Cisco Secure Email provides email security with advanced threat protection, spam filtering, and easy integration with Cisco Talos, ensuring comprehensive protection against cyber threats like phishing and malware.
Cisco Secure Email offers a comprehensive platform for organizations seeking robust email security. With advanced threat protection and seamless integration with Cisco Talos, it enhances threat intelligence. The tool provides easy-to-use spam blocking and granular policy customization. Effective ransomware, phishing, and malware protection ensures stable network performance. It includes logging and reporting features, along with Active Directory integration, delivering enhanced security without extra hardware. Although it addresses threats efficiently, improvements in synchronization with reporting tools and phishing detection are needed. Organizations find cost and licensing complexities challenging for smaller networks and seek more intuitive configuration, advanced AI threat detection, and comprehensive reporting. Enhanced support, documentation, and cross-platform compatibility are desirable for better management and scalability.
What are the most important features?
- Advanced Threat Protection: Guards against cyber threats like malware and phishing
- Spam Blocking: Efficiently filters unwanted emails to maintain inbox integrity
- Policy Customization: Allows granular control over email security policies
- Integration with Cisco Talos: Enhances threat intelligence with global insights
- Active Directory Integration: Simplifies user management and enhances security
What benefits and ROI should users consider?
- Ease of Use: Intuitive interface provides a straightforward user experience
- Network Performance: Maintains speed and reliability while securing emails
- Comprehensive Reporting: Offers detailed insights into email threats and responses
- No Additional Hardware: Provides complete email security without hardware costs
- Enhanced Email Security: Protects against a wide range of email-based threats
In industries like finance, healthcare, and IT, Cisco Secure Email is key to securing email communications. It serves as the primary email gateway in datacenters, scanning and filtering emails to defend against phishing, malware, and spam. Many organizations integrate it with Sophos Antivirus and Talos Threat Intelligence for heightened protection. It plays a crucial role in outbound message control and data loss prevention, ensuring compliance with security policies.
MetaDefender™ Email Gateway Security is OPSWAT’s on-premises email gateway security solution for protecting organizations from phishing, ransomware, and zero-day email threats. It is built for enterprise, regulated, and critical infrastructure environments where teams need advanced email protection, password-protected attachment inspection, and policy enforcement across IT and OT workflows.
MetaDefender Email Gateway Security applies Metascan™ Multiscanning, Deep CDR™ technology, AI-powered malware analysis through Predictive Alin AI, MetaDefender Aether™, phishing and spam detection, and Proactive DLP™ to protect organizations from known, unknown, and AI-generated threats. It is deployed at the SMTP/MX level and provides security across inbound and outbound email workflows.
- Multi-layered email security: combines phishing and spam detection, multiscanning, Deep CDR technology, and emulation-based sandbox inspection.
- AI-powered malware analysis: combines pre-execution prediction and emulation-based sandbox inspection for deeper analysis of evasive threats before delivery.
- Attachment inspection and sanitization: inspects encrypted and password-protected attachments and sanitizes supported file types before delivery.
- Data loss prevention: applies DLP policies to identify and control sensitive information across email workflows.
- On-premises deployment: supports on-premises, disconnected, and air-gapped environments without requiring cloud-based inspection.
Results:
- 99.98% detection rate for spam and phishing attacks with on-arrival and time-of-click analysis from 30+ online sources.
- Metascan Multiscanning: over 99.2% malware detection from 30+ anti-malware engines.
- Deep CDR: deconstructs, sanitizes and regenerates over 200 file types.
- MetaDefender Aether™: emulation-based sandbox with over 99% Zero-Day detection rate and 40x faster than traditional tools.
- Predictive Alin AI: an AI-Powered malware analysis which delivers verdict in less than 100 ms and has a 0.1% false positive rate.
- Proactive DLP: redacts and anonymizes sensitive data across 125+ file types.
