We performed a comparison between Clearswift SECURE Email Gateway and Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"The email protection is excellent, especially in terms of anti-phishing policies."
"Threat Explorer is an invaluable tool for me, and it plays a crucial role in helping me discern the origins of various email campaigns, pinpointing where they emanate from, and identifying the individuals within our organization who are affected."
"The most valuable feature is protection against malicious links, fishing, and impersonation. You can train people to be aware of these threats, but they're not always careful. When they're using their phones between meetings, they click on a link, and it's game over."
"The basic features are okay and I'm satisfied with the Defender."
"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."
"Some of the valuable features on the email side are anti-phishing, anti-malware, and Safe Links."
"The product's scalability is good."
"A stable solution."
"Ability to create your own content-filtering policies with relative ease."
"The solution uses artificial intelligence and machine learning, so you don't need train it to detect something. The detection and response times are short. It's an excellent product."
"In general, my company is happy with Microsoft support...My company hasn't faced any stability issues with the solution."
"Online Protection's most valuable feature is its admin interface."
"You can use the product to create special accounts."
"It is easy to configure, easy to use, easy to add exclusions, easy to track, and easy to add anything else if you want."
"Microsoft EOP's most valuable feature is a shared mailbox."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of administration. Other solutions require complex administration, but Microsoft Exchange Online Protection is easier."
"I like the product's ZAP feature."
"The custom alerts have to improve a lot."
"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 wants its well-paying customers to finish testing some of its half-baked products, find bugs, and report bugs back to Microsoft's team, which is a little frustrating for those who have to manage it and roll it up to thousands of people across the organization."
"The UI needs to be more user-friendly."
"We are always looking for others tools to increase automation on tasks. There can be better integration with other solutions, such as PowerPoint and email."
"The XDR dashboard has room for improvement."
"Microsoft Defender for Office 365 should be more proactive."
"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."
"FTP server and TRUST Manager functionality."
"Malware needs improvement."
"It would be helpful for customers if Plan 1 features were included with EOP."
"Some features, like encryption, are not available."
"The tool is not 100% stable."
"We have experienced issues while migrating from on-prem to the cloud. The tool needs to improve its stability."
"Online Protection has an issue in that it doesn't provide an option to stop impersonation."
"The tool's classification for bulk email is cumbersome."
"If a company wants to put in line back-to-back anti-spam solutions, they need to work on that part because Microsoft recommends either you use EOP as a front line or you don't use it."
"Microsoft has some training portals, but more could be developed."
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Clearswift SECURE Email Gateway is ranked 38th in Email Security while Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP) is ranked 4th in Email Security with 34 reviews. Clearswift SECURE Email Gateway is rated 8.6, while Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP) is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Clearswift SECURE Email Gateway writes "Facilitates creation of your own content-filtering policies with relative ease". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP) writes "An effective email security solution that provides DLP, Safe Attachment, and Safe Links". Clearswift SECURE Email Gateway is most compared with Mimecast Email Security, Cisco Secure Email, Proofpoint Email Protection, Fortinet FortiMail and Barracuda Email Security Gateway, whereas Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP) is most compared with Proofpoint Email Protection, Cisco Secure Email, Mimecast Email Security, Fortinet FortiMail and Barracuda Email Security Gateway.
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