We performed a comparison between Check Point Anti-Spam and Email Security Software Blade and Fortinet FortiMail 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."The two main features that prove most beneficial for us are URL scanning and attachment scanning."
"Microsoft Defender for Office 365 helps people to work remotely. It is a secure solution. We don't need to use our company's computers or get VPN connections to the networks. I can control how they share screens and what they send to the devices. It keeps our organizations confidential and sensitive information safe."
"Defender is a SaaS platform, so it offers more flexibility. Managing the permissions is easier. The solution's automated detection and response features are scalable."
"Does a thorough job of examining email and URLs for malicious content."
"The basic features are okay and I'm satisfied with the Defender."
"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."
"It also gives me good visibility because, with Defender, I'm using a Microsoft product to defend Microsoft products. The integration was really seamless and I have wide visibility because it picks up almost everything. Literally, I can see almost every activity that happens, from the e-mail to the workstation itself."
"The most valuable feature is protection against malicious links, fishing, and impersonation. You can train people to be aware of these threats, but they're not always careful. When they're using their phones between meetings, they click on a link, and it's game over."
"This product integrates well and is easy to manage."
"DLP features can help prevent sensitive information from being leaked via email."
"It is easy to install, and the deployment is super easy as well."
"Check Point Anti-Spam and Email Security Software Blade is quite reliable...It is a very stable solution."
"When sharing files with my colleagues, it provides a comprehensive report on the security status of the document."
"One of the standout features of the product is a significant reduction in false positives, achieved through the implementation of artificial intelligence for detecting malware, phishing attempts, and spam emails."
"Advanced Spam Filtering to identify and block unwanted email messages."
"Anti-spam and malware phishing are valuable features of the solution."
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"The most valuable features are the endpoint defense features, it is very secure."
"It is a scalable solution."
"They have a feature called CDR, Content Disarm, Reconstruction, click protection, and DLP for encryption purposes."
"The antiphishing capabilities are very good."
"Clean user interface and good sandbox."
"FortiMail is a stable product."
"It is one of the most efficient solutions in our environment. We have more than nine hundred users. All of these users are protected by Fortinet FortiMail."
"The anti-spam features are valuable."
"They can improve their security in a way where a customer can know if all their attachments are safe or not to open through a report. The solution does its job perfectly, but it never reports to the customer whether those attachments have been stopped before or not."
"Microsoft Defender for Office 365 must improve the overall management style, including the GUI. It also needs to change the filters so that it is easy to whitelist and blacklist data."
"The certification training for Defender for 365 needs to be deeper and incorporate Sentinel. I took all the security courses except one, and Sentinel isn't included."
"There is room for improvement with the UI."
"Microsoft should provide more documentation for users so they can self-educate. I would like to see more documentation for advanced security features."
"The visibility for the weaknesses in the system and unauthorized access can be improved."
"The pre-sales cost calculations could be more transparent."
"There is room for improvement in terms of reporting."
"A major area for improvement is within some of the heavily discounted software blade add-ons on top of the current Next Generation Threat Prevention and SandBlast and Next Generation Threat Prevention offerings."
"It would be useful to have more logs and in aggregate mode, perhaps through a specific report, that can be more easily used for troubleshooting."
"Recognizing spammers and spam email sourcing is extremely lagging these days, and the performance could be improved to provide better efficiency."
"I can say that the solution's price level is a problematic area that needs to be considered for improvement."
"In my book, more and more customized integrations could be made available so that different kinds of mail servers and cloud servers can be internally integrated for real-time system flow and security enablement."
"The user should be able to perform a real-time search of the objects and see the messages."
"It would be useful to have more logs and in aggregate mode, perhaps through a specific report, that can be more easily used for troubleshooting."
"I would like this solution to be more integrated into other applications that Check Point has so that it could be managed quickly and safely from the Infinity Portal."
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"Fortinet FortiMail's pricing could be improved."
"Sometimes, the tool flags legitimate incoming traffic as spam."
"High Availability needs improvement."
"The sandboxing features are not well done in Fortinet FortiMail, making it an area of improvement."
"Maybe FortiMail's integration could be better."
"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 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."
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Check Point Anti-Spam and Email Security Software Blade is ranked 9th in Email Security with 33 reviews while Fortinet FortiMail is ranked 5th in Email Security with 57 reviews. Check Point Anti-Spam and Email Security Software Blade is rated 8.2, while Fortinet FortiMail is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Check Point Anti-Spam and Email Security Software Blade writes "Effectively secures data centers against various threats, including spam emails and provides policy-based control". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Fortinet FortiMail writes "Good GUI and configuring security policies is easy but the pricing needs improvement". Check Point Anti-Spam and Email Security Software Blade is most compared with Abnormal Security, Barracuda Email Security Gateway and Cisco Secure Email, whereas 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. See our Check Point Anti-Spam and Email Security Software Blade vs. Fortinet FortiMail report.
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