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Updated on Sep 6, 2023

We compared Perception Point Advanced Email Security and TitanHQ SpamTitan across several parameters based on our users' reviews. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below: 

  • Features: Perception Point Advanced Email Security is known for its ability to identify impersonation attacks and exceptional scanning capabilities. TitanHQ SpamTitan offers a user-friendly interface, detailed reporting, and multi-layered security with advanced features like rate limiting, user-managed allow/block lists, and geo-blocking.

  • Room for Improvement: Perception Point Advanced Email Security could improve content analysis and the ability to detect BEC attacks. TitanHQ SpamTitan users want a lower false positive rate and enhancing logging features.

  • Service and Support: Perception Point's customer service is highly regarded for being responsive, attentive, and interactive. TitanHQ SpamTitan's customer service and support are commended for their responsiveness and ability to explain things in simple terms.

  • Ease of Deployment: Some users find Perception Point’s setup process to be straightforward and easy, while others have encountered hurdles. The feedback on the initial setup of TitanHQ SpamTitan is mixed. Some users found it challenging and noted the lack of a proper onboarding procedure. 

  • Pricing: Perception Point Advanced Email Security offers affordable pricing that accommodates all budgets and delivers satisfactory value. Users appreciate SpamTitan’s cost-effectiveness and flexibility. They find the licensing agreement seamless and accommodating.

  • ROI: 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. TitanHQ SpamTitan is highly regarded for its ability to save time and costs, boost profitability, enhance security, and improve productivity. It effectively combats spam, phishing emails, and viruses.

Comparison Results: 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. SpamTitan's most valuable features include its user interface, layered security, and reporting. Users suggest improvements to SpamTitan's logging and false positive rates.

To learn more, read our detailed Perception Point Advanced Email Security vs. TitanHQ SpamTitan Report (Updated: May 2024).
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Pros
"Defender enables us to secure all 365-related activity from a single place. It gives us visibility into everything happening in Outlook, protecting us against phishing and other email-based threats. Defender helps us detect any suspicious behaviors.""Threat Explorer is an invaluable tool for me, and it plays a crucial role in helping me discern the origins of various email campaigns, pinpointing where they emanate from, and identifying the individuals within our organization who are affected.""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.""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.""The initial setup was easy.""Since we have started using the solution, there have been fewer compromises.""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.""The email protection is excellent, especially in terms of anti-phishing policies."

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"The most valuable feature of Perception Point Advanced Email Security is the filtering and securing of emails.""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.""We haven't had a client, who uses their protection, have an email security breach. That is the best thing about what they do. We don't have to think too much. Their product just works and keeps bad emails away.""The most valuable feature I have found is the speed of scanning emails.""The solution’s effectiveness when it comes to detection is very good. It has a very good mechanism. It scans our emails. It identifies any threat or phishing attempts and phishing campaigns as well as any bad reputation, servers, or links, then it blocks them. This is what I find to be very good about this system.""I see from time to time that Perception Point is being proactive. They approach us, and say, "Can you check this, and this?" So, it does seem that they are an extension of my incident response.""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 Perception Point Incident Response team acts as an extension of our SOC team. This is very important for us. This is a benefit provided for their main product of scanning our emails. If Perception Point can give me IR, this is really good versus other products that do not provide this kind of service. Perception Point's service is great. They are very professional. That reduces the time that my internal SOC has to deal with my internal IT person. They just send an email to the IR team at Perception Point, who continues the investigation and blocks any emails, if necessary. This is very good because it can reduce a lot of time and effort from my team. It is like an extension of my SOC, but external."

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"Within a week of implementing SpamTitan, it blocked a ransomware event.""SpamTitan has absolutely helped to improve our spam catch rate, as well as our false positive rate.""SpamTitan learned faster than I thought it was going to, based on other products that I've used. There was a lot more feedback. The other products are based on the users, but this one, with its AI, seems to produce tremendous improvements day-to-day. I told the teams it was going to take two to three weeks but, within a week, we had dropped the amount of spam that was getting through.""They have something called Pattern Filtering, which has been a godsend... For example, if I don't want any email to ever come through that has the term "hot dog" in it, whether it be in the subject, the title, or anywhere else, I can immediately block such emails, company-wide. That has saved me so much time.""It works as it should. It allows users to manage emails that they receive, meaning they can set up whitelists and blacklists.""We have a lot less spam going through. Because of this, work hours are not lost searching through all the spam emails to determine which ones are legitimate. This saves our bank clients' time since they are not forced to search their inbox for legitimate emails between spams. Not a lot of spam is going through. I think time is essential and we are gaining a lot of it with this solution since a lot of emails are automatically filtered out.""SpamTitan has made it easier to manage spam. When other solutions I've used quarantined something, an admin had to manually find and release it. With SpamTitan, the end-user can monitor it themselves and release their own quarantined items. It's faster and less work.""The overall system is straightforward to use, and the UI is excellent. It significantly streamlines the process of dealing with spam emails."

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Cons
"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.""There needs to be an improvement in integrating the product to work across multiple operating systems, and to have better support for non-Microsoft file types.""The company should focus on adding threats that the solution is currently unable to detect.""One area for improvement is support, in terms of being able to reach them and, especially, technical support for configuration.""Microsoft Defender for Office 365 could improve by giving customers information on techniques to prevent threats. For example, information about best practices on how to protect their own devices against hackers and scammers, such as educational information or training. This would help others have a better understanding of cyber security. Additionally, there can be more security features added.""Microsoft Defender for Office 365 should improve the troubleshooting tools. It's unclear whether the device is blocked at the firewall level or at the device itself. The granularity needed for troubleshooting is currently lacking. From my perspective, Microsoft should address this issue to benefit many users who likely share the same sentiment.""We need to be able to whitelist data at the backend.""Microsoft wants its well-paying customers to finish testing some of its half-baked products, find bugs, and report bugs back to Microsoft's team, which is a little frustrating for those who have to manage it and roll it up to thousands of people across the organization."

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"The only thing that can be improved in Perception Point is the in-depth analysis and attribution to cyberattack groups.""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.""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.""Perception Point Advanced Email Security should make available more use cases.""This is an option to preview an email in their console, and that could be improved. If you open the preview, then it auto scrolls. Therefore, it is hard to look at the email when it is going to the next page or scrolling. It should not have the auto-scroll.""I think the interface could be improved in the next release.""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.""We have had a few false positives, not that many, but a few... they have a feature where someone from the Incident Response team can look at an email and mark it as 'verified malicious.' You might think that if an engine detects it is malicious, and an IR team member has flagged it as malicious, it will definitely be malicious. But that's not always the case."

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"Sometimes when I'm trying to pull up reports, the speed can suffer.""The analysis of ransomware attachments could be improved. Other solutions seem to detect ransomware faster than SpamTitan does.""Sometimes, things can get caught back in spam that you had previously released. Without going in, releasing the whole domain, and opening it up, since you don't want to do that often because the company can get infected as well, I have a couple of things that I previously released show back up again. I don't understand why this is happening, but I would like to know why it happened, e.g., did an algorithm change? It is important to know if I released an email last week why it was caught in spam the following week.""There is no plugin for Outlook, which might be of an advantage so that you can just click on a link in Outlook that takes you right to your quarantine list. It doesn't have that at the moment.""They could improve on the color of the interface.""SpamTitan doesn't quarantine when it blocks things based on the remote block list or greylisting. It just deletes the email. When I try to look at these blocked items, it tells me they're gone. RBL or greylisted items aren't saved, so you can check them. There may be a setting somewhere that I haven't seen.""One of the things that I have been asking them to do is add the ability to scan a domain's age. It seems like the majority of spam right now have been registered with brand new domains. They are utilizing and abusing them for two weeks until they make it onto all the blacklists, then they pick a new one. They just move on. So, if we could scan a domain's age, and just say, "Outright block domains that are less than two weeks old," then it would make SpamTitan even better. They absolutely should be doing that. I would love it if they would do that.""The inter mailbox email flow needs improvement. If you are in the same domain, it does not have the capability to transfer one email to the same domain through SpamTitan. They need an API for Office 365 which is currently being developed"

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "It's a user-base subscription."
  • "From the pricing point of view, like any other product in the market, there is scope for negotiation."
  • "Defender is a little bit more expensive as compared to others. We are in the manufacturing environment. So, we don't have a high budget for all of our endpoint devices. Its cost is a major concern for us."
  • "For licensing, it's usually a yearly package for customers who are subscribed to Office 365, but they can also pay on a monthly basis."
  • "Microsoft Defender for Office 365 is an add-on to the Office license. Many customers are purchasing this solution."
  • "Microsoft Defender for Office 365 comes with Microsoft Windows. It is free with the operating system."
  • "The solution saves money so we have seen a return on investment."
  • "Defender for 365 comes in various plans and licenses, along with other Microsoft security solutions. Purchasing this kind of package or security bundle gives good value for money, and that's what I recommend."
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  • "We would always like it to be cheaper and save more money. However, we are getting the value from it."
  • "When compared to other solutions on the market, it is relatively fair."
  • "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."
  • "We were able to get reasonable pricing that matches the ROI we want, so I think that it is the correct price point."
  • "The price of this solution was within our budget and I think that it will suit most SMBs."
  • "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."
  • "It has very reasonable pricing. Normally, the end user is paying. Perception Point is already in the Amazon marketplace, so we cannot sell it as a distribution partner. For example, we cannot take more than that margin of what they offer in the marketplace. Whatever the end user is paying, it is definitely worth it and it is not that high."
  • "The pricing and licensing are very fair compared to competing companies in the same field."
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  • "The price of this solution is low. When you do purchase everything is included in the licensing cost."
  • "We are on a per-user or per-mailbox monthly subscription. We are happy with the price of the solution. When comparing it to other solutions it is much cheaper."
  • "The cluster was an additional cost. We had to get some more licenses to get to that level. It's well worth it because it means peace of mind for everyone."
  • "Compared to all of the others, including the solution we used previously, SpamTitan is cheaper."
  • "The price is good by today's standards. You actually get what you pay for."
  • "The price was great compared to other solutions that we looked at the time."
  • "Our pricing has pretty much stayed somewhat the same. Sure, there has been an increase or two that keeps up with inflation, but that is everybody. When we switched from AppRiver to SpamTitan, we saved about 20%. That is $1,000 to $2,000 a month. We went to SpamTitan and WebTitan. It was $1,000 savings a month for SpamTitan and another $1,500 a month savings for WebTitan."
  • "It is very good. We actually ended up saving money from our previous solution."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:Threat Explorer is an invaluable tool for me, and it plays a crucial role in helping me discern the origins of various… more »
    Top Answer:The product must provide better malware detection. The detection algorithms don't perform the way I hope they would.
    Top Answer:The most valuable feature is the technical support services.
    Top Answer:Perception Point Advanced Email Security offers an option to its users to make either monthly or yearly payments. The… more »
    Top Answer:They could provide additional data loss prevention features as we encounter different kinds of attacks in today's… more »
    Top Answer:It's more expensive than my old solution, OnlyMyEmail. That's surprising because SpamTitan requires a minimum of 50 user… more »
    Top Answer:SpamTitan advertises anti-spam, anti-phishing, and anti-spear phishing, but it's mostly marketing. They really only do… more »
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    Also Known As
    MS Defender for Office 365
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    Overview

    Microsoft Defender for Office 365 is a comprehensive security solution designed to protect organizations against advanced threats in their email, collaboration, and productivity environments. It combines the power of Microsoft's threat intelligence, machine learning, and behavioral analytics to provide real-time protection against phishing, malware, ransomware, and other malicious attacks.

    With Microsoft Defender for Office 365, organizations can safeguard their email communication by detecting and blocking malicious links, attachments, and unsafe email content. It employs advanced anti-phishing capabilities to identify and prevent sophisticated phishing attacks that attempt to steal sensitive information or compromise user credentials.

    This solution also offers robust protection against malware and ransomware. It leverages machine learning algorithms to analyze email attachments and URLs in real-time, identifying and blocking malicious content before it reaches users' inboxes. Additionally, it provides advanced threat-hunting capabilities, allowing security teams to proactively investigate and respond to potential threats.

    Microsoft Defender for Office 365 goes beyond email protection and extends its security features to other collaboration tools like SharePoint, OneDrive, and Teams. It scans files and documents stored in these platforms, ensuring that they are free from malware and other malicious content. It also provides visibility into user activities, helping organizations detect and mitigate insider threats.

    Furthermore, this solution offers rich reporting and analytics capabilities, providing organizations with insights into their security posture and threat landscape. It enables security administrators to monitor and manage security incidents, track trends, and take proactive measures to enhance their overall security posture.

    Perception Point Advanced Email Security is a comprehensive solution designed to protect organizations from advanced email threats. Leveraging cutting-edge technology, it offers multi-layered defense mechanisms to detect and block sophisticated attacks such as phishing, malware, and ransomware. 

    With its advanced threat intelligence capabilities, it can identify and neutralize zero-day threats in real-time. The solution also provides robust data loss prevention features, ensuring sensitive information remains secure. Its user-friendly interface allows for easy management and monitoring of email security, while its seamless integration with existing email platforms ensures a hassle-free deployment process. 

    Perception Point Advanced Email Security is a reliable and efficient solution that safeguards organizations against the ever-evolving landscape of email-based threats.

    TitanHQ SpamTitan is a next-generation robust anti-spam service that protects today’s businesses by blocking spam, spoofing, zero-day attacks, phishing, malware, and more from users' emails. SpamTitan uses the most intuitive AI-driven threat protection to keep users' networks safe and secure at all times.

    TitanHQ SpamTitan Key Features:

    TitanHQ SpamTitan has many valuable key features. Some of its most useful features include:

    • Protection: TitanHQ SpamTitan works seamlessly to improve users' Office 365 security against malicious malware by using a next-generation intuitive in-depth defense approach. SpamTitan will also scan all inbound emails with robust anti-virus protection to intercept spear phishing and whaling.
    • Sandboxing: SpamTitan provides users with behavior analysis and machine learning to improve security teams' ability to safely stop suspicious files from reaching users' email inboxes.
    • Email blocking: SpamTitan is able to effectively block 99.99% of malware, spam, ransomware, and viruses. Users have the option to use blacklist or whitelist protocols, recipient verifications, outbound scanning, and additional advanced intuitive reporting to ensure email processes are secure at all times.
    • Zero Day protection: SpamTitan uses AI-driven intuitive global technology to accurately predict and anticipate potential risks or threats, continually delivering a secure solution for business email systems. The solution also provides robust data leak prevention protocols to negate any internal organizational data loss.

    Reviews from Real Users

    The solution saves employees' time. Many of our faculty are physicians who don't have much time to check their emails, especially if they need to scroll through and delete spam mail, which can hide important messages. A cleaner inbox is easier to use and saves time, probably an hour a week per user. That might not sound like much, but we had physicians with inboxes so full of spam they stopped checking their emails, which is no longer the case. Our catch rate is up significantly, and our false positives have dropped considerably, saving the end user time.” - A PeerSpot user who is a DevOps Director at the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics

    “I can't tell you the number of times that their web interface has saved me. I had server issues but I still needed to be able to look at what emails I would have received if my email server had been working correctly. SpamTitan has a reporting functionality that showed me what emails would have been sent. I could actually see the content of those emails. For me, several times, that has been a real lifesaver.” - Walter H., An Enterprise Architect at Unified System Solutions, Ltd.

    “Its algorithms are doing a very good job in terms of the false positive rate. We have some regular mail that gets caught and some spam mail that gets through, but they're just balancing the line between spam and regular mail. We do catch a lot of spam, the amount of spam on an average day ranges from 65-85%. The Link Lock also reduces the risk when clicking on a link in an email, it removes a lot of concern about harmful links.” - A PeerSpot user who is a Cloud & Infrastructure consultant at a tech services company.

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    Buyer's Guide
    Perception Point Advanced Email Security vs. TitanHQ SpamTitan
    May 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about Perception Point Advanced Email Security vs. TitanHQ SpamTitan and other solutions. Updated: May 2024.
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    Perception Point Advanced Email Security is ranked 16th in Email Security with 21 reviews while TitanHQ SpamTitan is ranked 4th in Email Security with 77 reviews. Perception Point Advanced Email Security is rated 9.0, while TitanHQ SpamTitan is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Perception Point Advanced Email Security writes "Incident Response team answers immediately and fine-tunes system to continually improve detection". On the other hand, the top reviewer of TitanHQ SpamTitan writes "Outdated user-interface and offers basic functionality, they have great marketing but only deliver the basics". Perception Point Advanced Email Security is most compared with Avanan, Proofpoint Email Protection, IRONSCALES, Sophos Email and Fortinet FortiMail, whereas TitanHQ SpamTitan is most compared with Barracuda Email Protection, Fortinet FortiMail, Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP), Avanan and IRONSCALES. See our Perception Point Advanced Email Security vs. TitanHQ SpamTitan report.

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