Agari Phishing Defense vs. Mimecast Advanced Email Security

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Agari Phishing Defense
Score 7.5 out of 10
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Agari Phishing Defense is an email security solution designed to eliminate 99.9% of all advanced email attacks that bypass existing defenses. Agari was acquired by HelpSystems in May 2021, and is now a HelpSystems brand.N/A
Mimecast Advanced Email Security
Score 8.6 out of 10
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The Mimecast Secure Email Gateway is a messaging security option with anti-spam / anti-malware, data loss prevention, large file send, and other features, from UK company Mimecast.N/A
Pricing
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Offerings
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Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Features
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Secure Email Gateway
Comparison of Secure Email Gateway features of Product A and Product B
Agari Phishing Defense
9.6
Ratings
14% above category average
Mimecast Advanced Email Security
8.0
Ratings
4% below category average
Anti-malware10.00 Ratings8.50 Ratings
Customizability9.00 Ratings8.50 Ratings
Data Loss Protection9.00 Ratings6.50 Ratings
Threat Detection10.00 Ratings8.40 Ratings
Sandboxing10.00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
End-to-End Encryption9.00 Ratings8.60 Ratings
Management Tools10.00 Ratings7.70 Ratings
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User Ratings
Agari Phishing DefenseMimecast Advanced Email Security
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
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Likelihood to Renew
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Usability
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8.2
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Availability
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8.0
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Performance
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Support Rating
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Implementation Rating
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Configurability
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Ease of integration
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8.8
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Product Scalability
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9.0
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Vendor post-sale
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User Testimonials
Agari Phishing DefenseMimecast Advanced Email Security
Likelihood to Recommend
I've experienced clicking some of the phishing and spam emails, but Agari Phishing Defense identified those actions I've done and sent me the details of each and every part of the email where the attack is. Very often Agari Phishing Defense misses a few emails to report the malicious emails. But, it also has a solution to report the email and responds immediately with the answer.
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Mimecast's advanced email security remains the number one security tool available for any organization. You will be ahead of the game before anything gets in and users start clicking. Users are often the ones who can disclose sensitive data and compromise the organization and its brand.
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Pros
  • It finds the attacks well and moves them to Quarantine folder.
  • Finds the phishing and spam emails and moves.
  • If Agari Phishing Defense misses to find an email, and we have doubt opening it. We can mark the email. Agari Phishing Defense instantly does analysis and sends the report whether it's safe or not.
  • It has best simulation mechanism to teach end-users about the attacks.
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  • Simplicity: Once set up, Mimecast Advanced Email Security is easy to use, intuitive, and simple. This reduces onboarding time with new employees.
  • Robust Audit Trail: Being able to see what happened with specific emails, why things happened, and who was responsible for them helps to reduce troubleshooting time as well as improving overall email observability.
  • Clean Interface: Mimecast Advanced Email Security is a Swiss-Army-Knife of email security. There are many different configurations and complex rules that can be implemented. To make this manageable Mimecast Advanced Email Security has implemented a simple and clean UI. Being able to favorite commonly used features makes a huge difference in usability.
  • Simple SSO Integration: This seems like a no-brainer, but its odd to see how many SaaS products either don't support SSO, or make it so complicated and convoluted that setup and maintenance becomes a fully time job.
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Cons
  • A vital business tool, but at a somewhat high cost for small businesses.
  • Some new functions are not quite responsive, so adding them after they have been completed would be ideal.
  • Simplifying your registration would be a great help in saving time.
  • Having adequate knowledge to handle the software makes it easier to use it and allows it to function properly.
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  • I would like to see some additional improvement around the attachment protection, specifically what may be getting caught and what types of files are attempting to be delivered via email by impersonators.
  • The Targeted Threat Protection is a great product, and I wish there was a dashboard for this service where we could easily see the types of emails and/or links that have been caught as part of the protection module that could be shared with executives.
  • Finally, I feel that the phishing protection is great and honestly don't believe there should be much improvement needed there.
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Likelihood to Renew
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I gave a 9/10 rating because with the 1 limited resources needs a bit of experience to work on the dashboard, and then Strong protection policies, reliable email continuity and proactive threat intelligence.
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Usability
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As an admin it's fine, the console has some slightly annoying quirks (having to to go all the way back to the top when making changes rather than being able to just go up one level for example) and the object orientated nature of it takes some getting your head around how it thinks. But generally speaking it's decent enough once you've used it for a couple of hours
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Reliability and Availability
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Overall, it's very good, but I do remember a few times in the past year we have seen some availability issues.
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Performance
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Pages need to consistently load quickly. Sometimes good, sometimes not.
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Support Rating
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When calling them you get best in the world customer services but as previously mentioned their online community and capabilities are a bit lacking. They want you to log into their portal to see updates on issues (vs. using a public facing service) and I rarely find the answers to my issues in electronic format. Their online presence is only helpful with the simplest of issues.
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In-Person Training
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We did not have in-person training. All was done through meetings and on phone.
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Online Training
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Training was good from Mimecast as well as the Mimecast knowledgebase.
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Implementation Rating
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Easy to set up and configure, but did have Mimecast assistance.
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Alternatives Considered
Trustifi-Email Security is an excellent solution to keep data, customers, and employees protected against email threats, in addition to having great ease of use and cost savings for being cloud-based. Comparatively, Agari Phishing Defense not only offers us cloud-based software with artificial intelligence but also helps us quickly stop any threat that could harm both our employees and our brand. It performs continuous inbox scans to find any abnormal behavior and thus prevent spread throughout the business environment. This is why we chose Agari Phishing Defense.
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Mimecast Advanced Email Security is FAR superior. Sophos practically gave us the email for free and we still didn't want it. Sophos also does not do both Gateway and API properly. Mimecast Advanced Email Security's AI-Powered net is next level.
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Scalability
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The solution continues to grow and add features.
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Return on Investment
  • It is a tool that has been vital to our company since it does not allow threats to reach our email inbox, because it carries out a scan of each email.
  • Its integration with different email gateways allows us to keep our environments protected.
  • It enables us to keep our employees and our brand protected from phishing and BEC threats.
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  • We've had to beef up training and other email security tools because we get too many spam and phishing emails still with Mimecast Advanced Email Security in place. This is costing us at least an extra 15% annually in staff time and tooling than it should.
  • We have been pleased with data loss prevention with Mimecast Advanced Email Security, it does identify PII and auto-encrypts emails with PII effectively.
  • It does have the ability to integrate with other security tools via API, which is beneficial.
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