We performed a comparison between Symantec Messaging Gateway and Trellix Collaboration Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Secure Email Gateway (SEG) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Messaging Gateway is stable."
"Symantec Messaging Gateway is stable and scalable. Installation is easy, and the deployment and maintenance can be done by one administrative person."
"The feature that I like the best is the fingerprinting concept."
"Symantec Messaging Gateway has a huge knowledge base about phishing, spamming, spoofing, etc."
"The cloud-based interface is very user-friendly."
"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."
"Symantec’s spyware and malware signature database is very good compared to other products."
"Symantec Messaging Gateway has a good GUI, and it is very powerful in detecting viruses and spam."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its simplicity. It's very user-friendly."
"The initial setup is simple."
"One of the valuable features of the product stems from the fact that it is easy to implement the tool in our environment."
"FireEye is good for malware depicting and security."
"The product protects my email."
"I like FireEye's filtering, spam digests, and its advanced threat review of email flow. It also has a broad range of riskware rules you can deploy."
"The product helps reduce the number of malicious emails reaching the user's inbox."
"FireEye Email Security is easy to use."
"It will provide Excel reports and PDF reports, but it would be great if they supported the concept of Crystal Reports."
"The product must improve the user dashboards."
"In a later release, it would be nice if the messaging gateway supported the cluster feature."
"They really need to create a good package that competes with Microsoft."
"The documentation could have more detailed examples of how to use the product in various situations. As more companies shift to the cloud, they could better integrate the on-prem and cloud versions through an on-prem client."
"It is a nice product but is not user friendly in terms of the graphical interface. It is poor and is not rich in terms of the human interface."
"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."
"The solution takes up a lot of memory."
"The solution is not easy to set up. However, we have employees that have the knowledge that can do the difficult implementation. It would be better if the process was easier."
"In general, our company should make the tool more robust to protect our systems."
"If they want to be the primary or best solution, they need to have better email management features."
"The custom tailoring is limited."
"The solution must provide features to scan QR codes for threats."
"I would like to see this solution become more flexible."
"The reporting aspect of the solution needs improvement."
"I would like the solution to be able to automatically quarantine the malicious emails before getting to the user's mailbox and continue with regular email operations. This could result in the user clicking the email before the purge operation is completed."
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Symantec Messaging Gateway is ranked 6th in Secure Email Gateway (SEG) with 20 reviews while Trellix Collaboration Security is ranked 9th in Secure Email Gateway (SEG) with 13 reviews. Symantec Messaging Gateway is rated 8.2, while Trellix Collaboration Security is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Symantec Messaging Gateway writes "A stable and reasonably priced solution that performs well and has a very good malware database". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Trellix Collaboration Security writes "Has an easy implementation phase to deal with for users". Symantec Messaging Gateway is most compared with Cisco Secure Email, Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP), Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Fortinet FortiMail and IceWarp, whereas Trellix Collaboration Security is most compared with Cisco Secure Email, Proofpoint Email Protection, Microsoft Defender for Office 365 and Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP). See our Symantec Messaging Gateway vs. Trellix Collaboration Security report.
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