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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Cisco Cloud Email Security

    Score9 out of 10
    N/ACisco's Cloud Email Security platform is a secure email gateway.N/A

    Darktrace

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/ADarktrace AI interrupts in-progress cyber-attacks, including ransomware, email phishing, and threats to cloud environments. It's able to detect and establish baselines for your organization so it can make the distinction between what is and what isn't normal network activity for your organization. This allows it to tackle complex cyber-attacks as they happen and prevent future cyber-attacks from happening.N/A
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    Cisco Cloud Email SecurityDarktrace
    Editions & Modules
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    Pricing Offerings
    Cisco Cloud Email SecurityDarktrace
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Cisco Cloud Email SecurityDarktrace
    Considered Both Products
    Cisco
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    90%
    Would buy again
    9 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    86%
    Delivers good value for the price
    6 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    90%
    Happy with the feature set
    9 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    80%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    8 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
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    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    10 Answers
    Features
    Cisco Cloud Email SecurityDarktrace
    Secure Email Gateway
    Comparison of Secure Email Gateway features of Cisco Cloud Email Security and Darktrace
    Feature
    Cisco Cloud Email Security
    8.6
    3 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Darktrace
    -
    Ratings
    Anti-malware8.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizability10.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Loss Protection8.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Threat Detection9.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Sandboxing8.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    End-to-End Encryption9.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Management Tools8.03 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Score9.1 out of 10
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    Medium-sized Companies
    Sophos Email
    Score9.1 out of 10
    SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA)
    Score8.5 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Microsoft Exchange
    Score8.6 out of 10
    SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA)
    Score8.5 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Cisco Cloud Email SecurityDarktrace
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (5 ratings)
    8.0
    (13 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.7
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.5
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.0
    (3 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Cisco Cloud Email SecurityDarktrace
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Cisco
    It's suitable for content filtering applications using regex, hash, domain, or email... It's particularly perfect for a Cisco infrastructure. It's also perfect for a hybrid environment, such as on-prem/cloud. It's less appropriate for small- to mid-sized infrastructure because it's too complex for basic use. The UI can be improved as well.
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    Darktrace
    Darktrace is a product well suited for the vast majority of infrastructures and helps monitoring and responding to threats based on the network in a very elastic way. This is a product based on on-premise infrastructures that hosts its machines locally, of course it can be technically difficult to monitor an entire On-Cloud infrastructure but even there there's room for sensors and monitoring, not to mention the SaaS and mail integration that completes the product.
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    Pros
    Cisco
    • Advanced malware protection.
    • Integration with Office365.
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    Darktrace
    • Uses it Al model UEBA to detect anomalies in the behaviour of not only the users in a corporate network but also the routers, servers, and endpoints in that network.
    • Provides a visualisation of both egress and outbound network traffics flowing in and out of the organisation.
    • Darktrace comes with it autonomous AI model detection and responses capabilities.
    • Darktrace as an AI next generation NDR solution, prevents ,contains and quarantines malicious traffics from and into the corporate network.
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    Cons
    Cisco
    • On certain client machines, we found that the software prevented the opening of innocuous email attachments flagging them as potentially harmful.
    • Emails with large attachment sizes can sometimes slow down the email loading process.
    Incentivized
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    Darktrace
    • There are few areas that I would say need to be improved; their customer support portal allows you to log tickets with any suggestions or things you feel the product is missing, and they will generally show you how to achieve what you want, or in some cases, introduce it as a feature in a later update.
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Cisco
    No answers on this topic
    Darktrace
    It's a powerfull product that help administrators to provide email security to our organization.
    Good metrics about received emails that help us to determine in doubt case if the email is a false positive or it's malware.
    They're improving the product releasing continuous updates and have mobile phone app to manage it.
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    Cisco
    No answers on this topic
    Darktrace
    The Darktrace toolset is very expansive, allowing it to handle many different tasks, but this leads to a user interface that is sometimes not at all intuitive. Icons don't always make sense visually, and the associated tool tips do not always provide enough detail on what action the button performs
    Incentivized
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    Support Rating
    Cisco
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Darktrace
    Darktrace support is excellent in my experience. They send a competent engineer on-site to provide on-boarding training. They were also very responsive in responding to questions and concerns. Having an individual point of contact who is a competent network and security engineer is not a common experience, at least for me.
    Incentivized
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    Alternatives Considered
    Cisco
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Darktrace
    We did NOT select Darktrace. OSSIM/AlienVault is a more mature product and it provided better intelligence and reporting. The end user interface is much easier to use - and you can tell built form engineers who have had to do the work. My suggestion for anyone considering Darktrace, is to get the price upfront; do a 30/60 onsite trail; and do the same thing, at the same time, with AlienVault. AlientVault will win every time. I say that because that's exactly what I did.
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    Cisco
    • 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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    Darktrace
    • One big positive is how it helps us with the security assessments that clients have done on us. They are looking to see if we know how we might have unusual/malicious traffic running on the network.
    • If you have a small network and only need 1 appliance, it can be a good ROI and peace of mind.
    • You could go down a hole in trying to spend time looking at all of your traffic with this software. You need to focus only on what it is showing as potential bad traffic.
    Incentivized
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