We compared Mimecast Email Security and Perception Point Advanced Email Security across several parameters based on our users' reviews. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below:
Features: Mimecast Email Security is appreciated for its efficient archiving capabilities and effective protection against targeted threats. Its seamless integration with Microsoft 365 also earned high marks. Perception Point Advanced Email Security is known for its ability to identify impersonation attacks and exceptional scanning capabilities.
Room for Improvement: Mimecast Email Security should focus on improving its administrative aspect, filtering capabilities, and ease of setup. Perception Point Advanced Email Security could improve content analysis and the ability to detect BEC attacks.
Service and Support: Mimecast's customer service elicits varied opinions, with some customers expressing satisfaction with its responsiveness and effectiveness, while others perceive it as unsatisfactory. Perception Point's customer service is highly regarded for being responsive, attentive, and interactive.
Ease of Deployment: Users had mixed experiences with Mimecast Email Security's setup. Some users found it fast and uncomplicated, while others found it moderately complex. Some users find Perception Point’s setup process to be straightforward and easy, while others have encountered hurdles.
Pricing: Mimecast Email Security is generally seen as costly, and some users struggle to justify the expense. It’s perceived as more expensive than competing solutions. Perception Point Advanced Email Security offers affordable pricing that accommodates all budgets and delivers satisfactory value.
ROI: It is challenging to measure the return on investment for Mimecast Email Security. Perception Point Advanced Email Security excels in its ability to detect threats effectively, resulting in significant time and cost savings by preventing downtime and the need for extensive cleanup.
Comparison Results: Mimecast is commended for its archiving and targeted threat protection capabilities. On the other hand, Mimecast faces challenges with its administrative aspect, filtering capabilities, and high pricing. Perception Point Advanced Email Security is praised for its ability to detect and prevent impersonation attacks and great customer support. The solution could improve in detecting BEC attacks and providing user-friendly configuration options.
"The interface of this solution is very easy to navigate and user-friendly. There is no delivery in email and other communications, making it reliable. The configuration is relatively easy."
"We like Mimecast's spam filtering. The email signature feature is also a big plus for our users."
"The solution's performance is good."
"In the current environment that the world is in, everyone is trying to hack everyone else, so Project+ definitely helps a lot there."
"The initial setup is very straightforward."
"It's good, it keeps the spam out."
"The product is good. To date, we have not faced any challenges."
"The solution is pretty straightforward to use and easy to set up."
"One of the most valuable features is the service provided by the incident response team. There have been cases where we have suspected that emails were fraudulent or something was suspicious. In those cases, we immediately contacted the incident response team through the platform, and we had a response in less than a minute."
"The solution’s effectiveness when it comes to detection is very good. It is stopping malicious emails and tagging emails noted as spam. So, we are able to disseminate those emails, get what we need, and block clearly malicious emails. It saves us a lot of valuable time. It keeps our users safe, e.g., the majority of emails that they would have gotten in the past don't even make it into their inbox."
"One is the hardware-assisted platform that provides more insight into the threat scenarios. And the other is their instant response team's availability, 24/7, for identifying and responding to incidents. These are the two main things that everyone likes."
"The most valuable feature is the hardware-assisted platform module."
"Their security engines are very effective at stopping malware and potential attacks before they reach a user's mailbox. They have the best detection engine."
"The solution is used to block malicious items hidden inside a document or PDF file."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to identify malicious content and phishing emails and reduce the workload we have to do in terms of security."
"We can use it to perform detection and analysis of emails. For any malicious content found in emails, it gives in-depth analysis reports to end users. If you log into the console, you can see in-depth detection and how it happens."
"The reaction time between a new threat being identified and Mimecast picking it up needs to be narrowed a bit."
"The installation is not so straightforward."
"The price could be better, it should be reduced."
"The solution's console interface was recently changed for the admins, but the previous one was much better because we could open tabs on it."
"Lately, Mimecast's outbound mail servers have been regularly blocklisted by spam filters. That didn't happen a few years back, but it seems to be a more frequent problem these days. When a server is blocklisted, it means all of my outgoing mail ends up in the recipient's junk mail. That affects my reputation and business confidence."
"The filtering needs more flexibility."
"As a user, the user interface of the management console could be upgraded, for example."
"Many of our users complain that the system is blocking too many attachments. It's a good practice from a security perspective, but our users think Mimecast is doing too much. It might be something we'll have to adjust."
"There is still room for improvement with BEC. There is more work to be done by Perception Point on machine learning and neuro language as well. BEC is very difficult if you don't have a computer language looking into the content of the email and trying to make a determination through that. With BEC you often don't have an attachment or a URL."
"From a forensics point of view, it could improve a bit more from a threat intelligence aspect. So, if I find a malicious email, they could have more investigations about sources, headers, where it comes from, if they have seen it in other campaigns before, etc. I would like a little bit more from a threat intelligence point of view so I can understand who else might be affected and attacked as well as the vectors of attack."
"Perception Point Advanced Email Security should make available more use cases."
"Email alerts should be available in real-time."
"The only thing that can be improved in Perception Point is the in-depth analysis and attribution to cyberattack groups."
"This is an option to preview an email in their console, and that could be improved. If you open the preview, then it auto scrolls. Therefore, it is hard to look at the email when it is going to the next page or scrolling. It should not have the auto-scroll."
"Dashboard is an area of concern in the solution where improvements are required."
"There is room for improvement in terms of adding the DLP (Data Loss Prevention) solution, which would be a good option for Perception Point to look into."
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Mimecast Email Security is ranked 5th in Secure Email Gateway (SEG) with 23 reviews while Perception Point Advanced Email Security is ranked 14th in Email Security with 21 reviews. Mimecast Email Security is rated 7.8, while Perception Point Advanced Email Security is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Mimecast Email Security writes "It gives clients peace of mind and helps them educate their users about threats". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Perception Point Advanced Email Security writes "Incident Response team answers immediately and fine-tunes system to continually improve detection". Mimecast Email Security is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Abnormal Security, Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP), Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration and Fortinet FortiMail, whereas Perception Point Advanced Email Security is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Avanan, Proofpoint Email Protection, IRONSCALES and Sophos Email. See our Mimecast Email Security vs. Perception Point Advanced Email Security report.
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