We performed a comparison between Check Point Anti-Spam and Email Security Software Blade and Symantec Messaging Gateway 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 initial setup was easy."
"Defender helps us prioritize threats across our organization."
"Safe attachments, safe links, policies, and the ability to protect from zero-day threats are the most valuable features."
"Defender is a SaaS platform, so it offers more flexibility. Managing the permissions is easier. The solution's automated detection and response features are scalable."
"The deployment capability is a great feature."
"Defender for 365 is a comprehensive cloud-based solution. The value of the cloud is that you aren't alone. Threat intelligence and analytics are shared in the cloud. We don't have to find the solution alone. If you face an unknown threat with traditional solutions like Trend Micro and Symantec, you need to open a case and send your information to them to analyze forensically and identify the source of the attack."
"The technical support is good and quick to resolve issues."
"The product's scalability is good."
"It refreshes the dynamic database regularly to ensure IP addresses that no longer misbehave are not blocked by mistake."
"It is a highly cost-effective solution for all kinds of small, marginal, and medium enterprises."
"DLP features can help prevent sensitive information from being leaked via email."
"It has several very good features that form an excellent tool."
"The policies and port blocking are the most valuable features. We have a significant amount of spam emails passing through our network."
"We now have better security and fewer false positives."
"Advanced Spam Filtering to identify and block unwanted email messages."
"Check Point Anti-Spam and Email Security Software Blade provides an extra level of security against threats and malware along with 2FA support for multiple platform collaboration and integrations in a single click."
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"Symantec’s spyware and malware signature database is very good compared to other products."
"The cloud-based interface is very user-friendly."
"The solution is stable and the performance is good."
"The solution is excellent at blocking spam."
"The solution is highly customizable. You can make rules for domains and configure policies for spam or malware. Messaging Gateway is an on-prem solution, so it's useful for companies without a cloud presence."
"I like that it's simple and easy to configure, deploy, and manage. The reporting function has all the features we're looking for, and we are fine with that."
"It has very good capabilities for managing malware."
"Symantec is a secure product."
"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 UI needs to be more user-friendly."
"In some situations, it has not been able to pick impersonated emails having no attachments. Technical support definitely has a scope for improvement."
"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."
"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."
"The company should focus on adding threats that the solution is currently unable to detect."
"The high-end protection of email servers from any advanced foreign agents and malware is not 100% there currently."
"There's definitely room for improvement when it comes to adapting to different languages in one environment."
"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."
"The ease of use with the user interface could be better as it is very static."
"Recognizing spammers and spam email sourcing is extremely lagging these days, and the performance could be improved to provide better efficiency."
"The pattern used to filter emails could be improved"
"The solution's technical support is an area with shortcomings that need to be improved for the better."
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"We've had issues in the past where the user finds spam, and Symantec does not recognize it as spam."
"Symantec Messaging Gateway should include better exclusions and exceptions for better administration."
"The solution takes up a lot of memory."
"It could be more scalable."
"The biggest problem is it's an on-prem product and we're trying to get out of having equipment in data centers."
"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."
"This product would benefit from better integration with Symantec Endpoint Protection."
"What needs to be improved in Symantec Messaging Gateway is its local partner support, as it's not as technical. The support my company gets from the partner isn't good. Vendor support is good, but local partner support isn't. I'm happy with Symantec Messaging Gateway as a solution, but the problem is with its partner support. To me, Symantec Messaging Gateway is a complete solution, but it can be very difficult to search the web for resolutions to issues or problems you experience from it. If this could be improved or resolved in the next release of Symantec Messaging Gateway, then that would be good."
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Check Point Anti-Spam and Email Security Software Blade is ranked 12th in Email Security with 32 reviews while Symantec Messaging Gateway is ranked 6th in SEG (Secure Email Gateway) with 20 reviews. Check Point Anti-Spam and Email Security Software Blade is rated 8.2, while Symantec Messaging Gateway is rated 8.2. 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 Symantec Messaging Gateway writes "A stable and reasonably priced solution that performs well and has a very good malware database". Check Point Anti-Spam and Email Security Software Blade is most compared with Barracuda Email Security Gateway, Abnormal Security, Cisco Secure Email and Fortinet FortiMail, whereas Symantec Messaging Gateway is most compared with Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP), Cisco Secure Email, Fortinet FortiMail, Trend Micro Email Security and Proofpoint Email Protection. See our Check Point Anti-Spam and Email Security Software Blade vs. Symantec Messaging Gateway report.
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