We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiMail and Kaspersky Security for Mail Server 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 most valuable feature of Microsoft Defender for Office 365 is the ease of use."
"Microsoft Defender has a feature to protect each and every attachment. Even if it's an encrypted attachment, it will check for any potential threats."
"Some of the valuable features on the email side are anti-phishing, anti-malware, and Safe Links."
"The email protection is excellent, especially in terms of anti-phishing policies."
"Defender for Office 365 has helped eliminate having to look at multiple dashboards and that is the aspect I like most about it. It is simpler, effective, and convenient. The users like the process efficiency."
"The initial setup was easy."
"The product is not resource-intensive."
"The initial setup is straightforward. You just add the license, click it, and then you can set up the rules. It is quite simple."
"The deployment is simple and once up and running it is easy to manage."
"Fortinet FortiMail is a complete product addressing mail security concerns. It helps to know spam subscriptions and create restriction policies."
"The antiphishing capabilities are very good."
"A full-featured email gateway solution that contains security threats reliably."
"They have a feature called CDR, Content Disarm, Reconstruction, click protection, and DLP for encryption purposes."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the spam filter."
"Fortinet’s support services are good."
"This solution is good for small and medium enterprise companies."
"The integration rate is very high in Kaspersky, which is why most of our customers like it."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it is a highly reliable and dependable solution."
"The most valuable features are the anti-phishing and anti-spam capabilities."
"You can install the plugins on the same machine hosting your exchange solution. It's a good complement for Sophos security, which scans the traffic before it reaches your mail service. Kaspersky is on the mail server itself while Sophos handles the incoming traffic. With both of them working together, we have the perfect solution for mail."
"The most valuable feature is the straightforward setup."
"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."
"I'd like some additional features any product can give me to protect our environment in a better way."
"This product's effectiveness could be improved, in terms of detecting unwanted spam or even malware between the emails, compared to other products."
"The GUI is sometimes slow to fetch the device report and could be improved."
"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."
"We need a separate license and we don't know how to get the license that is required."
"The only thing they should improve is the licensing model. They should stop changing it. A year ago, the five features I mentioned were included in one product. Now, three of them are bundled into one product, and you have to pay extra for the other two. I don't mind paying extra, but I don't want them to change it every year or every six months. I need to know what I'm looking at and not worry about it next year."
"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."
"Limited ability to upgrade hardware may lead to some performance issues that might otherwise be improved."
"Fortinet FortiMail's pricing could be improved."
"Sometimes, the tool flags legitimate incoming traffic as spam."
"I think the security of the product could improve."
"The solution is user-friendly to a degree but the dashboard needs improvement."
"The sandboxing features are not well done in Fortinet FortiMail, making it an area of improvement."
"Improving the upgrade process, making it more user-friendly, and simplifying the management of hardware components could enhance the overall user experience and appeal of Fortinet's email security solution."
"Fortinet FortiMail's technical support team has shortcomings and needs improvement."
"Encrypted email attachments are not being monitored by this solution, which is an area that they need to work on."
"The solution is not 100 percent stable and that can use improvement."
"Kaspersky lacks in the area of customization, so simpler customization options need to be provided to users."
"It would be great if Kaspersky could do what Sophos does for us. However, we love having these two different technologies doing the same thing. Sometimes Sophos has the patch to block a novel threat, but Kaspersky doesn't."
"The biggest problem in the solution is related to its license renewal since it is pretty hard in Kaspersky to find out the procedure to renew a license."
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Fortinet FortiMail is ranked 5th in Email Security with 56 reviews while Kaspersky Security for Mail Server is ranked 21st in Email Security with 5 reviews. Fortinet FortiMail is rated 8.6, while Kaspersky Security for Mail Server is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiMail writes "Good GUI and configuring security policies is easy but the pricing needs improvement". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Kaspersky Security for Mail Server writes "A stable product that offers a very high rate of integration to its users". Fortinet FortiMail is most compared with Cisco Secure Email, Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP), Barracuda Email Security Gateway, Fortinet FortiMail Cloud and Symantec Messaging Gateway, whereas Kaspersky Security for Mail Server is most compared with Barracuda Email Security Gateway, Cisco Secure Email, Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP), Sophos Email and Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration. See our Fortinet FortiMail vs. Kaspersky Security for Mail Server report.
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