MetaDefender Email Security Solutions Reviews

Name: MetaDefender Email Security Solutions
Brand: OPSWAT
Rating: 4 (3 reviews)

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OPSWAT MetaDefender Email Security solutions are a set of industry-leading email security solutions for organizations, especially critical infrastructures. OPSWAT MetaDefender Email Security solutions introduce key capabilities to elevate organizations’ email security posture, protecting against undisclosed vulnerabilities, zero-day exploits, and malware.

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MetaDefender Email Security Solutions is the #11 ranked solution in top Secure Email Gateway (SEG) solutions and #24 ranked solution in top Email Security solutions. PeerSpot users give MetaDefender Email Security Solutions an average rating of 8.4 out of 10. MetaDefender Email Security Solutions is most commonly compared to Proofpoint Email Protection: MetaDefender Email Security Solutions vs Proofpoint Email Protection. MetaDefender Email Security Solutions is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 63% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a retailer, accounting for 14% of all views.

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Aaron Alornyenu

Mr at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

May 21, 2023

The solution helped our organization stay 100 percent compliant with industry standards. MetaDefender Email Security can be set to be very aggressive for identifying attacks. This can be done based on how we want it. If we set it to this level, most of our emails will be blocked because the system will block anything that looks suspicious. We will also need to set the spam severity. This is the severity of everything, including phishing, spoofing, and other types of attacks. I would give the solution's ability to identify attacks a nine out of ten. MetaDefender helps us improve our spam catch rate. Any spam we receive is usually due to user subscriptions. We can specify rules of exclusion to meet our requirements as well. It also detects and blocks the links with suspicious codes. MetaDefender Email Security's multi-scanning capabilities for malware detection work based on how we set the parameters. The solution perfectly detects malware. MetaDefender can identify and disarm emails in zero-day attacks.

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RamonMedina

Senior Information Systems Engineer at Liberty Pumps, Inc.

Feb 15, 2024

The sanitization is very good. Previously, we had to control certain files in which we would restrict which files could get delivered to user mailboxes until IT could verify them manually to ensure that they were clean. This allows us just to let them go through. They get sanitized, and they go through. It took a burden off of IT. There's the rare instance where we actually need the original file. For example, maybe a bank or our payroll company actually has put some code in the file that they need in order to work. However, it's greatly reduced the amount of work IT has to do. MetaDefender's ability to identify attacks, for example, spam, social engineering tags, blackmails, scams, et cetera, seems fine. I don't really monitor day-to-day to see. I haven't seen any obvious things get through. No one's reported that to us. It does detect malware; however, we don't get a ton of malware anyway. We do have another spam gateway as well in front and at the edge that gets things first. So that blocks a lot of things. However, if some of them get through, then MetaDefender blocks things that were missed. I'm happy about that. It does catch things. MetaDefender's ability to sanitize malicious content from documents or emails is great. I'm very happy with that. It's never let through anything malicious. Still, it does have some limitations. There are some documents with embedded hyperlinks that end up going to maybe a credential phishing site that it doesn't know. We'd have to check it ourselves. Thankfully, our users are pretty aware of those kinds of malicious threats. They do alert us to those. Having email security in the organization is essential. It's very important since we're routinely receiving files. We get most of our orders through email. A lot of people are looking at incoming emails that almost all have attachments in them. So making sure that those attachments are clean is very important to us. MetaDefender may have helped to improve our spam catch rate. If I'm looking at my dashboard over the last thirty days, I haven't seen any spam. That said, our other solution is doing pretty well at spam. Our spam rate is relatively low. It's mostly things that are actually legitimate advertising or companies that we have relationships with. It's not really spam. The combination of MetaDefender and SpamTitan is what we're using. We don't get very many false positives. If there is, we have to put in an exception for those.

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reviewer2160885

Co Founder / CEO at a tech company with 11-50 employees

Apr 18, 2023

The use of external files that enter an organization presents a challenge for technologies such as antivirus, which rely on signatures or sandboxes to detect threats. These solutions often require lengthy file-scanning processes. However, MetaDefender Email Security can quickly determine if a file is malicious or not, allowing us to create a copy of the static content without having to go through the discovery process. This significantly speeds up the verification process, taking only a few seconds. MetaDefender Email Security has helped reduce false positives by a high percentage. MetaDefender Email Security's ability to audit various file types and images is good. MetaDefender Email Security's ability to prevent data loss is mid-level. I believe MetaDefender Email Security can help clients stay compliant with industry standards.

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MetaDefender Email Security Solutions market share

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As of March 2024, the market share of MetaDefender Email Security Solutions in the Email Security category stands at 0.1%, marking a decrease of 67.0% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Valuable Features

"The sanitization is very good."
"The most valuable feature is called summary reconstruction which is used to deliver encrypted files to users."
"The most valuable feature of MetaDefender Email Security is the CDR. Customers purchase this solution specifically for data communication, as the other features can be obtained through other technologies that most customers already possess. Therefore, data communication serves as the foundation for the platform."

Room for Improvement

"They offer a feature called SmartLink neutralization. I have tried it before. It seemed to work most of the time; however, I had a few users for whom it just wouldn't work. Whenever they click on a link, it stays on the MetaDefender page, saying that it's scanning it and never moves forward."
"Although the number of AV engines is good, it could be better."
"The DLP should be upgraded and has room for improvement."

Pricing

"According to our customers, the price of MetaDefender is high and it continues to increase by almost 15 percent each year."

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Retailer

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Financial Services Firm

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Government

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Computer Software Company

11%

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OPSWAT MetaDefender Email Security solutions leverage proprietary OSPWAT technologies such as Deep CDR, Multiscanning, and Proactive DLP to prevent advanced malware attacks and data breaches. This set of solutions includes an on-premises deployment and a cloud service.

Key Features:

Anti-Phishing and Anti-Spam
Utilizing layered anti-phishing and anti-spam technologies, OPSWAT MetaDefender Email Security solutions perform real-time URL reputation checks and spear-phishing detection to prevent sophisticated attacks. Links are also redirected to MetaDefender Cloud for additional checks.

Deep CDR
OPSWAT’s Deep CDR technology sanitizes attachments and emails in real-time to remove malicious components. A new file with similar characteristics will then be reconstructed with only benign components. Deep CDR supports over 130 file types.

Multiscanning
MetaDefender Email Security solutions scan files with 20 AV engines to deliver a detection rate of over 98%, with fewer false positives.

Proactive DLP
The Proactive DLP technology redacts sensitive and confidential data, including personally identifiable information (PII), in emails, preventing data breaches and helping comply with industry standards. Proactive DLP supports over 40 file types.

Benefits:

Protection against Advanced Phishing Attacks
Protect users from social engineering attacks, thus ensuring IT can raely less on user awareness. 

Removal of Malicious Content
Protect business productivity files by removing document-based threats from attachments.

Zero-Day Exploit Prevention
Effectively eliminate zero-day targeted attacks by relying on prevention rather than detection.

Compliance with Industry Standards
Proactively identify and redact PII and sensitive data to prevent accidental leakage.

Protection Against Threats Hidden in Encrypted Files
Decrypt all password-protected files with user engagement.

MetaDefender Email Security Solutions was previously known as OPSWAT MetaDefender Email Security, MetaDefender Email Gateway Security, MetaDefender Email Security.