

It is doing what it was actually designed to do. The Microsoft solution tends to be pretty limited in how it allows some of that to be done." "The malicious URL scanning, as well as the anti-malware features, have been really useful for us in our environment." "It is doing its work. and we also have the option to block Zero-day attacks." "The filtering is definitely better at catching both spam and malicious messages, and there's a lot of extremely granular ability for setting up rules. And there are not a lot of catches where it's catching something that should have gotten through, either." "There is a huge return compared to if we didn't have a gateway appliance, as far as blocking malicious emails." "Anti-Spam and Advanced Malware Protection are the most valuable features. I can only go by what people have told me and what I've seen, but I have not seen spam in a year and a half to two years in my own company mailbox. It can give us a trajectory of all the other places that it went internally and it can tell us what files were transferred as well." "It does a great job of preventing spam, malware, and ransomware. Maybe it's something we wanted it to stop and it didn't stop it, but it notified us later that it was something that it should have stopped. As it becomes a safe platform, you don't need to invest anything in your own data center or in your upgrade path." "It has the ability to tell us, after an email has been delivered, where else it went, once it got inside.

"The added value of it is that every migration to a new version is initiated by the Cisco version itself, so that is a bunch of work that you don't have to do on the Cisco ESA system on-premise.
