Email security and content filtering

Axway MailGate SC
Strenghts: Full feature set with secure file sharing and secure mail. Weaknesses: Lack of pre-loaded compliance policy templates.
Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall
Strengths: Full virus and spam protection for inbound and outbound email. Weaknesses: Web-based management GUI is slightly confusing to use.
Cisco Email Security Appliance
Strengths: Easy to deploy and manage with many policy templates out of the box. Weaknesses: None that we found.
Clearswift SECURE Email Gateway
Strengths: Full featured and easy to use. Weaknesses: None that we found.
DataMotion SecureMail Gateway
Strengths: Full email encryption that is transparent to end-users. Weaknesses: Can be quite expensive as a recurring cost.
Echoworx Encrypted Mail Gateway
Strengths: Seamless cloud-based email encryption at a reasonable cost. Weaknesses: Documentation could have been more complete.
Fortinet FortiMail-400C
Strengths: Powerful and versatile feature set; IBE encryption hosted entirely on-device. Weaknesses: Complicated configuration.
Halon Security Virtual Spam Prevention (VSP)
Strengths: High performance, beautiful administration interface and powerful extensibility via API and scripting. Weaknesses: Advanced functionality requires learning proprietary scripting language.
McAfee Email Protection
Strengths: Numerous pre-compiled compliance dictionaries, easy encryption, simple yet powerful rules-based mail flow. Weaknesses: Does not officially support all modern browsers, and that’s a stretch.
Trend Micro InterScan Messaging Security
Strengths: Very easy content filtering. Weaknesses: Poor documentation, difficult-to-reach support, overly complicated encryption.
WatchGuard Technologies XCS 570
Strengths: Easy deployment, central management, comprehensive filtering and user-friendly encryption. Weaknesses: SecureEmail is essentially a hosted solution, which may not be appropriate for users with more stringent security requirements.The SC Magazine Labs team examined email security and content filtering products currently on the market and reported their strengths and weaknesses.
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