We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiMail 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."I like its investigation capabilities, as that is what is most important to me. It is fairly simple with a user-friendly interface."
"The email protection is excellent, especially in terms of anti-phishing policies."
"The product's scalability is good."
"Microsoft Defender for Office 365 helps people to work remotely. It is a secure solution. We don't need to use our company's computers or get VPN connections to the networks. I can control how they share screens and what they send to the devices. It keeps our organizations confidential and sensitive information safe."
"The two main features that prove most beneficial for us are URL scanning and attachment scanning."
"The deployment capability is a great feature."
"I would say that 90% of the spam and phishing attack emails get blocked right off the bat."
"There are several features that I consider valuable."
"When combining this solution with other Fortinet products, such as FortiGate, it integrates well and provides a comprehensive protection package."
"It can block a lot of fake emails."
"The solution can scale."
"The most valuable features of this solution are anti-spam, sender reputation, and antivirus."
"It actually filters the compromised emails when on a network layer itself."
"The most valuable aspects of this solution are that it protects us from spam and phishing attacks. We had a lot of attacks coming in and then we deployed this solution and they stopped. We no longer have any spam or phishing issues."
"One major benefit of the Fortinet FortiMail product is its ease of management."
"They have a feature called CDR, Content Disarm, Reconstruction, click protection, and DLP for encryption purposes."
"FortiMail Cloud is very fast."
"If there is a problem somewhere Fortinet can act on it immediately. That is very important."
"The most valuable feature is the advanced threat protection."
"The deployment is simple."
"Content disarming and analysis are essential features in our email security setup"
"The product's initial setup is straightforward and simple, making it an easy-to-use tool."
"The most valuable features are filtering and sandboxing."
"I am impressed with the tool's ability to setup rules and destinations. It also helps to monitor suspicious items."
"The GUI is sometimes slow to fetch the device report and could be improved."
"The phishing and spam filters could use some improvement."
"There is room for improvement with the UI."
"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."
"In some situations, it has not been able to pick impersonated emails having no attachments. Technical support definitely has a scope for improvement."
"Microsoft Defender for Office 365 could improve by giving customers information on techniques to prevent threats. For example, information about best practices on how to protect their own devices against hackers and scammers, such as educational information or training. This would help others have a better understanding of cyber security. Additionally, there can be more security features added."
"The custom alerts have to improve a lot."
"Microsoft Defender for Office 365 should improve the troubleshooting tools. It's unclear whether the device is blocked at the firewall level or at the device itself. The granularity needed for troubleshooting is currently lacking. From my perspective, Microsoft should address this issue to benefit many users who likely share the same sentiment."
"I have little to say about possible improvements, but the configuration for content blocking could be better. So, for example, if the email includes the line "You have a Bitcoin", I would like it to be easier to block it before it enters an inbox. Fortinet could maybe offer better or simpler help on how to do this properly."
"The solution could improve by making the UI more user-friendly and increasing spam and threat detection capabilities."
"Limited ability to upgrade hardware may lead to some performance issues that might otherwise be improved."
"Sometimes it takes a little bit too long to determine if an email is good or not. If they could shorten that time span, it'd be so much better. It does delay our email, which does not make users happy. That said, I would have to say we have not been blacklisted for quite a while now."
"There are features that other solutions have that this one is lacking, such as reporting options. I hope in future releases they advance their features list."
"The solution doesn't scale easily."
"The web console management interface could be improved."
"The statistics and BI in general could be improved."
"Fortinet FortiMail Cloud doesn't have AI features, making it an outdated tool for me."
"The tool's UI can be simple since it's cluttered now and you can't understand where you are going. It's not obvious to find out the menus or things that you are looking to find."
"The dashboard could use improvement."
"I would like to see more advanced sandbox features, where you can actually download to a machine where you can test."
"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."
"The setup of the rules can be improved. I think it should be simplified and would be the best improvement in the system."
"This solution is slow and it should be made faster."
"The downside of this solution is that it is difficult to implement policies on FortiMail."
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Fortinet FortiMail is ranked 5th in Email Security with 30 reviews while Fortinet FortiMail Cloud is ranked 5th in Cloud Email with 7 reviews. Fortinet FortiMail is rated 8.6, while Fortinet FortiMail Cloud is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiMail writes "Effective email security and user-friendly GUI interface". 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". Fortinet FortiMail is most compared with Cisco Secure Email, Barracuda Email Security Gateway, Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP), Proofpoint Email Protection and Trend Micro Email Security, whereas Fortinet FortiMail Cloud is most compared with Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration, Proofpoint Email Protection, Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP), SendGrid and SonicWall Email Security. See our Fortinet FortiMail vs. Fortinet FortiMail Cloud report.
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