We performed a comparison between Kaspersky Security for Mail Server and Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP) 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."The basic features are okay and I'm satisfied with the Defender."
"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."
"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 product's scalability is good."
"Since we have started using the solution, there have been fewer compromises."
"Microsoft Defender for Office 365 is a stable solution."
"Defender enables us to secure all 365-related activity from a single place. It gives us visibility into everything happening in Outlook, protecting us against phishing and other email-based threats. Defender helps us detect any suspicious behaviors."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it is a highly reliable and dependable solution."
"The most valuable feature is the straightforward setup."
"You can install the plugins on the same machine hosting your exchange solution. It's a good complement for Sophos security, which scans the traffic before it reaches your mail service. Kaspersky is on the mail server itself while Sophos handles the incoming traffic. With both of them working together, we have the perfect solution for mail."
"The integration rate is very high in Kaspersky, which is why most of our customers like it."
"The most valuable features are the anti-phishing and anti-spam capabilities."
"The initial setup is just a standard process."
"The pre-set policies and configuration analyzer are the most valuable features."
"The most valuable features of Microsoft Exchange Online Protection are the EOP, ATP, safe links, fishing, and antispam."
"In general, my company is happy with Microsoft support...My company hasn't faced any stability issues with the solution."
"It's all running in the backend, so it doesn't affect the app functionality."
"It offers great security against malware and other threats."
"It has a really nice web-based administration console."
"Online Protection's most valuable feature is its admin interface."
"This product's effectiveness could be improved, in terms of detecting unwanted spam or even malware between the emails, compared to other products."
"About eight months ago, we started to measure the quantity of phishing and spam that we have been receiving, and it has been increasing a lot. That means that protection for our email is not as good as we were expecting."
"There is room for improvement with the UI."
"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 GUI is sometimes slow to fetch the device report and could be improved."
"Several simulation options are available within 365, and the phishing simulation could be better."
"We need a separate license and we don't know how to get the license that is required."
"I'd like some additional features any product can give me to protect our environment in a better way."
"The solution is not 100 percent stable and that can use improvement."
"It would be great if Kaspersky could do what Sophos does for us. However, we love having these two different technologies doing the same thing. Sometimes Sophos has the patch to block a novel threat, but Kaspersky doesn't."
"Encrypted email attachments are not being monitored by this solution, which is an area that they need to work on."
"The biggest problem in the solution is related to its license renewal since it is pretty hard in Kaspersky to find out the procedure to renew a license."
"Kaspersky lacks in the area of customization, so simpler customization options need to be provided to users."
"The management interface of Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP) could be intuitive."
"I would like to get reports about vulnerable connections from our clients with information about domains, public IPs, etc. That would be highly useful."
"It doesn't protect against everything. We do need protection for, for example, endpoints."
"The solution lacks to elaborate on its spam policies."
"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."
"They should specify the difference between Defender for Office 365 and Exchange Online Protection."
"It wasn't easy or intuitive enough for me to start using it. So, the reason was that the solution changed."
"We have experienced issues while migrating from on-prem to the cloud. The tool needs to improve its stability."
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Kaspersky Security for Mail Server is ranked 20th in Email Security with 5 reviews while Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP) is ranked 4th in Email Security with 34 reviews. Kaspersky Security for Mail Server is rated 8.2, while Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP) is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Kaspersky Security for Mail Server writes "A stable product that offers a very high rate of integration to its users". 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". Kaspersky Security for Mail Server is most compared with Fortinet FortiMail, Barracuda Email Security Gateway, Cisco Secure Email, Sophos Email and Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration, whereas Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP) is most compared with Proofpoint Email Protection, Cisco Secure Email, Mimecast Email Security and Fortinet FortiMail. See our Kaspersky Security for Mail Server vs. Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP) report.
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