We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiMail Cloud and Symantec Messaging Gateway based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Secure Email Gateway (SEG) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It has the best feature for processed mail analysis."
"The encryption features are most valuable to us."
"I am impressed with the tool's ability to setup rules and destinations. It also helps to monitor suspicious items."
"The scanners with FortiMail are valuable."
"If there is a problem somewhere Fortinet can act on it immediately. That is very important."
"The implementation was very professional. There are a lot of features I can get through Fortinet and FortiMail, such as security. FortiGuard is the most reliable and professional mitigation center to handle incidents and risk that I have to face."
"Content disarming and analysis are essential features in our email security setup"
"The most valuable feature is the advanced threat protection."
"The most valuable features of Symantec Messaging Gateway are advanced content filtering, malware, and antivirus defense."
"Symantec is a secure product."
"The solution is excellent at blocking spam."
"It is a solid and stable product."
"The cloud-based interface is very user-friendly."
"The feature that I like the best is the fingerprinting concept."
"Symantec Messaging Gateway has a good GUI, and it is very powerful in detecting viruses and spam."
"The setup is pretty simple."
"I would like to see more advanced sandbox features, where you can actually download to a machine where you can test."
"This solution is slow and it should be made faster."
"The tool's UI can be simple since it's cluttered now and you can't understand where you are going. It's not obvious to find out the menus or things that you are looking to find."
"I've not been able to use more than two domains in the back end. I like to view logs for the different domains. If I add any other domain I'm not able to get a proper cPanel for that domain. I am talking about the login factors. I'm not able to see logs for different domains in a different Window. Basically, it's an issue in the login process."
"The downside of this solution is that it is difficult to implement policies on FortiMail."
"This ease of use and user-friendliness is something we believe could be improved in FortiMail."
"Networking should be simplified."
"Its GUI needs improvement."
"This product would benefit from better integration with Symantec Endpoint Protection."
"Messaging Gateway's advanced malware detection could be improved."
"It will provide Excel reports and PDF reports, but it would be great if they supported the concept of Crystal Reports."
"We've had issues in the past where the user finds spam, and Symantec does not recognize it as spam."
"In a later release, it would be nice if the messaging gateway supported the cluster feature."
"What needs to be improved in Symantec Messaging Gateway is its local partner support, as it's not as technical. The support my company gets from the partner isn't good. Vendor support is good, but local partner support isn't. I'm happy with Symantec Messaging Gateway as a solution, but the problem is with its partner support. To me, Symantec Messaging Gateway is a complete solution, but it can be very difficult to search the web for resolutions to issues or problems you experience from it. If this could be improved or resolved in the next release of Symantec Messaging Gateway, then that would be good."
"The product must improve the user dashboards."
"What's lacking when you compare it with Proofpoint and other threat protection solutions is that it does the basic stuff, but we need more advanced threat handling."
Fortinet FortiMail Cloud is ranked 9th in Secure Email Gateway (SEG) with 18 reviews while Symantec Messaging Gateway is ranked 6th in Secure Email Gateway (SEG) with 20 reviews. Fortinet FortiMail Cloud is rated 8.2, while Symantec Messaging Gateway is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiMail Cloud writes "A reliable email security solution with deep integration capabilities and exceptionally strong support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Symantec Messaging Gateway writes "A stable and reasonably priced solution that performs well and has a very good malware database". Fortinet FortiMail Cloud is most compared with Fortinet FortiMail, Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration, Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP) and Proofpoint Email Protection, whereas Symantec Messaging Gateway is most compared with Cisco Secure Email, Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP), Fortinet FortiMail, Microsoft Defender for Office 365 and Trend Micro Email Security. See our Fortinet FortiMail Cloud vs. Symantec Messaging Gateway report.
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