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Email Security Gateway (ESG)
Email security gateways (ESG) prevent the sending and receiving of emails that are either harmful, or contravene company policies. ESGs can quarantine or block emails that contain detected threats (viruses, malware, phishing attempts).
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Retarus, a managed service cloud-based email security platform, is a growing company to watch out for. Since its initiation in 1992, it has quickly expanded its services and global infrastructure to North America, Europe, and APAC countries, owning data centers in the associated areas to process data locally in compliance with regulatory standards.
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Avanan
Avanan
Avanan is a cloud email security platform that pioneered and patented a new approach to prevent sophisticated attacks. The platform uses APIs to block phishing, malware, and data leakage in the line of communications traffic. This means we catch threats missed by Microsoft while adding a transparent layer of security for the entire suite that also protects other collaboration tools like Slack.
9.5
Composite Score
9.5
CX Score
+99
Emotional Footprint
96%
Likeliness to Recommend
22
Reviews
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.
8.5
Composite Score
8.8
CX Score
+88
Emotional Footprint
91%
Likeliness to Recommend
18
Reviews
Barracuda Networks, Inc.
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..
8.4
Composite Score
8.6
CX Score
+88
Emotional Footprint
84%
Likeliness to Recommend
36
Reviews
Fortinet
FortiMail
FortiMail appliances and virtual appliances are proven, powerful email security platforms for any size organization — from small businesses to carriers, service providers, and large enterprises. Purpose-built for the most demanding messaging systems, FortiMail appliances employ Fortinet’s years of experience in protecting networks against spam, malware, and other message-borne threats.
8.4
Composite Score
8.5
CX Score
+85
Emotional Footprint
84%
Likeliness to Recommend
14
Reviews
Symantec
Symantec Email Security.cloud
Safeguard Microsoft Office 365, Google G Suite, and on-premises email with the industry’s most complete email security solution.
8.2
Composite Score
8.2
CX Score
+85
Emotional Footprint
86%
Likeliness to Recommend
21
Reviews
8.1
Composite Score
8.3
CX Score
+83
Emotional Footprint
87%
Likeliness to Recommend
60
Reviews
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.
8.0
Composite Score
8.1
CX Score
+85
Emotional Footprint
76%
Likeliness to Recommend
32
Reviews
Proofpoint
Proofpoint Email Security Gateway
Proofpoint combines its industry leading secure e-mail gateway with sophisticated dynamic malware analysis, real-time threat intelligence and automated threat response.
8.0
Composite Score
8.0
CX Score
+76
Emotional Footprint
85%
Likeliness to Recommend
23
Reviews
Cisco Systems
Cisco Email Security
Cisco Email Security offers high availability email protection against the constant, dynamic, rapidly changing threats affecting email today.
7.9
Composite Score
8.0
CX Score
+80
Emotional Footprint
80%
Likeliness to Recommend
41
Reviews
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.
7.8
Composite Score
7.9
CX Score
+76
Emotional Footprint
79%
Likeliness to Recommend
58
Reviews
TitanHq
SpamTitan
SpamTitan reduces spam, viruses, malware and other email threats by over 99.9%. We provide sophisticated email security for your business without making it complicated.
9.3
Composite Score
9.4
CX Score
+93
Emotional Footprint
100%
Likeliness to Recommend
6
Reviews
Spambrella
Spambrella
Cloud-based email security platform giving you ultimate control and flexibility over business email communications. Instant URL and ransomware protection for your organisation!
9.3
Composite Score
9.7
CX Score
+96
Emotional Footprint
98%
Likeliness to Recommend
6
Reviews
Dell Technologies
Dell SonicWALL Email Security
Solve the unique email security needs of your organization – whether you have one user or 100,000. From appliances and software to virtual appliances and services, our flexible solutions offer powerful protection from spam, phishing and viruses at a low total cost of ownership.
9.0
Composite Score
8.8
CX Score
+91
Emotional Footprint
92%
Likeliness to Recommend
5
Reviews
ForcePoint (Websense)
Forcepoint Email Security
Forcepoint Email Security uses the Advanced Classification Engine (ACE) to identify threats ranging from annoying spam to advanced malware, phishing, and Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks.
8.3
Composite Score
8.6
CX Score
+89
Emotional Footprint
80%
Likeliness to Recommend
9
Reviews
Kaspersky
Kaspersky Secure Mail Gateway
Kaspersky Secure Mail Gateway gives you a fully integrated email system & mail security solution – including anti-spam, anti-malware, anti-phishing and more – in a single virtual appliance.
8.2
Composite Score
8.6
CX Score
+84
Emotional Footprint
88%
Likeliness to Recommend
7
Reviews
Sophos
Sophos Secure Email Gateway
Our purpose-built secure email gateway is an all-in-one solution for email encryption, DLP, anti-spam and threat protection. It provides advanced protection from today’s sophisticated spear phishing attacks and gives you full control over data leaving your organization via email.
6.4
Composite Score
5.8
CX Score
+37
Emotional Footprint
83%
Likeliness to Recommend
5
Reviews
Zix Corporation
Zix Email Encryption
Automatic email encryption and data loss prevention offer unparalleled peace of mind for you, your employees and your executives.
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Composite Score
--
CX Score
+96
Emotional Footprint
100%
Likeliness to Recommend
1
Reviews
Trend Micro
InterScan Messaging Security
Trend Micro™ InterScan™ Messaging Security stops email threats in the cloud with global threat intelligence, protects your data with data loss prevention and encryption, and identifies targeted email attacks and APTs as part of the Trend Micro™ Network Defense Solution.
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Composite Score
9.8
CX Score
+96
Emotional Footprint
100%
Likeliness to Recommend
1
Reviews
Clearswift
Clearswift Secure Email Gateway
Clearswift’s award-winning solution offers an unprecedented level of cyber-attack protection and outbound data loss prevention for secure email collaboration. Features include deep content inspection, adaptive redaction, OCR and anti-steganography.
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Composite Score
10.0
CX Score
+100
Emotional Footprint
94%
Likeliness to Recommend
2
Reviews
Trustwave Holdings, Inc.
Trustwave Secure Email Gateway
Complete email security requires visibility of all blended attack vectors coupled with granular policy and content controls – Trustwave Secure Email Gateway delivers all that and more.
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Composite Score
8.8
CX Score
+100
Emotional Footprint
78%
Likeliness to Recommend
1
Reviews
Sendio
Sendio Email Security
Sendio’s email security technology combines a set of tightly integrated layers that eliminate malicious threats and spam campaigns.
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Composite Score
--
CX Score
--
Emotional Footprint
--
Likeliness to Recommend
0
Reviews
Check Point Software Technologies
Check Point Anti-Spam & Email Security
The Check Point Anti-Spam & Email Security Software Blade provides comprehensive protection for messaging infrastructure.
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Composite Score
--
CX Score
--
Emotional Footprint
--
Likeliness to Recommend
0
Reviews
Axway, Inc.
Axway MailGate SC
Axway MailGate SC stands guard at the Internet gateway, preventing potentially damaging messages, attachments and intruders from entering your network, and ensuring that sensitive information doesn’t exit accidentally or unsecured.
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Composite Score
--
CX Score
+100
Emotional Footprint
100%
Likeliness to Recommend
1
Reviews
--
Composite Score
--
CX Score
--
Emotional Footprint
--
Likeliness to Recommend
0
Reviews
Deep Secure Ltd.
Deep Secure Mail Guard
This product helps businesses control email traffic entering and leaving the organisation, and effectively defends against advanced attacks and misuse by focusing on the content.
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Composite Score
10.0
CX Score
+100
Emotional Footprint
100%
Likeliness to Recommend
1
Reviews
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Retarus, a managed service cloud-based email security platform, is a growing company to watch out for. Since its initiation in 1992, it has quickly expanded its services and global infrastructure to North America, Europe, and APAC countries, owning data centers in the associated areas to process data locally in compliance with regulatory standards.
Latest Research
In response to criticism over data collection practices, Google is introducing default deletion of location history in its web and application activities for new accounts.
Latest Research
While email security gateways help filter out spam, prevent data loss, and inspect for malicious content, they can be easily bypassed. Avanan has patented an API-based approach that sits inside the collaboration suite environment (such as Office 365) to build a perimeter around individual users.
Latest Research
On September 4, Proofpoint announced its partnership with CrowdStrike to offer advanced threat protection across email and endpoints.
Latest Research
In late September, Barracuda Networks, Inc. announced the general availability of Barracuda Forensics and Incident Response. Previously available only to Barracuda Total Email Protection customers, the Forensics and Incident Response offering can now be layered with an organization’s existing gateway security solution, giving customers and service providers greater flexibility in email threat detection and response.
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