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Avast Email Security

Score7.9 out of 10

24 Reviews and Ratings

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What is Avast Email Security?

Avast Email Security is a service available and delivered through the company's CloudCare security management console. Three features of Avast Email Security service allow employees and customers to manage their email more safely: Anti-spam to keep email boxes free of unwanted email, encrypted emails ensure that incoming and outgoing email are securely delivered , and email archiving allows users to manage the size and storage for inboxes.

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Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features Avast Email Security has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
Based on 24 ratings of Avast Email Security's features
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Top Performing Features

  • Data Loss Protection

    A set of tools and processes used to ensure that sensitive data is not lost, misused, or accessed by unauthorized users.

    Category average: 7.7

  • Anti-malware

    Anti-malware is a type of software program designed to prevent, detect and remove malicious software

    Category average: 8.8

  • Customizability

    Customizing email security gateways can improve detection capabilities

    Category average: 7.8

Areas for Improvement

  • Sandboxing

    Sandboxing is a software management strategy that isolates applications from critical system resources and other programs providing an extra layer of security

    Category average: 7.5

  • End-to-End Encryption

    In end-to-end encryption the data is encrypted on the sender's system or device and only the recipient is able to decrypt it

    Category average: 8.2

  • Management Tools

    Management tools include administrator dashboards, reports, etc.

    Category average: 8.4

Reviews

What users are saying about Avast Email Security.
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Best Security For Emails

Incentivized
Verified User
Account Manager in Finance and Accounting (11-50 employees employees)

Pros

  • Avast Email Security is so easy to use and anyone can decrypt and encrypt emails
  • The software offers better protection to emails
  • The software is relatively affordable
  • With Avast Email Security, it is easy to manage inbox sizes of individual emails

Cons

  • I have not experienced any issues that I can list here.

Most Important Features

  • The quick encrypt and decrypt feature makes it easy to protect data when sending emails
  • The ability to protect our emails from spamming and malware is a plus
  • Also, the User Interface is also important because anyone can easily use the software.

Return on Investment

  • By keeping spamming and other online threats away, we do not have to worry about corrupt emails or hacking instances.
  • With Avast Email Security, we do not have to worry about data loss
  • Avast Email Security makes it easy to encrypt and decrypt emails thereby ensuring data privacy

Alternatives Considered

DataMotion Secure Email

Other Software Used

Alchemer, formerly SurveyGizmo, Google Backup and Sync, OpenText Content Suite