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 two main features that prove most beneficial for us are URL scanning and attachment scanning."
"It gives us visibility into threats and, for endpoints, it helps us to prioritize threats. We used to have a lack of visibility, but now our time to detect and respond has decreased."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is the integration. It's a single console, so we don't have to switch around between multiple products. Another valuable feature is the ease of operations and maintenance."
"The benefit that stands out to me is the ability for multiple individuals to collaborate simultaneously within the same document. Additionally, there is the option to save the document directly in the integrated OneDrive or SharePoint."
"There are several features that I consider valuable."
"At the moment we are satisfied with this product. It's a stable, scalable, and resilient solution for us."
"It's flexible. There are a lot of rules and policies that can be easily applied for certain employees or certain mailboxes."
"It blocks bulk marketing messages, graymail, spam, and provides advanced malware protection."
"It provides good IT assistance."
"The tool comes with AI features. It is good for clients who already use Cisco products due to integration."
"There is a huge return compared to if we didn't have a gateway appliance, as far as blocking malicious emails."
"Cisco Secure Email is part of Cisco's extensive efforts and investments in technology, especially in the realm of cyber security. The product is one among many security solutions offered by Cisco."
"Anti-Spam and Advanced Malware Protection are the most valuable features... and we also have the option to block Zero-day attacks."
"It integrates with Active Directory and we can limit specific users to using specific applications."
"A stable solution."
"Ability to create your own content-filtering policies with relative ease."
"There needs to be an improvement in integrating the product to work across multiple operating systems, and to have better support for non-Microsoft file types."
"The product must provide better malware detection."
"The GUI is sometimes slow to fetch the device report and could be improved."
"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."
"There is room for improvement in terms of reporting."
"The only thing they should improve is the licensing model. They should stop changing it. A year ago, the five features I mentioned were included in one product. Now, three of them are bundled into one product, and you have to pay extra for the other two. I don't mind paying extra, but I don't want them to change it every year or every six months. I need to know what I'm looking at and not worry about it next year."
"One area for improvement is support, in terms of being able to reach them and, especially, technical support for configuration."
"Microsoft Defender for Office 365 should be more proactive."
"The reporting functionality needs to be improved."
"We would like to see more options for the customization of content filters."
"The user interface could be updated."
"They can do it better with web links, with the URLs. They have a technology called Outbreak but it doesn't work as well as we would like."
"The graphical user interface is not user-friendly like other vendors. I find it very difficult at times to find some options on the UI."
"Cisco Secure Email can be improved from the administrator's point of view. Usually, you have to work with different areas, and they can try to make it easy for the administrator to use different functions."
"We have been struggling in the last month with Cisco encryption and with the S/MIME encryption. I don't know if it is an issue on our side or if these features of the solution are not working very well."
"Cisco Email Secure's pricing needs to be less. We have vendors who provide cheaper solutions with the same features."
"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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