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Perception Point Advanced Email Security pros and cons

Vendor: Perception Point
4.5 out of 5
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Perception Point Advanced Email Security detects and blocks malicious emails, phishing attempts, and impersonation attacks. It benefits from a proactive incident response team, reduces workload, and categorizes threats for insights. Highly scalable and easy to integrate, it provides 24/7 support. Improvements are needed in spam filtering, false positives, real-time alerts, and threat intelligence capabilities. Enhanced customer engagement and Data Loss Prevention features would address attack scenarios efficiently.

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PROS

Perception Point Advanced Email Security effectively identifies and blocks malicious content, reducing the workload of security teams.
It efficiently detects and prevents phishing attempts, impersonation attacks, and credential theft.
The integration of hardware-assisted features with threat scenario insights enhances email threat detection and analysis.
The incident response team acts as a valuable extension to internal security operations, offering quick support and response.
Perception Point Advanced Email Security categorizes threats into specific groups, providing detailed insights into potential malware attacks.

CONS

They can improve on their spam filtering; it is not the best, causing reliance on additional solutions.
In-depth analysis and attribution to cyberattack groups require enhancement to better identify threats.
Email alerts should be made available in real-time to provide timely notifications.
A more approachable interface for non-technical users is needed, utilizing simpler language.
There is a need for more customer engagement and communication regarding new products and features.
 

Perception Point Advanced Email Security Pros review quotes

reviewer1738866 - PeerSpot reviewer
Dec 9, 2021
The most valuable features of the solution are the ones that are related to finding impersonation attacks and detecting attempts to steal credentials. In scenarios where attackers get you to follow URLs to a malicious site that looks similar to a good site, and then ask for the user credentials to try to steal them, it is very useful.
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NG
Jan 5, 2022
We haven't had a client, who uses their protection, have an email security breach. That is the best thing about what they do. We don't have to think too much. Their product just works and keeps bad emails away.
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NA
Dec 29, 2021
It really works well on SharePoint when you upload a file or save a file. Advanced Email Security scans if it is malicious and identifies issues. It can do some forensics on its console, which is nice.
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SB
Mar 15, 2021
The most valuable feature is the hardware-assisted platform module.
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reviewer1522758 - PeerSpot reviewer
Mar 3, 2021
I see from time to time that Perception Point is being proactive. They approach us, and say, "Can you check this, and this?" So, it does seem that they are an extension of my incident response.
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reviewer1754967 - PeerSpot reviewer
Jan 5, 2022
Another feature that we really like, one that was introduced a few months back, is the way it categorizes threats into groups, such as Emotet, Qbot, Formbook, and the like. It's not only telling you that something is malware, but it's also giving you insight into what kind of malware... You understand what you are facing and whether you are a target for a specific group of threats...
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reviewer1810824 - PeerSpot reviewer
Mar 21, 2022
Their security engines are very effective at stopping malware and potential attacks before they reach a user's mailbox. They have the best detection engine.
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reviewer1759707 - PeerSpot reviewer
Jan 12, 2022
It has modules to detect malware and that is a strong point. It has a very nice way of showing you, directly in the product, a lot of details about certain pieces of malware. It goes very deep and even shows you the assembly code. It also does detonations on files and shows you the results in different operating systems. That is very useful.
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PS
Mar 16, 2021
The solution’s effectiveness when it comes to detection is very good. It has a very good mechanism. It scans our emails. It identifies any threat or phishing attempts and phishing campaigns as well as any bad reputation, servers, or links, then it blocks them. This is what I find to be very good about this system.
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Jijin Joseph - PeerSpot reviewer
Jan 5, 2022
We can use it to perform detection and analysis of emails. For any malicious content found in emails, it gives in-depth analysis reports to end users. If you log into the console, you can see in-depth detection and how it happens.
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Perception Point Advanced Email Security Cons review quotes

reviewer1738866 - PeerSpot reviewer
Dec 9, 2021
There is still room for improvement with BEC. There is more work to be done by Perception Point on machine learning and neuro language as well. BEC is very difficult if you don't have a computer language looking into the content of the email and trying to make a determination through that. With BEC you often don't have an attachment or a URL.
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NG
Jan 5, 2022
They just don't do a good job of promoting themselves. They seem like a typical busy IT company who is just working on fixing problems and making technology better. However, they are not fantastic at marketing themselves to existing partners, which is not a bad thing. It is just something for improvement.
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NA
Dec 29, 2021
From a forensics point of view, it could improve a bit more from a threat intelligence aspect. So, if I find a malicious email, they could have more investigations about sources, headers, where it comes from, if they have seen it in other campaigns before, etc. I would like a little bit more from a threat intelligence point of view so I can understand who else might be affected and attacked as well as the vectors of attack.
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SB
Mar 15, 2021
Email alerts should be available in real-time.
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reviewer1522758 - PeerSpot reviewer
Mar 3, 2021
They can do better on the spam. Today, Perception Point is not our only solution. We have two solutions, and they are the second in line because the spam filtering is not yet the best.
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reviewer1754967 - PeerSpot reviewer
Jan 5, 2022
In terms of architecture, and I know that they're going to improve this, the solution needs to be much more redundant. There was an outage a month ago in AWS, and that basically stopped the service for two or three hours. Although in two years, this was the first time that something like that happened, our expectation from a company like Perception Point is that it should work with either a multi-cloud or multi-region architecture, to improve the resilience.
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reviewer1810824 - PeerSpot reviewer
Mar 21, 2022
They could improve their anti-spam engine a little bit, because there are a lot of false positives. Sometimes, emails pass through their system but are spam. In terms of security and engines for malicious emails and antivirus, they're doing a good job. Their other engines can be improved.
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reviewer1759707 - PeerSpot reviewer
Jan 12, 2022
Coming from products in the Microsoft stack, Perception Point doesn't really give you, as an admin, a lot of options to make changes yourself. It's more on their side to make changes in the back end. That's something they could improve on in the future.
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PS
Mar 16, 2021
Its websites for analysis need to be a bit more approachable for people who are less technical. Technically, it is a fire-and-forget solution. So, you want to be able to implement this solution for a lot of companies who don't have security operation teams (SOCs) behind them. You need to have something where a secretary can jump onto this console and release whatever she needs to release. Therefore, it needs to be written in a very specific non-technical language.
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Jijin Joseph - PeerSpot reviewer
Jan 5, 2022
Our users would like the solution to scan outgoing emails. So, if my system is compromised, and I have malicious content in my system, then there is a possibility that I am sending a colleague that malicious content.
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