Avanan vs. Cisco Secure Email Threat Defense

Avanan

Cisco Secure Email Threat Defense

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Avanan	Score 9.4 out of 10	N/A	Avanan, from Check Point since the August 2021 acquisition, connects security technologies to enterprise cloud applications in order to improve protection of sensitive corporate data and IP. According to the vendor, Avanan's one-click deployment allows customers to deploy a new security solution in seconds. Because it requires no appliance, agent or gateway proxy, Avanan can begin protecting any cloud application immediately, with no effect on users.	$4 per user per month
Cisco Secure Email Threat Defense	Score 8.8 out of 10	N/A	Cisco Secure Email Threat Defense provides protection against email threats that compromise an organization’s brand and operations. Its advanced threat detection capabilities uncover known, emerging and targeted threats. And it expands the scope of organizations' defenses to detect dangerous threats and rapidly search for and remediate threats across security controls. Secure Email Threat Defense's Artificial Intelligence and machine…	N/A

Pricing

Avanan

Cisco Secure Email Threat Defense

Editions & Modules

Advanced Anti-Phishing: $4.00
per user per month
Complete Malware Protection: $5.00
per user per month
Full-Suite Protection: $8.00
per user per month

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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Avanan	Cisco Secure Email Threat Defense
Free Trial
Yes	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Optional

Additional Details

Prices for fewer than 500 users.

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Community Pulse
	Avanan	Cisco Secure Email Threat Defense
Considered Both Products	Avanan Verified User Anonymous Chose Avanan I tried other products, but they did not work in line with Microsoft Exchange, so emails were delivered first, causing the opportunity for a user to still click on a bad link if the email was not pulled from their inbox quickly enough. This product does not do that, it scans … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Avanan Proton seems to be a great way for starters but we felt that with Avanan, they take it to another level with their security. The less we have to worry about in our emails, the easier we can do our jobs for our clients and those we work for daily. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Avanan Proofpoint Email Protection, Symantec Email Security.cloud, Proofpoint Cloud App Security Broker (Proofpoint CASB) and Broadcom CloudSOC CASB Incentivized Helpful? Pradum Kumar Software Engineer Chose Avanan I have used Cisco's secure Email, one of the major dislike is User Interface that is buggy and not user friendly. It does not update it's database for spam sites. Integration process takes much time whereas Avanan takes very less time. Cisco Secure Email sometimes deletes the … Incentivized Helpful? Meenakshi Jain HR Manager Chose Avanan Avanan has the best integration suite and is well recognised in the industry for its email security and malware protection. I would definitely go with Avanan in the future, too, to ensure the best level of security for my organisation. Avanan connects with my GSuite account … Incentivized Helpful? Damindu Weerasooriya Software Engineer Chose Avanan Avanan is seamless, so we can prevent losing any sensitive data even before it happens. Avanan also has an advanced malware analysis system for file attachments and URLs including click time protection feature. Avanan can detect almost all the malicious content available up to … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Avanan Avanan comes with many advanced features which can be very user-friendly. The overall cost is slightly cheaper than Proofpoint Email Protection. Technical support from Avanan is quite responsive and able to resolve the reported issue in timely manners. Anomaly detections are … Incentivized Helpful? Praneeth Narisetty Founder Chose Avanan Avanan is the email and data security platform that we have come to depend on in our organization. All of our information that is stored in cloud servers is effectively protected by Avanan from potential hackers. This product effectively lets us manage how and when emails are … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Avanan Cisco has a strong competitor with Avanan although the immense suite of Cisco products brings strong competition. Avanan's strength lies in rapidity to implement and ease of use which more established players are less able to do, due to a lack of agility. Avanan has a promising … Incentivized Helpful? AP Ash Patel Director of IT and Facilities Chose Avanan The better product blocks phishing attacks before it gets to the user's mailbox and the secure click feature is a great benefit. Incentivized Helpful? Marta Budzan Accounting Manager Chose Avanan I believe that the price point and easiness of implementation were better for Avanan versus competitors. It also offered better ongoing customer support. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Avanan Easy deployment Automated AI quarantining and mitigation Simple UI and block and allow policies Incentivized Helpful? SR Sandeep Reyyi Senior Development Engineer Testing Chose Avanan Nothing. We haven't considered any other tool. Incentivized Helpful? ST samuel therriault IT TECH MA Chose Avanan Avanan works way better and is easier to use. Incentivized Helpful? Neeraj Kumar Gupta DevOps Architect Chose Avanan the best feature is Avanan is easy setup within minutes and has True AI-based API solutions to help and protect from all email threats and a single point of the suite for all attacks before delivery and post-delivery protection. better in terms of malware detection, email … Incentivized Helpful? TP Thomas Peltier Security Specialist Chose Avanan Avanan is cheaper than proofpoint and provides the same level of protection. Incentivized Helpful? Sofia-Mar Andersson Software Engineer Chose Avanan Its our very first experience. Incentivized Helpful? Neha Prajapati Sales Analyst Chose Avanan I have not used the same featured platform as Avanan. In my experience with this platform, I have the full belief that this product delivers beyond our imagination. It has protected us from viruses that could have destroyed our systems and interfered with our data. We have been … Incentivized Helpful? Daisy Cooper Restaurant Manager Chose Avanan Avanan is easy to implement and to use with an excellent intuitive user interface and a team of professionals for a quick response and quality support. Avanan meets our requirements and we are able to manage quarantine on emails mistakenly released or change an email and … Incentivized Helpful? Valarie Thomas Software Engineer Chose Avanan Avanan is excellent for the control of attacks on cloud-based applications like malware and ransomware. The anti-phishing feature is excellent ensuring business continuity with good reporting to problem identification within the organization. Good for an organization supporting … Incentivized Helpful? Peter Morgan Digital Marketing Manager Chose Avanan The cloud deployment of this software when getting started is nice and easy. Avanan tools allow easy adjustment and the data moving speed is excellent. Avanan allows effective data encryption, easy data visualization, and generating reports for multiple [processes] is easy. … Incentivized Helpful? Joel Elliot Digital Specialist Chose Avanan Avanan has a one-click solution, which subscribers or clients use to deploy a new security update. Further, Avanan has the protection of any cloud application, which means, it bypasses any security threat and maintain the set safety processes. Finally, data leakage is a shield … Incentivized Helpful? Jessica Mercy Data Specialist Chose Avanan Avanan has numerous security operations, [like anti-phishing], which is a vital step in controlling the safety of the firm. Besides, the [anti-malware] from Avanan has perfect endpoint capabilities, which offers the application more [power]. Sandboxing and data protection also … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Avanan Avanan has a smooth process of implementation and nothing that keeps it away from customers. Further, the sandbox and the shadow IT features are things that allow better coordination and preparedness in a company. Finally, Avanan has deployed a post-delivery safety feature, … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Avanan What makes Avanan special is that it is affordable. In addition, it not only protects [the] email system from threats but also makes email encryption easy. Incentivized Helpful?	Cisco Secure Email Threat Defense JX Jose Juan Xicara Security Specialist Chose Cisco Secure Email Threat Defense Cisco's dashboard is complete and easier to navigate. Incentivized Helpful? Stephen Epley Information Technology Manager Chose Cisco Secure Email Threat Defense We use CES to compliment these systems and provide a robust security architecture to protect against many attack vectors. Incentivized Helpful? DK Dipak Kapure IT executive Chose Cisco Secure Email Threat Defense Yes, we evaluated both FortiMail and Cisco Secure Email Threat Defense. We choose Cisco Secure Email Threat Defense due to better price offering from Cisco as well as it's advanced features. Cisco secure email threat defense also offers decent product support. It provides you … Incentivized Helpful? SP Simon Pytlik Principal Consultant Chose Cisco Secure Email Threat Defense Splunk Application Performance Monitoring (APM) Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Cisco Secure Email Threat Defense Integration and lifecycle from CES to ETD. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Cisco Secure Email Threat Defense Barracuda does not have all the features Cisco Secure Email Threat Defense does. Cisco Secure Email Threat Defense is integrated to Cisco Talos, the online Threat vigilance software that inspects world wide threats for both networking and email security. It gets updates real … Incentivized Helpful? VK Vaibhav Khot Manager - IT Chose Cisco Secure Email Threat Defense We evaluated FortiMail with Cisco Secure Email Threat Defense but we choose Cisco Secure Email Threat Defense only because we found it is more secured and reliable solution than FortiMail. It is easy to deploy and integrate. Secondly, Cisco is well known name in cyber … Incentivized Helpful? JT Jernan Tran Security Specialist Chose Cisco Secure Email Threat Defense Based on the interface and demo provided, the tool makes the function of Secops easier to navigate and respond to incidents. It provides greater visibility of email to understand what the next actions and provides the mechanism to automate the response. it meets our business … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Cisco Secure Email Threat Defense The security teams also evaluated similar offerings but went with Cisco Secure Email since this comes from a big name and they wanted to ensure complete compliance and protection assurance. The primary reasons for selecting Cisco Secure Email were integration with office 365, … Incentivized Helpful? Ahmed Allam Senior Computer Systems Engineer Chose Cisco Secure Email Threat Defense The services offered by Forefront were basic, it's not quite comparable to Cisco Secure Email. The functions offered by Cisco are outstanding. Incentivized Helpful? Finn James Sales Manager Chose Cisco Secure Email Threat Defense From my point of view, Darktrace has excessive blocking which is usually very annoying, there are times when the emails I receive from clients to formalize a sale take it as spam and I even just open it. On the other hand, Cisco Secure Email hits the spot with the information … Incentivized Helpful? SQ Steven Quach Student Assistant Chose Cisco Secure Email Threat Defense Cisco Secure Email and Fortimail are both solutions that provide secure email services. Both Cisco Secure Email and Fortimail help protect users from security risks such as spam, phishing, and viruses to name a few. The implementation for both Cisco Secure Email and Fortimail … Incentivized Helpful? BS Boniface Sacha Senior Account Manager Chose Cisco Secure Email Threat Defense While Cisco Secure Email is not the cheapest, it offers some leading security features making it competitive and a must-have. Incentivized Helpful? TM Thomas Mamadouh Human Resources Assistant Chose Cisco Secure Email Threat Defense One reason why Cisco Secure Email is the best is that it is not only affordable but also offers some of the best email protection features. Incentivized Helpful? JH Jacob Henry Company Admin Chose Cisco Secure Email Threat Defense I find Cisco Secure Email cost effective, and it is also rich in features. Incentivized Helpful? RM Rivondo Mwarabu Accounting Officer Chose Cisco Secure Email Threat Defense Cisco Secure Email is cost-effective and offers better features more when it comes to encryption. Incentivized Helpful? Chandan Singh Rathore Senior Technical Consultant Chose Cisco Secure Email Threat Defense Cisco Secure Email gives granular control over configuring the rules and policies for organization users. Additionally, it's available with on-premise support, which is where other solutions lack. It gives complete protection for emails with next-generation malware protection, … Incentivized Helpful? Ankit Singh Network Administrator Chose Cisco Secure Email Threat Defense We were using Mimecast Secure Email Gateway before Cisco Secure Email and faced many issues. After we switched to Cisco, we are not facing any downtime or any other type of issue. Also, Cisco Secure Email provides us with many features like virus protection, encryption, spam … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Cisco Secure Email Threat Defense Cisco Email Security provides the first layer of defense against cyber threats and protects sensitive outbound data. It guards against spam, fraudulent senders, infected files whenever they become malicious and blocks risky URLs to prevent attacks. It also prevents data loss … Incentivized Helpful? JP João Paulo Chief Information Security Officer Chose Cisco Secure Email Threat Defense Cisco SETD, with a broad deployment and full integration with Microsoft 365 gives us a strong protection, especially where we can leverage its strengths: Microsoft‑365 integration, mailbox remediation, policy enforcement, and your visibility across Cisco tools. Incentivized Helpful?

Features

Avanan

Cisco Secure Email Threat Defense

Secure Email Gateway

Comparison of Secure Email Gateway features of Product A and Product B
	Avanan 8.5 Ratings 2% above category average	Cisco Secure Email Threat Defense 8.4 Ratings 1% above category average
Anti-malware	10.00 Ratings	8.70 Ratings
Customizability	8.00 Ratings	8.80 Ratings
Data Loss Protection	8.00 Ratings	8.20 Ratings
Threat Detection	10.00 Ratings	8.90 Ratings
Sandboxing	6.50 Ratings	8.10 Ratings
End-to-End Encryption	7.20 Ratings	8.80 Ratings
Management Tools	10.00 Ratings	7.20 Ratings

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	Avanan	Cisco Secure Email Threat Defense
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User Ratings
	Avanan	Cisco Secure Email Threat Defense
Likelihood to Recommend	10.0 (0 ratings)	9.0 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.1 (0 ratings)	5.0 (0 ratings)
Usability	10.0 (0 ratings)	9.0 (0 ratings)
Availability	9.1 (0 ratings)	9.0 (0 ratings)
Performance	6.4 (0 ratings)	7.3 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	9.3 (0 ratings)	8.2 (0 ratings)
In-Person Training	1.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Online Training	8.2 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	9.0 (0 ratings)	9.0 (0 ratings)
Configurability	9.1 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Ease of integration	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (0 ratings)
Product Scalability	9.1 (0 ratings)	9.1 (0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	9.1 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	9.1 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Avanan	Cisco Secure Email Threat Defense
Likelihood to Recommend	This software is well-suited for a company that is looking to protect its data from common security breaches. It is very user-friendly and easy to implement, which is why these few things make it easily usable on a daily basis. This software also allows for much faster cloud performance and provides regular reports which provide security analytics. Marta Budzan Accounting Manager Read full review	With Cisco Secure Email, we can easily protect our business email system again all manner of attacks. In addition, we are able to send emails securely thanks to encryption and decryption features. It's, therefore, ideal for businesses that value email privacy, such as those in the accounting industry, hospitals, and law firms, among other users. BS Boniface Sacha Senior Account Manager Read full review
Pros	The dashboard for Avanan makes all of the most important information easy to digest. Alerting - specifically, the Geo-Location alerts allow us to see if a user has possibly been compromised. The End-User Email Quarantine experience gives users the ability to request emails be released, which trains them to better spot legitimate emails. Incentivized Nathaniel Roebuck Information Technology Administrator Read full review	Manages Junk Mail Well-We configured and tested our configuration to filter out the majority of junk mail hitting our inboxes. Manages Graymail-We configured and tested our Cisco ETD for graymail filtering and reduced the amount of unwanted advertising and other legitimate emails. Creating unique policies that were tailored to block or allow emails from certain senders. Stopped malicious email traffic (e.g., malicious attachments and links) with rules for identifying and stripping potentially malicious attachments or links. Allows easy configuration for other email security measures such as SPF, DMARC and DKIM. Cisco engineers provide an annual free security health check. We took advantage of several security health checks where Cisco certified engineers go over the security setting of our Cisco ETD. We were provided a written report that highlighted strengths and weaknesses of our Cisco ETD setup. Monitoring email traffic flow is almost overwhelming with the amount of information you can obtain from the portal. This gives valuable information to IT staff in terms of volume and type of emails the company is receiving. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	I only ever had one complaint, we had a few hiccups during the setup process. We have now been a customer for two years and have had no further issues. It is likely that the setup pain points have now been resolved as well. Overall the product does what it claims while providing a very intuitive interface. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	The web interface is definitely dated The software updates to the user interface and the documentation online are not congruent. Some docs are old and information is lacking to make changes The email filtering and email search features are really dated. And other tools are more user friendly Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	Cost, need to make sure the cost is competitive for how many users are using email protection as we move users to MS Teams and don't rely so much on full access to email accounts (both sending and receiving internal and external). Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	There is a 50/50 chance that we will renew. We are in the middle of moving from on-prem to the cloud so we may not need it once we are fully migrated. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Usability	Usability is so easy. It was a quick configuration with entering in some credentials, accepting terms and permissions and before you know it it's already going through and taking a look at existing emails. Portal is very easy to use and there are always updates with decent logs. The new UI is great and highly intuitive. Incentivized Paul Maranzano Technical Director Read full review	Good interface, easy to use and set up. If there were any issues, there is very good documentation and videos that one can follow for additional setup and best practices. As typical with most Cisco solutions, there are more features than needed for our purposes but good to know they are there in case of future needs Incentivized VL Victor Lau Network Architect Read full review
Reliability and Availability	Always been available as needed. Incentivized ER Eric Rise Network System Administrator Read full review	Cisco Secure Email Threat Defense's availability is great and reliable when you need it most. We haven't had any noticeable outages or issues. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Performance	It's not all the time, on occasion the platform can delay email by seven to ten minutes. Incentivized ER Eric Rise Network System Administrator Read full review	No answers on this topic
Support Rating	Avanan support always is ready to respond to user requests and typically does it in an exceptionally quick timeframe. Most requests are not even needed to be escalated as their team will look at active threats and deal with them before they are even a problem. Monthly meetups are also great in obtaining our needs as well as showing us what is new and in the horizon. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Cisco always provides good support for all of their solutions. As usual, Cisco support is top notch, from their initial sales teams to the post support, we have always felt comfortable with using Cisco solutions. Their documentation is also very good, frequent updates to the documents with feature enhancements and support notes. All around very good suppot Incentivized VL Victor Lau Network Architect Read full review
In-Person Training	There was no in person training. Incentivized ER Eric Rise Network System Administrator Read full review	No answers on this topic
Online Training	Takes a lot to get a 10 out of 10. Incentivized ER Eric Rise Network System Administrator Read full review	No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating	Ensure system administration and exchange admin are up to speed on Avanan Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	The implementation went well, no issues or problems to report. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	I have used Cisco's secure Email, one of the major dislike is User Interface that is buggy and not user friendly. It does not update it's database for spam sites. Integration process takes much time whereas Avanan takes very less time. Cisco Secure Email sometimes deletes the important emails and that is worst where as Avanan has good AI/ML integration there are very rare false positive in deleting emails. Pradum Kumar Software Engineer Read full review	Cisco SETD, with a broad deployment and full integration with Microsoft 365 gives us a strong protection, especially where we can leverage its strengths: Microsoft‑365 integration, mailbox remediation, policy enforcement, and your visibility across Cisco tools. Proofpoint is better around user awareness (warning tags etc.), and continuity/archiving. Considering that we have a full Cisco stack, choosing Proofpoint would come with higher cost, learning curve, possible redundancy of features, licensing complexity. Incentivized João Paulo Chief Information Security Officer Read full review
Scalability	It does what they claim and then some. Incentivized ER Eric Rise Network System Administrator Read full review	No answers on this topic
Return on Investment	Improved risk mitigation by providing additional layer protection for M365. Easy to setup and configure. No expert knowledge required and no downtime required. Customizable license count. No need to buy the same number of mailbox users if you really don't want to protect some unused mailboxes. Incentivized Kishor Kumar TB Senior Systems Engineer Read full review	Up time is as close to 100% as you can get Tuning is pretty straight forward and Cisco support is there to help with special tweaks and filter options. At no charge Support access is pretty easy to get Email threat, filtering, and geolocation verification is updated very regularly Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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