Smarsh vs. Symantec Email Security.cloud

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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If you don't want to have any spam or malware in your mailbox, Symantec Email Security.cloud is the solution to choose. Also, if you need to have some security features, like DLP, it has them embedded!

We have also been using reporting a lot to see how many emails have been sent, where they delivered, and so on.

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• 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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• Advanced scanning of email and threats beyond simple Antispam services
• Sandbox testing of attachments prior to delivery of email to test against malicious threats such as Ransomware
• Spearphishing prevention to avoid impersonation attacks and potential wire transfer requests

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• Its configuration options were very large and required a good deal of time to learn all of the various settings.

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• Outbound encryption could be improved to allow for advanced connections to other organizations' PKI keyservers.
• The user interface could be a little more friendly, finding advanced features sometimes takes a little more time with hunting and clicking to get to the correct page.

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It's the only product at this time that meets all of our requirements.

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In very tricky cases, it takes time to explain it to the support personnel as they don't get your problem from the first couple of emails.

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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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Barracuda's ESS is the premier product, it boasts outbound email encryption as an included service as well as all of the security features of Symantec Email Security.cloud. Sophos is on the same level as SES.c but is not quite as feature rich.

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• Faster investigative work has led to increased employee efficiency when working on security investigations.

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• Our previous solution was very manual. The ROI has been in less manual intervention from the admins and freeing up their already busy schedules.

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