Abnormal Security focuses on advanced, targeted email attacks like phishing, social engineering, and Business Email Compromise (BEC). Fortinet FortiMail Cloud employs a multi-layered approach that includes threat intelligence, content filtering, and sandboxing to detect a broader range of threats like malware, and zero-day attacks. Overall, both offer strong email security solutions with efficient spam filtering, and reliable protection against threats. Fortinet FortiMail Cloud users appreciate its transparent pricing and cost-effective features, while Abnormal Security users highlight its advanced threat detection technology and excellent customer service.
The summary above is based on 21 interviews we conducted recently with Fortinet FortiMail Cloud and Abnormal Security users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our report.
"What I like about Abnormal Security is that it notifies me if any of my partners or suppliers are experiencing a security breach by analyzing their database and identifying potential cyber threats."
"Initial auto-remediation allows us to auto-remediate before the email lands in the end user's inbox for a split second."
"I have never encountered any stability issues with Abnormal."
"One of the things that I love about them is that the setup and installation are super easy. All you do is give them access to your Microsoft 365 tenant, and through APIs, they are able to do their work. They are doing all this through APIs, so you do not have to install the software and take a month to get it all set up to even see the value of the solution. You could be up and running in less than an hour."
"Their ability to take things out of the mailbox and catch things much faster than users is excellent."
"The features that appeal to me most are the combination of auto-remediation and Detection 360."
"Ease of use is undoubtedly one of the most valuable features of Abnormal Security."
"It does some really cool stuff that other tools aren't doing. We found it to be really effective, and the AI/ML functionality is really what differentiates them."
"This is a solid email monitoring and security system that learns and maintains a two-way dialog with email system administrators."
"The encryption features are most valuable to us."
"Content disarming and analysis are essential features in our email security setup"
"FortiMail Cloud is very fast."
"The implementation was very professional. There are a lot of features I can get through Fortinet and FortiMail, such as security. FortiGuard is the most reliable and professional mitigation center to handle incidents and risk that I have to face."
"The most valuable features are email ATB and Malware Analysis."
"It has the best feature for processed mail analysis."
"The deployment is simple."
"I would like to have the ability to customize the auto-remediation feature."
"There could be room for improvement in enhancing integration with other cybersecurity tools."
"One feature I'd love to see is outbound scanning."
"I, as such, do not have anything that I do not like or would like to add, but you could argue that because they are doing it API-based, there is a chance that something could slip through temporarily before they are able to pull it out. In theory, it could happen just because of the nature of the system. They are not in line with the delivery of the mail. They are kind of asynchronous, which is a pro as well as a con. If it is synchronous, then I know it would always stop them, but because it is asynchronous, things could get through temporarily or because of some system issues on the Microsoft side or their side. It is the nature of the beast, but it is a little bit of a con."
"When we're working on something as engineers, and we find an idea or a method of doing something that would be greatly improved by doing it another way, there should be an ability for me to click the ideas button, type in an idea that I have, and submit it to a product review team or developers to have them think through the process a little bit more."
"The pricing for academic institutions and student mailboxes is challenging."
"The ideal scenario would be for Abnormal Security to work in tandem with Microsoft to analyze incoming emails."
"The biggest pain point for us is the lack of support for on-premise email systems."
"The setup of the rules can be improved. I think it should be simplified and would be the best improvement in the system."
"This solution is slow and it should be made faster."
"This ease of use and user-friendliness is something we believe could be improved in FortiMail."
"Its GUI needs improvement."
"Email sorting is missing from this solution."
"They could look at strengthening anti-spam with the newly observed domains."
"I can't see the feedback to the FortiMail gateway."
"The dashboard could use improvement."
Abnormal Security is ranked 4th in Secure Email Gateway (SEG) with 8 reviews while Fortinet FortiMail Cloud is ranked 8th in Secure Email Gateway (SEG) with 18 reviews. Abnormal Security is rated 9.6, while Fortinet FortiMail Cloud is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Abnormal Security writes "Provides comprehensive email security management, effective in detecting a wide range of email threats". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Fortinet FortiMail Cloud writes "A reliable email security solution with deep integration capabilities and exceptionally strong support". Abnormal Security is most compared with Mimecast Email Security, Egress Intelligent Email Security, Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Cloudflare Area 1 Email Security and Cisco Secure Email, whereas Fortinet FortiMail Cloud is most compared with Fortinet FortiMail, Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration, Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP) and Proofpoint Email Protection. See our Abnormal Security vs. Fortinet FortiMail Cloud report.
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