We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiMail Cloud and Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud Email solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The scanners with FortiMail are valuable."
"The encryption features are most valuable to us."
"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 feature is the advanced threat protection."
"The most valuable features are email ATB and Malware Analysis."
"The deployment is simple."
"If there is a problem somewhere Fortinet can act on it immediately. That is very important."
"The scalability is pretty good; it does what it is supposed to do."
"We use the solution to receive emails. We do not use the calendar function as our clients are slow adaptors to the latest features."
"Microsoft Exchange Online Protection has features like DLP (data loss protection), Safe Attachment, and Safe Links."
"You can use the product to create special accounts."
"It provides security to both on-premises and Azure infrastructures."
"The initial setup was easy. The configuration process is very straightforward."
"In general, my company is happy with Microsoft support...My company hasn't faced any stability issues with the solution."
"The threat management feature includes policies and alerts that are valuable."
"They could look at strengthening anti-spam with the newly observed domains."
"I would like to see more advanced sandbox features, where you can actually download to a machine where you can test."
"Email sorting is missing from this solution."
"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 ease of use and user-friendliness is something we believe could be improved in FortiMail."
"It is slightly difficult to configure FortiMail in the cloud with Exchange on-premise, especially the quarantine mailbox access for end-users."
"Its GUI needs improvement."
"I've not been able to use more than two domains in the back end. I like to view logs for the different domains. If I add any other domain I'm not able to get a proper cPanel for that domain. I am talking about the login factors. I'm not able to see logs for different domains in a different Window. Basically, it's an issue in the login process."
"Our company faces difficulty with Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP) because it's too big, clunky, and difficult for a small client to implement quickly and easily."
"Having orchestration features added to Microsoft Exchange Online Protection, particularly automation and remediation, would be quite useful."
"The security compliance features need to be improved. Sometimes, a client's mailbox becomes full because of retained information and not because of mail. I would like to see improvement in block rules as well."
"The security features could be better."
"The licensing can be on the expensive side, especially in the cloud space."
"The solution can be complex at times. It would be nice to have the on-server version. It needs to improve the stability as well."
"The solution lacks to elaborate on its spam policies."
"It wasn't easy or intuitive enough for me to start using it. So, the reason was that the solution changed."
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Fortinet FortiMail Cloud is ranked 6th in Cloud Email with 18 reviews while Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP) is ranked 10th in Anti-Malware Tools with 34 reviews. Fortinet FortiMail Cloud is rated 8.2, while Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP) is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiMail Cloud writes "A reliable email security solution with deep integration capabilities and exceptionally strong support". 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". Fortinet FortiMail Cloud is most compared with Fortinet FortiMail, Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration, Proofpoint Email Protection and SonicWall Email Security, whereas Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP) is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Proofpoint Email Protection, Cisco Secure Email, Mimecast Email Security and Fortinet FortiMail. See our Fortinet FortiMail Cloud vs. Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP) report.
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