What is FortiMail?
FortiMail delivers advanced multi-layered protection against the full spectrum of email-borne threats. Powered by FortiGuard Labs threat intelligence and integrated into the Fortinet Security Fabric, FortiMail helps your organization prevent, detect, and respond to email-based threats including spam, phishing, malware, zero-day threats, impersonation, and Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks.
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88 Likeliness to Recommend
98 Plan to Renew
91 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
Emotional Footprint Overview
+90 Net Emotional Footprint
The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.
How much do users love FortiMail?
Pros
- Effective Service
- Client Friendly Policies
- Fair
- Reliable
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Feature Ratings
Data Loss Prevention
Email Retention and Archiving
Anti Malware Signature Detection
Anti Phishing and Spear Phishing
Reporting Components
URL and Malware Detection
Anti Spam and Bulk Email Detection
End User Spam Visibility and Controls
Anti Malware Behavioral Detection
Hosted Email Support
Encryption and Decryption
Vendor Capability Ratings
Ease of Customization
Breadth of Features
Ease of Data Integration
Ease of IT Administration
Quality of Features
Usability and Intuitiveness
Ease of Implementation
Availability and Quality of Training
Business Value Created
Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement
Vendor Support
FortiMail Reviews
Bonnie G.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Nov 2020
Spam filtering and virus or malware removal
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates FortiMail from other similar products?
FortiMail differs from other products for several reasons because it gives its users protection against threats from email to prevent company users and their data from being affected by it, makes it possible to filter spam through a process Quarantine of each email that arrives in the inbox so that suspicious emails are separated and those that cannot reach there, it has a simple and fast installation process, in addition its spam definition is updated daily so that the entry of any illegitimate mail is not possible.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
My favorite aspect of FortiMail is that it allows the filtering of spam mail effectively, not only does it do this, but even potential spam is quarantined to ensure that false positives do not occur, its implementation is simple and avoids the manual task of having to check each email to know what you can enter and what not, in addition, if it is integrated with other Fortinet products, better protection results are obtained, which helps to avoid unwanted mass emails.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Its quarantine process sometimes sends emails that are not really spam, so if it is an important email it can be a problem, also its updates are not usually so continuous.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
It is an ideal software for organizations that need to stop illegitimate mass mail because in this way they protect their users and their confidential data, in addition to integrating it with other products generates greater protection.
Pros
- Saves Time
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
Niniveth Marybel M.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Oct 2020
Reliable and easy to use
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates FortiMail from other similar products?
FortiMail differs from other software because it gives the user the power to keep emails free of possible threats, being this simple to use and with an extremely intuitive interface so that user training is not necessary for its implementation, it is ideal to combat spam and this is thanks to the fact that it provides a wide range of features including data leak prevention, message archiving and encryption in order to protect incoming and outgoing mail traffic.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
My favorite aspect of this software is that it allows emails to be sent and received reliably, because it provides protection for them so that communication between the client and the company is not dangerous for either party thanks to its encryption , anti-spam and anti-malware, on the other hand its ease of use saves a lot of time and makes maintaining the emails that are handled daily not a heavy task.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Their reports are not as detailed or personalized, and this would be an ideal point so that it is not necessary to spend so much time understanding what is happening.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
This solution is ideal for maintaining clean and reliable communication with customers, so using it is an excellent option as it does not allow email traffic to be damaged by spam or anti-malware.
Pros
- Saves Time
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
Derrick B.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Healthcare
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Oct 2020
Reliable and Competent Email Security Services
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates FortiMail from other similar products?
FortiMail is one of the tools that detects URL malware, something which many software fails. Again, FortiMail has the capacity of dealing with spams, where there is no possibility of increasing traffic from unreasonable messages. Again, FortiMail is a program with high level of security detection and scanning.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
FortiMail is a program which issues accurate scans of any email that gets in to our inbox. Again, URL scanning and malware identification is a major benefit from FortiMail. The developer of FortiMail keeps us updated on the latest developments in email security.
What do you dislike most about this product?
FortiMail is a great email safety tool as it helps us understand the importance of security in our emails. Again, FortiMail ensures there is no single malware that gain access in our inbox. And the creator of FortiMail is informative.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
FortiMail is a tool that allows us monitor the emails which gets into our inbox and incase of a malware, it is easily identified and actions taken. Again, FortiMail has the most up-to-date security procedures.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Enables Productivity
- Trustworthy
- Unique Features