We performed a comparison between Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP) and Symantec Messaging Gateway based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Anti-Malware Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The scalability is pretty good; it does what it is supposed to do."
"We use the solution to receive emails. We do not use the calendar function as our clients are slow adaptors to the latest features."
"It offers great security against malware and other threats."
"We use the solution in all our environments. We use it for remedy tickets and give them updates. It was our main communication point."
"With Microsoft Exchange Online Protection, if malware is attached to a mailer, it's very easy to go into the incident alert and find out what's happening with that identity and the mail."
"It has a really nice web-based administration console."
"We can migrate seamlessly without any disruptions to our operations."
"We like the holding facility that is available for potentially suspicious URL's. This allows a real-time review to be performed before the email reaches a users inbox."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the content filtering policies because the solution offers huge options for configuration, such as hardware manipulation, et cetera, and the dictionaries make the work easier."
"What I like most about Symantec Messaging Gateway is its usability. I also find its interface very friendly. The solution has a very good interface."
"The solution is stable and the performance is good."
"Symantec Messaging Gateway has a good GUI, and it is very powerful in detecting viruses and spam."
"The setup is pretty simple."
"Symantec’s spyware and malware signature database is very good compared to other products."
"The feature that I like the best is the fingerprinting concept."
"Symantec is a secure product."
"The solution lacks to elaborate on its spam policies."
"The solution needs to improve its backup."
"It would be helpful for customers if Plan 1 features were included with EOP."
"Our company faces difficulty with Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP) because it's too big, clunky, and difficult for a small client to implement quickly and easily."
"The product could be more stable. Microsoft products could be more stable because sometimes, even though they are updating some things, we cannot find those updates."
"The management interface of Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP) could be intuitive."
"When you're using a Microsoft product solution, you can scale it, but if you're not, there are limitations."
"Performance and speed should continue to be improved."
"Messaging Gateway's advanced malware detection could be improved."
"The false positive submissions must be improved."
"The biggest problem is it's an on-prem product and we're trying to get out of having equipment in data centers."
"Symantec Messaging Gateway should include better exclusions and exceptions for better administration."
"This product would benefit from better integration with Symantec Endpoint Protection."
"Symantec Messaging Gateway can improve detection because most of them are false negatives or false positives that we are trying to troubleshoot. Additionally, we are having routing problems and they are somehow connected to DNS issues."
"In a later release, it would be nice if the messaging gateway supported the cluster feature."
"The product must improve the user dashboards."
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Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP) is ranked 11th in Anti-Malware Tools with 34 reviews while Symantec Messaging Gateway is ranked 6th in Secure Email Gateway (SEG) with 20 reviews. Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP) is rated 8.2, while Symantec Messaging Gateway is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP) writes "An effective email security solution that provides DLP, Safe Attachment, and Safe Links". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Symantec Messaging Gateway writes "A stable and reasonably priced solution that performs well and has a very good malware database". Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP) is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Proofpoint Email Protection, Cisco Secure Email, Fortinet FortiMail and Trend Micro ScanMail, whereas Symantec Messaging Gateway is most compared with Cisco Secure Email, Fortinet FortiMail, Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Trend Micro Email Security and Barracuda Email Security Gateway. See our Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP) vs. Symantec Messaging Gateway report.
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