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    Clearswift SECURE Email Gateway (SEG)

    Score7.1 out of 10
    N/AUK headquartered multi-national company Clearswift is the developer of the SECURE Email Gateway (SEG) as a messaging security platform. Clearswift was acquired by HelpSystems in late 2019, and is now a HelpSystems brand.N/A

    Smarsh

    Score7.5 out of 10
    N/AThe Smarsh Enterprise Platform is a unified, cloud-native solution designed to future-proof enterprise communications data strategies. Its technologies include elastic compute, natural language processing, machine learning and artificial intelligence.N/A
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    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    Clearswift SECURE Email Gateway (SEG)Smarsh
    Secure Email Gateway
    Comparison of Secure Email Gateway features of Clearswift SECURE Email Gateway (SEG) and Smarsh
    Feature
    Clearswift SECURE Email Gateway (SEG)
    8.2
    1 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Smarsh
    -
    Ratings
    Anti-malware9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizability9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Loss Protection9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Threat Detection7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Management Tools7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Clearswift SECURE Email Gateway (SEG)Smarsh
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.5
    (2 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.1
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Clearswift SECURE Email Gateway (SEG)Smarsh
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Fortra
    The CS SEG appliances are running as virtual appliances by now. They do need not much power in the ESX environment. I recommend to use at least two peers running in a cluster. The cluster feature is working very well. The CS SEG can process a huge number of emails in a very short time frame.
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    Smarsh
    This appliance is well suited for organizations that have a need to monitor, moderate, or log social networking site use or the use of any website. It is a very solid tool for any information security department to have at their disposal.
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    Pros
    Fortra
    • CS SEG is fast in email processing
    • Managing the quarantine is easy
    • Display of the reasons why an email has been processed this is very detailed
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    Smarsh
    • Discovery: It allows for easy discoveries by the compliance and cyber security departments.
    • Ethical walls: This keeps certain departments from talking to each other.
    • Very granular control. This is a big product meaning you can get very detailed with it.
    • Once it's configured and running, we hardly ever have any issues.
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    Cons
    Fortra
    • Improvement is needed in the area of AV/Antispam update processing (internally)
    • Improvement is needed in the log file processing. Many log file entries are not understandable for an operator or administrator without special insider knowledge
    • Clearswift has recently changed the support provider. Now there are no german supporters anymore.
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    Smarsh
    • Its configuration options were very large and required a good deal of time to learn all of the various settings.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Fortra
    No answers on this topic
    Smarsh
    It's the only product at this time that meets all of our requirements.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Fortra
    The Clearswift Secure Email Gateway (CS SEG) has very low license costs. A two peer cluster is enough to run a complete emailing gateway environment. Compared to the Proofpoint PPS the CS SEG does not need a management appliance. The CS SEG peers can manage the quarantine by themselves. This is easy to use and quite fast.
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    Smarsh
    This was the only appliance of its kind that I have used. Other devices have different capabilities for web filtering such as the checkpoint firewalls, but none of them offered the overall solution that was deployed with this product at that time.
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    Return on Investment
    Fortra
    • Since this CS SEG environment is operated for a customer, I cannot answer this question
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    Smarsh
    • Faster investigative work has led to increased employee efficiency when working on security investigations.
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