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Perception Point Advanced Email Security pros and cons

Vendor: Fortinet
4.5 out of 5

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PROS

Perception Point Advanced Email Security significantly reduces false positives by approximately 80% and lowers endpoint alerts by more than 90%.
The system blocks malicious and phishing emails effectively, preventing them from reaching users' inboxes and reducing the workload for security teams.
The incident response team offers prompt support, acting as an extension of internal security teams and enhancing incident management.
Advanced detection capabilities are achieved through hardware-assisted modules and effective malware identification, including insight into specific threat types.
The email security features help in blocking threats hidden within documents and PDFs, contributing to improved risk management and operational efficiency.

CONS

Perception Point Advanced Email Security's reporting feature is intermediate and lacks updates.
The anti-spam engine could be improved due to false positives and spam issues.
Real-time email alerts and in-depth analysis for cyberattack attribution need enhancement.
Threat intelligence and forensics aspects require more thorough investigation and reporting.
Customer engagement and communication about product features and updates could be better.
 

Perception Point Advanced Email Security Pros review quotes

GK
Senior Security Analyst at a security firm with 11-50 employees
Apr 10, 2026
Perception Point Advanced Email Security offers graphical reporting options with strong reporting capabilities, and I can recommend the product and would prioritize it as a first or second choice when recommending to customers or during presales activities.
GK
Senior Security Analyst at a security firm with 11-50 employees
Feb 26, 2026
With the features, functionalities, and detection capabilities that FortiMail Workspace Security provides, it is worth the investment.
GC
IT at a retailer with 11-50 employees
Jun 26, 2025
Perception Point Advanced Email Security has helped address specific email threats within my organization.
Learn what your peers think about Perception Point Advanced Email Security. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: April 2026.
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reviewer2787429 - PeerSpot reviewer
Security analyst at a outsourcing company with 501-1,000 employees
Dec 11, 2025
Perception Point Advanced Email Security has positively impacted my organization by reducing risk, improving operational efficiency, and creating a better end-user experience.
Fabio Amorim Araujo - PeerSpot reviewer
Founder at Envisionare Solucoes em Tecnologia
Jun 20, 2024
After integration, the tool is very easy to use. I had a problem with scripts for one customer, but my team did the integration for other customers without issues. So, I think I made a mistake in my integration. Both inline and API work fine.
Apr 1, 2025
Perception Point Advanced Email Security has a correct price point and offers very good email filtering capabilities.
Jijin Joseph - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Director at Channelnext
Oct 18, 2023
Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.
Belgin Abraham - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Executive Officer at Channel Next
Aug 14, 2023
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.
GF
Head Of Security Operation And Response at a hospitality company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Jan 5, 2022
Another feature that we really like, one that was introduced a few months back, is the way it categorizes threats into groups, such as Emotet, Qbot, Formbook, and the like. It's not only telling you that something is malware, but it's also giving you insight into what kind of malware... You understand what you are facing and whether you are a target for a specific group of threats...
it_user1738866 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director of Office 365 Services at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Dec 9, 2021
The most valuable features of the solution are the ones that are related to finding impersonation attacks and detecting attempts to steal credentials. In scenarios where attackers get you to follow URLs to a malicious site that looks similar to a good site, and then ask for the user credentials to try to steal them, it is very useful.
 

Perception Point Advanced Email Security Cons review quotes

GK
Senior Security Analyst at a security firm with 11-50 employees
Apr 10, 2026
I am not recommending the browser security of Perception Point Advanced Email Security because it is not sufficiently matured and is still in the development phase.
GK
Senior Security Analyst at a security firm with 11-50 employees
Feb 26, 2026
The extensive reporting capabilities influence my decision-making process regarding email security as the reporting feature is intermediate. I believe there have been no changes in that part for the last couple of years, and there are no updates.
GC
IT at a retailer with 11-50 employees
Jun 26, 2025
Maybe a couple of improvements on their portal would be good, but other than that, I think it is good.
Learn what your peers think about Perception Point Advanced Email Security. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: April 2026.
893,164 professionals have used our research since 2012.
reviewer2787429 - PeerSpot reviewer
Security analyst at a outsourcing company with 501-1,000 employees
Dec 11, 2025
Perception Point Advanced Email Security can be improved by increasing the speed of analysis and delivery.
Fabio Amorim Araujo - PeerSpot reviewer
Founder at Envisionare Solucoes em Tecnologia
Jun 20, 2024
To improve the solution, maybe a portal for end users to consult their emails would be helpful. The end user could access the portal and see their emails or events. They could also refresh the names.
Apr 1, 2025
Integration and end-user interaction can be improved as the current system does not allow end-users to send back information to the platform, unlike Google Workspace or competitive tools like Ironscales.
Jijin Joseph - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Director at Channelnext
Oct 18, 2023
Dashboard is an area of concern in the solution where improvements are required.
Belgin Abraham - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Executive Officer at Channel Next
Aug 14, 2023
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.
GF
Head Of Security Operation And Response at a hospitality company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Jan 5, 2022
In terms of architecture, and I know that they're going to improve this, the solution needs to be much more redundant. There was an outage a month ago in AWS, and that basically stopped the service for two or three hours. Although in two years, this was the first time that something like that happened, our expectation from a company like Perception Point is that it should work with either a multi-cloud or multi-region architecture, to improve the resilience.
it_user1738866 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director of Office 365 Services at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Dec 9, 2021
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.