MailGate SC vs. Trend Micro InterScan Messaging Security

MailGate is well suited for organizations that have sensitive information with the need to securely transport via email, it is less appropriate for larger organizations as the overhead for administrators becomes more complex

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Trend Micro InterScan Messaging Security is well suited for bigger companies with huge numbers of incoming and outgoing emails. It is really easy to configure, and once setup, there is not much to be done. So this requires minimal administration efforts. However, as the reporting is weak, if this is essential for a company, then it would be better to look into other alternatives.

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• Ability to alert a variety of statuses to administrators via email
• Shows health status of the appliance to ensure proper functionality

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• Deep Discovery analyzer provides sandboxing and deep threat analyses
• DLP capabilities are also good. It has a number of pre defined DLP templates
• Works very well against targeted attacks
• Lowers impact at the email gateway as it filters away the email in the cloud

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• External storage configuration is complex to set up
• Customer support is average, can be slow depending on the type of issue or request

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• Higher false positive rate for Spam detection.
• Logging can be difficult to search.

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Easy to use, easy to pull data, easy to see what is going on in our specific environment.

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MailGate works well with administrative control and ease of use for setting up TLS connectivity between clients

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Trend Micro InterScan Messaging Security is much cheaper than Kasprsky Security for Email Server. Trend Micro InterScan Messaging Security is easier to install and the maintenance effort required is much less than this required by Kasprsky Security for Email Server. However Kasprsky Security for Email Server does have a better GUI and does indeed offer a better protection degree. However, taking into account that both were tested behind a firewall, most of the threats had already been eliminated there...

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• MailGate has allowed the organization to accept more clients with their knowledge of our ability to securely send emails

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• We have been able to see threats more easily now than before and have become more aware towards them
• The IT infra footprint has become more secure and controlled

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