We performed a comparison between ESET Cloud Apps Protection 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."At the moment we are satisfied with this product. It's a stable, scalable, and resilient solution for us."
"The solution is very easy to use. All you have to do is to assign the license to the end-user and it's done. The customer will only have the feature activated, and the solution will monitor the emails to determine if they are a threat or not."
"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."
"Does a thorough job of examining email and URLs for malicious content."
"Microsoft Defender for Office 365's most valuable features are safe attachments and safe links."
"Defender helps us prioritize threats across our organization."
"The risk level notifications are most valuable. We get to know what kind of intrusion or attack is there, and we can fix a problem on time."
"The email protection is excellent, especially in terms of anti-phishing policies."
"The most valuable features are the precision of detection and the level of customization of the policy."
"We are close to having 99% or 98% detection."
"The anti-spam features are valuable."
"The most valuable features of this solution are anti-spam, sender reputation, and antivirus."
"The number of false positives is minimal."
"I love the integration between Fortinet products."
"We found the initial setup to be mostly straightforward."
"FortiMail possesses notable strengths, and one key feature is its store-and-forward concept."
"The solution has a user-friendly interface. It is easy to deploy and handle. You can easily troubleshoot the issues of the solution."
"The anti-spam feature is very valuable."
"Several simulation options are available within 365, and the phishing simulation could be better."
"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."
"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."
"There is room for improvement with the UI."
"The product must provide better malware detection."
"The custom alerts have to improve a lot."
"I'd like some additional features any product can give me to protect our environment in a better way."
"It would be better if it were more scalable. It depends on the architecture, but we would like to make it more scalable for both data centers."
"The specific domain file for Apache needs to be well-defined."
"It's not easy for an admin to check and decide if the email is good or not."
"Fortinet FortiMail's technical support team has shortcomings and needs improvement."
"Such kinds of things, raised from the point from the objective actually, we are using Fortinet FortiMail. We don't find any kinds of challenge or difficulties, but Fortinet FortiMail is more efficient and more effective for us. I don't know for other client, but for us, Fortinet FortiMail is very effective Like, for instance, if it is possible, let's say some kind of high threat is actually encountered if it could be possible to SMBs in our smartphone, or mobile apps, kinds of thing, if Fortinet FortiMail is available to monitor the thing using from our mobile phone from our smartphone. If such kinds of things are truly included, it will be more or good for us."
"It would be nice if we could manage the solution from the cloud so I could handle things off-site if necessary."
"I need a stable update in the product that stays for a long time instead of having to deal with frequent updates."
"The product's cybersecurity features could be better."
"It is not easy to install."
"FortiMail's dashboard is somewhat complex and could be made simpler."
"The product should work on licensing and provide more detail once the license is selected for the customer."
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ESET Cloud Apps Protection is ranked 22nd in Email Security with 2 reviews while Fortinet FortiMail is ranked 5th in Email Security with 56 reviews. ESET Cloud Apps Protection is rated 9.6, while Fortinet FortiMail is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of ESET Cloud Apps Protection writes "Great protection, good privacy, and helpful support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Fortinet FortiMail writes "Good GUI and configuring security policies is easy but the pricing needs improvement". ESET Cloud Apps Protection is most compared with Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP), 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. See our ESET Cloud Apps Protection vs. Fortinet FortiMail report.
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