Cisco Cloud Email Security vs. Cisco Secure Email Threat Defense

The most appropriate scenarios to implement email security is in companies that want to protect the use of electronic mail since it is one of the security breaches that are currently used to perform any type of attack. Very effective integration with Office 365 and it is highly recommended to add the functionality of advanced malware protection

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I will certainly recommend Cisco Secure Email to my friends/colleagues, one look at the dashboard/statistics will actually convince any IT professional to use this product. We noticed an outstanding improvement in Email quality, most of the SPAM emails are caught, and our users have never been happier!

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• Cisco Email Security addresses all the major forms of data attacks like phishing, ransomware and malware propagation.
• Its content encryption capabilities safeguard against any data loss potential through outgoing emails.

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• Makes detecting/blocking email threats easy .
• It's an affordable solution .
• Encryption and decryption is easy.
• It's great when it comes to phishing protection.

• Outlook integration in terms of a plug-in would be great. Currently, users can't add something to a blacklist or whitelist directly from Outlook.
• Management of the platform is done from two portals the ESA and SMA. It would be nice to have it all in one management portal.
• A quick start management guide would be nice. The manual is over 1,000 pages, so there is definitely a lot of functionality in this service.

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• Email blocking using header-from address.
• Spam reporting to Cisco needs to be improved.
• Clustering: active-active mode would be nice.
• Creating filters from GIU.
• Filters samples or database built-in the box would be super nice.

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Haven't found an alternative product with the same features or quality, I have been renewing Cisco Secure Email for over 8 years and i am overly satisfied with what is offered. I will definitely recommended it to my peers.

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Good interface, easy to use and set up. If there were any issues, there is very good documentation and videos that one can follow for additional setup and best practices. As typical with most Cisco solutions, there are more features than needed for our purposes but good to know they are there in case of future needs

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I never had any outages for the past 8 years of using Cisco Secure Email, the system is always available, hardware configuration are designed for higher loads.

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Cisco TAC support is very good since they have engineers available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Important to mention that you must have the support of the solution enabled to be able to receive a response from TAC and that we can be taken care of. The only drawback may be that they will not be able to see settings of the email provider you use.

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It provides us with another layer of defense and has proven to be a great asset and return on investment. Nothing is perfect but this is definitely something to evaluate if you are in the market looking to implement a new email gateway solution or upgrade from something that you already have in place.

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Implementation is straight forward and easy, advanced settings are super helpful especially scripting and custom filters, reporting is one of the coolest features to trace every step of sent/received emails. integration with internal email systems have never been easier, we are running Microsoft Exchange servers behind Cisco Secure Email with no problems.

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Cisco was at least better than or equal to the others but within our budget. It provided all of the services of anti-spam, content filtering, anti-virus, DLP, encrypted email service, scalability, and more than the others. Cisco name and reputation were also key in our decision.

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The security teams also evaluated similar offerings but went with Cisco Secure Email since this comes from a big name and they wanted to ensure complete compliance and protection assurance. The primary reasons for selecting Cisco Secure Email were integration with office 365, hybrid deployment availability, and greater customization options available.

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• Saves us precious resources by blocking unwanted E-mail right at the edge of our network.
• Users can work more efficient when all spam and malware is stopped before reaching their inboxes.
• Enables us to protect our outgoing mail with DKIM signing and validate all incoming mail on the most modern securiry standards.

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• Although Microsoft offers security controls with Office 365, security with Cisco Secure Email for our business email and protection against some advanced malware has more robust security features, such as automatic mailbox remediation and email intelligence top threats.
• I currently have security and advanced malware protection to Office 365.
• Lately, Cisco Secure Email had an update which added two new features that allows us to prevent phishing emails and protects the company's domain.

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