Avast Email Security vs. McAfee Email Gateway (Discontinued)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Avast Email Security
Score 8.1 out of 10
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Avast Email Security is a service available and delivered through the company's CloudCare security management console. Three features of Avast Email Security service allow employees and customers to manage their email more safely: Anti-spam to keep email boxes free of unwanted email, encrypted emails ensure that incoming and outgoing email are securely delivered , and email archiving allows users to manage the size and storage for inboxes.N/A
McAfee Email Gateway (Discontinued)
Score 10.0 out of 10
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McAfee Email Gateway was a secure email gateway featuring encryption and anti-spam / phishing protection that was EOL in late 2015.N/A
Pricing
Avast Email SecurityMcAfee Email Gateway (Discontinued)
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Avast Email SecurityMcAfee Email Gateway (Discontinued)
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
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Features
Avast Email SecurityMcAfee Email Gateway (Discontinued)
Secure Email Gateway
Comparison of Secure Email Gateway features of Product A and Product B
Avast Email Security
9.1
1 Ratings
8% above category average
McAfee Email Gateway (Discontinued)
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Ratings
Anti-malware9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Customizability9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Loss Protection10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Threat Detection9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Sandboxing9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
End-to-End Encryption9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Management Tools9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Best Alternatives
Avast Email SecurityMcAfee Email Gateway (Discontinued)
Small Businesses
Barracuda Essentials
Barracuda Essentials
Score 9.2 out of 10
Barracuda Essentials
Barracuda Essentials
Score 9.2 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Barracuda Essentials
Barracuda Essentials
Score 9.2 out of 10
Barracuda Essentials
Barracuda Essentials
Score 9.2 out of 10
Enterprises
Cisco Cloud Email Security
Cisco Cloud Email Security
Score 7.8 out of 10
Cisco Cloud Email Security
Cisco Cloud Email Security
Score 7.8 out of 10
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User Ratings
Avast Email SecurityMcAfee Email Gateway (Discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(1 ratings)
6.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Avast Email SecurityMcAfee Email Gateway (Discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend
Avast Software
Avast Email Security is ideal for people who care [about] email security. With Avast Email Security you need not worry about spamming and malware attacks. Also, if you regularly share confidential information, Avast Email Security comes in handy when it comes to encrypting emails to ensure no unauthorized access. Therefore, the software is ideal for many companies and professionals such as doctors, accountants, and insurance firms.
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Discontinued Products
Comparable to a Barracuda email appliance, these units retain email that is quarantined as well as provide cloud layer to support it. It is best suited for a medium size company as the devices are often not as scalable as Barracuda.
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Pros
Avast Software
  • Avast Email Security is so easy to use and anyone can decrypt and encrypt emails
  • The software offers better protection to emails
  • The software is relatively affordable
  • With Avast Email Security, it is easy to manage inbox sizes of individual emails
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Discontinued Products
  • Filtering system is very strong, more often than not blocks bad email.
  • Does fine job filtering and configuring content filtering for extension types such as ZIP or RAR.
  • Intermediary between Internet and email system provides extra layer of security including ability to spool email in the event of an email system outage.
  • Outbound encryption feature is very useful for security purposes.
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Cons
Avast Software
  • I have not experienced any issues that I can list here.
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Discontinued Products
  • The onsite appliances have end-of-life forcing an upgrade to new unit.
  • Many of the appliances have been end-of-life and seems McAfee may not be offering the service in the future.
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Alternatives Considered
Avast Software
Avast Email Security is a great tool more so if your have other Avast products. It is easy to use, very secure and offers great features to protect your emails. It is the best I have used
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Discontinued Products
Barracuda provides two product options, the ESS cloud-only filtering, and onsite Email Security Gateway appliances. Unless compliance needs require the on-premises device, the ESS option easily beats the McAfee Email Gateway.
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Return on Investment
Avast Software
  • By keeping spamming and other online threats away, we do not have to worry about corrupt emails or hacking instances.
  • With Avast Email Security, we do not have to worry about data loss
  • Avast Email Security makes it easy to encrypt and decrypt emails thereby ensuring data privacy
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Discontinued Products
  • The end-of-life of appliances is unfortunate as it forces a purchase of a replacement unit. Barracuda devices have a 4-year refresh cycle so purchasing additional hardware is rarely necessary.
  • McAfee seems to be phasing out the service over time.
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