Cisco Secure Email Threat Defense vs. Trend Micro Worry-Free Services Suite

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Cisco Secure Email Threat Defense
Score 9.1 out of 10
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Cisco Secure Email Threat Defense provides protection against email threats that compromise an organization’s brand and operations. Its advanced threat detection capabilities uncover known, emerging and targeted threats. And it expands the scope of organizations' defenses to detect dangerous threats and rapidly search for and remediate threats across security controls. Secure Email Threat Defense's Artificial Intelligence and machine…N/A
Trend Micro Worry-Free Services Suite
Score 9.1 out of 10
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Trend Micro offers an end-to-end hosted security solution which they call the Worry-Free Business Security suite for midsize and larger enterprises, which provides a wide range of services such as endpoint protection, email encryption, general antivirus and threat detection and prevention, as well as protection of cloud applications as well, with no maintenance.N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Features
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Secure Email Gateway
Comparison of Secure Email Gateway features of Product A and Product B
Cisco Secure Email Threat Defense
8.7
28 Ratings
4% above category average
Trend Micro Worry-Free Services Suite
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Ratings
Anti-malware8.716 Ratings00 Ratings
Customizability8.816 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Loss Protection8.215 Ratings00 Ratings
Threat Detection9.628 Ratings00 Ratings
Sandboxing8.115 Ratings00 Ratings
End-to-End Encryption8.816 Ratings00 Ratings
Management Tools9.027 Ratings00 Ratings
Endpoint Security
Comparison of Endpoint Security features of Product A and Product B
Cisco Secure Email Threat Defense
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Ratings
Trend Micro Worry-Free Services Suite
9.4
4 Ratings
10% above category average
Anti-Exploit Technology00 Ratings9.33 Ratings
Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)00 Ratings9.33 Ratings
Centralized Management00 Ratings9.94 Ratings
Hybrid Deployment Support00 Ratings9.92 Ratings
Infection Remediation00 Ratings9.34 Ratings
Vulnerability Management00 Ratings9.83 Ratings
Malware Detection00 Ratings8.14 Ratings
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User Ratings
Cisco Secure Email Threat DefenseTrend Micro Worry-Free Services Suite
Likelihood to Recommend
9.6
(25 ratings)
9.8
(10 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
5.0
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(4 ratings)
9.6
(4 ratings)
Availability
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
7.3
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.2
(5 ratings)
9.4
(2 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
Cisco
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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Trend Micro
With around 80 users and 150 devices (including 6 server instances), this solution served us very well, with instant admin notifications and scheduled overall reports. Detection appears extremely reliable, and the memory and CPU footprint of the service seemed less intrusive than Panda, which we had issues running on Terminal Services instances, as it seems to hog excessive memory allocation. Rollout was smooth and we never had an instance of a corrupt installation.
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Pros
Cisco
  • Manages Junk Mail Well-We configured and tested our configuration to filter out the majority of junk mail hitting our inboxes.
  • Manages Graymail-We configured and tested our Cisco ETD for graymail filtering and reduced the amount of unwanted advertising and other legitimate emails.
  • Creating unique policies that were tailored to block or allow emails from certain senders.
  • Stopped malicious email traffic (e.g., malicious attachments and links) with rules for identifying and stripping potentially malicious attachments or links.
  • Allows easy configuration for other email security measures such as SPF, DMARC and DKIM.
  • Cisco engineers provide an annual free security health check. We took advantage of several security health checks where Cisco certified engineers go over the security setting of our Cisco ETD. We were provided a written report that highlighted strengths and weaknesses of our Cisco ETD setup.
  • Monitoring email traffic flow is almost overwhelming with the amount of information you can obtain from the portal. This gives valuable information to IT staff in terms of volume and type of emails the company is receiving.
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Trend Micro
  • Hybrid deployment, can be on-prem or cloud specific, we are using cloud based
  • Central Control Manager capabilities to have control about what happens in the environment
  • No need to have internal infrastructure to host further than your workstations or terminals
  • No need to have dedicated team for security or endpoint protection
  • Maintenance and updates are available just as released, no need to take actions on that side
  • Great capabilities as a connected threat defense platform
  • Endpoint protection features and quality for SMBs
  • Cloud and collaboration platforms compatible including Office 365, Google Mail and On-Cloud Storage
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Cons
Cisco
  • The web interface is definitely dated
  • The software updates to the user interface and the documentation online are not congruent. Some docs are old and information is lacking to make changes
  • The email filtering and email search features are really dated. And other tools are more user friendly
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Trend Micro
  • It would be better if there were an unload password for each policy instead of one for the whole organization.
  • We have one app that gets blocked with no log of any reason why, there should be a better way to troubleshoot that other than just closing the AV every time. Allow listing has not worked in this case.
  • When something is blocked it should specify exactly which setting or feature blocked it to make it easier to use the allow list or adjust.
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Likelihood to Renew
Cisco
There is a 50/50 chance that we will renew. We are in the middle of moving from on-prem to the cloud so we may not need it once we are fully migrated.
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Trend Micro
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Usability
Cisco
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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Trend Micro
Installation and administration tools are fantastic. I found the endpoint policies to be not intuitive and clunky. The endpoint client was difficult to disable when trying to troubleshoot Apple issues and I often had to uninstall and then reinstall which was very time-consuming. Reporting is very useful and I was impressed with the reports I received.
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Reliability and Availability
Cisco
Cisco Secure Email Threat Defense's availability is great and reliable when you need it most. We haven't had any noticeable outages or issues.
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Trend Micro
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Support Rating
Cisco
Cisco always provides good support for all of their solutions. As usual, Cisco support is top notch, from their initial sales teams to the post support, we have always felt comfortable with using Cisco solutions. Their documentation is also very good, frequent updates to the documents with feature enhancements and support notes. All around very good suppot
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Trend Micro
The few times I needed to contact support I was fully satisfied. They worked all the way through the issue, no matter how long it took, and made sure I had a permanent solution. I was pleased with the professionalism, courteousness, and knowledge of the product they were supporting.
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Implementation Rating
Cisco
The implementation went well, no issues or problems to report.
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Trend Micro
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Alternatives Considered
Cisco
Cisco SETD, with a broad deployment and full integration with Microsoft 365 gives us a strong protection, especially where we can leverage its strengths: Microsoft‑365 integration, mailbox remediation, policy enforcement, and your visibility across Cisco tools.


Proofpoint is better around user awareness (warning tags etc.), and continuity/archiving. Considering that we have a full Cisco stack, choosing Proofpoint would come with higher cost, learning curve, possible redundancy of features, licensing complexity.
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Trend Micro
Avast was clunky, difficult to roll out, missed loads of malware on machines, and required that we purchase a separate license to install AV on our servers. Trend Micro could not have been any different. You just contact their sales department and get a demo, or even ask for a trial of sorts to test policy creations and client installation. You'll be obsessed with the whole process and the admin dashboard you have access to.
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Return on Investment
Cisco
  • Our email security has increased.
  • Users are now more confident about their email security.
  • Management of threat detection and prevention has become easier.
  • Finer controls on spam filtering gives customization capability.
  • GDPR compliance ensures peace of mind from a regulation point of view.
  • The quarantine feature has ensured that we do not lose important emails while they are being analyzed.
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Trend Micro
  • It has stopped several malicious items from getting into our system.
  • It's also saved money over our previous Anti-Virus solution (Kaspersky)
  • Ease of Setup/Use
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ScreenShots

Cisco Secure Email Threat Defense Screenshots

Screenshot of an Impact Report showing efficacy metrics and ROI indicatorsScreenshot of a detailed view of phishing messagesScreenshot of the dashboard