McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator vs Webroot Advanced Email Encryption powered by Zix comparison

The compared McAfee and Zix solutions aren't in the same category. McAfee is ranked #8 in SOAR , with an average rating of 8.3, and holds a 0.5% mindshare in the category. Zix is ranked #15 in SEG , and holds a 1.6% mindshare. Additionally, 81% of McAfee users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Zix users who would recommend it.

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Categories and Ranking

McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR) (8th)

Webroot Advanced Email Encr...

Average Rating

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Secure Email Gateway (SEG) (15th)

Mindshare comparison

McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator and Webroot Advanced Email Encryption powered by Zix aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator is designed for Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR) and holds a mindshare of 0.5%, down 0.8% compared to last year.
Webroot Advanced Email Encryption powered by Zix, on the other hand, focuses on Secure Email Gateway (SEG), holds 1.6% mindshare, down 2.4% since last year.

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DavidJones7

Head of Content at Pharmaflow

Offers automation alert features with easy integrations and impressive scalability

I would rate the initial setup an eight out of ten. There are a few technical challenges with the deployment, but it can easily solved by an experienced professional but not by a beginner user of the tool. The complete implementation and migration to McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator will take around three months. If someone is using a software platform already with implemented use cases in their environment, it might be difficult to implement the same use cases when the customer is migrating to McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator. The conditions and prior alert settings needs to be accurate when migrating to McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator, otherwise false positive alerts might get generated.

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John Zupancic

Vice President / Branch Manager / Senior Technician at Aperion Information Technologies, Inc.

Inexpensive, with good email security, but the technical support could be improved

We don't have as many problems with email security. They have some areas that could be improved. For example, we also use this solution for email encryption, which was clunky and could be improved, but the email security itself has been excellent. The web interface works well but the Outlook plug-in has been problematic. We've had to uninstall/reinstall it. On some Outlook clients (including mine), it causes Outlook to stop responding. I disabled the Outlook plug-in and only use the web interface.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"We implemented data transfer protection, which allows transfer in one direction only. Users can copy from the PC to the USB but not from the USB to the PC. That way, if someone is carrying a virus on a USB, it will not be transferred to the PC."

"The feature that I have found most valuable is its general purpose of protecting our endpoints from infections, malicious files, and all those kinds of things. The fact that there are organized policies and policy inheritance. The general management."

"The most valuable feature of the McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator is agent communication."

"The central manager policy means we have almost all client modules in one solution."

"I really like the auditing component because it really looks at exactly what has happened on the network."

"The initial setup is very easy."

"You have to have some experience, however, it's pretty simple to understand."

"The policy auditing, policy management, and device auditing are all valuable features. Our customers appreciated the ability to get alerts to system-wide events from a single view."

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"They do a better job of determining what's real and what's not than most of the other solutions we have tried, and it's been very painless to use."

Cons

"The Virtual Patching feature needs to be improved."

"The way that ePolicy launches the updates is very slow. It would be great if that was faster."

"There is a problem when it comes to agent communication and duplicate records, where the rebooting of a machine leads to the installation of a new agent and you get a lot of duplicate records that ultimately affect your compliance monitoring."

"As for improvements, I think that putting everything on a cloud and one console would be a great idea and would be useful for customers."

"I would like to see McAfee reduce the amount of manual work required."

"McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator could improve by supporting container microservices, such as Docker and Kubernetes."

"Sometimes agents hang. We have to reinstall the agents."

"There are some issues we are having with updating our Windows server. So we need to contact support or access our support portal."

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"They have some areas that could be improved. For example, we also use this solution for email encryption, which was clunky and could be improved, but the email security itself has been excellent."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"$The price of McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator is expensive, it is approximately $6,000 to $9,000 per license annually."

"Compared to other Antivirus products, the cost of this solution is a bit high."

"This solution is priced in the mid-range."

"McAfee tries to package different things into different products, then sell them as different products with different licenses. They just split everything up into multiple things. That's just their sales pitch and how they do it."

"There is a license required to use this solution. If we use the additional components, such as DLP encryption, there is an additional cost. However, it is similar to a separate product altogether. If you want to use that or not, it is optional, but when you use it, it will cost you additional pricing."

"On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive, I rate the solution's pricing a three out of ten."

"It is attractively priced. It is a fraction of what we're going to pay for CrowdStrike or SentinelOne, but it only has a fraction of the capabilities as well."

"For large enterprise companies, the price should be alright, but for small businesses, the uptake might be slow because, for these clients, the price doesn't look very attractive."

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"In terms of pricing, I believe they provide excellent value."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Government

14%

Computer Software Company

11%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Computer Software Company

17%

Financial Services Firm

14%

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Questions from the Community

Which is better - Mcafee's MVision ePO or ePolicy Orchestrator?

Our organization ran comparison tests to determine whether Mcafee's MVision ePO or ePolicy Orchestrator network security software was the better fit for us. We decided to go with Mcafee's ePolicy O...

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What do you like most about McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator?

I like the solution's feasibility. McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator is also better and easier to use than other ePOs.

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What needs improvement with McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator?

The installation process is quite difficult and requires technical support.

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Also Known As

McAfee ePO, ePolicy Orchestrator, Intel Security ePolicy Orchestrator, McAfee MVISION ePO

Zix Email Encryption, ZixEncrypt

Overview

McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (McAfee ePO) is the most advanced, extensible, and scalable centralized security management software in the industry. Unifying security management through an open platform, McAfee ePO makes risk and compliance management simpler and more successful for organizations of all sizes.

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Proven Content Filters

To send an encrypted email, your employees simply create a message and hit ‘send'. Our content filters take care of the rest.

Transparent Delivery

When your employees receive an encrypted reply, the experience is just as easy. They simply open the encrypted email like regular email. No matter where they are or what device they use, if your customers and partners have email, they can easily receive encrypted email.

Convenient Recipient Experience

Our patented Best Method of Delivery ensures all messages are delivered in the most secure and easy manner possible, including transparent, pull and push methods. For pull delivery, secure web portals can be in the cloud or on-site. Also among our robust methods is secure PDF for statement delivery.

Simplified Quarantined Messages

If an email is quarantined, then employees, managers and IT receive notification to view the message and policy violations and can delete the email, or justify and release it for delivery.

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Sample Customers

Brelje & Race, Cognizant, Sutherland Global Services, Eagle Rock Energy, Arab National Bank, Bank Central Asia, Kleberg Bank, Leading Mexican Bank, SF Police Credit Union, Macquarie Telecom, Seagate Technology, Blackburn & Darwen Council, California Department of Corrections & Rehabilitation, IRCEP, Major U.S. State Government, State of Alaska, State of Colorado, Cemex, Deutsche Edelstahlwerke

Erie County of Pennsylvania’s Human Services Department, Justice Federal Credit Union, STAR Financial Group, Chisago County, Minn., The National Banks of Central Texas, Kentucky Retirement Systems (KRS), Frankfort, Ky, Athletico Physical Therapy, District of Columbia Retirement Board (DCRB), CIBM Bank

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