Cisco Cloud Email Security vs. SonicWall Email Security Appliances

We have been using this software at our company for approximately two years now. We have had excellent results from it thus far. This tool is very robust and provides a layered approach towards email security. We have it installed for our employees mobile devices as well.

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The SonicWALL line of products are priced pretty well and they are pretty powerful, so I think it would work very well for small and medium sized organizations. Larger organizations may want something with more ports or a solution that matches the rest of their network (for example Cisco ASA), so that the complexity of having different product lines is removed. But for the most part we are very happy with the Dell SonicWALL line for our multiple hospital network.

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• Best in class spam filtering using Talos Intelligence.
• Highly customisable with multiple layers and filters to customise your E-mail flow.
• Reliable and able to keep up with high volumes of mail and spam.

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• Simple GUI interface where everything is in one location and easy to use.
• Simple setup, but allows you to be flexible with different security zones.
• Robust, stays up and running.

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• The graphical interface.
• Support to deploy.

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• Manufacturer is focused on several solutions (so likely not enough focus in one area)
• Not the most cost effective solution

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Cisco TAC support is very good since they have engineers available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Important to mention that you must have the support of the solution enabled to be able to receive a response from TAC and that we can be taken care of. The only drawback may be that they will not be able to see settings of the email provider you use.

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I would select Cisco for the Cloud Email Security solution because it has high availability. The integrations you have with solutions in the email cloud are very easy to integrate. Cisco Cloud Email Security is among the leaders in email protection solutions. It is important to take into account all the functionality that can be configured and in this way, we will be protected

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Barracuda owns this space as far as I am concerned. SonicWall has very robust firewalls, but their other offerings are a little behind times compared to Barracuda. SonicWall also seems to be a lot more expensive than other alternatives. Barracuda offers a 4-year hardware refresh cycle whereas SonicWall does not.

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• Cisco was priced better than some of the other best of breed providers.
• It has significantly reduced our spam and malicious content to our users compared to our previous deprecated on-prem email gateway.
• The ease of adding a new site.

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• Blocks a majority of spam and malicious emails
• Sandboxing options limited
• Not the best solution out there that we have seen

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