Check Point Anti-Spam and Email Security Software Blade vs Cisco Secure Email comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Microsoft Defender for Offi...
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Ranking in Email Security
1st
Average Rating
8.4
Number of Reviews
41
Ranking in other categories
Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) (1st), Microsoft Security Suite (9th)
Check Point Anti-Spam and E...
Ranking in Email Security
9th
Average Rating
8.2
Number of Reviews
34
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Cisco Secure Email
Ranking in Email Security
2nd
Average Rating
8.4
Number of Reviews
57
Ranking in other categories
Cisco Security Portfolio (10th)
 

Market share comparison

As of June 2024, in the Email Security category, the market share of Microsoft Defender for Office 365 is 13.2% and it decreased by 33.9% compared to the previous year. The market share of Check Point Anti-Spam and Email Security Software Blade is 1.9% and it increased by 77.9% compared to the previous year. The market share of Cisco Secure Email is 10.5% and it decreased by 15.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Email Security
Unique Categories:
Advanced Threat Protection (ATP)
12.3%
Microsoft Security Suite
1.5%
No other categories found
 

Featured Reviews

AK
Nov 28, 2023
Comprehensive protection for email security with responsive support and valuable features like attack simulation offering robust threat detection, efficient automation, and excellent scalability
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 convenience of having a centralized location for extracting comprehensive data is particularly noteworthy. With Threat Explorer, I can efficiently manage and mitigate the impact of these campaigns by removing problematic emails from mailboxes, all in one centralized location, eliminating the need to navigate through multiple areas. Effectively prioritizing threats across our enterprise is crucial for us, given that the primary avenue of attack is often through phishing emails. By having robust protection in place, we're able to significantly mitigate this prevalent threat, essentially clearing a major portion of the cybersecurity landscape.
JH
Nov 28, 2022
Easy to integrate with good spam filtering and excellent dashboards
The anti-spam feature has protected the company email infrastructure from viruses that may destroy useful data.  It has enabled my department to come up with useful policies that prevent our database from ransomware attacks.  It detects unsafe emails in advance with instant blocking to protect…
FL
Jun 15, 2023
Has effortless spam control, improves security posture, and frees up our IT department's time
Spam controls are excellent because they are a powerful feature that operates almost effortlessly. Therefore, the device performs this function exceptionally well right from the start. That's what makes it one of the most powerful features. The entire center-based ecosystem functions as an app. It's a hands-off product, but it's a hands-on process in terms of spam control. The main action we take is whitelisting certain senders whom we trust. Apart from that, we adjust the sensitivity of our spam classification system to determine how aggressively the device identifies something as spam. We do this by sliding a slider or modifying a score, depending on our organization's willingness to accept the associated level of risk. This is essentially the extent of our involvement in spam control. Once configured, we allow the system to perform its job.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"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."
"Does a thorough job of examining email and URLs for malicious content."
"The initial setup is straightforward. You just add the license, click it, and then you can set up the rules. It is quite simple."
"Microsoft Defender for Office 365's most valuable features are safe attachments and safe links."
"The good part is that you don't have to configure it, which is very convenient."
"It also gives me good visibility because, with Defender, I'm using a Microsoft product to defend Microsoft products. The integration was really seamless and I have wide visibility because it picks up almost everything. Literally, I can see almost every activity that happens, from the e-mail to the workstation itself."
"Microsoft Defender for Office 365's most valuable feature is its performance."
"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."
"Check Point Anti-Spam and Email Security Software Blade provides an extra level of security against threats and malware along with 2FA support for multiple platform collaboration and integrations in a single click."
"It helped us to achieve process compliance with over 90% effectiveness."
"It has several very good features that form an excellent tool."
"It has provided us with an easy way to avoid invasive mail."
"Due to its technology, monitoring, and manufacturer features, we have been able to reduce the intrusion of spam and other threats that can be uploaded via email."
"The functionality is better."
"It is a highly cost-effective solution for all kinds of small, marginal, and medium enterprises."
"A scalable, stable solution with good technical support."
"It has the ability to tell us, after an email has been delivered, where else it went, once it got inside. Maybe it's something we wanted it to stop and it didn't stop it, but it notified us later that it was something that it should have stopped. It can give us a trajectory of all the other places that it went internally and it can tell us what files were transferred as well."
"The tool's most valuable feature in preventing security breaches revolves around the area of malware protection that the product provides."
"The system provides our service desk with the means to troubleshoot email delivery issues with ease."
"The advanced phishing protection and the integration with the awareness tool that Cisco has embedded into the solution to bring awareness to the customers about the dangers of phishing attacks and other things that come from email are the most valuable features."
"The malicious URL scanning, as well as the anti-malware features, have been really useful for us in our environment."
"The most valuable feature is the different content filters we are using, such as DKIM."
"ATP has been the most valuable in improving our email security posture."
"What I find the most valuable about Cisco Secure Email is that the logs are not that difficult to see even if you're not used to them. The logs are reasonably readable and diagnosing the problem is not too hard with them."
 

Cons

"We need to be able to whitelist data at the backend."
"There's room for improvement regarding the time frame for retrieving emails."
"There needs to be an improvement in integrating the product to work across multiple operating systems, and to have better support for non-Microsoft file types."
"The visibility for the weaknesses in the system and unauthorized access can be improved."
"The XDR dashboard has room for improvement."
"Too many false positives and lacks an accurate capability to detect malicious SharePoint sites."
"In one of the reports I can get the exact place where a vulnerable file resides. But for that, I need to explicitly go into the device and check. If they could include that file part in the report, without my having to go to the device itself, that would help."
"Microsoft sometimes has downtime, and we'll get several incidents coming in back to back. We have a huge backlog of notifications, many of which may be false positives. However, there might be serious alerts, so we can't risk dismissing all of them at once."
"The solution's technical support is an area with shortcomings that need to be improved for the better."
"Many would love to have this solution and be able to manage it from any device, including native applications or applications that can be installed on devices such as Android or iOS."
"It is expensive but worth it."
"Check Point Anti-Spam and Email Security Software Blade could improve by focusing more on promoting and marketing its products. Despite having a great solution, it hasn't captured a larger market share, possibly due to insufficient promotion. It should also incorporate a module to monitor client identities, similar to CrowdStrike. It could also improve by systemizing and simplifying their documentation to make it easier to find needed information."
"The high-end protection of email servers from any advanced foreign agents and malware is not 100% there currently."
"It would be useful to have more logs and in aggregate mode, perhaps through a specific report, that can be more easily used for troubleshooting."
"The user should be able to perform a real-time search of the objects and see the messages."
"The cost is high when putting through Check Point Blade in your Gateway."
"Typically, in a phishing email, they try to use a name everybody's going to recognize, like the CEO's name or the CFO's name... With this appliance, the way it's designed at the moment, for us to really stop that with any level of confidence, we have to build a dictionary of all the names of the people we want it to check, and all the ways they could be spelled. My name would be in there as Phillip Collins, Phillip D. Collins, Phillip Dean Collins, Phil Collins, Phil D. Collins. There could be eight or 10 variations of my name that we'd have to put in the dictionary. There's no artificial intelligence to say "Phil Collins" could be all these other things, and to stop phishing from coming through in that way."
"Cisco is already providing a very good environment with the IronPort solution, but there could be some more integration with other products. For instance, an integration with the EDR solution could be there to raise an alert."
"Licensing is quite complicated for a number of customers, including ourselves."
"The scalability must be improved."
"I am not satisfied with the solution's reporting and logging."
"Cisco Secure Email can be improved from the administrator's point of view. Usually, you have to work with different areas, and they can try to make it easy for the administrator to use different functions."
"The graphical user interface is not user-friendly like other vendors. I find it very difficult at times to find some options on the UI."
"My opinion on the licensing of this solution is that it is a mess that needs sorting out. I am not particularly bothered by pricing as I administer it and make recommendations for people to buy or not to buy."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The product is very expensive."
"Microsoft Defender for Office 365 is an add-on to the Office license. Many customers are purchasing this solution."
"Microsoft Defender is expensive. I typically recommend it only if clients have the budget. Otherwise, I would suggest an alternative."
"For large enterprise organizations, they can definitely afford it, but for small and medium organizations, they might struggle to cover the expenses."
"The pricing has become expensive."
"Defender for 365 comes in various plans and licenses, along with other Microsoft security solutions. Purchasing this kind of package or security bundle gives good value for money, and that's what I recommend."
"Microsoft Defender for Office 365 comes with Microsoft Windows. It is free with the operating system."
"I was working in the government and it was too expensive for us to use our Microsoft products."
"Reasonably priced solution."
"Choosing the correct set of licenses is essential because, without the additional software blade licenses, the Check Point gateways are just a stateful firewall."
"The cost is competitive with other security products on the market."
"I rate the product pricing a seven out of ten."
"I rate the pricing as an eight on a scale of one to ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive."
"This is a simple system with a very low cost and basic functions, which surely is ideal for a small company."
"For licensing, my company makes yearly payments, which is expensive."
"Cisco Secure Email and the support are priced well. It's not cheap, but there are other solutions that offer less and cost so much. For example, Microsoft is more expensive than Cisco."
"I rate the product price as six on a scale of one to ten, where one means it is a very expensive tool."
"The license was not per user, the license model was per feature. You could choose anti-virus, anti-spam, etc. It was feature-based and charged yearly."
"It is a relatively expensive option compared to other alternatives."
"We do annual licensing for Cisco Secure Email Gatewayand SMA together, and possibly SmartNet support. Packaged together, the cost is just under $38,000."
"It is not that costly. We pay for the solution through a contractor and pay an annual fee."
"The pricing is good."
"We were using Proofpoint and then we switched to Cisco... reportability was one of the main reasons we switched, but the biggest one was cost. If you can get an equivalent functionality for a better price it's wise to do so. That's what our primary decision came down to: We could get equivalent functionality at a lower price point."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
17%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Government
7%
Security Firm
33%
Financial Services Firm
16%
Computer Software Company
9%
Comms Service Provider
6%
Computer Software Company
17%
Educational Organization
17%
Financial Services Firm
7%
Government
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Microsoft Defender for Office 365?
Threat Explorer is an invaluable tool for me, and it plays a crucial role in helping me discern the origins of variou...
What needs improvement with Microsoft Defender for Office 365?
The product must provide better malware detection. The detection algorithms don't perform the way I hope they would.
What needs improvement with Check Point Anti-Spam and Email Security Software Blade?
Installation time could be improved as it takes too long to install. With the software footprint, it should be taking...
What do you like most about Cisco Secure Email?
Cisco Secure Email is a budget-friendly solution.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Cisco Secure Email?
The product's price falls on the higher side when compared to the other products on the market. Whether the product w...
What needs improvement with Cisco Secure Email?
I am not satisfied with the solution's reporting and logging.
 

Also Known As

MS Defender for Office 365
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Cisco Email Security, IronPort, Cisco Email Security, ESA, Email Security Appliances
 

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Sample Customers

Microsoft Defender for Office 365 is trusted by companies such as Ithaca College.
SF Police Credit Union (SFPCU)
SUNY Old Westbury, CoxHealth, City of Fullerton, Indra
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