Targeted Threat Protection 35 - 37

Answers From the Community 38

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Area 1 Security Area 1 Horizon Microsoft Microsoft Exchange Online Protection

Armorblox Armorblox Microsoft Microsoft Defender for Office 365

Avanan Avanan Mimecast Mimecast Email Security with Targeted

Top Email Security Solutions

Views Comparisons Reviews Words/Review Average Rating

1 Microsoft Defender for Office 365

2 Proofpoint Email Protection

3 Cisco Secure Email

7 Perception Point Advanced Email Security

8 Barracuda Email Security Gateway

9 Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration

10 Mimecast Email Security with Targeted Threat Protection

Top Solutions by Ranking Factor

1 Microsoft Defender for Office 365 19,790

2 Proofpoint Email Protection 16,703

3 Cisco Secure Email 13,238

4 Fortinet FortiMail 9,156

5 Microsoft Exchange Online Protection 8,979

2 Barracuda Email Security Gateway 18

3 Proofpoint Email Protection 18

4 Check Point Harmony Email & 14

1 Cisco Secure Email 1,523

2 TitanHQ SpamTitan 1,504

5 Perception Point Advanced Email 1,304

Microsoft Defender for Office 365 See 14 reviews >>

REVIEWERS * VISITORS READING REVIEWS *

TOP INDUSTRIES TOP INDUSTRIES

COMPANY SIZE COMPANY SIZE

Microsoft Defender for Office 365 Continued from previous page

Top Reviews by Topic

VALUABLE FEATURES See more Valuable Features >>

ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT See more Room For Improvement >>

Microsoft Defender for Office 365 Continued from previous page

Proofpoint Email Protection See 19 reviews >>

REVIEWERS * VISITORS READING REVIEWS *

TOP INDUSTRIES TOP INDUSTRIES

COMPANY SIZE COMPANY SIZE

Proofpoint Email Protection Continued from previous page

Top Reviews by Topic

VALUABLE FEATURES See more Valuable Features >>

ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT See more Room For Improvement >>

Proofpoint Email Protection Continued from previous page

Cisco Secure Email See 10 reviews >>

REVIEWERS * VISITORS READING REVIEWS *

TOP INDUSTRIES TOP INDUSTRIES

COMPANY SIZE COMPANY SIZE

Cisco Secure Email Continued from previous page

Top Reviews by Topic