Cisco Cloud Email Security vs. AppRiver from OpenText

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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AppRiver is great for both small and large organizations. Small businesses are unlikely to have much if any technical support staff available to them, for which AppRiver would be a great help. Likewise for large companies, having AppRiver can save your tech support team from dealing with basic, common, and repetitive application support, and allowing them to better focus on more important tasks at hand.

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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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• Very useful daily quarantine list emailed to users.
• Suspicious emails can be viewed online in their sandbox to check validity before releasing from quarantine.
• Multiple ways to filter emails (domain, email address, text, etc)
• Link protection is one of the newest options available and we absolutely love it!!

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• 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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• They do not support DMARC and DKIM at this time and I don't know when or if they ever will.
• Their SPF record is not great and can possibly cause issues, at least that is what my support company has told me.
• Scanning of links in emails seems super limited and or non-existent. THings get through with completely bad malicious all the time and I assume they are not scanning them or they don't have a proper AV on their end.
• Once a domain is whitelisted any bad emails that may be spoofing that email domain are let through and no other filters apply to the emails. It's frustrating to have to white list 20+ individual email addresses from a company and not be able to white list just the domain and not feel secure doing that.

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AppRiver is very easy to use. A new employee can begin using it on their first day.

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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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AppRiver's live support is above what I expected, and I use it exclusively. I always get a professional, courteous, and knowledgeable tech that is easy to understand within a few minutes of placing a call. If you do have to leave a message they have always promptly returned my call.

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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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AppRiver requires the least amount of management time, the pricing is better and the minimums are such that almost all SMB's won't be buying shelfware. If you are an MSP, become a partner and you will see spam problems become a thing of the past.

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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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• Efficiency, teams adapt quickly to changes or new business needs.
• Support gives us alternatives on how to establish new timings for new business lines on email.
• An increase in profit owing to a reduction in the amount of assistance our in-house IT staff is required to provide.

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