Smarsh vs. ThreatAdvice Educate

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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The information is timely and allows us to keep our employees apprised of the risks that are out there - before they become an issue for us. The system has allowed us to stay in front of current threats and provide testing of our users to determine that they are indeed not falling for phishing attempts.

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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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• Easy to understand presentation
• Brief enough to not be too time consuming
• thorough coverage of topics

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

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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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The two programs are comparable - we chose ThreatAdvice Educate because of their superior support staff - as well as tie ins to other services that they offer that compliment this. The system keeps our users current and support is easily available for any issues that arise. We have been happy with that choice.

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

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• Prevents users from being phished
• educates our users of other threats
• keep users current on emerging threats

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