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Symantec mail security for Microsoft Exchange

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What is Symantec mail security for Microsoft Exchange?

Symantec Mail Security for Microsoft Exchange (SMSMSE) combines Symantec anti-malware technology with advanced heuristics and file reputation to provide real-time protection for email against viruses, spyware, phishing, and other malicious attacks. For additional protection, SMSMSE offers Symantec Premium AntiSpam technology (additional license) designed to help to stop 99 percent of incoming spam with less than one false positive per million. SMSMSE enforces content filtering policies on Microsoft Exchange Server 2013, 2016, and 2019, while supporting hosted, Microsoft Hyper-V®, and VMware® virtualized Exchange server environments. Symantec Mail Security for Microsoft Exchange complements other layers of protection by preventing the spread of email-borne threats and enforcing data loss prevention (DLP) policies.

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Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features Symantec mail security for Microsoft Exchange has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
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Top Performing Features

  • Anti-malware

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

    Category average: 9.1

  • Threat Detection

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

    Category average: 8.7

  • Sandboxing

    Sandboxing is a software management strategy that isolates applications from critical system resources and other programs providing an extra layer of security

    Category average: 7.3

Areas for Improvement

  • Management Tools

    Management tools include administrator dashboards, reports, etc.

    Category average: 8.4

  • Customizability

    Customizing email security gateways can improve detection capabilities

    Category average: 7.7

Reviews

What users are saying about Symantec mail security for Microsoft Exchange.
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Great Tool for Staff and Business Protection

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Fabio MarquesView profile
Head of IT in Information Technology at ShopTo.Net (11-50 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Symantec Mail security is a very powerful and cost-efficient anti-spam and anti-virus solution. It's easy to set up, extremely well integrated into Microsoft Exchange, and easily scalable. It's reassuring to know that we have this tool to help us manage our email security. I'd wholeheartedly recommend it to anyone that wishes to keep the bad guys away.

Pros

  • Easy set up and integration
  • Anti-virus and anti-spam protection
  • Up-to-date databases to make sure that it covers modern attacks

Cons

  • The user interface could be slightly better, but not a big issue at all.

Most Important Features

  • User protection
  • Anti-spam and anti-virus
  • Easy to set up

Return on Investment

  • Reduces likelihood of attacks, losses, and breaches
  • Improves compliance