We performed a comparison between Check Point Anti-Spam and Email Security Software Blade and Mimecast Email Security 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."The most valuable feature of Microsoft Defender for Office 365 is the ease of use."
"Our customers are satisfied with Defender for 365 because Microsoft products are easy to use and customize to meet the client's needs. Everything is in one place, so we can adjust policies as needed for phishing, DLP, ATP, or any other security features that our clients want to apply."
"There are several features that I consider valuable."
"Does a thorough job of examining email and URLs for malicious content."
"Some of the valuable features on the email side are anti-phishing, anti-malware, and Safe Links."
"The technical support is good and quick to resolve issues."
"The deployment capability is a great feature."
"The two main features that prove most beneficial for us are URL scanning and attachment scanning."
"It refreshes the dynamic database regularly to ensure IP addresses that no longer misbehave are not blocked by mistake."
"This solution helped us lock down and have our infrastructure easier to manage."
"We now have better security and fewer false positives."
"Due to its technology, monitoring, and manufacturer features, we have been able to reduce the intrusion of spam and other threats that can be uploaded via email."
"Advanced Spam Filtering to identify and block unwanted email messages."
"This product integrates well and is easy to manage."
"The policies and port blocking are the most valuable features. We have a significant amount of spam emails passing through our network."
"It does a better job of recognizing spammers."
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"It's good, it keeps the spam out."
"It does a good job for us, and its admin console is easy to use."
"The solution is pretty straightforward to use and easy to set up."
"We like Mimecast's spam filtering. The email signature feature is also a big plus for our users."
"The solution's performance is good."
"We like the content filtering and secure messaging features."
"The product is good. To date, we have not faced any challenges."
"The initial setup is very straightforward."
"The company should focus on adding threats that the solution is currently unable to detect."
"They can improve their security in a way where a customer can know if all their attachments are safe or not to open through a report. The solution does its job perfectly, but it never reports to the customer whether those attachments have been stopped before or not."
"In some situations, it has not been able to pick impersonated emails having no attachments. Technical support definitely has a scope for improvement."
"The UI needs to be more user-friendly."
"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."
"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."
"There is room for improvement in terms of reporting."
"They have moved features from one console to another. Things have been moved around in the interface and it takes me time to find where certain features are."
"Mobile solutions should be added to Check Point because business email is also used by users on mobile devices."
"The ease of use with the user interface could be better as it is very static."
"In my book, more and more customized integrations could be made available so that different kinds of mail servers and cloud servers can be internally integrated for real-time system flow and security enablement."
"Installation time could be improved as it takes too long to install."
"I think that the pricing for the Check Point products should be reconsidered, as we found it to be quite expensive to purchase and to maintain."
"I can say that the solution's price level is a problematic area that needs to be considered for improvement."
"A possible improvement for the solution would be to be able to implement artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies to improve the accuracy of detecting spam and malicious emails that are constantly arriving."
"Many would love to have this solution and be able to manage it from any device, including native applications or applications that can be installed on devices such as Android or iOS."
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"Many of our users complain that the system is blocking too many attachments. It's a good practice from a security perspective, but our users think Mimecast is doing too much. It might be something we'll have to adjust."
"The solution is complex and not easy to use."
"The detection rates are an area for improvement."
"I'd like to have better support from the product in the future."
"We have subscribed to an archival service, and yet, when we have to get our data out, we have to pay a fee to get our own data. They charge an extraction fee."
"While it's quick and easy, the initial setup could be more user-friendly."
"They should improve the cookies management feature."
"They could provide a unified licensing model, including all the security features."
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Check Point Anti-Spam and Email Security Software Blade is ranked 11th in Email Security with 32 reviews while Mimecast Email Security is ranked 5th in Secure Email Gateway (SEG) with 23 reviews. Check Point Anti-Spam and Email Security Software Blade is rated 8.2, while Mimecast Email Security is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Check Point Anti-Spam and Email Security Software Blade writes "Effectively secures data centers against various threats, including spam emails and provides policy-based control". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Mimecast Email Security writes "It gives clients peace of mind and helps them educate their users about threats". Check Point Anti-Spam and Email Security Software Blade is most compared with Barracuda Email Security Gateway, Abnormal Security, Cisco Secure Email, Fortinet FortiMail and Sophos Email, whereas Mimecast Email Security is most compared with Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP), Abnormal Security, Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration, Cisco Secure Email and Fortinet FortiMail. See our Check Point Anti-Spam and Email Security Software Blade vs. Mimecast Email Security report.
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