We performed a comparison between Clearswift SECURE Email Gateway and Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Email Security solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Microsoft Defender for Office 365 helps people to work remotely. It is a secure solution. We don't need to use our company's computers or get VPN connections to the networks. I can control how they share screens and what they send to the devices. It keeps our organizations confidential and sensitive information safe."
"Does a thorough job of examining email and URLs for malicious content."
"The product is not resource-intensive."
"The deployment capability is a great feature."
"Microsoft Defender has a feature to protect each and every attachment. Even if it's an encrypted attachment, it will check for any potential threats."
"The good part is that you don't have to configure it, which is very convenient."
"Threat Explorer is one of the features that I very much like because it is a real-time report that allows you to identify, analyze, and trace security attacks."
"It also gives me good visibility because, with Defender, I'm using a Microsoft product to defend Microsoft products. The integration was really seamless and I have wide visibility because it picks up almost everything. Literally, I can see almost every activity that happens, from the e-mail to the workstation itself."
"Ability to create your own content-filtering policies with relative ease."
"A stable solution."
"Online Protection's most valuable feature is its admin interface."
"The initial setup was easy. The configuration process is very straightforward."
"We use the solution in all our environments. We use it for remedy tickets and give them updates. It was our main communication point."
"Microsoft Exchange Online Protection has features like DLP (data loss protection), Safe Attachment, and Safe Links."
"We can migrate seamlessly without any disruptions to our operations."
"It is easy to configure, easy to use, easy to add exclusions, easy to track, and easy to add anything else if you want."
"It's definitely scalable."
"In general, my company is happy with Microsoft support...My company hasn't faced any stability issues with the solution."
"The custom alerts have to improve a lot."
"Microsoft security solutions work as expected. They are constantly updating the solutions to make them better. At the same time, the changes can impact a customer's environment, and we need to adjust settings. Sometimes we aren't aware of the changes, and nothing is pushed from the backend automatically."
"It would be better if it were more scalable. It depends on the architecture, but we would like to make it more scalable for both data centers."
"The GUI is sometimes slow to fetch the device report and could be improved."
"We are always looking for others tools to increase automation on tasks. There can be better integration with other solutions, such as PowerPoint and email."
"There needs to be an improvement in integrating the product to work across multiple operating systems, and to have better support for non-Microsoft file types."
"There's room for improvement regarding the time frame for retrieving emails."
"They have moved features from one console to another. Things have been moved around in the interface and it takes me time to find where certain features are."
"Malware needs improvement."
"FTP server and TRUST Manager functionality."
"The reporting needs a little bit of improvement."
"Not all settings can be configured automatically and most still require manual configuration. However, there is an automation tool available that can be used to input all the configurations either as a script or a tool it would be helpful."
"I would like to get reports about vulnerable connections from our clients with information about domains, public IPs, etc. That would be highly useful."
"Having orchestration features added to Microsoft Exchange Online Protection, particularly automation and remediation, would be quite useful."
"Microsoft 365 Defender and EOP policies are stable with the proper license. However, with the basic policy, it's hard to say it's stable due to configuration limitations."
"The product could be more stable. Microsoft products could be more stable because sometimes, even though they are updating some things, we cannot find those updates."
"Some features, like encryption, are not available."
"Performance and speed should continue to be improved."
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Clearswift SECURE Email Gateway is ranked 38th in Email Security while Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP) is ranked 3rd in Email Security with 34 reviews. Clearswift SECURE Email Gateway is rated 8.6, while Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP) is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Clearswift SECURE Email Gateway writes "Facilitates creation of your own content-filtering policies with relative ease". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP) writes "An effective email security solution that provides DLP, Safe Attachment, and Safe Links". Clearswift SECURE Email Gateway is most compared with Mimecast Email Security, Cisco Secure Email, Proofpoint Email Protection and Fortinet FortiMail, whereas Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP) is most compared with Proofpoint Email Protection, Cisco Secure Email, Mimecast Email Security, Fortinet FortiMail and Barracuda Email Security Gateway. See our Clearswift SECURE Email Gateway vs. Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP) report.
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