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Kaspersky Security for Mail Server

Score8.2 out of 10

4 Reviews and Ratings

What is Kaspersky Security for Mail Server?

Kaspersky Labs headquartered in Moscow offers email server and antimalware for email via the company's Kaspersky Security for Mail Server software product.

Categories & Use Cases

Top Performing Features

  • Data Loss Protection

    A set of tools and processes used to ensure that sensitive data is not lost, misused, or accessed by unauthorized users.

    Category average: 7.5

  • End-to-End Encryption

    In end-to-end encryption the data is encrypted on the sender's system or device and only the recipient is able to decrypt it

    Category average: 8.4

  • Customizability

    Customizing email security gateways can improve detection capabilities

    Category average: 7.7

Areas for Improvement

  • Anti-malware

    Anti-malware is a type of software program designed to prevent, detect and remove malicious software

    Category average: 9.1

  • Management Tools

    Management tools include administrator dashboards, reports, etc.

    Category average: 8.4

  • Threat Detection

    Threat protection defend against sophisticated malware or hacking-based attacks targeting sensitive data.

    Category average: 8.7

Most needed tool for maintain secure communication environment.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

As an SEO Analyst, I need to write emails to my teams and clients which is confidential, and for the security of these mail, I use Kaspersky security. Kaspersky provides me full security including mail server security and protects our business from spam and phishing. Not only does it secures our mail server, but it also secures all my business through the multi-playered security system.

Pros

  • Neural network based anti-phishing and anti-spam for multilayered security.
  • Scalable resources according to business growth.
  • Flexible to use in almost all devices.

Cons

  • Lack of transparency on their report.
  • Complicated on-boarding process.

Return on Investment

  • Balance our manpower distribution in between security team and management team.
  • Help to create secure work environment for all staff.
  • Reduce our cost by proper utilization of security budget.

Other Software Used

BitPay

Good service, but many false positives.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Kaspersky Security for Mail Server is a good tool to prevent email threats and social engineering attacks in multiple layers. It also has good sandboxing, which is ideal to prevent obfuscated attacks. Unfortunately, in our case, it had too many false positives. so we started using Microsoft Exchange Online Protection instead.

Pros

  • Sandboxing
  • Social Engineering protection.
  • Multi-layer checks.

Cons

  • False positives.
  • Integration can be fiddly.

Return on Investment

  • Reduced number of attacks on staff.
  • Increased number of false positives.

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft Exchange