We compared Mimecast Email Security and Perception Point Advanced Email Security across several parameters based on our users' reviews. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below:
Features: Mimecast Email Security is appreciated for its efficient archiving capabilities and effective protection against targeted threats. Its seamless integration with Microsoft 365 also earned high marks. Perception Point Advanced Email Security is known for its ability to identify impersonation attacks and exceptional scanning capabilities.
Room for Improvement: Mimecast Email Security should focus on improving its administrative aspect, filtering capabilities, and ease of setup. Perception Point Advanced Email Security could improve content analysis and the ability to detect BEC attacks.
Service and Support: Mimecast's customer service elicits varied opinions, with some customers expressing satisfaction with its responsiveness and effectiveness, while others perceive it as unsatisfactory. Perception Point's customer service is highly regarded for being responsive, attentive, and interactive.
Ease of Deployment: Users had mixed experiences with Mimecast Email Security's setup. Some users found it fast and uncomplicated, while others found it moderately complex. Some users find Perception Point’s setup process to be straightforward and easy, while others have encountered hurdles.
Pricing: Mimecast Email Security is generally seen as costly, and some users struggle to justify the expense. It’s perceived as more expensive than competing solutions. Perception Point Advanced Email Security offers affordable pricing that accommodates all budgets and delivers satisfactory value.
ROI: It is challenging to measure the return on investment for Mimecast Email Security. Perception Point Advanced Email Security excels in its ability to detect threats effectively, resulting in significant time and cost savings by preventing downtime and the need for extensive cleanup.
Comparison Results: Mimecast is commended for its archiving and targeted threat protection capabilities. On the other hand, Mimecast faces challenges with its administrative aspect, filtering capabilities, and high pricing. Perception Point Advanced Email Security is praised for its ability to detect and prevent impersonation attacks and great customer support. The solution could improve in detecting BEC attacks and providing user-friendly configuration options.
"We like the content filtering and secure messaging features."
"It's good, it keeps the spam out."
"The initial setup is very straightforward."
"The solution offers good technical support."
"The interface of this solution is very easy to navigate and user-friendly. There is no delivery in email and other communications, making it reliable. The configuration is relatively easy."
"The piece that is most valuable from the Mimecast standpoint will be the sandboxing feature."
"The solution's performance is good."
"Mimecast certainly helped my customers reduce phishing emails."
"The solution is used to block malicious items hidden inside a document or PDF file."
"The most valuable feature is the technical support services."
"It has modules to detect malware and that is a strong point. It has a very nice way of showing you, directly in the product, a lot of details about certain pieces of malware. It goes very deep and even shows you the assembly code. It also does detonations on files and shows you the results in different operating systems. That is very useful."
"Their security engines are very effective at stopping malware and potential attacks before they reach a user's mailbox. They have the best detection engine."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to identify malicious content and phishing emails and reduce the workload we have to do in terms of security."
"It really works well on SharePoint when you upload a file or save a file. Advanced Email Security scans if it is malicious and identifies issues. It can do some forensics on its console, which is nice."
"One is the hardware-assisted platform that provides more insight into the threat scenarios. And the other is their instant response team's availability, 24/7, for identifying and responding to incidents. These are the two main things that everyone likes."
"The solution’s effectiveness when it comes to detection is very good. It is stopping malicious emails and tagging emails noted as spam. So, we are able to disseminate those emails, get what we need, and block clearly malicious emails. It saves us a lot of valuable time. It keeps our users safe, e.g., the majority of emails that they would have gotten in the past don't even make it into their inbox."
"The solution should include more AI features instead of Mimecast's more general static configuration tooling."
"The feature that should be included is to remove the block on the encrypted files."
"The installation is not so straightforward."
"Its pricing can be improved. It is a bit expensive."
"I'd like to have better support from the product in the future."
"As a user, the user interface of the management console could be upgraded, for example."
"The filtering needs more flexibility."
"The solution is very expensive."
"Email alerts should be available in real-time."
"There is room for improvement in terms of adding the DLP (Data Loss Prevention) solution, which would be a good option for Perception Point to look into."
"They could improve their anti-spam engine a little bit, because there are a lot of false positives. Sometimes, emails pass through their system but are spam. In terms of security and engines for malicious emails and antivirus, they're doing a good job. Their other engines can be improved."
"They could provide additional data loss prevention features as we encounter different kinds of attacks in today's scenario."
"They can do better on the spam. Today, Perception Point is not our only solution. We have two solutions, and they are the second in line because the spam filtering is not yet the best."
"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 intelligence point of view so I can understand who else might be affected and attacked as well as the vectors of attack."
"Coming from products in the Microsoft stack, Perception Point doesn't really give you, as an admin, a lot of options to make changes yourself. It's more on their side to make changes in the back end. That's something they could improve on in the future."
"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."
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Mimecast Email Security is ranked 5th in Secure Email Gateway (SEG) with 25 reviews while Perception Point Advanced Email Security is ranked 16th in Email Security with 21 reviews. Mimecast Email Security is rated 8.0, while Perception Point Advanced Email Security is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Mimecast Email Security writes "It gives clients peace of mind and helps them educate their users about threats". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Perception Point Advanced Email Security writes "Incident Response team answers immediately and fine-tunes system to continually improve detection". Mimecast Email Security is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Abnormal Security, Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP), Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration and Cisco Secure Email, whereas Perception Point Advanced Email Security is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Avanan, Proofpoint Email Protection, IRONSCALES and Sophos Email. See our Mimecast Email Security vs. Perception Point Advanced Email Security report.
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