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    Cisco Secure Email Threat Defense

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/ACisco Secure Email Threat Defense provides protection against email threats that compromise an organization’s brand and operations. Its advanced threat detection capabilities uncover known, emerging and targeted threats. And it expands the scope of organizations' defenses to detect dangerous threats and rapidly search for and remediate threats across security controls. Secure Email Threat Defense's Artificial Intelligence and machine…N/A
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    Cisco's dashboard is complete and easier to navigate.
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    We use CES to compliment these systems and provide a robust security architecture to protect against many attack vectors.
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    Yes, we evaluated both FortiMail and Cisco Secure Email Threat Defense. We choose Cisco Secure Email Threat Defense due to better price offering from Cisco as well as it's advanced features. Cisco secure email threat defense also offers decent product support. It provides you …
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    Integration and lifecycle from CES to ETD.
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    Barracuda does not have all the features Cisco Secure Email Threat Defense does. Cisco Secure Email Threat Defense is integrated to Cisco Talos, the online Threat vigilance software that inspects world wide threats for both networking and email security. It gets updates real …
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    We evaluated FortiMail with Cisco Secure Email Threat Defense but we choose Cisco Secure Email Threat Defense only because we found it is more secured and reliable solution than FortiMail. It is easy to deploy and integrate. Secondly, Cisco is well known name in cyber …
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    Based on the interface and demo provided, the tool makes the function of Secops easier to navigate and respond to incidents.
    It provides greater visibility of email to understand what the next actions and provides the mechanism to automate the response.
    it meets our business …
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    The security teams also evaluated similar offerings but went with Cisco Secure Email since this comes from a big name and they wanted to ensure complete compliance and protection assurance. The primary reasons for selecting Cisco Secure Email were integration with office 365, …
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    The services offered by ForeFront were basic, it's not quite comparable to Cisco Secure Email. The functions offered by Cisco are outstanding.
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    From my point of view, Darktrace has excessive blocking which is usually very annoying, there are times when the emails I receive from clients to formalize a sale take it as spam and I even just open it. On the other hand, Cisco Secure Email hits the spot with the information …
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    Cisco Secure Email and FortiMail are both solutions that provide secure email services. Both Cisco Secure Email and FortiMail help protect users from security risks such as spam, phishing, and viruses to name a few. The implementation for both Cisco Secure Email and FortiMail
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    While Cisco Secure Email is not the cheapest, it offers some leading security features making it competitive and a must-have.
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    One reason why Cisco Secure Email is the best is that it is not only affordable but also offers some of the best email protection features.
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    I find Cisco Secure Email cost effective, and it is also rich in features.
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    Cisco Secure Email is cost-effective and offers better features more when it comes to encryption.
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    Cisco Secure Email gives granular control over configuring the rules and policies for organization users. Additionally, it's available with on-premise support, which is where other solutions lack. It gives complete protection for emails with next-generation malware protection, …
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    We were using Mimecast Secure Email Gateway before Cisco Secure Email and faced many issues. After we switched to Cisco, we are not facing any downtime or any other type of issue. Also, Cisco Secure Email provides us with many features like virus protection, encryption, spam …
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    Cisco Email Security provides the first layer of defense against cyber threats and protects sensitive outbound data. It guards against spam, fraudulent senders, infected files whenever they become malicious and blocks risky URLs to prevent attacks. It also prevents data loss …
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    Cisco SETD, with a broad deployment and full integration with Microsoft 365 gives us a strong protection, especially where we can leverage its strengths: Microsoft‑365 integration, mailbox remediation, policy enforcement, and your visibility across Cisco tools.
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    Features
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    Cisco Secure Email Threat Defense
    8.4
    23 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Anti-malware8.716 Ratings
    Customizability8.816 Ratings
    Data Loss Protection8.215 Ratings
    Threat Detection8.923 Ratings
    Sandboxing8.115 Ratings
    End-to-End Encryption8.816 Ratings
    Management Tools7.222 Ratings
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    Barracuda Email Protection
    Score10 out of 10
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    Avanan
    Score9.4 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Avanan
    Score9.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Cisco Secure Email Threat Defense
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (23 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    5.0
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (4 ratings)
    Availability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.2
    (5 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Cisco Secure Email Threat Defense
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Cisco
    I will certainly recommend Cisco Secure Email to my friends/colleagues, one look at the dashboard/statistics will actually convince any IT professional to use this product. We noticed an outstanding improvement in Email quality, most of the SPAM emails are caught, and our users have never been happier!
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    Pros
    Cisco
    • 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.
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    Cons
    Cisco
    • The web interface is definitely dated
    • The software updates to the user interface and the documentation online are not congruent. Some docs are old and information is lacking to make changes
    • The email filtering and email search features are really dated. And other tools are more user friendly
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Cisco
    There is a 50/50 chance that we will renew. We are in the middle of moving from on-prem to the cloud so we may not need it once we are fully migrated.
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    Usability
    Cisco
    Good interface, easy to use and set up. If there were any issues, there is very good documentation and videos that one can follow for additional setup and best practices. As typical with most Cisco solutions, there are more features than needed for our purposes but good to know they are there in case of future needs
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    Reliability and Availability
    Cisco
    Cisco Secure Email Threat Defense's availability is great and reliable when you need it most. We haven't had any noticeable outages or issues.
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    Support Rating
    Cisco
    Strong support with fast response. TAC can suggest best mail policy regarding customer challenges Some cases they need to do patch directly to appliance. TAC does not need to remote the appliance through our laptop. They use secure connection to appliance, check the logs and response through the problems
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    Implementation Rating
    Cisco
    The implementation went well, no issues or problems to report.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Cisco
    Cisco SETD, with a broad deployment and full integration with Microsoft 365 gives us a strong protection, especially where we can leverage its strengths: Microsoft‑365 integration, mailbox remediation, policy enforcement, and your visibility across Cisco tools.


    Proofpoint is better around user awareness (warning tags etc.), and continuity/archiving. Considering that we have a full Cisco stack, choosing Proofpoint would come with higher cost, learning curve, possible redundancy of features, licensing complexity.
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    Return on Investment
    Cisco
    • Our email security has increased.
    • Users are now more confident about their email security.
    • Management of threat detection and prevention has become easier.
    • Finer controls on spam filtering gives customization capability.
    • GDPR compliance ensures peace of mind from a regulation point of view.
    • The quarantine feature has ensured that we do not lose important emails while they are being analyzed.
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    Screenshot of an Impact Report showing efficacy metrics and ROI indicatorsScreenshot of a detailed view of phishing messagesScreenshot of the dashboard