We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiMail and SonicWall Email Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Email Security solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Threat Explorer is one of the features that I very much like because it is a real-time report that allows you to identify, analyze, and trace security attacks."
"There are several features that I consider valuable."
"The deployment capability is a great feature."
"The email protection is excellent, especially in terms of anti-phishing policies."
"It gives us visibility into threats and, for endpoints, it helps us to prioritize threats. We used to have a lack of visibility, but now our time to detect and respond has decreased."
"The most valuable feature is the integration. It's a single console, so we don't have to switch around between multiple products. Another valuable feature is the ease of operations and maintenance."
"I like its investigation capabilities, as that is what is most important to me. It is fairly simple with a user-friendly interface."
"The good part is that you don't have to configure it, which is very convenient."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiMail is its fully detailed dashboard."
"The key benefits of this solution are its user-friendly interface and clear instructions, as well as the wealth of online resources and helpful health community available for support. These features make it easy for users to navigate and utilize the solution effectively."
"Troubleshooting is very simple because you can see where the email was not delivered and why it would be considered as spam."
"Fortinet FortiMail has a lot of valuable features. It works great. It also has an antivirus feature. Support for Fortinet FortiMail was also great when my team wanted to block some geographic IPs, but couldn't figure out how to do it. The support team provided clear communication on how to resolve that issue. Another valuable feature of Fortinet FortiMail is SPAM filtering which tells you how many spammy emails you've received. Based on my current use cases, I'm happy with Fortinet FortiMail."
"We found the initial setup to be mostly straightforward."
"FortiMail is a stable product."
"It has a very high level of security through special licensing with solutions like FortiGuard, sandboxing solutions in the cloud, and URL rewriting solutions."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiMail are its virus outbreak prevention and FortiSandbox integration."
"The anti-spam aspect of the solution is its most valuable feature."
"Setup was easy. It took about 30 minutes."
"The most valuable features are the anti-spam, anti-phishing, anti-virus, and anti-spoofing."
"The product is easy to manage in terms of configurations."
"There are no wasted extras and the interface is really simple."
"The most valuable feature is that it protects from spam."
"The most valuable feature of SonicWall Email Security is the blocking of emails using keywords. If there are any particular keywords in the subject, that we want to block from receiving from a particular person we can do it. Additionally, the blocking of emails is easy. we can release that one and we can block some of the keywords also like that."
"This solution provides very good email security that protects us against spamming and malware."
"They have moved features from one console to another. Things have been moved around in the interface and it takes me time to find where certain features are."
"The only thing they should improve is the licensing model. They should stop changing it. A year ago, the five features I mentioned were included in one product. Now, three of them are bundled into one product, and you have to pay extra for the other two. I don't mind paying extra, but I don't want them to change it every year or every six months. I need to know what I'm looking at and not worry about it next year."
"The company should focus on adding threats that the solution is currently unable to detect."
"Too many false positives and lacks an accurate capability to detect malicious SharePoint sites."
"Microsoft Defender for Office 365 should be more proactive."
"We need to be able to whitelist data at the backend."
"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."
"There is room for improvement with the UI."
"The solution could be improved by providing a virtual machine facility with a complete set of options in the VM setup."
"The sandboxing features are not well done in Fortinet FortiMail, making it an area of improvement."
"A room for improvement in Fortinet FortiMail is that it only has a hardware version. I also didn't find the solution scalable, so that's another area for improvement."
"I believe there is room for enhancement in content and web security features."
"The product should work on licensing and provide more detail once the license is selected for the customer."
"I have little to say about possible improvements, but the configuration for content blocking could be better. So, for example, if the email includes the line "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."
"I need a stable update in the product that stays for a long time instead of having to deal with frequent updates."
"The security products stop their operations once the subscription period expires. It is a wrong policy. If I trust a product, it has to continue working even after expiry. It should have a grace period of 30, 40, or 60 days. We can extend the subscription during those days. In some places, subscription extensions can take up to six weeks. During the renewal process, the support offered by the company is very poor. It also reduces security. We pay for the expired period but do not get protection during those times. The user of Fortinet FortiMail should have a feature to see spam names."
"A lot of spoofed emails are still coming to the end-user, so the configuration for this option needs to be improved."
"They should integrate the solution with third-party platforms."
"There could be definition updates included in the subscription."
"The protection level for email security isn't 100%. I'm still getting some spam and junk mail."
"SonicWall Email Security could improve by making the file blocking and the release feature easier to use"
"They need well-trained partners in Nigeria."
"Updates could be released more frequently."
"The reporting needs improvement."
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Fortinet FortiMail is ranked 5th in Email Security with 57 reviews while SonicWall Email Security is ranked 19th in Email Security with 12 reviews. Fortinet FortiMail is rated 8.6, while SonicWall Email Security is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiMail writes "Good GUI and configuring security policies is easy but the pricing needs improvement". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SonicWall Email Security writes "Effective threat prevention, reliable, and beneficial keyword blocking". Fortinet FortiMail is most compared with Cisco Secure Email, Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP), Barracuda Email Security Gateway, Proofpoint Email Protection and Fortinet FortiMail Cloud, whereas SonicWall Email Security is most compared with Barracuda Email Security Gateway, Sophos Email, Fortinet FortiMail Cloud, Proofpoint Email Protection and Avanan. See our Fortinet FortiMail vs. SonicWall Email Security report.
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