Cofense Triage vs. OpenText EnCase Endpoint Security

The tool is very helpful in improving Phishing detection capabilities as it streamlines the process of analyzing user reports a lot. Besides it has a built-in mechanism of rating reporters(end-users) based on their historical performance. Downside - tool requires continuous resource investment to deliver best result. Tool is not helping too much in improving user-education, because automated response process is not immediate and is prone to errors

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It is more suited to environments that have a large internal user base since there will be more incidents that require forensic analysis. It will be less suited for environments that have a small internal user base due to the fact that there would be fewer incidents that require forensic analysis, but it really depends on the industry that a small internal user base is a part of.

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• Separating links and attachments contained in the email, and checking to see if they are known malicious.
• Clustering like emails to save time when responding.
• Providing risks scores with each cluster to give an estimate on which clusters should be addressed first.

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• Functionality meets minimal requirements, since it performs forensic investigations as advertised.

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• There are too many interdependent pieces which you have to acquire separately.
• I think Cofense has a lot of capabilities and usefulness, but I think it's too a la carte.
• We own Cofense and PhishMe currently and there are some gaping holes that require additional licensing to close.

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• Their UI definitely needs to be more user-friendly, right now it is very cumbersome to run and view investigations.
• Authentication mechanism should be a simple username/password, not certificate-based which is difficult to manage.
• Needs better support documentation for the product, it is difficult to find solutions to issues that we run into.

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Cofense is stable and provides easy to use solution to aid the investigation of emails as well as managing simulated phishing campaigns.

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The interface is easy and intuitive.

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We've experienced zero downtime.

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No slowness seen.

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Because support is non-existent whenever you have a functionality issue using the product. Also since the UI is so cumbersome to use we could use as much support as possible. Whenever we ask for support we are told to take the training which costs us more money. I believe that support should be easily accessible and affordable for the client

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Training was through, relevant and easy to follow.

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The other product had a lot of fails on the auto-processing and did not integrate well with our current environment. One issue had to do with the way it sends the submissions to its processing engine—our email gateway configuration would have blocked this traffic. I also did not like the user interface.

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The other forensic tool that is a direct competitor to EnCase and wasn't listed above is the Forensic Toolkit or FTK. I believe that FTK is a better tool overall simply because it is easier to manage and use when it comes to investigations. Unfortunately, I wasn't part of the decision process and EnCase was the tool selected, otherwise, I would have recommended FTK.

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We've experienced zero downtime

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• Due to the integration potential, large amounts of time are saved on a daily basis.
• Incident response time has dropped due to the increased information available by having access to phishing emails directly.
• Staff are able to effectively learn how multiple tools in our environment are used by mastering Triage. This has decreased training time greatly and increased the effectiveness of each associate.

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• One negative impact would be that since the UI is cumbersome to use we would need to spend more money on training which is not always feasible.
• Another negative impact would be that since there is not much support available this slows down investigations due to finding out how to troubleshoot and fix functionality issues.
• One positive impact would be that since it meets minimal requirements when it comes to forensic analysis it gives us visibility on any malicious activity occurring on a user's endpoint.

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