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."Microsoft Exchange Online Protection has features like DLP (data loss protection), Safe Attachment, and Safe Links."
"The pre-set policies and configuration analyzer are the most valuable features."
"The scalability is pretty good; it does what it is supposed to do."
"It has a really nice web-based administration console."
"It is an easy solution."
"It is easy to configure, easy to use, easy to add exclusions, easy to track, and easy to add anything else if you want."
"It is scalable."
"The solution uses artificial intelligence and machine learning, so you don't need train it to detect something. The detection and response times are short. It's an excellent product."
"Messaging Gateway is stable."
"It has very good capabilities for managing malware."
"It is a solid and stable product."
"The solution is excellent at blocking spam."
"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."
"Symantec is a secure product."
"The most valuable features of Symantec Messaging Gateway are advanced content filtering, malware, and antivirus defense."
"Symantec Messaging Gateway has a good GUI, and it is very powerful in detecting viruses and spam."
"When you're using a Microsoft product solution, you can scale it, but if you're not, there are limitations."
"They should specify the difference between Defender for Office 365 and Exchange Online Protection."
"We would like the solution to have more in-built intelligence in the way that it reviews potential security risks, rather than our team constantly having to update the policies."
"Our company faces difficulty with Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP) because it's too big, clunky, and difficult for a small client to implement quickly and easily."
"Some features, like encryption, are not available."
"It wasn't easy or intuitive enough for me to start using it. So, the reason was that the solution changed."
"It would be helpful for customers if Plan 1 features were included with EOP."
"The management interface of Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP) could be intuitive."
"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 could be more scalable."
"The solution interface is from 2003 and is outdated. Symantec Messaging Gateway needs to update the interface."
"What needs to be improved in Symantec Messaging Gateway is its local partner support, as it's not as technical. The support my company gets from the partner isn't good. Vendor support is good, but local partner support isn't. I'm happy with Symantec Messaging Gateway as a solution, but the problem is with its partner support. To me, Symantec Messaging Gateway is a complete solution, but it can be very difficult to search the web for resolutions to issues or problems you experience from it. If this could be improved or resolved in the next release of Symantec Messaging Gateway, then that would be good."
"They really need to create a good package that competes with Microsoft."
"It will provide Excel reports and PDF reports, but it would be great if they supported the concept of Crystal Reports."
"What's lacking when you compare it with Proofpoint and other threat protection solutions is that it does the basic stuff, but we need more advanced threat handling."
"We've had issues in the past where the user finds spam, and Symantec does not recognize it as spam."
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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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