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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

    McAfee Security for Email Servers

    Score5.8 out of 10
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    Pricing
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    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
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    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
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    Cisco
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    27 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    27 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    27 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    23 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    22 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
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    Secure Email Gateway
    Comparison of Secure Email Gateway features of Cisco Secure Email Threat Defense and McAfee Security for Email Servers
    Feature
    Cisco Secure Email Threat Defense
    8.4
    23 Ratings
    1% above category average
    McAfee Security for Email Servers
    9.9
    1 Ratings
    17% above category average
    Anti-malware8.716 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Customizability8.816 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Data Loss Protection8.215 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Threat Detection8.923 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Sandboxing8.115 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    End-to-End Encryption8.816 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Management Tools7.222 Ratings10.01 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Cisco Secure Email Threat DefenseMcAfee Security for Email Servers
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (23 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    5.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Availability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.2
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Cisco Secure Email Threat DefenseMcAfee Security for Email Servers
    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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    McAfee
    In my experience the McAfee Security for Email Servers is well suited for the all the types of organization and their employees who main concern is security for their mailing application. As they need to protect the sensitive data sent and receive through mail and also wants to protect their employee and organizations sensitive data. Also, I don't see any scenario where McAfee Security for Email Server is not suited as every organizations wants to protect their data and employee from the many cyber attacks.
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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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    McAfee
    • mail filtering
    • threat protection
    • threat response
    • customer support
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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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    McAfee
    • Intelligent threat detection
    • Data protection can be improved
    • Pricing can be improved
    • monitoring of spam sending patterns and IP behavior can be improved
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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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    McAfee
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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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    McAfee
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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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    McAfee
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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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    McAfee
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    Implementation Rating
    Cisco
    The implementation went well, no issues or problems to report.
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    McAfee
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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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    McAfee
    The McAfee Security for Email Servers is very robust and compact against many newly generated cyber threats. Also the McAfee Security for Email Servers is very easy to operate and understand. The great thing about the McAfee Security for Email Servers is it's ability to determine the threat pattern and disabled it before it occurs and causes the problem in daily operations is too good.
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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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    McAfee
    • The layer of protection provided by the McAfee Security for Email Servers from cyber attacks is on of the highlight of it.
    • It is the one of the best solution to prevent your organizations employee to fall prey to the attacks like phishing, spamming and many more.
    • The most incredible thing McAfee Security for Email Servers does is that it can be great in dealing with the attacks and detection of cyber threats even before they impact your business.
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    ScreenShots

    Cisco Secure Email Threat Defense Screenshots

    Screenshot of an Impact Report showing efficacy metrics and ROI indicatorsScreenshot of a detailed view of phishing messagesScreenshot of the dashboard