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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Cisco Secure Web Appliance

    Score8 out of 10
    N/ACisco Secure Web Appliance (formerly Cisco Web Security Appliance [WSA]), powered by Cisco Talos, protects by automatically blocking risky sites and testing unknown sites before allowing users to link to them, helping with compliance. It is available models S690, S390, and S190.N/A

    Trellix Email Security

    Score9.9 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    Trellix Email Security (formerly FireEye Email Security) protects against advanced email attacks that bypass the initial gateway.

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    Cisco Secure Web ApplianceTrellix Email Security
    Free Trial
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    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Cisco Secure Web ApplianceTrellix Email Security
    Secure Email Gateway
    Comparison of Secure Email Gateway features of Cisco Secure Web Appliance and Trellix Email Security
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    Trellix Email Security
    8.2
    6 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Anti-malware00 Ratings8.56 Ratings
    Customizability00 Ratings8.06 Ratings
    Threat Detection00 Ratings8.56 Ratings
    Sandboxing00 Ratings8.06 Ratings
    Management Tools00 Ratings8.06 Ratings
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    Sophos Email
    Score9.1 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Forcepoint SWG
    Score8 out of 10
    Sophos Email
    Score9.1 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Skyhigh Secure Web Gateway
    Score8 out of 10
    Microsoft Exchange
    Score8.6 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Cisco Secure Web ApplianceTrellix Email Security
    Likelihood to Recommend
    6.8
    (9 ratings)
    9.0
    (6 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    6.4
    (2 ratings)
    7.3
    (3 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Cisco Secure Web ApplianceTrellix Email Security
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Cisco
    We have both scenarios where we can describe that. For example, in the HQ, where we have about 3,000 users, Cisco IronPort Web Security Appliance is the ideal solution, because we can consolidate all the Internet access, policies, rules, etc. in the same box. However, if you have small offices with a few users, it's hard to justify one big and expensive box that could cost more than the whole office infrastructure.
    Incentivized
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    Trellix (Musarubra US LLC)
    It has a very good feature of URL replace, it helps us to block or prevent spam, phishing, or malicious emails. It has some limitations like if some large or lengthy emails come it takes more time to scan and to avoid delay it forwards the mail to the recipient with a warning note on it.
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    Pros
    Cisco
    • SMA gave us central control over multiple servers, simplifying management.
    • Performance of the Appliance VM exceeded that of our old physical appliance-based solution.
    • Convenient licensing for virtualized environments that allows easy scaling.
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    Trellix (Musarubra US LLC)
    • Very user-friendly and simple interface.
    • Policy rules are easy to create and they work.
    • Very little downtime or operational impact.
    • Email delivery issues are easy to investigate and troubleshoot.
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    Cons
    Cisco
    • I think that the interface could need updates to adapt it to a much more current system, achieve quick access to necessary tools and adapt the platform to a much more customizable and comfortable system to work with.
    • It is undoubtedly a platform that is worth having, however, the license costs could be better adjusted to small businesses so that it can be accessed more easily.
    • It could be a bit complex to use, the use of codes is quite extensive, it could be adjusted to something much more practical but just as efficient.
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    Trellix (Musarubra US LLC)
    • Sometimes feels that console running slow.
    • Riskware detection has a lot of false positive.
    • The user interface is not very intuitive.
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    Usability
    Cisco
    Because it's one of those products you almost don't realize it exists from the end user. From the administrator perspective, you can do everything on its web interface and it's very intuitive to manage, once you know the concepts behind identities, acls, etc. Also, once you build the control structure, I mean, you link 'local' groups with your own Active Directory groups, as we did here, you don't need to be managing those things on the appliance itself.
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    Trellix (Musarubra US LLC)
    FireEye Email Security is the most effective email security solution for protecting enterprises from APT. It is not complicated to set up and you can ride a wave of continuous security effects for a long time without major changes after the initial setup. It's automated, so users don't have to care too much about it. In addition, it provides detailed analysis data, so you can utilize it for 3rd party solutions if you want.
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    Support Rating
    Cisco
    Our experience with Cisco's support was terrible. Other than the fact that they don't respond to service-related emails with urgency, they also keep on changing the policies that affected us. Recently, they came up with a new look for the same software, which was insanely slow. Renewal of keys for the old interface took months. Overall, the support was not very friendly from the users' point of view.
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    Trellix (Musarubra US LLC)
    The reason that I gave the support a 5 is that I have had both positive and negative experiences. One of the positive experiences was when a senior support engineer spend quite a few hours with me solving an issue that we were having. One of the negative ones was when we were experiencing an issue and one person from support gave one solution, and when the issue reoccurred we were told by another person that what was recommended to us the first time was incorrect. The issue was never fully solved.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Cisco
    At home I have a McAfee service that does similar tasks and helps manage the users of my internet. McAfee seems more user friendly and easier to set exceptions.
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    Trellix (Musarubra US LLC)
    It was called Barracuda Spam Filter when we evaluated and switched to FireEye ES (called FireEye ETP at the time). At the time we compared them ES was much better at security and also spam filtering. ES has continued to get even better since we first chose them. The user interface, support, sales/engineer provided service, the effectiveness of the product, and continued improvement/development have made them a great choice.
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    Cisco
    • Security! Security! Security! We are financial company that work with very sensitive information. A lot of unsafe traffic was blocked on the Cisco IronPort WSA over years of using it. We did not earn on it but absolutely sure that we did not lose 'gazillion' of dollars being infected or scammed.
    • Easy to configure and use, no need to teach new personnel how work with this product (hopefully saving time = saving money).
    • Unfortunately the price of license subscription made financial managers push IT dept. to look for something cheaper.
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    Trellix (Musarubra US LLC)
    • It can reduce the spam, malicious and phishing mails.
    • It has advanced threat intelligence.
    • It gives some false positives as well.
    • It has great decision making intelligence.
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