We compared Mimecast Email Security and Perception Point Advanced Email Security across several parameters based on our users' reviews. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below:
Features: Mimecast Email Security is appreciated for its efficient archiving capabilities and effective protection against targeted threats. Its seamless integration with Microsoft 365 also earned high marks. Perception Point Advanced Email Security is known for its ability to identify impersonation attacks and exceptional scanning capabilities.
Room for Improvement: Mimecast Email Security should focus on improving its administrative aspect, filtering capabilities, and ease of setup. Perception Point Advanced Email Security could improve content analysis and the ability to detect BEC attacks.
Service and Support: Mimecast's customer service elicits varied opinions, with some customers expressing satisfaction with its responsiveness and effectiveness, while others perceive it as unsatisfactory. Perception Point's customer service is highly regarded for being responsive, attentive, and interactive.
Ease of Deployment: Users had mixed experiences with Mimecast Email Security's setup. Some users found it fast and uncomplicated, while others found it moderately complex. Some users find Perception Point’s setup process to be straightforward and easy, while others have encountered hurdles.
Pricing: Mimecast Email Security is generally seen as costly, and some users struggle to justify the expense. It’s perceived as more expensive than competing solutions. Perception Point Advanced Email Security offers affordable pricing that accommodates all budgets and delivers satisfactory value.
ROI: It is challenging to measure the return on investment for Mimecast Email Security. 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.
Comparison Results: Mimecast is commended for its archiving and targeted threat protection capabilities. On the other hand, Mimecast faces challenges with its administrative aspect, filtering capabilities, and high pricing. 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.
"It does a good job for us, and its admin console is easy to use."
"The product is good. To date, we have not faced any challenges."
"In the current environment that the world is in, everyone is trying to hack everyone else, so Project+ definitely helps a lot there."
"URL inspection works pretty well."
"Mimecast certainly helped my customers reduce phishing emails."
"The solution's performance is good."
"It's really quite user-friendly. In terms of technical superiority and the product itself, there are no complaints. It is really cutting edge."
"The product's most valuable features are impersonation protection and phishing countermeasures."
"The most valuable feature I have found is the speed of scanning emails."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to identify malicious content and phishing emails and reduce the workload we have to do in terms of security."
"The most valuable feature is the technical support services."
"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."
"Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The most valuable feature of Perception Point Advanced Email Security is the filtering and securing of emails."
"The solution is used to block malicious items hidden inside a document or PDF file."
"It has modules to detect malware and that is a strong point. It has a very nice way of showing you, directly in the product, a lot of details about certain pieces of malware. It goes very deep and even shows you the assembly code. It also does detonations on files and shows you the results in different operating systems. That is very useful."
"As a user, the user interface of the management console could be upgraded, for example."
"The solution's console interface was recently changed for the admins, but the previous one was much better because we could open tabs on it."
"They could provide a unified licensing model, including all the security features."
"Lately, Mimecast's outbound mail servers have been regularly blocklisted by spam filters. That didn't happen a few years back, but it seems to be a more frequent problem these days. When a server is blocklisted, it means all of my outgoing mail ends up in the recipient's junk mail. That affects my reputation and business confidence."
"They should improve the cookies management feature."
"The solution should include more AI features instead of Mimecast's more general static configuration tooling."
"I did have a problem with Mimecast. That is why I was looking for an alternative solution because their sender IP address gets poorly rated by Microsoft."
"The detection rates are an area for improvement."
"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."
"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."
"In terms of architecture, and I know that they're going to improve this, the solution needs to be much more redundant. There was an outage a month ago in AWS, and that basically stopped the service for two or three hours. Although in two years, this was the first time that something like that happened, our expectation from a company like Perception Point is that it should work with either a multi-cloud or multi-region architecture, to improve the resilience."
"Coming from products in the Microsoft stack, Perception Point doesn't really give you, as an admin, a lot of options to make changes yourself. It's more on their side to make changes in the back end. That's something they could improve on in the future."
"They could provide additional data loss prevention features as we encounter different kinds of attacks in today's scenario."
"Dashboard is an area of concern in the solution where improvements are required."
"It would be helpful for Perception Point Advanced Email Security to have more integration with other solutions."
"Our users would like the solution to scan outgoing emails. So, if my system is compromised, and I have malicious content in my system, then there is a possibility that I am sending a colleague that malicious content."
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Mimecast Email Security is ranked 5th in Secure Email Gateway (SEG) with 23 reviews while Perception Point Advanced Email Security is ranked 14th in Email Security with 21 reviews. Mimecast Email Security is rated 7.8, while Perception Point Advanced Email Security is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Mimecast Email Security writes "It gives clients peace of mind and helps them educate their users about threats". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Perception Point Advanced Email Security writes "Incident Response team answers immediately and fine-tunes system to continually improve detection". Mimecast Email Security is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Abnormal Security, Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP), Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration and Cisco Secure Email, whereas Perception Point Advanced Email Security is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Avanan, Proofpoint Email Protection, IRONSCALES and Sophos Email. See our Mimecast Email Security vs. Perception Point Advanced Email Security report.
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