We performed a comparison between Symantec Messaging Gateway and Trellix Collaboration Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Secure Email Gateway (SEG) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The solution is "set and forget". You pay for it and everything is done for you."
"It has very good capabilities for managing malware."
"The solution is highly customizable. You can make rules for domains and configure policies for spam or malware. Messaging Gateway is an on-prem solution, so it's useful for companies without a cloud presence."
"Symantec Messaging Gateway has a huge knowledge base about phishing, spamming, spoofing, etc."
"The anti-malware and spam features are valuable."
"The solution is stable and the performance is good."
"The setup is pretty simple."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the content filtering policies because the solution offers huge options for configuration, such as hardware manipulation, et cetera, and the dictionaries make the work easier."
"The product helps reduce the number of malicious emails reaching the user's inbox."
"I like FireEye's filtering, spam digests, and its advanced threat review of email flow. It also has a broad range of riskware rules you can deploy."
"What I find most valuable with the solution is that it can integrate with cloud solutions, such as Google and Microsoft. Additionally, the solution is easy to use."
"The product protects my email."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its simplicity. It's very user-friendly."
"The initial setup is simple."
"FireEye is good for malware depicting and security."
"FireEye Email Security helps us prevent spam and phishing emails and all other business-compromised email attacks."
"Symantec Messaging Gateway can improve detection because most of them are false negatives or false positives that we are trying to troubleshoot. Additionally, we are having routing problems and they are somehow connected to DNS issues."
"The false positive submissions must be improved."
"It could be more scalable."
"It will provide Excel reports and PDF reports, but it would be great if they supported the concept of Crystal Reports."
"The solution interface is from 2003 and is outdated. Symantec Messaging Gateway needs to update the interface."
"The solution takes up a lot of memory."
"Sometimes the solution picks up false positive for viruses during scans."
"The biggest problem is it's an on-prem product and we're trying to get out of having equipment in data centers."
"The solution must provide features to scan QR codes for threats."
"The reporting aspect of the solution needs improvement."
"FireEye needs single sign-on. They say it's on their roadmap. They should also implement support for Microsoft Authenticator app for 2FA."
"The solution needs better support."
"I would like the solution to be able to automatically quarantine the malicious emails before getting to the user's mailbox and continue with regular email operations. This could result in the user clicking the email before the purge operation is completed."
"The spam detection feature could be better."
"If they want to be the primary or best solution, they need to have better email management features."
"I would like to see this solution become more flexible."
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Symantec Messaging Gateway is ranked 6th in Secure Email Gateway (SEG) with 20 reviews while Trellix Collaboration Security is ranked 9th in Secure Email Gateway (SEG) with 12 reviews. Symantec Messaging Gateway is rated 8.2, while Trellix Collaboration Security is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Symantec Messaging Gateway writes "A stable and reasonably priced solution that performs well and has a very good malware database". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Trellix Collaboration Security writes "Protects from advanced malware and phishing attacks; useful dashboard". Symantec Messaging Gateway is most compared with Cisco Secure Email, Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP), Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Fortinet FortiMail and IceWarp, whereas Trellix Collaboration Security is most compared with Cisco Secure Email, Proofpoint Email Protection, Microsoft Defender for Office 365 and Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP). See our Symantec Messaging Gateway vs. Trellix Collaboration Security report.
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