We compared Trend Micro Email Security and TitanHQ SpamTitan across several parameters based on our users' reviews. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below:
Features: Trend Micro Email Security is known for its powerful antivirus engine, user-friendly administration, and reliable spam protection. TitanHQ SpamTitan offers a user-friendly interface, detailed reporting, and multi-layered security with advanced features like rate limiting, user-managed allow/block lists, and geo-blocking.
Room for Improvement: Trend Micro Email Security customers want better compatibility with third-party email solutions, advanced AI for rule configuration, and improved risk visibility. TitanHQ SpamTitan users want a lower false positive rate and enhancing logging features.
Service and Support: Trend Micro Email Security's support is generally responsive and helpful, but some reviews suggest room for improvement. TitanHQ SpamTitan's customer service and support are commended for their responsiveness and ability to explain things in simple terms.
Ease of Deployment: Setting up Trend Micro Email Security is typically easy, taking around 30 minutes to an hour or two. The feedback on the initial setup of TitanHQ SpamTitan is mixed. Some users found it challenging and noted the lack of a proper onboarding procedure.
Pricing: Some users find Trend Micro Email Security to be costly and more suitable for larger enterprises. Users appreciate SpamTitan’s cost-effectiveness and flexibility. They find the licensing agreement seamless and accommodating.
ROI: Trend Micro Email Security users say its return on investment is hard to demonstrate. TitanHQ SpamTitan saves time and costs, boosts profitability, enhances security, and improves productivity. It effectively combats spam, phishing emails, and viruses.
Comparison Results: Trend Micro excels in security features, ease of administration, and scalability. Trend Micro could benefit from improved dashboard visibility and stronger spam filtering. SpamTitan's most valuable features include its user interface, layered security, and reporting. Users suggest improvements to SpamTitan's logging and false positive rates.
"I would say that 90% of the spam and phishing attack emails get blocked right off the bat."
"The risk level notifications are most valuable. We get to know what kind of intrusion or attack is there, and we can fix a problem on time."
"The benefit that stands out to me is the ability for multiple individuals to collaborate simultaneously within the same document. Additionally, there is the option to save the document directly in the integrated OneDrive or SharePoint."
"At the moment we are satisfied with this product. It's a stable, scalable, and resilient solution for us."
"The most valuable feature is protection against malicious links, fishing, and impersonation. You can train people to be aware of these threats, but they're not always careful. When they're using their phones between meetings, they click on a link, and it's game over."
"Microsoft Defender for Office 365 has improved my organization's security. It makes it easier to manage the infrastructure without the help of third-party applications."
"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."
"We are satisfied with the performance and spam filtering provided by TitanHQ SpamTitan. The reporting feature and customizations as per our requirements are also good."
"They have something called Pattern Filtering, which has been a godsend... For example, if I don't want any email to ever come through that has the term "hot dog" in it, whether it be in the subject, the title, or anywhere else, I can immediately block such emails, company-wide. That has saved me so much time."
"I like the fact that SpamTitan filters out phishing and spoofing links. They call it AI-driven threat protection. Though I'm a highly educated, advanced computer user, I still like not having to pay attention to where the link is going. I can trust that SpamTitan will filter it out nine times out of 10."
"Another good feature, related to geo-blocking, is the ability to specify exemptions. We discovered that some of our customers, even though they are located in Canada, have an Exchange Server sitting in Japan or in the Netherlands. It seems they have branches or their head office in other countries. Having this exception feature is helpful."
"SpamTitan has made it easier to manage spam. When other solutions I've used quarantined something, an admin had to manually find and release it. With SpamTitan, the end-user can monitor it themselves and release their own quarantined items. It's faster and less work."
"The solution works really well. For a small nonprofit like us who don't have a large server footprint and rely heavily on cloud services, this is great for all our emails and the mobile workforce that we have. This is a great way to manage the traffic, hopefully keep our people from getting the phishing emails and stuff like that, helping to mitigate the risks."
"The granularity of the setup is most valuable. It has all the features we need from global settings to per-user settings. We are pretty happy with it."
"Within a week of implementing SpamTitan, it blocked a ransomware event."
"The interface is really good."
"The best features are that it is very convenient to configure new rules onto it and it gives very good insight on what has entered my system and what the email security solution has taken action upon."
"The email and the signature based protection is the most valuable feature."
"It is mostly stable."
"The technical support is good."
"Trend Micro Email Security scans all email attachments because, nowadays, ransomware or malware files are sent through email attachments."
"The solution's initial setup process was easy since it was deployed on the cloud."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the antivirus, antispam, and integration with cloud services. This is a multifunctional solution."
"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 GUI is sometimes slow to fetch the device report and could be improved."
"Microsoft should provide more documentation for users so they can self-educate. I would like to see more documentation for advanced security features."
"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 only thing they should improve is the licensing model. They should stop changing it. A year ago, the five features I mentioned were included in one product. Now, three of them are bundled into one product, and you have to pay extra for the other two. I don't mind paying extra, but I don't want them to change it every year or every six months. I need to know what I'm looking at and not worry about it next year."
"The UI needs to be more user-friendly."
"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."
"There is room for improvement with the UI."
"Initially, I had some issues where we were getting emails coming in that appeared to come in from our own internal domain. My company is called M2 Systems, so our domain name is M2-corp.com. I had to get on with support twice to get them to help me mitigate or block that from happening."
"The quarantine report frequency could be better."
"The interface is a little outdated. The menus are simplistic and visually, it's pretty old."
"The only improvement that comes to mind is updates. We are technically on TitanHQ's private cloud. We are responsible for updating our platform when a new version comes out. I would personally prefer to have SpamTitan just notify me, and say, "At this specific time on this specific day, we will be upgrading you to the newest platform.""
"We're so used to it now. If anything, there should be more ease of access for the users. If you're on our mail server, there should be easier access for you to better manage your own mailbox."
"The big issue that I've had is that the length of time that an email is kept in quarantine is only seven days and, in some cases, it is not even seven days... if I had a 20-day or 30-day repository, if someone came to me and said, "Hey, I can't get this back," I could end up getting it to them from the archive."
"We had to do some stuff with eFax in order to get eFaxing to come through. Had we known that ahead of time, we could have had that ironed out before we went live. However, we just didn't realize it was going to interfere with it. After we implemented it, we realized it was interfering with some of our eFaxes, so we had to go figure out why"
"False positives may be an area for improvement. It's very rare that we see false negatives, but false positives might be an area where I, myself, could put some more effort into looking at the settings... Perhaps that's something in the user interface that isn't hugely clear."
"The product must provide better customization features."
"While they are good, not 100% of email is protected just yet."
"The initial setup was straightforward. This is a virtual appliance, it takes a short time to deploy the solution. However, it is not difficult if you understand the technology. You must have good knowledge of the email security area to set up the product correctly. There are many features in this solution and a high risk of having mistakes with the configuration."
"There needs to be more documentation for the product."
"I rate Trend Micro support four out of 10. The support in our region isn't very good. They do not respond quickly when we open up a case."
"There is a lot of room for improvement towards the phishing kind of email filtering, with the different hijacking attacks, and with the kind of password attacks which these phisher attackers do."
"The only negative thing about Trend Micro Email Security is its price. It could be less expensive."
"The solution's configuration policy should be easier."
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TitanHQ SpamTitan is ranked 4th in Email Security with 77 reviews while Trend Micro Email Security is ranked 8th in Email Security with 24 reviews. TitanHQ SpamTitan is rated 9.0, while Trend Micro Email Security is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of TitanHQ SpamTitan writes "Has the ability to easily see what was blocked, enabling users to restore emails they were expecting with the click of a button". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Trend Micro Email Security writes "The solution blocks spam emails from reaching the user’s mailbox but should introduce new features, improvements, and updates". TitanHQ SpamTitan is most compared with Barracuda Email Protection, Fortinet FortiMail, Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP), Avanan and Cisco Secure Email, whereas Trend Micro Email Security is most compared with Cisco Secure Email, Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP), Fortinet FortiMail, Trend Micro InterScan Messaging Security and Trellix Collaboration Security. See our TitanHQ SpamTitan vs. Trend Micro Email Security report.
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