We performed a comparison between Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP) and Symantec Messaging Gateway based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Anti-Malware Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It is scalable."
"With Microsoft Exchange Online Protection, if malware is attached to a mailer, it's very easy to go into the incident alert and find out what's happening with that identity and the mail."
"We use the solution in all our environments. We use it for remedy tickets and give them updates. It was our main communication point."
"The threat management feature includes policies and alerts that are valuable."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of administration. Other solutions require complex administration, but Microsoft Exchange Online Protection is easier."
"Online Protection's most valuable feature is its admin interface."
"You can use the product to create special accounts."
"The product protects against malware."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the content filtering policies because the solution offers huge options for configuration, such as hardware manipulation, et cetera, and the dictionaries make the work easier."
"The most valuable features of Symantec Messaging Gateway are advanced content filtering, malware, and antivirus defense."
"Messaging Gateway is stable."
"Symantec Messaging Gateway has a huge knowledge base about phishing, spamming, spoofing, etc."
"The solution is "set and forget". You pay for it and everything is done for you."
"The solution is highly customizable. You can make rules for domains and configure policies for spam or malware. Messaging Gateway is an on-prem solution, so it's useful for companies without a cloud presence."
"It has very good capabilities for managing malware."
"Symantec Messaging Gateway is stable and scalable. Installation is easy, and the deployment and maintenance can be done by one administrative person."
"The licensing can be on the expensive side, especially in the cloud space."
"Performance and speed should continue to be improved."
"Microsoft has some training portals, but more could be developed."
"The product could be more stable. Microsoft products could be more stable because sometimes, even though they are updating some things, we cannot find those updates."
"The solution must improve the user experience."
"It would be helpful for customers if Plan 1 features were included with EOP."
"The security features could be better."
"The tool's classification for bulk email is cumbersome."
"The solution takes up a lot of memory."
"This product would benefit from better integration with Symantec Endpoint Protection."
"Sometimes the solution picks up false positive for viruses during scans."
"The false positive submissions must be improved."
"Symantec Messaging Gateway can improve detection because most of them are false negatives or false positives that we are trying to troubleshoot. Additionally, we are having routing problems and they are somehow connected to DNS issues."
"It is a nice product but is not user friendly in terms of the graphical interface. It is poor and is not rich in terms of the human interface."
"Symantec Messaging Gateway should include better exclusions and exceptions for better administration."
"They have updated the version of the Messaging Gateway and the new features they are adding the need to be re-evaluated. They have done some changes on the policy."
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Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP) is ranked 10th in Anti-Malware Tools with 34 reviews while Symantec Messaging Gateway is ranked 6th in Secure Email Gateway (SEG) with 20 reviews. Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP) is rated 8.2, while Symantec Messaging Gateway is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP) writes "An effective email security solution that provides DLP, Safe Attachment, and Safe Links". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Symantec Messaging Gateway writes "A stable and reasonably priced solution that performs well and has a very good malware database". Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP) is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Proofpoint Email Protection, Cisco Secure Email, Mimecast Email Security and Sophos Email, whereas Symantec Messaging Gateway is most compared with Cisco Secure Email, Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Fortinet FortiMail, Trend Micro Email Security and Proofpoint Email Protection. See our Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP) vs. Symantec Messaging Gateway report.
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