Cisco Cloud Email Security vs. Symantec Email Security.cloud

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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If you don't want to have any spam or malware in your mailbox, Symantec Email Security.cloud is the solution to choose. Also, if you need to have some security features, like DLP, it has them embedded!

We have also been using reporting a lot to see how many emails have been sent, where they delivered, and so on.

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• 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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• Filters spam and malware on the highest possible level
• Provides stable service

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• Initial configuration takes time to perform as it is a very powerful solution.
• Limited context sensitive help.

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• Searching within the console can be slow at times, especially when making small tweaks and refreshing quickly
• Features seem to have slowed down since Symantec acquired this formerly "MessageLabs" product
• Advanced filtering and scanning is not quite as good as several competitors

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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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In very tricky cases, it takes time to explain it to the support personnel as they don't get your problem from the first couple of emails.

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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.

Barracuda's ESS is the premier product, it boasts outbound email encryption as an included service as well as all of the security features of Symantec Email Security.cloud. Sophos is on the same level as SES.c but is not quite as feature rich.

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• 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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• Our previous solution was very manual. The ROI has been in less manual intervention from the admins and freeing up their already busy schedules.

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