Kaspersky Security for Mail Server vs. Trend Micro InterScan Messaging Security

This service may be useful for some businesses, so it's important to try it before deciding. It offers multiple layers of protection for both assisted and unassisted attacks, sandboxing (for obfuscated attacks), and a decent anti-phishing tool. It can be tricky to set up, but not the end of the world. In our case, unfortunately, the false positives were just unbearable.

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Trend Micro InterScan Messaging Security is well suited for bigger companies with huge numbers of incoming and outgoing emails. It is really easy to configure, and once setup, there is not much to be done. So this requires minimal administration efforts. However, as the reporting is weak, if this is essential for a company, then it would be better to look into other alternatives.

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• Neural network based anti-phishing and anti-spam for multilayered security.
• Scalable resources according to business growth.
• Flexible to use in almost all devices.

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• Deep Discovery analyzer provides sandboxing and deep threat analyses
• DLP capabilities are also good. It has a number of pre defined DLP templates
• Works very well against targeted attacks
• Lowers impact at the email gateway as it filters away the email in the cloud

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• False positives.
• Integration can be fiddly.

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• Higher false positive rate for Spam detection.
• Logging can be difficult to search.

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Easy to use, easy to pull data, easy to see what is going on in our specific environment.

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Microsoft Exchange Online Protection is very easy to set up and has way fewer false positives than Kaspersky Security for Mail Server. It has virtually the same features as the Kaspersky alternative and it is extremely easy to set up. It feels like Microsoft Exchange Online Protection gives slightly more transparency about its conclusions, which allows users to make an informed decision about certain messages.

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Trend Micro InterScan Messaging Security is much cheaper than Kasprsky Security for Email Server. Trend Micro InterScan Messaging Security is easier to install and the maintenance effort required is much less than this required by Kasprsky Security for Email Server. However Kasprsky Security for Email Server does have a better GUI and does indeed offer a better protection degree. However, taking into account that both were tested behind a firewall, most of the threats had already been eliminated there...

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• Balance our manpower distribution in between security team and management team.
• Help to create secure work environment for all staff.
• Reduce our cost by proper utilization of security budget.

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• We have been able to see threats more easily now than before and have become more aware towards them
• The IT infra footprint has become more secure and controlled

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