Cisco Cloud Email Security vs. McAfee Security for Email Servers

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Cisco Cloud Email Security
Score 8.8 out of 10
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Cisco's Cloud Email Security platform is a secure email gateway.N/A
McAfee Security for Email Servers
Score 5.8 out of 10
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Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
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Considered Both Products
Cisco Cloud Email Security
Chose Cisco Cloud Email Security
It compares strongly to competitors with the granular protection (with the AI-powered Cisco Talos protection), particularly in large and hybrid environments. There is greater scalability, deeper control, and a high degree of compatibility with our Cisco infrastructure. The …
Chose Cisco Cloud Email Security
I would select Cisco for the Cloud Email Security solution because it has high availability. The integrations you have with solutions in the email cloud are very easy to integrate. Cisco Cloud Email Security is among the leaders in email protection solutions. It is important to …
Chose Cisco Cloud Email Security
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.
McAfee Security for Email Servers
Chose McAfee Security for Email Servers
The McAfee Security for Email Servers is very robust and compact against many newly generated cyber threats. Also the McAfee Security for Email Servers is very easy to operate and understand. The great thing about the McAfee Security for Email Servers is it's ability to …
Features
Cisco Cloud Email SecurityMcAfee Security for Email Servers
Secure Email Gateway
Comparison of Secure Email Gateway features of Product A and Product B
Cisco Cloud Email Security
8.6
Ratings
2% above category average
McAfee Security for Email Servers
9.9
Ratings
16% above category average
Anti-malware8.00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Customizability10.00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Data Loss Protection8.00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Threat Detection9.00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Sandboxing8.00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
End-to-End Encryption9.00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Management Tools8.00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
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User Ratings
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9.0
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User Testimonials
Cisco Cloud Email SecurityMcAfee Security for Email Servers
Likelihood to Recommend
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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In my experience the McAfee Security for Email Servers is well suited for the all the types of organization and their employees who main concern is security for their mailing application. As they need to protect the sensitive data sent and receive through mail and also wants to protect their employee and organizations sensitive data. Also, I don't see any scenario where McAfee Security for Email Server is not suited as every organizations wants to protect their data and employee from the many cyber attacks.
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Pros
  • Incoming mail policies and content filtering are easy to implement.
  • Security aspects of the service are great at filtering out unwanted traffic: anti-spam, anti-virus (Sophos and Mcafee), Cisco AMP, outbreak filters, reputation filtering, etc.).
  • Email tracking through the SMA is a breeze, so if you have specific users that are having problems in the receipt of emails, research into the problem is quick and easy.
  • The reporting is detailed for operations and security functions.
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  • mail filtering
  • threat protection
  • threat response
  • customer support
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Cons
  • Initial configuration takes time to perform as it is a very powerful solution.
  • Limited context sensitive help.
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  • Intelligent threat detection
  • Data protection can be improved
  • Pricing can be improved
  • monitoring of spam sending patterns and IP behavior can be improved
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Support Rating
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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Alternatives Considered
It compares strongly to competitors with the granular protection (with the AI-powered Cisco Talos protection), particularly in large and hybrid environments. There is greater scalability, deeper control, and a high degree of compatibility with our Cisco infrastructure. The deployment is straightforward in the Cisco environment, so the choice over competitors is pretty clear.
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The McAfee Security for Email Servers is very robust and compact against many newly generated cyber threats. Also the McAfee Security for Email Servers is very easy to operate and understand. The great thing about the McAfee Security for Email Servers is it's ability to determine the threat pattern and disabled it before it occurs and causes the problem in daily operations is too good.
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Return on Investment
  • Data breaches and data loss can be extremely detrimental to any company. So far this security tool has been a great investment in preventing any form of data compromise.
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  • The layer of protection provided by the McAfee Security for Email Servers from cyber attacks is on of the highlight of it.
  • It is the one of the best solution to prevent your organizations employee to fall prey to the attacks like phishing, spamming and many more.
  • The most incredible thing McAfee Security for Email Servers does is that it can be great in dealing with the attacks and detection of cyber threats even before they impact your business.
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