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Trustwave MailMarshal

Score7 out of 10

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What is Trustwave MailMarshal?

Trustwave MailMarshal is an email security and management solution designed to help organizations mitigate email-based threats. According to the vendor, this platform is suitable for businesses of various sizes and caters to the needs of IT security professionals, network administrators, compliance officers, as well as industries such as financial services and healthcare.

Key Features

Layered Security: Trustwave MailMarshal aims to reduce false positives and protect against spam, gateway attacks, viruses, phishing attempts, and malicious URLs. According to the vendor, it provides protection against ransomware, business email compromise (BEC), phishing, malware, and zero-day exploits.

Management Flexibility and Control: The vendor claims that Trustwave MailMarshal offers granular control, efficient policy management, and compliance task execution through a single portal, allowing for streamlined administration and enhanced control over email security.

Ease of Implementation: Trustwave MailMarshal is designed to enable quick and hassle-free email protection setup. The platform comes with built-in rule sets, which the vendor states allows users to configure and implement email security measures within minutes.

Track Record of Success: With 25 years of leadership in email security services and support from Trustwave SpiderLabs elite threat detection security team, Trustwave MailMarshal boasts a track record of success. According to the vendor, it is powered by telemetry from over 5,000 global MSS/MDR clients, achieving a remarkable 99.99% malware and exploit capture rate. Furthermore, the vendor claims that no clients have reported ransomware infection or major incidents.

Extensive Policy Controls: Trustwave MailMarshal offers users extensive policy control options. According to the vendor, users can implement custom policy configurations based on trigger points, content filtering, and other policies, providing enhanced email security and compliance capabilities.

Data Loss Prevention (DLP): Trustwave MailMarshal includes powerful DLP capabilities. The vendor states that it scans outbound emails and attachments, providing full DLP-level inspection to manage confidential data and meet stringent industry and regulatory requirements.

Advanced Detection and Filtering: The platform employs advanced detection and filtering techniques to stop external phishing, business email compromise, and other threats. According to the vendor, Trustwave MailMarshal scans emails for anomalies, inconsistencies, and malicious behavior in the email's structure, content, attachment, and links, ensuring robust protection against evolving threats.

Customizable Business Email Compromise (BEC) Protection: Trustwave MailMarshal allows users to customize protection against targeted phishing and BEC attacks. The vendor claims that by combining email security measures, employee education, and best practices, organizations can effectively mitigate the risks associated with BEC attacks.

Time of Click URL Scanning: Trustwave MailMarshal validates every URL and webpage at the time of click, aiming to provide protection anytime and from any device. The vendor states that this proactive approach helps safeguard users against malicious URLs and webpages.

Advanced Threat Protection (Optional Feature): Trustwave MailMarshal offers an optional advanced threat protection feature. According to the vendor, this feature identifies, catches, neutralizes, and blocks suspicious or malicious code served up by websites to company users, providing zero-day protection against phishing, blended, and targeted threats.

Basic product, compared to others of the same type.

Pros

  • By having the physical appliance, it is more granular the control that is had of the users, which also accelerates the speed of detection of threats.
  • The few options of DLP that it has are very useful when filtering sensitive data, but I stress "few".
  • The interface is intuitive, but for more advanced options, it requires a higher than average knowledge of these systems.

Cons

  • I know it is not a DLP since there is another specific product for it, but they could do it just a little easier for the average user.
  • An intuitive interface in a broader aspect, not only in the basic functions.
  • The option only in the cloud is good, but only the appliance offers all the functionalities.

Return on Investment

  • While it is a good product, today there are several that exceed it in quality and functionality.
  • In a medium company it is correct, since the cost can be high for a smaller one and it is not worth it.
  • It is a basic product, compared to others of the same type

Alternatives Considered

Barracuda Email Security Service, FortiMail, WatchGuard Secure Email Gateway (XCS) and SonicWALL Email Security Series Appliances

Other Software Used

Barracuda Email Security Service, Cisco Cloud Email Security, WatchGuard Secure Email Gateway (XCS), SonicWALL Email Security Series Appliances