We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiMail and SonicWall Email Security 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."The two main features that prove most beneficial for us are URL scanning and attachment scanning."
"The product is not resource-intensive."
"The product's scalability is good."
"Microsoft Defender for Office 365's most valuable feature is its performance."
"I would say that 90% of the spam and phishing attack emails get blocked right off the bat."
"At the moment we are satisfied with this product. It's a stable, scalable, and resilient solution for us."
"It gives us visibility into threats and, for endpoints, it helps us to prioritize threats. We used to have a lack of visibility, but now our time to detect and respond has decreased."
"I like its investigation capabilities, as that is what is most important to me. It is fairly simple with a user-friendly interface."
"The GUI isn't hard to use. When we do a demo and explain the features of Fortinet products to our customers, they understand very quickly. They can easily manage their systems without us."
"It actually filters the compromised emails when on a network layer itself."
"It is a scalable solution."
"We found the initial setup to be mostly straightforward."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiMail are its virus outbreak prevention and FortiSandbox integration."
"Its performance is very good and it is stable."
"The number of false positives is minimal."
"Fortinet FortiMail's most valuable features are its performance and security."
"Setup was easy. It took about 30 minutes."
"Beside a few issues with specificity in the email protection controls, this product is very good at handling email security."
"This solution provides very good email security that protects us against spamming and malware."
"The product is easy to manage in terms of configurations."
"According to our customers, the product's most valuable feature is the ability to detect spam and reduce phishing emails."
"The anti-spam aspect of the solution is its most valuable feature."
"It is a very scalable solution."
"The most valuable feature is that it protects from spam."
"The certification training for Defender for 365 needs to be deeper and incorporate Sentinel. I took all the security courses except one, and Sentinel isn't included."
"Microsoft sometimes has downtime, and we'll get several incidents coming in back to back. We have a huge backlog of notifications, many of which may be false positives. However, there might be serious alerts, so we can't risk dismissing all of them at once."
"Microsoft security solutions work as expected. They are constantly updating the solutions to make them better. At the same time, the changes can impact a customer's environment, and we need to adjust settings. Sometimes we aren't aware of the changes, and nothing is pushed from the backend automatically."
"Microsoft wants its well-paying customers to finish testing some of its half-baked products, find bugs, and report bugs back to Microsoft's team, which is a little frustrating for those who have to manage it and roll it up to thousands of people across the organization."
"There's room for improvement regarding the time frame for retrieving emails."
"In one of the reports I can get the exact place where a vulnerable file resides. But for that, I need to explicitly go into the device and check. If they could include that file part in the report, without my having to go to the device itself, that would help."
"Microsoft Defender for Office 365 must improve the overall management style, including the GUI. It also needs to change the filters so that it is easy to whitelist and blacklist data."
"There is room for improvement in terms of reporting."
"The solution doesn't scale easily."
"The support could be faster because we've been receiving complaints from customers, they say that when they raise a ticket, it doesn't take 24 hours to respond, sometimes the support responds after three days. This is a lot of time."
"The logging information is sometimes not clear or easy to understand."
"I don't know if it is possible, but I would like to see Artificial Intelligence and machine learning introduced."
"Maybe FortiMail's integration could be better."
"I would like it if the solution could be more affordable."
"It can be easier to configure or connect to the cloud to report on the attachments."
"The solution could be improved by providing a virtual machine facility with a complete set of options in the VM setup."
"They need well-trained partners in Nigeria."
"Updates could be released more frequently."
"They should integrate the solution with third-party platforms."
"The technical support from the company is not always very good at solving issues, but they offer access to a good community of users where problems are easily solved."
"The reporting needs improvement."
"The protection level for email security isn't 100%. I'm still getting some spam and junk mail."
"A lot of spoofed emails are still coming to the end-user, so the configuration for this option needs to be improved."
"SonicWall Email Security could improve by making the file blocking and the release feature easier to use"
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Fortinet FortiMail is ranked 5th in Email Security with 55 reviews while SonicWall Email Security is ranked 19th in Email Security with 12 reviews. Fortinet FortiMail is rated 8.6, while SonicWall Email Security is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiMail writes "Good GUI and configuring security policies is easy but the pricing needs improvement". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SonicWall Email Security writes "Effective threat prevention, reliable, and beneficial keyword blocking". Fortinet FortiMail is most compared with Cisco Secure Email, Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP), Barracuda Email Security Gateway, Fortinet FortiMail Cloud and Proofpoint Email Protection, whereas SonicWall Email Security is most compared with Barracuda Email Security Gateway, Sophos Email, Fortinet FortiMail Cloud, Avanan and Proofpoint Email Protection. See our Fortinet FortiMail vs. SonicWall Email Security report.
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