Proofpoint Information Protection vs. Trend Micro InterScan Messaging Security

Best suited for organizations that are dealing with high volumes of protected/personsal or financial information that must be kept secure

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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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• User administration is very intuitive and simple.
• Rules are quickly implemented allowing solid email incidence response.
• Enterprise support is spectacular offering to go above and beyond whenever necessary.

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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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• Continue to improve on the receiving side when the message is delivered through the system

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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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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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• Stronger security posture.
• Able to quickly respond to SPAM/Phishing campaigns.
• Business is more adaptive and agile in the security space.

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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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