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 two main features that prove most beneficial for us are URL scanning and attachment scanning."
"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."
"Microsoft Defender for Office 365's most valuable features are safe attachments and safe links."
"It also gives me good visibility because, with Defender, I'm using a Microsoft product to defend Microsoft products. The integration was really seamless and I have wide visibility because it picks up almost everything. Literally, I can see almost every activity that happens, from the e-mail to the workstation itself."
"Microsoft Defender for Office 365's most valuable feature is its performance."
"The basic features are okay and I'm satisfied with the Defender."
"At the moment we are satisfied with this product. It's a stable, scalable, and resilient solution for us."
"This solution helped us lock down and have our infrastructure easier to manage."
"Mail sanitisation features are second to none."
"It is easy to install, and the deployment is super easy as well."
"It is certainly very beneficial for a small business and works best in combination with other Check Point blades, such as the Data Protection Blade that protects against data loss via email."
"The policies and port blocking are the most valuable features. We have a significant amount of spam emails passing through our network."
"The solution can be monitored on a single dashboard with actionable insights and reporting."
"It is a highly cost-effective solution for all kinds of small, marginal, and medium enterprises."
"We now have better security and fewer false positives."
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"The setup was easy."
"We like the content filtering and secure messaging features."
"The solution is pretty straightforward to use and easy to set up."
"Its administration console is very easy to use. The administration console is absolutely important because you interact with the platform through it."
"It does a good job for us, and its admin console is easy to use."
"We like Mimecast's spam filtering. The email signature feature is also a big plus for our users."
"What I like about the integration is that it is directly into Microsoft 365, users can use their Microsoft 365 credentials to log into the portal and access their mail."
"It offers an easy initial setup."
"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."
"There's room for improvement regarding the time frame for retrieving emails."
"I'd like some additional features any product can give me to protect our environment in a better way."
"It would be better if it were more scalable. It depends on the architecture, but we would like to make it more scalable for both data centers."
"Too many false positives and lacks an accurate capability to detect malicious SharePoint sites."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"It does not provide for standalone configuration on the security gateway. Instead, you need to have a management server/smart console for managing it."
"There's definitely room for improvement when it comes to adapting to different languages in one environment."
"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."
"The ease of use with the user interface could be better as it is very static."
"Installation time could be improved as it takes too long to install."
"The user should be able to perform a real-time search of the objects and see the messages."
"The cost is high when putting through Check Point Blade in your Gateway."
"I can say that the solution's price level is a problematic area that needs to be considered for improvement."
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"The reaction time between a new threat being identified and Mimecast picking it up needs to be narrowed a bit."
"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."
"As a user, the user interface of the management console could be upgraded, for example."
"I'd like to have better support from the product in the future."
"The price could be better, it should be reduced."
"I did have a problem with Mimecast. That is why I was looking for an alternative solution because their sender IP address gets poorly rated by Microsoft."
"Their support should be improved. They are notorious for sending you to knowledge-based articles rather than actually talking to you, but that is, unfortunately, kind of becoming a trend with everything. In terms of features, I haven't had any complaints. However, I don't like the fact they moved to a paid training subscription model. They used to have a lot of free webinars for training, but they have started to charge for them in the past year."
"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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