We performed a comparison between Clearswift SECURE Email Gateway 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."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."
"I like its investigation capabilities, as that is what is most important to me. It is fairly simple with a user-friendly interface."
"The technical support is good and quick to resolve issues."
"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."
"The email protection is excellent, especially in terms of anti-phishing policies."
"There are several features that I consider valuable."
"Some of the valuable features on the email side are anti-phishing, anti-malware, and Safe Links."
"I would say that 90% of the spam and phishing attack emails get blocked right off the bat."
"Ability to create your own content-filtering policies with relative ease."
"A stable solution."
"The key benefits of this solution are its user-friendly interface and clear instructions, as well as the wealth of online resources and helpful health community available for support. These features make it easy for users to navigate and utilize the solution effectively."
"One major benefit of the Fortinet FortiMail product is its ease of management."
"Technical support is great. They're available 24/7 and their response time is typically within the hour."
"Its performance is very good and it is stable."
"The most valuable features of this solution are anti-spam, sender reputation, and antivirus."
"It can block a lot of fake emails."
"Fortinet FortiMail is easy to use and the detection rate is very good. You can customize content filters and profiles are done easily. Additionally, there is a sandbox integration feature that is good."
"Troubleshooting is very simple because you can see where the email was not delivered and why it would be considered as spam."
"This product's effectiveness could be improved, in terms of detecting unwanted spam or even malware between the emails, compared to other products."
"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."
"One area for improvement is integration. For example, when it comes to external SaaS platforms, we were not able to get a lot of information on integrations with such apps for security and authentication."
"I'd like some additional features any product can give me to protect our environment in a better way."
"About eight months ago, we started to measure the quantity of phishing and spam that we have been receiving, and it has been increasing a lot. That means that protection for our email is not as good as we were expecting."
"The pre-sales cost calculations could be more transparent."
"We need a separate license and we don't know how to get the license that is required."
"One area for improvement is support, in terms of being able to reach them and, especially, technical support for configuration."
"FTP server and TRUST Manager functionality."
"Malware needs improvement."
"It would be nice if we could manage the solution from the cloud so I could handle things off-site if necessary."
"Fortinet FortiMail should allow more flexibility with the content rules."
"The web console management interface could be improved."
"The product should work on licensing and provide more detail once the license is selected for the customer."
"Sometimes it takes a little bit too long to determine if an email is good or not. If they could shorten that time span, it'd be so much better. It does delay our email, which does not make users happy. That said, I would have to say we have not been blacklisted for quite a while now."
"Issues with the current email search functionality."
"The solution could be improved by providing a virtual machine facility with a complete set of options in the VM setup."
"There are features that other solutions have that this one is lacking, such as reporting options. I hope in future releases they advance their features list."
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Clearswift SECURE Email Gateway is ranked 39th in Email Security while Fortinet FortiMail is ranked 5th in Email Security with 57 reviews. Clearswift SECURE Email Gateway is rated 8.6, while Fortinet FortiMail is rated 8.6. 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 Fortinet FortiMail writes "Good GUI and configuring security policies is easy but the pricing needs improvement". Clearswift SECURE Email Gateway is most compared with Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP), Mimecast Email Security, Proofpoint Email Protection and Cisco Secure Email, whereas Fortinet FortiMail is most compared with Cisco Secure Email, Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP), Barracuda Email Security Gateway, Proofpoint Email Protection and Fortinet FortiMail Cloud. See our Clearswift SECURE Email Gateway vs. Fortinet FortiMail report.
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