We performed a comparison between Avanan and IRONSCALES based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Email Security solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Microsoft Defender for Office 365 has improved my organization's security. It makes it easier to manage the infrastructure without the help of third-party applications."
"The deployment capability is a great feature."
"Defender helps us prioritize threats across our organization."
"The email protection is excellent, especially in terms of anti-phishing policies."
"Microsoft Defender has a feature to protect each and every attachment. Even if it's an encrypted attachment, it will check for any potential threats."
"Defender for Office 365 has helped eliminate having to look at multiple dashboards and that is the aspect I like most about it. It is simpler, effective, and convenient. The users like the process efficiency."
"The most valuable feature is protection against malicious links, fishing, and impersonation. You can train people to be aware of these threats, but they're not always careful. When they're using their phones between meetings, they click on a link, and it's game over."
"I would say that 90% of the spam and phishing attack emails get blocked right off the bat."
"Spam protection is the most valuable feature."
"The threat detection tools enable us to ascertain malware and phishing messages across the email network infrastructure."
"Email inspection has saved many employees from spam attacks and viruses from unauthorized sources."
"The most valuable feature of Avanan is its effectiveness. When scanning incoming emails for threats it can in an automated fashion, quarantine suspicious attachments."
"The customizable rules allow you to change aspects."
"Easy to use for non-technical users."
"It is simple to deploy this platform and interact with the set features."
"Avanan is a stable software. My company hasn't faced any issues, bugs, or problems with the performance of Avanan."
"The fact that it is set-and-forget is valuable. Once you turn it on, you very rarely have to micromanage it, whereas, with a lot of spam filters, you have to go in very often."
"The stability is good."
"There is buzz around phishing awareness training. When I make a campaign, all of a sudden people in our organization are talking, thinking, and wondering about it. Therefore, it keeps people on their toes. That is perfect because it does exactly what we want it to do."
"For what was being offered with IRONSCALES, I feel like we got an incredible deal."
"I would say the most valuable feature is what they call Themis. It's like a virtual analyst that uses the decisions that system admins make to generate a score for whether an email is legitimate, spam, or phishing. It gets better based on the decisions that we make over time. The automation piece is great as well. The integrated approach of email security combined with employee awareness training is excellent."
"For me, the mobile app is most valuable. All other features are also very useful, but the mobile app makes it really easy for me to manage on the go. I don't have to be at my desk. I could be at the shops, or it could be in the evening when I am out, and I can get a notification on my phone that there is an incident that has been raised. I can sort it out very quickly without having to be at my work PC."
"The report function through Gmail is probably the most valuable feature. The next most valuable features are simulation and training."
"AI-driven phishing detection and incident remediation are valuable. It saves time from having to do manual analysis and investigation, and we also get alerts for phishing emails."
"We noticed that from time to time, Microsoft's stability does have problems. Sometimes the service goes up and down. Sometimes they change without prior notice."
"The pre-sales cost calculations could be more transparent."
"There is room for improvement in terms of reporting."
"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."
"The UI needs to be more user-friendly."
"Microsoft Defender for Office 365 should be more proactive."
"We need to be able to whitelist data at the backend."
"The product must provide better malware detection."
"There are times when we have false positives."
"The system could be designed to give corporate emails first priority due to demands."
"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."
"The cost can be reviewed to enable SMEs to acquire it and enjoy great security features."
"It is complicated for new users unfamiliar with the modern cloud networking infrastructure."
"It should also offer a quick backup in case any email is wrongly quarantined or deleted to ensure no data loss."
"The user experience must be improved."
"I would love to see the indication of compromise and how the solution utilizes open source resources. It would be good to see that included in the paid versions. It would be a small addition but add a lot of value for clients."
"IRONSCALES should bundle more features together instead of separating them and charging additional licensing fees."
"Its UI could be improved. My pet peeve with a lot of these cloud-based systems is that a lot of times, the interface for the management is a little clunky. If you live and breathe IRONSCALES all day long, you'll obviously know where everything is just from muscle memory, but the system is not designed for people to be in it all day long. You're only supposed to occasionally look at it. When things get moved around, it is not necessarily that intuitive. I'm an IT guy, and I can pretty much take the worst UI and figure it out, but the menus and the options in the interface could be a little cleaner graphically. If you have a quick problem that you want to resolve, it takes a little bit of digging in the admin console, whereas it should take a few clicks up front."
"I would like it if IRONSCALES had some sort of reminder mechanism, meaning IRONSCALES knows if a user completed the training or not. As long as it hasn't been completed, it keeps reminding every so often, alerts the manager, etc. Right now, it is all in the hands of the employee, and not all of them continue the process, which is a shame."
"The only thing that I could say is that some of the reporting features could be better."
"The simulation and training piece could be improved by having more granularity in terms of scheduling how campaigns are run and allowing people to directly take the training rather than having to go through an official campaign. That's not available yet."
"In addition to integrated training, they should also have personalized training that you don't have to do as part of a phishing campaign or a simulation."
"The integration with Google Suite needs to be better. it's something they can work on."
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Avanan is ranked 6th in Email Security with 21 reviews while IRONSCALES is ranked 5th in SEG (Secure Email Gateway) with 11 reviews. Avanan is rated 9.2, while IRONSCALES is rated 9.2. 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 IRONSCALES writes "It has an easy installation that can be done in a matter of minutes". Avanan is most compared with Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration, Abnormal Security, Perception Point Advanced Email Security, Mimecast Email Security and Proofpoint Targeted Attack Protection, whereas IRONSCALES is most compared with Sublime Security, Perception Point Advanced Email Security, Cisco Secure Email, Proofpoint Email Protection and Barracuda Email Security Gateway. See our Avanan vs. IRONSCALES report.
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