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Webroot Email Security Powered by Zix

Webroot Email Security Powered by Zix
Formerly Zix Email Threat Protection

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What is Webroot Email Security Powered by Zix?

Webroot Email Security Powered by Zix (formerly Zix Email Threat Protection) solution provides a suite of productivity, email security, and compliance tools built on a secure, easy-to-manage platform designed to help users meet these challenges. It combines Microsoft 365 services,…

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4 out of 10
December 19, 2020
Incentivized
We use Zix for web content filtering, as well as for outbound encryption for keeping sensitive information save, and to make sure that …
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What is Webroot Email Security Powered by Zix?

Webroot Email Security Powered by Zix (formerly Zix Email Threat Protection) solution provides a suite of productivity, email security, and compliance tools built on a secure, easy-to-manage platform designed to help users meet these challenges. It combines Microsoft 365 services, advanced email…

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Product Details

What is Webroot Email Security Powered by Zix?

Webroot Email Security Powered by Zix (formerly Zix Email Threat Protection) solution provides a suite of productivity, email security, and compliance tools built on a secure, easy-to-manage platform designed to help users meet these challenges. It combines Microsoft 365 services, advanced email security, email encryption, large secure file sharing, and unified information archiving. The solution boasts users among more than 80,000 organizations, including institutions in healthcare, finance, and government.

Webroot Email Security Powered by Zix Features

  • Supported: Policy-based email protection and data loss prevention
  • Supported: Email encryption
  • Supported: Unlimited cloud-based storage and eDiscovery for over 50+ data sources
  • Supported: Secure transmission and indefinite storage, sharing any file type up to 100 GB
  • Supported: Advanced threat protection with adaptive, machine learning capabilities and multi-layer filtering
  • Supported: Microsoft 365 access backed by 24/7/365 live support

Webroot Email Security Powered by Zix Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsWindows, Linux, Mac
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android, Mobile Web
Supported Languages16 Languages Supported

Frequently Asked Questions

Webroot Email Security Powered by Zix (formerly Zix Email Threat Protection) solution provides a suite of productivity, email security, and compliance tools built on a secure, easy-to-manage platform designed to help users meet these challenges. It combines Microsoft 365 services, advanced email security, email encryption, large secure file sharing, and unified information archiving. The solution boasts users among more than 80,000 organizations, including institutions in healthcare, finance, and government.

Proofpoint Information Protection, Barracuda Email Security Gateway, and Virtru are common alternatives for Webroot Email Security Powered by Zix.

Reviewers rate Usability highest, with a score of 7.5.

The most common users of Webroot Email Security Powered by Zix are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User
Incentivized
Zix is being used by my company to address the need for secure, encrypted emails, both with our partners who are also in the Zix network, and externally with third parties and clients who are outside of the Zix network. Zix also provides us with a comprehensive spam filtering package that filters emails, and tests any links clicked from within an email by our users.
  • Email Encryption - Their protocols are secure, and the process to encrypt is completely customizable with different methods available to provide ease of use for our employees at different levels of computer knowledge.
  • Spam Filtering - Thus far their spam filtering has been top notch and the configuration options provided allow for a very detailed level of granularity depending on user and department.
  • Corporate branding - With any encrypted emails sent by our organization, they are branded prominently for us with our logos and name which aids significantly in maintaining a professional appearance.
  • The only area I've found that needs work is in creating a custom filter rule. They have the option available but it didn't work as well as it should without contacting support. They had to bounce it to a higher level of support so it could be addressed on the development end. However it was resolved quickly and they did whatever they had to do to make it work as it should.
  • There was some issue with communication between their sales department and the deployment team who assisted us, however they were able to get the issues resolved quickly so it was a minimal issue.
Very well suited and painless with their email encryption solution for small businesses and medium sized organizations like the one I work for. I can't imagine there would be any issues with even larger organizations either. Also their spam filtering works great for the same small/medium organizations. I'm not sure how well it would translate to larger organizations.
  • It keeps our client data secure in transit, aiding us in compliance to HIPPA and other required standards, which also lends to peace of mind.
  • It greatly minimizes the time spent combing through email to sort and deal with junk/spam.
  • It minimizes the risk of employees inadvertently clicking infected links from within emails, opening our network to larger threats. This alone saves time and money as it decreases the time spent by our IT department in dealing with information security issues and system recovery that we might otherwise face.
Zix has top-notch customizability with the way emails can be encrypted. It can be configured to add a button to Outlook, to encrypted with a subject keyword, to encrypt automatically based on types of information in an email, and it works with Outlook, and with the Office365 Outlook Web Application. The interfaces, both with encryption and spam filtering are well designed and incredibly intuitive for the admin team to use also.
Several times spammers change up their methods to get through common spam filters. All we've had to do was forward the message to Zix support and within hours they had new filters developed and in place to stop them. Another time I needed to develop a custom filter to allow a certain type of message through and they worked with me to help me develop a targeted filter that kept me from having to just whitelist someone's email address. They replied to my initial email in minutes and stuck with me until I was sure it was working as needed.
Security, compliance, cost, and ease of use.
400
All across the board use it for encryption and depend on it to filter spam.
  • HIPPA complaint email encryption
  • Spam filtering
  • Link checking
  • The link checking feature had been incredibly useful. I didn't realize initially how much of a workout we'd put that through.
  • Not sure. We use it pretty fully for what it does right now.
It did delivers exactly what is needed, what was promised, is cost effective, and is incredibly easy to use and manage.
3
Basic computer knowledge is all that is required, but knowledge of filter rules and all that help.
Yes
We initial needed it for email encryption and had no prior software for that but it did replace Xeams as a spam filter. We needed to replace it because the free version was no longer supported and the paid version was out of our price range for what it provided. Zix is also much simpler to manage.
I can't imagine it being any easier than it was with Zix. Their reputation is solid and was touted well by other organizations that used them.
Great, knowledgeable, fast, friendly, definitely an on the ball team.
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Robert Paul | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User
Incentivized
We currently use Zix to ensure that sensitive data is encrypted when sent via email. Our entire organization uses it, as all e-mail gets relayed through the system to check for PII or other data. Given that we do a lot of work with financial and medical information, it is extremely important for us to have a solution that guarantees privacy protection.
  • Encrypts and secures e-mail: Zix transports emails through its own secure, off-network system so attackers have little chance at getting the info to begin with, let alone decrypting it.
  • Rules: Zix lets you set up rules to scan for certain topics or data, like socials or medical data, and then respond accordingly. This means not all e-mail has to go out secure, only the stuff that really needs to be.
  • Accessibility: Recipients who do not have Zix get a link to log on to a portal where they can read their secure messages, but if they have Zix on their own network, the e-mails come through directly to their inbox with a small header that says it was sent securely.
  • Configuration: The UI to configure Zix is rather dated and non-intuitive at times. Some of the configuration options aren't well documented.
  • Updates: I have yet to be able to update Zix without calling support. It is a complicated process. Updating the rules files is easy enough, I just wish the rest of the software was as simple.
  • Recipient UI: While it's nice to have a portal for recipients without Zix to log in to, it looks very dated, much like the other UIs. We've had vendors ask us if it was legitimate because of how basic it is.
Zix is great for anyone who has to send and receive sensitive data like financial or medical records and guarantee their security. If your organization needs to follow regulations like SOX, HIPAA, or something similar, and you have an IT team or managed service provider that can maintain it, Zix is a great solution. I also think it's best suited to an on-premises e-mail solution because of how it integrates with mail flow for scanning, although I believe they have a version for Office 365. If instead, your organization only occasionally sends things secured or does not have the IT support staff to maintain it, it might be worth looking for a different solution. For the most part, once it's installed, it doesn't require much hands-on, but there are enough occasions that without expertise it could remain daunting.
  • We have less concern about data leaks through e-mail with Zix, because we know it works. And it doesn't require any end user interaction with the rules (although it does also allow for manual encryption with keywords or e-mail flags).
  • The system is also extremely stable, and outside of the upgrade tasks we have to do occasionally, there's not much manpower overhead once it's up and running.
  • Recipients do sometimes get confused if they're expecting an e-mail from us, but get a link to log into the Zix portal instead.
From an end-user, sender perspective, there's literally nothing you have to do to use Zix. Just send your e-mail like you always would. If it has sensitive data, Zix will send it through its secure network encrypted. If you do need to send something without information that would trigger a rule, you can set up a subject keyword or flag an e-mail as "sensitive", and it'll encrypt that, too. For recipients, if they do not have Zix, it can be a little awkward, but it's still very functional. They log into a portal, read their message/documents, and can use the portal to reply as well, keeping the information secure in both directions.
ShareFile also sends e-mails outside the regular network path and has a portal that can be configured. However, it requires more setup and manual interaction, and as far as I know, does not encrypt/secure the data at rest the same way Zix does. Zix is almost invisible to end users, and with the rules, there's very high confidence that the data is secure, which I couldn't say was as certain with ShareFile.
Yes
We use Zix as our outgoing mail gateway, and we deal with sensitive information that often needs to be encrypted. We cannot afford downtime (not that there ever is much), so we make sure to have support available at any moment. We think of it like an insurance policy, essentially.
Zix is very good about response times and information. They even proactively e-mail us about known issues. I have never had an issue go unresolved, and the support team tends to answer quickly unless it's a strange, complicated request. The only time that happened was doing a search through logs, and that was entirely on me and my unfamiliarity with their flavor of Linux.
No
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