We performed a comparison between Clearswift SECURE Email Gateway and Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Cisco, TitanHQ and others in Email Security."Does a thorough job of examining email and URLs for malicious content."
"The two main features that prove most beneficial for us are URL scanning and attachment scanning."
"Defender helps us prioritize threats across our organization."
"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."
"Our customers are satisfied with Defender for 365 because Microsoft products are easy to use and customize to meet the client's needs. Everything is in one place, so we can adjust policies as needed for phishing, DLP, ATP, or any other security features that our clients want to apply."
"The product is not resource-intensive."
"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."
"A stable solution."
"Ability to create your own content-filtering policies with relative ease."
"It provides security to both on-premises and Azure infrastructures."
"It offers great security against malware and other threats."
"The product's most valuable feature is third-party integrations."
"The threat management feature includes policies and alerts that are valuable."
"We use the solution to receive emails. We do not use the calendar function as our clients are slow adaptors to the latest features."
"The solution uses artificial intelligence and machine learning, so you don't need train it to detect something. The detection and response times are short. It's an excellent product."
"We can migrate seamlessly without any disruptions to our operations."
"The pre-set policies and configuration analyzer are the most valuable features."
"This product's effectiveness could be improved, in terms of detecting unwanted spam or even malware between the emails, compared to other products."
"The phishing and spam filters could use some improvement."
"There is room for improvement in terms of reporting."
"The XDR dashboard has room for improvement."
"Configuration requires going to a lot of places rather than just accessing one tab."
"In some situations, it has not been able to pick impersonated emails having no attachments. Technical support definitely has a scope for improvement."
"The UI needs to be more user-friendly."
"We are always looking for others tools to increase automation on tasks. There can be better integration with other solutions, such as PowerPoint and email."
"Malware needs improvement."
"FTP server and TRUST Manager functionality."
"Some features, like encryption, are not available."
"Not all settings can be configured automatically and most still require manual configuration. However, there is an automation tool available that can be used to input all the configurations either as a script or a tool it would be helpful."
"The reporting needs a little bit of improvement."
"We would like the solution to have more in-built intelligence in the way that it reviews potential security risks, rather than our team constantly having to update the policies."
"When the product is being updated, it changes some of the setups. The support team is also not good."
"Online Protection has an issue in that it doesn't provide an option to stop impersonation."
"It wasn't easy or intuitive enough for me to start using it. So, the reason was that the solution changed."
"The management interface of Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP) could be intuitive."
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Clearswift SECURE Email Gateway is ranked 38th in Email Security while Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP) is ranked 4th in Email Security with 34 reviews. Clearswift SECURE Email Gateway is rated 8.6, while Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP) is rated 8.2. 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 Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP) writes "An effective email security solution that provides DLP, Safe Attachment, and Safe Links". Clearswift SECURE Email Gateway is most compared with Mimecast Email Security, Cisco Secure Email, Proofpoint Email Protection, Fortinet FortiMail and Barracuda Email Security Gateway, whereas Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP) is most compared with Proofpoint Email Protection, Cisco Secure Email, Mimecast Email Security, Fortinet FortiMail and Barracuda Email Security Gateway.
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