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Email Security Gateway (ESG)


SoftwareReviews names Mimecast Secure Email Gateway, Barracuda Email Security Gateway, and Symantec Messaging Gateway as Email Security Gateway (ESG) Data Quadrant Award Winners.


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Email Security Gateway (ESG)

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Email Security Gateway (ESG) Data Quadrant

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Gold Medalists


Mimecast Services

Mimecast Secure Email Gateway

Mimecast Secure Email Gateway uses sophisticated, multi-layered detection engines and intelligence to protect email data and employees from malware, spam, advanced threats and zero-day attacks.

8.7

Composite
Score

Composite
Score

+95

Emotional
Footprint

Emotional
Footprint

91%

Likeliness to
Recommend

Likeliness
to Recommend

Badge Winner
19Reviews

Barracuda Networks

Barracuda Email Security Gateway

The Barracuda Email Security Gateway is an email security gateway that manages and filters all inbound and outbound email traffic to protect organizations from email-borne threats and data leaks. As a complete email management solution, the Barracuda Email Security Gateway lets organizations encrypt messages and leverage the cloud to spool email if mail servers become unavailable.

8.7

Composite
Score

Composite
Score

+88

Emotional
Footprint

Emotional
Footprint

90%

Likeliness to
Recommend

Likeliness
to Recommend

Badge Winner
17Reviews

Symantec

Symantec Messaging Gateway

Symantec Messaging Gateway enables organizations to secure their email and productivity infrastructure with effective and accurate real-time antispam and antimalware protection, targeted attack protection, advanced content filtering, data loss prevention, and email encryption. Defend your email perimeter, and quickly respond to new messaging threats with this simple to administer solution.

8.5

Composite
Score

Composite
Score

+86

Emotional
Footprint

Emotional
Footprint

85%

Likeliness to
Recommend

Likeliness
to Recommend

Badge Winner
15Reviews

Vendor Capability Awards


Availability and Quality of Training

Symantec Messaging Gateway

Badge Winner

Breadth of Features

Mimecast Secure Email Gateway

Badge Winner

Business Value Created

Barracuda Email Security Gateway

Badge Winner

Ease of Customization

Symantec Messaging Gateway

Badge Winner

Ease of Data Integration

Barracuda Email Security Gateway

Badge Winner

Ease of IT Administration

Symantec Messaging Gateway

Badge Winner

Ease of Implementation

Barracuda Email Security Gateway

Badge Winner

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Symantec Messaging Gateway

Badge Winner

Quality of Features

Barracuda Email Security Gateway

Badge Winner

Usability and Intuitiveness

Symantec Messaging Gateway

Badge Winner

Vendor Support

Barracuda Email Security Gateway

Badge Winner

Vendor Capability Awards


Availability and Quality of Training

Symantec Messaging Gateway


Breadth of Features

Mimecast Secure Email Gateway


Business Value Created

Barracuda Email Security Gateway


Ease of Customization

Symantec Messaging Gateway


Ease of Data Integration

Barracuda Email Security Gateway


Ease of IT Administration

Symantec Messaging Gateway


Ease of Implementation

Barracuda Email Security Gateway


Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Symantec Messaging Gateway


Quality of Features

Barracuda Email Security Gateway


Usability and Intuitiveness

Symantec Messaging Gateway


Vendor Support

Barracuda Email Security Gateway


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Google

Google Apps

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8.0

Composite
Score

Composite
Score

+82

Emotional
Footprint

Emotional
Footprint

86%

Likeliness to
Recommend

Likeliness
to Recommend

34Reviews

Microsoft

Microsoft Exchange Online Protection

Exchange Online Protection provides a layer of protection features that are deployed across a global network of datacenters, helping you simplify the administration of your messaging environments.

7.7

Composite
Score

Composite
Score

+74

Emotional
Footprint

Emotional
Footprint

81%

Likeliness to
Recommend

Likeliness
to Recommend

48Reviews

Intel Corporation

McAfee Security for Email Servers

McAfee Security for Email Servers provides award-winning in-memory and incremental on-demand scanning to remove viruses, worms, Trojans, phishing, and other threats from incoming and outgoing email.

7.6

Composite
Score

Composite
Score

+68

Emotional
Footprint

Emotional
Footprint

78%

Likeliness to
Recommend

Likeliness
to Recommend

45Reviews

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