Cisco a Great Defense
November 18, 2023
Cisco a Great Defense
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Cisco Secure Email Threat Defense
Cisco Secure Email Threat Defense is used as our primary email gateway. Although, we use O365 Exchange too, all of our corporate email goes through Cisco ETD. It is our primary security gateway for all email traffic. Also, it addresses our junk and malicious email problems/threats. We can manage the amount of unwanted email traffic being delivered to our staff.
- Manages Junk Mail Well-We configured and tested our configuration to filter out the majority of junk mail hitting our inboxes.
- Manages Graymail-We configured and tested our Cisco ETD for graymail filtering and reduced the amount of unwanted advertising and other legitimate emails.
- Creating unique policies that were tailored to block or allow emails from certain senders.
- Stopped malicious email traffic (e.g., malicious attachments and links) with rules for identifying and stripping potentially malicious attachments or links.
- Allows easy configuration for other email security measures such as SPF, DMARC and DKIM.
- Cisco engineers provide an annual free security health check. We took advantage of several security health checks where Cisco certified engineers go over the security setting of our Cisco ETD. We were provided a written report that highlighted strengths and weaknesses of our Cisco ETD setup.
- Monitoring email traffic flow is almost overwhelming with the amount of information you can obtain from the portal. This gives valuable information to IT staff in terms of volume and type of emails the company is receiving.
- The creation of policies and order in which they are applied to incoming/outgoing email can sometimes be a little confusing.
- Testing of rules and/or configuration settings are done live. Would be nice to have a way of testing a rule and/or configuration before going live if possible.
- Searching and extracting emails with ease/simplicity for eDiscovery or security purposes would be an extra bonus.
- Having an easier method for setting up and sending secure emails.
- Time saved by reducing unwanted email from landing in corporate inboxes.
- Reduce corporate risk for threats such as ransomware that can be extremely costly.
- Reduce corporate risk for other threats such as BEC, and other phishing efforts by malicious actors.
- Meet corporate DoD compliance requirements such as NIST SP800-171.
Do you think Cisco Secure Email Threat Defense delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Cisco Secure Email Threat Defense's feature set?
Yes
Did Cisco Secure Email Threat Defense live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of Cisco Secure Email Threat Defense go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Cisco Secure Email Threat Defense again?
Yes