Cisco Secure Email Threat Defense vs. Proofpoint Information Protection

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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Best suited for organizations that are dealing with high volumes of protected/personsal or financial information that must be kept secure

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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.

• User administration is very intuitive and simple.
• Rules are quickly implemented allowing solid email incidence response.
• Enterprise support is spectacular offering to go above and beyond whenever necessary.

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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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• Continue to improve on the receiving side when the message is delivered through the system

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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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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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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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• 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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• Stronger security posture.
• Able to quickly respond to SPAM/Phishing campaigns.
• Business is more adaptive and agile in the security space.

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