We performed a comparison between Clearswift SECURE Email Gateway and Fortinet FortiMail based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Cisco, TitanHQ and others in Email Security."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."
"I like its investigation capabilities, as that is what is most important to me. It is fairly simple with a user-friendly interface."
"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."
"Microsoft Defender for Office 365's most valuable feature is its performance."
"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 product's scalability is good."
"At the moment we are satisfied with this product. It's a stable, scalable, and resilient solution for us."
"The email protection is excellent, especially in terms of anti-phishing policies."
"A stable solution."
"Ability to create your own content-filtering policies with relative ease."
"The integration with FortiSandbox is good, and something that we utilize often."
"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."
"Fortinet FortiMail's most valuable features are antispam, antivirus, database, and data loss prevention (DLP)."
"The anti-spam feature is very valuable."
"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."
"Technical support is great. They're available 24/7 and their response time is typically within the hour."
"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."
"Microsoft sometimes has downtime, and we'll get several incidents coming in back to back. We have a huge backlog of notifications, many of which may be false positives. However, there might be serious alerts, so we can't risk dismissing all of them at once."
"One area for improvement is integration. For example, when it comes to external SaaS platforms, we were not able to get a lot of information on integrations with such apps for security and authentication."
"The pre-sales cost calculations could be more transparent."
"The company should focus on adding threats that the solution is currently unable to detect."
"The XDR dashboard has room for improvement."
"You should be able to deploy Defender for every subscription without the need to add servers."
"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 custom alerts have to improve a lot."
"Malware needs improvement."
"FTP server and TRUST Manager functionality."
"The logging information is sometimes not clear or easy to understand."
"The solution doesn't scale easily."
"Fortinet FortiMail's technical support team has shortcomings and needs improvement."
"The web console management interface could be improved."
"The solution lacks to provide more visibility when there is a problem, and it needs to be tracked."
"I believe there is room for enhancement in content and web security features."
"I think they need to look into it and improve their signatures. This will help with blocking incoming spam emails."
"The product should work on licensing and provide more detail once the license is selected for the customer."
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Clearswift SECURE Email Gateway is ranked 38th in Email Security while Fortinet FortiMail is ranked 5th in Email Security with 54 reviews. Clearswift SECURE Email Gateway is rated 8.6, while Fortinet FortiMail is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Clearswift SECURE Email Gateway writes "Facilitates creation of your own content-filtering policies with relative ease". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Fortinet FortiMail writes "Good GUI and configuring security policies is easy but the pricing needs improvement". Clearswift SECURE Email Gateway is most compared with Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP), Mimecast Email Security, Cisco Secure Email, Proofpoint Email Protection and Barracuda Email Security Gateway, whereas Fortinet FortiMail is most compared with Cisco Secure Email, Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP), Barracuda Email Security Gateway, Fortinet FortiMail Cloud and Proofpoint Email Protection.
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