We compared Trend Micro Email Security and TitanHQ SpamTitan across several parameters based on our users' reviews. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below:
Features: Trend Micro Email Security is known for its powerful antivirus engine, user-friendly administration, and reliable spam protection. TitanHQ SpamTitan offers a user-friendly interface, detailed reporting, and multi-layered security with advanced features like rate limiting, user-managed allow/block lists, and geo-blocking.
Room for Improvement: Trend Micro Email Security customers want better compatibility with third-party email solutions, advanced AI for rule configuration, and improved risk visibility. TitanHQ SpamTitan users want a lower false positive rate and enhancing logging features.
Service and Support: Trend Micro Email Security's support is generally responsive and helpful, but some reviews suggest room for improvement. TitanHQ SpamTitan's customer service and support are commended for their responsiveness and ability to explain things in simple terms.
Ease of Deployment: Setting up Trend Micro Email Security is typically easy, taking around 30 minutes to an hour or two. The feedback on the initial setup of TitanHQ SpamTitan is mixed. Some users found it challenging and noted the lack of a proper onboarding procedure.
Pricing: Some users find Trend Micro Email Security to be costly and more suitable for larger enterprises. Users appreciate SpamTitan’s cost-effectiveness and flexibility. They find the licensing agreement seamless and accommodating.
ROI: Trend Micro Email Security users say its return on investment is hard to demonstrate. TitanHQ SpamTitan saves time and costs, boosts profitability, enhances security, and improves productivity. It effectively combats spam, phishing emails, and viruses.
Comparison Results: Trend Micro excels in security features, ease of administration, and scalability. Trend Micro could benefit from improved dashboard visibility and stronger spam filtering. SpamTitan's most valuable features include its user interface, layered security, and reporting. Users suggest improvements to SpamTitan's logging and false positive rates.
"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 email protection is excellent, especially in terms of anti-phishing policies."
"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."
"Does a thorough job of examining email and URLs for malicious content."
"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."
"The benefit that stands out to me is the ability for multiple individuals to collaborate simultaneously within the same document. Additionally, there is the option to save the document directly in the integrated OneDrive or SharePoint."
"Microsoft Defender for Office 365's most valuable features are safe attachments and safe links."
"It gives us visibility into threats and, for endpoints, it helps us to prioritize threats. We used to have a lack of visibility, but now our time to detect and respond has decreased."
"The key differentiators of the product for an MSP are its ease of use and effectiveness. It generates reports and makes things easy for IT to manage. It's a set-it-and-forget-it type of solution."
"I like the ability to go online and view mail that's been quarantined. SpamTitan lets you look at the mail and decide whether you want to release it or not."
"Among the features that led us to choose SpamTitan are the ability to lock down, the multiple layers of security they have built into it, the ability to scrub inbound and outbound, as well as higher-level SPF and DMARC capabilities that were not really built into our previous product."
"I like that advanced features such as DKIM signing are integrated into SpamTitan. It works well, and setting up DKIM can be cumbersome for many email servers, particularly with Microsoft Exchange. DKIM signing verifies the sender's authenticity by applying a signature to outgoing emails, and it was straightforward to set up within the solution."
"Its simplicity is most valuable. It does what we ask it to do. The filters work, and we are able to set the levels and give the clients or end-user access to the quarantine through a simple email."
"I had server issues but I still needed to be able to look at what emails I would have received if my email server had been working correctly. SpamTitan has a reporting functionality that showed me what emails would have been sent. I could actually see the content of those emails."
"The encryption feature seems to be the most useful. We didn't have a convenient option for it previously, and having the capability to encrypt from within the message nearly seamlessly is a benefit to us."
"It gives our users the chance to interact with the program. They can decide if there are things that are junk mail that they don't want to be messing with, on an individual basis. Of course, I can always override that or control it from a company standpoint."
"The solution's initial setup process was easy since it was deployed on the cloud."
"I find the anti-phishing and anti-spam features most valuable because they reduce false positives and enhance security."
"Trend Micro Email Security scans all email attachments because, nowadays, ransomware or malware files are sent through email attachments."
"Trend Micro has inter-domain security features that solutions from other vendors like Forcepoint lack."
"The initial setup is not overly complex."
"The interface is really good."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the antivirus, antispam, and integration with cloud services. This is a multifunctional solution."
"Trend Micro Email Security has a feature for secure protection of OneDrive, Google Drive, and CloudApp security."
"Microsoft security solutions work as expected. They are constantly updating the solutions to make them better. At the same time, the changes can impact a customer's environment, and we need to adjust settings. Sometimes we aren't aware of the changes, and nothing is pushed from the backend automatically."
"Microsoft should provide more documentation for users so they can self-educate. I would like to see more documentation for advanced security features."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"The pre-sales cost calculations could be more transparent."
"Configuration requires going to a lot of places rather than just accessing one tab."
"Microsoft Defender for Office 365 could improve by giving customers information on techniques to prevent threats. For example, information about best practices on how to protect their own devices against hackers and scammers, such as educational information or training. This would help others have a better understanding of cyber security. Additionally, there can be more security features added."
"We have submitted requests for a feature which would be a total control panel… Our previous spam filter had that and it saved us from having to log in to the panel online, search for an email, pull it up, and figure out where it came from originally and why it got the spam score it did. That would be a huge improvement and time-saver because then we wouldn't have to be in the webpage for that."
"They need to keep up with the latest technology and add new features as they arise, e.g., artificial intelligence, new and improved updated lists, or new ways of tracking spam. They need to just keep up so the product is effective. Because, if all of a sudden viruses or spam starts getting through, then we might have to look at something else. However, so far, it has kept up and done a great job. So, we are happy."
"The interface looks a little dated and could be modernized."
"There was a situation in which I needed to change the cloud server. From SpamTitan, I had to specify which server we were on for the integration into Office 365 and I actually only found that out because there was a problem. It would have been better if they had advised us of that first."
"What would be helpful to me is an alert if there were an increase in the number of threats that have been picked up. In that case, an alert could be sent to the admin in our company, to inform us. It could say something like, "Generally, about 20 percent of your incoming emails have been threats. Now it has jumped up to 30 or 40 percent." Something like that would be beneficial."
"I believe the product is configured for the US or European market, not the Latin American market, and the scoring system is a little too strict for our market. Most companies in Latin America don't even have proper domain configuration, which can cause their emails to be filtered as spam. They might not have DMARC or SDF configuration, so we often have to change the scoring threshold to let legitimate emails through. It's not SpamTitan's fault, but the optimization isn't the greatest considering our market."
"The stability of SpamTitan is equivalent to other email security solutions that I have previously used. Some of them have more bells and whistles that you can add. For example, inside the email subject line, you can put in the words encrypt secret, or secure. Then, it will automatically secure that email and send an email to the person who is supposed to receive it. They can identify it for themselves in a series of different Q&A questions. That is sometimes a deciding factor for clients."
"The admin user interface is very granular. Anyone who is in IT can relate to the statement: "With anything granular, there is going to be a little bit of complexity." It can be difficult, on a layer-by-layer basis, to wrap your head around it. Because the administration interface is so granular, some of the categories and some of the settings end up in really odd places. It's hard to figure out where a certain setting is sometimes."
"It is a bit expensive than the market price."
"The product must provide better customization features."
"The capacity handling and the scalability of the solution need to be improved since I feel Trend Micro lacks in such areas."
"The patch management could improve in Trend Micro Email Security."
"There needs to be more documentation for the product."
"Sometimes malicious email gets past the email gateway."
"There is a limitation when customers are using their email from a third-party solution that isn't from Trend Micro."
"I would like to see more integration of Trend Micro Email Security with different platforms."
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TitanHQ SpamTitan is ranked 4th in Email Security with 77 reviews while Trend Micro Email Security is ranked 8th in Email Security with 24 reviews. TitanHQ SpamTitan is rated 9.0, while Trend Micro Email Security is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of TitanHQ SpamTitan writes "Has the ability to easily see what was blocked, enabling users to restore emails they were expecting with the click of a button". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Trend Micro Email Security writes "The solution blocks spam emails from reaching the user’s mailbox but should introduce new features, improvements, and updates". TitanHQ SpamTitan is most compared with Barracuda Email Protection, Fortinet FortiMail, Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP), Avanan and Cisco Secure Email, whereas Trend Micro Email Security is most compared with Cisco Secure Email, Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP), Fortinet FortiMail, Trend Micro InterScan Messaging Security and IRONSCALES. See our TitanHQ SpamTitan vs. Trend Micro Email Security report.
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