Cisco Secure Email Threat Defense

Score8.8 out of 10

53 Reviews and Ratings

What is Cisco Secure Email Threat Defense?

Cisco 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.

Categories & Use Cases

Secure Email Gateway

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Threat Detection
Threat protection defend against sophisticated malware or hacking-based attacks targeting sensitive data.
Category average: 8.7
Customizability
Customizing email security gateways can improve detection capabilities
Category average: 7.7
End-to-End Encryption
In end-to-end encryption the data is encrypted on the sender's system or device and only the recipient is able to decrypt it
Category average: 8.4

Data Loss Protection
A set of tools and processes used to ensure that sensitive data is not lost, misused, or accessed by unauthorized users.
Category average: 7.5
Sandboxing
Sandboxing is a software management strategy that isolates applications from critical system resources and other programs providing an extra layer of security
Category average: 7.2
Management Tools
Management tools include administrator dashboards, reports, etc.
Category average: 8.4

Most Frequent Users

Top 2 industries using Cisco Secure Email Threat Defense.

Based on HG Insights installation data

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#1 most frequent

Finance and Insurance

50.0%

1 installation of 2

#2 most frequent

Manufacturing

50.0%

1 installation of 2

Pros

Comprehensive email threat protection against phishing, malware, and ransomware
Strong spam filtering and real-time threat detection
Ability to quarantine suspicious emails before widespread impact

Cons

Need for improved documentation and simplification in policy creation
Challenges with the antispam engine and control over upgrades
Desire for stronger forensic capabilities

João Paulo View profile

Chief Information Security Officer in Information Technology at Threatvector (11-50 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In our organization, we selected Cisco Secure Email Threat Defense as a foundational component of our email security strategy. Our decision was driven by the escalating volume and sophistication of email-borne threats, which had become a primary concern—particularly with the shift toward a hybrid workforce model, addressing our business challenges.

Pros

Email encryption and DLP
Mailbox remediation
Effective threat prevention

Cons

Reporting and analytics
self-service portal and quarantine notifications user-friendly
False positives

Return on Investment

Email threat correlation w/ Cisco stack
Securing outbound PII emails
Sandboxing + auto-removal effective

Alternatives Considered

Proofpoint Email Protection

Other Software Used

Cisco AnyConnect, Cisco Umbrella, Tenable Vulnerability Management

Jose Juan Xicara

Security Specialist in Customer Service at Ingram Micro (501-1000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Cisco Secure Email Threat Defense it with O365 to help us identify threats. It helps use identify who within our organization is being attacked, what type of attacks, and the context of the attack. Being able to search emails and see if its inbound, outbound, forwarded helps us in case we need to contain.

Pros

Dash Board
Great Interface
Forensic

Cons

Sharing Dashboard Data with Security Awareness Training tool in order to automatically generate training based on the attack type user is experiencing.
More Forensic information on threat actors.

Return on Investment

Less Email Threats
More Threat Insight of my users

Alternatives Considered

Proofpoint Targeted Attack Protection (TAP)

Other Software Used

Cisco XDR

Stephen Epley View profile

Information Technology Manager in Information Technology at City of Bowling Green (501-1000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Provides a first line of defense in our email environment targeting malware and bad actors.

Pros

Filtering spam
Filtering malware links
Header inspection

Cons

Document inspection

Return on Investment

The management interface could be a little more intuitive

Alternatives Considered

Cisco Secure Endpoint and Cisco Duo

Other Software Used

Cisco Secure Endpoint, Cisco Duo, Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center

Dipak Kapure

IT executive in Information Technology at Origin Logistics pvt Ltd (11-50 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Cisco Secure Email Threat Defense to safeguard our emails. It provides us comprehensive protection against email-based threats. Its advanced threat intelligence helped us to defend our users from phishing, business email compromise, malware and ransomware attacks. It also assisted us in quickly identifying new threats and putting suspected threats in quarantine to stop their spread.

Pros

It helps you to safeguard your emails from phishing, malware and ransomware attacks.
It offers you strong spam filtering, real-time threat detection and customizable security policies.
It enables you to quickly identify new threats and place suspected threat under quarantine to stop them spreading.

Cons

Need more documentation on policy creation.
Policy creation should be more easier.
Occasionally blocks regular emails.

Return on Investment

It helped us to safeguard our emails from phishing and ransomware attacks.
We able to quickly identify new threats and quarantine it.
It helped us to protect organization data from external threats.

Alternatives Considered

FortiMail

Other Software Used

AnyDesk, TeamViewer

Simon Pytlik

Principal Consultant in Information Technology at Allianz Technology (5001-10,000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We will use it especially in my case for Data Loss prevention

Pros

Modern Usability (Simplification)
Includes all necessary Requirements of the Organization
Includes the adaption for Identification of Users

Cons

Reporting shaped for the organization

Return on Investment

Be able to secure the Mail Gateway and have features included in one Product

Alternatives Considered

Splunk Application Performance Monitoring (APM)

Mimecast Advanced Email Security

Proofpoint Email Protection

Microsoft Defender for Office 365

Cisco Secure Email Threat Defense

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