Mimecast Advanced Email Security vs. Paubox Email Suite

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Mimecast Advanced Email Security
Score 8.8 out of 10
N/A
The Mimecast Secure Email Gateway is a messaging security option with anti-spam / anti-malware, data loss prevention, large file send, and other features, from UK company Mimecast.N/A
Paubox Email Suite
Score 10.0 out of 10
N/A
Paubox, headquarted in San Francisco, offers their HIPAA compliant encrypted email service, the Paubox Email Suite, which features Encrypted Email, Inbound Security with ExecProtect, and Email DLP under one subscription.
$29
per month
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Standard
$29
per month up to 10 users
Plus
$59
per month up to 10 users
Premium
$79
per month up to 10 users
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Mimecast Advanced Email SecurityPaubox Email Suite
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Considered Both Products
Mimecast Advanced Email Security

No answer on this topic

Paubox Email Suite
Chose Paubox Email Suite
Virtru required us to train our end users how to use the product, and when using it was necessary. This opened the door for mistakes (emails not being encrypted when they should be). We also needed to know who needed the solution, so it could be provisioned to them, and they …
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Features
Mimecast Advanced Email SecurityPaubox Email Suite
Secure Email Gateway
Comparison of Secure Email Gateway features of Product A and Product B
Mimecast Advanced Email Security
7.9
19 Ratings
7% below category average
Paubox Email Suite
-
Ratings
Anti-malware8.019 Ratings00 Ratings
Customizability7.419 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Loss Protection8.016 Ratings00 Ratings
Threat Detection8.218 Ratings00 Ratings
Sandboxing7.216 Ratings00 Ratings
End-to-End Encryption8.816 Ratings00 Ratings
Management Tools8.019 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Mimecast Advanced Email SecurityPaubox Email Suite
Likelihood to Recommend
8.2
(31 ratings)
10.0
(5 ratings)
Usability
6.4
(6 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.9
(5 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
7.0
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Mimecast Advanced Email SecurityPaubox Email Suite
Likelihood to Recommend
Mimecast
Mimecast is good when you are needing a basic email security platform. It does some basic things really well, but when you start hitting some advanced needs, it lacks. Mimecast does not do a good job with BEC detection. Mimecast does spam filtering alright, but it could be much better. It really doesn't care about gmail or other external addresses. It doesn't check for age of accounts, etc.
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Paubox
It is well-suited where you have access to manage your business's own domain settings. It is well-suited to medical professionals requiring send/receive email encryption of PHI/PII in compliance with HIPAA. It is less well-suited to solo users than group users, due to Paubox's requirement to buy licenses in sets of 3 (requiring you to pay $120x3=$360 yearly for 3 licenses, even if you only need 1 license).
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Pros
Mimecast
  • Email retention - convenience for the end-users to access older messages even if they've deleted them from Outlook
  • SPAM management - allows us to prevent SPAM and Phishing attacks with custom policies that fit our organizational needs
  • URL protection - allows incoming emails with a URL to be scanned and protects our end-users from clicking on malicious URLs
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Paubox
  • Email encryption.
  • Impersonation detection.
  • Email DLP.
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Cons
Mimecast
  • The Admin Management console is absurdly complicated. For every first time we wanted to setup we've had to call their support for assistance. Support is quick and fantastic but it's so difficult to do anything yourself. They seem to have gone out of their way to call features unique things instead of using standard language from other providers so you as an IT professional know what you're looking for to setup.
  • They have lots of KB articles, which their support will point you to. They are written on the most basic level and don't actually provide the help you need. For example, the KB page will tell you the list of options on the page... but not actually tell you what you do, why you might use them, or define their terminology.
  • Their email threat management system has several nice features. One of the features available is that it will rewrite links in emails so that users click the link and it sandboxes the link, testing it on their server space and the user sees it there. This means the actual link in the email gets changed to the address of one of their servers. As a law firm, the EXACT LINKS are important to maintain in our communications and editing actual data from our clients to point to a Mimecast server is an unacceptable practice. I wish they had an alternative that did not edit the link itself on the page.
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Paubox
  • Only drawback was the actual setup in Outlook was a little tricky. I called support and they made it easy.
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Usability
Mimecast
Yes using the same administration console is good, as user that you have assigned limited functionality to the console, they are already familiar with it when you increase their functionality. The new portal does take a bit of getting used to, but i can see that it is an improvement on the old version.
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Paubox
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Support Rating
Mimecast
When calling them you get best in the world customer services but as previously mentioned their online community and capabilities are a bit lacking. They want you to log into their portal to see updates on issues (vs. using a public facing service) and I rarely find the answers to my issues in electronic format. Their online presence is only helpful with the simplest of issues.
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Paubox
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Alternatives Considered
Mimecast
Previously we have only used the default on-premise exchange that comes with SBS. This was very simple and only provided basic filtering of spam and junk mail. We weren't able to filter impersonation mail or emails with malicious code
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Paubox
Paubox is much easier to use than other software we have tried. Once it's installed, we almost forget about it.
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Return on Investment
Mimecast
  • Reasonably priced solution, even for a small business like ours.
  • It's hard to put a figure on our ROI - I would just say we feel like we've gotten our money's worth with the advanced email protection we receive. We have definitely avoided many potentially dangerous emails since we've implemented this solution.
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Paubox
  • Paubox provided a plug-n-play solution, requiring no extra development, so the switchover cost was very low.
  • By integrating with our existing support system, Paubox added no overhead to our customer support.
  • The user experience is great for the vast majority of our customers (those whose email provider supports TTL encryption), so customer satisfaction remains high.
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