McAfee Security for Email Servers vs. Mimecast Advanced Email Security

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
McAfee Security for Email Servers
Score 5.8 out of 10
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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
McAfee Security for Email ServersMimecast Advanced Email Security
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
McAfee Security for Email ServersMimecast Advanced Email Security
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Features
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Secure Email Gateway
Comparison of Secure Email Gateway features of Product A and Product B
McAfee Security for Email Servers
9.9
Ratings
17% 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 Protection10.00 Ratings6.50 Ratings
Threat Detection10.00 Ratings8.40 Ratings
Sandboxing10.00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
End-to-End Encryption10.00 Ratings8.50 Ratings
Management Tools10.00 Ratings7.70 Ratings
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User Ratings
McAfee Security for Email ServersMimecast Advanced Email Security
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
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8.5
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Likelihood to Renew
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8.7
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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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8.0
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Support Rating
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6.0
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Implementation Rating
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10.0
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Configurability
-
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9.0
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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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8.0
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Vendor pre-sale
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8.0
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User Testimonials
McAfee Security for Email ServersMimecast Advanced Email Security
Likelihood to Recommend
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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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
  • mail filtering
  • threat protection
  • threat response
  • customer support
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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
  • 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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  • 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
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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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
  • 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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  • 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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