McAfee Email Gateway (Discontinued) vs. Trend Micro InterScan Messaging Security

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
McAfee Email Gateway (Discontinued)
Score 10.0 out of 10
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McAfee Email Gateway was a secure email gateway featuring encryption and anti-spam / phishing protection that was EOL in late 2015.N/A
Trend Micro InterScan Messaging Security
Score 8.5 out of 10
N/A
Trend Micro offers the InterScan Messaging Security secure email gateway with anti-spam, advanced threat & data loss prevention, and encryption capability.N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
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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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Community Pulse
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Top Pros
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Features
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Secure Email Gateway
Comparison of Secure Email Gateway features of Product A and Product B
McAfee Email Gateway (Discontinued)
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Ratings
Trend Micro InterScan Messaging Security
7.5
3 Ratings
12% below category average
Anti-malware00 Ratings8.03 Ratings
Customizability00 Ratings7.53 Ratings
Data Loss Protection00 Ratings6.93 Ratings
Threat Detection00 Ratings7.93 Ratings
Sandboxing00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
End-to-End Encryption00 Ratings7.02 Ratings
Management Tools00 Ratings6.52 Ratings
Best Alternatives
McAfee Email Gateway (Discontinued)Trend Micro InterScan Messaging Security
Small Businesses
Barracuda Essentials
Barracuda Essentials
Score 9.2 out of 10
Barracuda Essentials
Barracuda Essentials
Score 9.2 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Barracuda Essentials
Barracuda Essentials
Score 9.2 out of 10
Barracuda Essentials
Barracuda Essentials
Score 9.2 out of 10
Enterprises
Cisco Cloud Email Security
Cisco Cloud Email Security
Score 7.8 out of 10
Cisco Cloud Email Security
Cisco Cloud Email Security
Score 7.8 out of 10
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
6.0
(1 ratings)
8.0
(4 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
McAfee Email Gateway (Discontinued)Trend Micro InterScan Messaging Security
Likelihood to Recommend
Discontinued Products
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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Trend Micro
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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Pros
Discontinued Products
  • 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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Trend Micro
  • 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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Cons
Discontinued Products
  • 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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Trend Micro
  • Higher false positive rate for Spam detection.
  • Logging can be difficult to search.
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Support Rating
Discontinued Products
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Trend Micro
Easy to use, easy to pull data, easy to see what is going on in our specific environment.
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Alternatives Considered
Discontinued Products
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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Trend Micro
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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Return on Investment
Discontinued Products
  • 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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Trend Micro
  • 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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