We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Email and Clearswift SECURE Email Gateway based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Cisco, TitanHQ and others in Email Security."The deployment capability is a great feature."
"The good part is that you don't have to configure it, which is very convenient."
"The product's scalability is good."
"There are several features that I consider valuable."
"Since we have started using the solution, there have been fewer compromises."
"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 initial setup was easy."
"Defender for Office 365 has helped eliminate having to look at multiple dashboards and that is the aspect I like most about it. It is simpler, effective, and convenient. The users like the process efficiency."
"The most valuable feature is the different content filters we are using, such as DKIM."
"Because we scan products, and there is a lot of critical data, security is very important in these cases."
"The most valuable features are protection against ransomware and spam."
"It has an intuitive, clear graphical interface where you can deploy your policies and understand the overall flow. There are a lot of things that you cannot handle on the graphic interface, like message filters. For this, you need to go to a lower level where you have more power, like command line interface. So, this solution has the best of both worlds. There are not a lot of bells and whistles. It is more practical with access to most features that you can configure."
"It integrates with Active Directory and we can limit specific users to using specific applications."
"Cisco Secure Email has strong inbound services."
"It has the IMS engine, Intelligent Multi-Scan engine, and it does a good job, right out-of-the-box, of blocking the vast majority of things that should be blocked."
"The tool comes with AI features. It is good for clients who already use Cisco products due to integration."
"A stable solution."
"Ability to create your own content-filtering policies with relative ease."
"You should be able to deploy Defender for every subscription without the need to add servers."
"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."
"The visibility for the weaknesses in the system and unauthorized access can be improved."
"There's room for improvement regarding the time frame for retrieving emails."
"The custom alerts have to improve a lot."
"One area for improvement is integration. For example, when it comes to external SaaS platforms, we were not able to get a lot of information on integrations with such apps for security and authentication."
"The certification training for Defender for 365 needs to be deeper and incorporate Sentinel. I took all the security courses except one, and Sentinel isn't included."
"The phishing and spam filters could use some improvement."
"The reporting functionality needs to be improved."
"In future releases, I would like to see two main improvements come to mind. First, the current solution requires maintaining two separate operating systems for FTD, which can be cumbersome. I'd love to see a single operating system for the FTD box."
"Licensing is quite complicated for a number of customers, including ourselves."
"We didn't get any malware, but a few phishing emails, maybe one or two, slipped in."
"The solution needs to improve its advanced phishing filters. It is very good at filtering things which have bad reputations. However, when phishing or malicious emails are new or coming from a legitimate source, we don't feel that the solution is working."
"The management features of the product are not up to date."
"The initial setup was complex because I have two sites with physical clusters."
"It is not user-friendly, and it is quite complicated. So, it should be more user-friendly."
"FTP server and TRUST Manager functionality."
"Malware needs improvement."
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Cisco Secure Email is ranked 2nd in Email Security with 55 reviews while Clearswift SECURE Email Gateway is ranked 38th in Email Security. Cisco Secure Email is rated 8.4, while Clearswift SECURE Email Gateway is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Cisco Secure Email writes "Has effortless spam control, improves security posture, and frees up our IT department's time". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Clearswift SECURE Email Gateway writes "Facilitates creation of your own content-filtering policies with relative ease". Cisco Secure Email is most compared with Trellix Collaboration Security, Fortinet FortiMail, Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP), Proofpoint Email Protection and Cisco Secure Email Threat Defense, whereas Clearswift SECURE Email Gateway is most compared with Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP), Mimecast Email Security, Proofpoint Email Protection, Fortinet FortiMail and Barracuda Email Security Gateway.
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