We performed a comparison between Darktrace and Fortinet FortiMail Cloud 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."Microsoft Defender for Office 365 has improved my organization's security. It makes it easier to manage the infrastructure without the help of third-party applications."
"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."
"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."
"Defender helps us prioritize threats across our organization."
"The initial setup is straightforward. You just add the license, click it, and then you can set up the rules. It is quite simple."
"Some of the valuable features on the email side are anti-phishing, anti-malware, and Safe Links."
"The technical support is good and quick to resolve issues."
"The product is not resource-intensive."
"The active threat dashboard is the most valuable feature of this solution."
"The ability to see what we have not seen before is most valuable. It is very interesting to find out the most vulnerable devices in our network."
"One thing I appreciate is Antigena Email, which is for email protection."
"I particularly like Antigena and the analytics around the real-time monitoring of our network. I also like its reporting because it has got a seven-day reporting period within the system. Every time you run the reports, it gives you the data about the previous seven days. I like that because it is in real-time. I enjoy reading those reports and getting a very clear and decisive idea of what's happening on my network on a real-time basis. I like the actual real-time monitoring of spoofing and things like that. I also like the user monitoring as well as the network logging capabilities."
"We allow customers to access our Wi-Fi as guests, and some of them were going to restricted sites. Darktrace showed us what they were doing so we could block them."
"The main valuable feature is that we don't need a lot of analysts. With few analysts, we have all the network monitored, 24/7."
"The solution is stable. We've never had any problems with it."
"It's a very stable product."
"FortiMail Cloud is very fast."
"This solution is easy to install. The deployment takes about forty-five minutes."
"It has the best feature for processed mail analysis."
"The most valuable features are email ATB and Malware Analysis."
"This is a solid email monitoring and security system that learns and maintains a two-way dialog with email system administrators."
"The product's initial setup is straightforward and simple, making it an easy-to-use tool."
"The most valuable features are the low price and its ability to integrate with other Fortinet products."
"If there is a problem somewhere Fortinet can act on it immediately. That is very important."
"The pre-sales cost calculations could be more transparent."
"There's room for improvement regarding the time frame for retrieving emails."
"Microsoft should provide more documentation for users so they can self-educate. I would like to see more documentation for advanced security features."
"We need to be able to whitelist data at the backend."
"We need a separate license and we don't know how to get the license that is required."
"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."
"Microsoft Defender for Office 365 must improve the overall management style, including the GUI. It also needs to change the filters so that it is easy to whitelist and blacklist data."
"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."
"I'd love them to see maybe covering the cloud a bit more."
"The interface is too mathematical and it should be simplified."
"The level of tracking within the network from the transmission level up to the machine level can use improvement."
"The pricing is a bit high for the region."
"The user interface and the configuration are a bit complex and should be improved or simplified."
"It could build in integrations for some complementary products, but it has an assistant plugin so this is not really a big deal."
"It is expensive, but everything else has been great so far."
"We'd like threat hunting, and we'd like to see a global solution that can automate vulnerability scans. I know it is something they are working on."
"The setup of the rules can be improved. I think it should be simplified and would be the best improvement in the system."
"It is slightly difficult to configure FortiMail in the cloud with Exchange on-premise, especially the quarantine mailbox access for end-users."
"The URL filtering and handling should be enhanced because it doesn't support all languages. I believe that this would be easy to enhance in the future."
"This solution is slow and it should be made faster."
"I would like to see more advanced sandbox features, where you can actually download to a machine where you can test."
"This ease of use and user-friendliness is something we believe could be improved in FortiMail."
"They could look at strengthening anti-spam with the newly observed domains."
"Email sorting is missing from this solution."
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Darktrace is ranked 13th in Email Security with 65 reviews while Fortinet FortiMail Cloud is ranked 6th in Cloud Email with 18 reviews. Darktrace is rated 8.2, while Fortinet FortiMail Cloud is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Darktrace writes "Great autonomous support, offers an easy setup, and has responsive support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Fortinet FortiMail Cloud writes "A reliable email security solution with deep integration capabilities and exceptionally strong support". Darktrace is most compared with CrowdStrike Falcon, Vectra AI, SentinelOne Singularity Complete, Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks and Cisco Secure Network Analytics, whereas Fortinet FortiMail Cloud is most compared with Fortinet FortiMail, Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration, Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP), Proofpoint Email Protection and Hornetsecurity Hornet.email. See our Darktrace vs. Fortinet FortiMail Cloud report.
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