We compared Avanan and Fortinet FortiMail across several parameters based on our users' reviews. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below:
Features: Avanan is highly praised for its customizability as well as its consistent advancements in artificial intelligence and machine learning. Fortinet FortiMail is highly praised for its simplicity, intuitive interface, and smooth compatibility with other Fortinet products.
Room for Improvement: Avanan can enhance its alert clearance speed, decrease false positives, and improve scanning and backup options. Fortinet FortiMail requires enhancements in integration, user management, and documentation.
Service and Support: Avanan's customer service is consistently commended for its exceptional quality, efficiency, and expertise. Fortinet FortiMail is considered to have a moderate and fair setup cost, which is seen as reasonable.
Ease of Deployment: Users like Avanan's trouble-free setup and easy updates. The setup process for Fortinet FortiMail is described as relatively easy and can be completed within a few hours or up to 14 working days. It is flexible and can be tailored to specific needs, although it may require help from technical professionals.
Pricing: Avanan offers affordable, transparent SaaS-based pricing. Users find it cost-effective, particularly for small and medium-sized enterprises. Fortinet FortiMail is considered to have a moderate and fair setup cost, which is seen as reasonable.
ROI: Avanan has consistently provided positive results by enhancing email network security and contributing to revenue growth. Fortinet FortiMail provides enhanced email communication, decreased spam, stabilized collections, and altered expenses.
Comparison Results: Avanan is praised for its ease of implementation, adaptability, and cost-effectiveness. Users say Avanan could improve by reducing false positives and providing better documentation. Fortinet FortiMail and Cisco Secure Email have distinct features and functionalities. Fortinet FortiMail is known for its simple setup, user-friendly interface, and effective email filtering. It can be customized and seamlessly integrated with other Fortinet products.
"Does a thorough job of examining email and URLs for malicious content."
"I would say that 90% of the spam and phishing attack emails get blocked right off the bat."
"It also gives the vulnerability status according to the versions you have selected. Let's say you have Google Chrome. It mentions the versions it has, and it updates. Within two hours of an update, it is reflected in the dashboard. That's really nice to have."
"Defender enables us to secure all 365-related activity from a single place. It gives us visibility into everything happening in Outlook, protecting us against phishing and other email-based threats. Defender helps us detect any suspicious behaviors."
"The initial setup was easy."
"Defender is a SaaS platform, so it offers more flexibility. Managing the permissions is easier. The solution's automated detection and response features are scalable."
"Threat Explorer is an invaluable tool for me, and it plays a crucial role in helping me discern the origins of various email campaigns, pinpointing where they emanate from, and identifying the individuals within our organization who are affected."
"Safe attachments, safe links, policies, and the ability to protect from zero-day threats are the most valuable features."
"If we look at four to five years ago, we had close to six or eight people click a link in an email per month. Now, we are probably down to about five or six clicks a year, if not less."
"The most valuable feature of Avanan is its Anti-Malware solution for Office 365, and box.com."
"Email inspection has saved many employees from spam attacks and viruses from unauthorized sources."
"When we don't understand some functionalities, the customer support staff responds fast to our calls and provides immediate action."
"Spam protection is the most valuable feature."
"It can retract unsafe emails and remove them from the entire communication channel."
"The threat detection tools enable us to ascertain malware and phishing messages across the email network infrastructure."
"Easy to use for non-technical users."
"The integration with FortiSandbox is good, and something that we utilize often."
"It actually filters the compromised emails when on a network layer itself."
"Fortinet FortiMail has a lot of valuable features. It works great. It also has an antivirus feature. Support for Fortinet FortiMail was also great when my team wanted to block some geographic IPs, but couldn't figure out how to do it. The support team provided clear communication on how to resolve that issue. Another valuable feature of Fortinet FortiMail is SPAM filtering which tells you how many spammy emails you've received. Based on my current use cases, I'm happy with Fortinet FortiMail."
"The number of false positives is minimal."
"We found the initial setup to be mostly straightforward."
"After implementing FortiMail, the spam, and malicious emails we receive have significantly reduced, making it much simpler to manage."
"Fortinet FortiMail's most valuable features are antispam, antivirus, database, and data loss prevention (DLP)."
"The most valuable features are the endpoint defense features, it is very secure."
"The company should focus on adding threats that the solution is currently unable to detect."
"It would be better if it were more scalable. It depends on the architecture, but we would like to make it more scalable for both data centers."
"Configuration requires going to a lot of places rather than just accessing one tab."
"One area for improvement is integration. For example, when it comes to external SaaS platforms, we were not able to get a lot of information on integrations with such apps for security and authentication."
"The product must provide better malware detection."
"They have moved features from one console to another. Things have been moved around in the interface and it takes me time to find where certain features are."
"There is room for improvement with the UI."
"We are always looking for others tools to increase automation on tasks. There can be better integration with other solutions, such as PowerPoint and email."
"When sending bulky emails, the system slows down and takes a long time before it responds effectively to our requests."
"Sometimes it seemed like the allow list wasn't working. I've created many allow list rules however, they still seem to be blocked; the same is true with the blocked list rules."
"In Avanan, the email channel is one of the channels where data leakage happens, and they need to consider it from a DLP perspective."
"Familiarization with performance for new teams may take a long time."
"It is very difficult to find the required documentation."
"The customer service team could come up with clear tutorials on how to use this platform to help new teams."
"The system could be designed to give corporate emails first priority due to demands."
"Avanan doesn't cover certain tool segments."
"I think the security of the product could improve."
"It would be nice if we could manage the solution from the cloud so I could handle things off-site if necessary."
"The solution could be improved by providing a virtual machine facility with a complete set of options in the VM setup."
"The product should work on licensing and provide more detail once the license is selected for the customer."
"A room for improvement in Fortinet FortiMail is that it only has a hardware version. I also didn't find the solution scalable, so that's another area for improvement."
"Limited ability to upgrade hardware may lead to some performance issues that might otherwise be improved."
"The product's cybersecurity features could be better."
"I have little to say about possible improvements, but the configuration for content blocking could be better. So, for example, if the email includes the line "You have a Bitcoin", I would like it to be easier to block it before it enters an inbox. Fortinet could maybe offer better or simpler help on how to do this properly."
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Avanan is ranked 6th in Email Security with 21 reviews while Fortinet FortiMail is ranked 5th in Email Security with 55 reviews. Avanan is rated 9.2, while Fortinet FortiMail is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Avanan writes "We've noticed a significant decline from people accidentally or intentionally clicking on things". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Fortinet FortiMail writes "Good GUI and configuring security policies is easy but the pricing needs improvement". Avanan is most compared with Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration, IRONSCALES, Abnormal Security, Perception Point Advanced Email Security and Proofpoint Targeted Attack Protection, whereas Fortinet FortiMail is most compared with Cisco Secure Email, Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP), Barracuda Email Security Gateway and Fortinet FortiMail Cloud. See our Avanan vs. Fortinet FortiMail report.
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