Cisco Secure Email (formerly Cisco Email Security) vs McAfee Email Gateway (Discontinued)

Likelihood to Recommend

In our organization and with our partners, email is the vast majority of our communications for doing business from ordering, quoting, and updates. Having an email security solution from a trusted brand is key. Great solution if you use a lot of email communications. Not as important if your company uses other forms of communications.

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Victor Lau

Network Architect

BSSTelecommunications, 10,001+ employees

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Comparable to a Barracuda email appliance, these units retain email that is quarantined as well as provide cloud layer to support it. It is best suited for a medium size company as the devices are often not as scalable as Barracuda.

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Derek Schroeder

Service Manager

Accellis Technology GroupInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

Cisco Secure Email (formerly Cisco Email Security)

McAfee Email Gateway (Discontinued)

Anti-malware

Cusomizability

Data Loss Protection

Threat Detection

Sandboxing

End-to-End Encryption

Management Tools

Pros

Antispam
Phishing protection
Email Antivirus
DLP
Graymail prevention

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Verified User

Manager in Information Technology

Education Management Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Filtering system is very strong, more often than not blocks bad email.
Does fine job filtering and configuring content filtering for extension types such as ZIP or RAR.
Intermediary between Internet and email system provides extra layer of security including ability to spool email in the event of an email system outage.
Outbound encryption feature is very useful for security purposes.

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Derek Schroeder

Service Manager

Accellis Technology GroupInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

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Cons

Managing multiple Cisco ESA without additional hardware
More mail policy template for email security best practice
Lowering the price

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Budi Ezeddin

Senior Technical Specialist

Synnex Metrodata IndonesiaInformation Technology & Services, 201-500 employees

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The onsite appliances have end-of-life forcing an upgrade to new unit.
Many of the appliances have been end-of-life and seems McAfee may not be offering the service in the future.

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Derek Schroeder

Service Manager

Accellis Technology GroupInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

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Usability

Cisco Secure Email (formerly Cisco Email Security) 8.7

Based on 4 answers

I would overall give this product a 10 out of 10. I don't see many flaws at all and it does what it's meant to do and helps put my clients' minds at ease when sending personal information via email. This software allows you to send secure emails to those intended to receive them. This helps not only myself but also clients feel safe when emailing secure documents that contain personal and financial information.

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Robert Marinaro

Mortgage Processor

Advisors Mortgage Group, LLCFinancial Services, 501-1000 employees

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No score

No answers yet

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Support Rating

Cisco Secure Email (formerly Cisco Email Security) 8.5

Based on 5 answers

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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Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology

Law Practice Company, 1001-5000 employees

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No score

No answers yet

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Alternatives Considered

Cisco [Email Security] is the most mature for email security solution. They also gave us special discount

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Budi Ezeddin

Senior Technical Specialist

Synnex Metrodata IndonesiaInformation Technology & Services, 201-500 employees

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Barracuda provides two product options, the ESS cloud-only filtering, and onsite Email Security Gateway appliances. Unless compliance needs require the on-premises device, the ESS option easily beats the McAfee Email Gateway.

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Derek Schroeder

Service Manager

Accellis Technology GroupInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

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Return on Investment

Email availability got better.
Less SPAM & less false positives.
Clean emails from viruses.
Lots of phishing attacks were stopped.

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Verified User

Manager in Information Technology

Education Management Company, 1001-5000 employees

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The end-of-life of appliances is unfortunate as it forces a purchase of a replacement unit. Barracuda devices have a 4-year refresh cycle so purchasing additional hardware is rarely necessary.
McAfee seems to be phasing out the service over time.

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Derek Schroeder

Service Manager

Accellis Technology GroupInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Rating Summary

Cisco Secure Email (formerly Cisco Email Security)

McAfee Email Gateway (Discontinued)

Cisco Secure Email (formerly Cisco Email Security)

McAfee Email Gateway (Discontinued)

Cisco Secure Email (formerly Cisco Email Security)

McAfee Email Gateway (Discontinued)

Cisco Secure Email (formerly Cisco Email Security)

McAfee Email Gateway (Discontinued)

Cisco Secure Email (formerly Cisco Email Security) vs McAfee Email Gateway (Discontinued)