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zaps phishing emails
What do you like best about the product?
Avanan blocks phishing emails that other companies miss. I’ve tried several. And because Avanan is API-based, it can reach into all mailboxes and remove emails that shouldn't be there.
Even though I use Mimecast as my primary filter, Mimecast misses many phishing and spam emails. Avanan detects the phish and stops it.
Avanan is also quick-acting to remove email from inboxes. Users will report, “I saw something suspicious, but then it disappeared.” Avanan has done its job. Creating block rules against that sender is easy. Another example, email is sent by mistake, then I can remove it from all mailboxes with a quick search.
Plus, it has anomaly detection. Meaning it sees the good and bad login attempts to our accounts and does a Geo-IP lookup and notifies me of suspicious behavior. For example, I have an email account that is accessed from different countries at the same time and Avanan detects and reports this. You can also create an exception rule to exclude it from future detections.
It's a brilliant product and deserves recognition. I seriously sleep better now that I have Avanan.
Why do I use two email filters? Because two is better than one in today's environment.
Even though I use Mimecast as my primary filter, Mimecast misses many phishing and spam emails. Avanan detects the phish and stops it.
Avanan is also quick-acting to remove email from inboxes. Users will report, “I saw something suspicious, but then it disappeared.” Avanan has done its job. Creating block rules against that sender is easy. Another example, email is sent by mistake, then I can remove it from all mailboxes with a quick search.
Plus, it has anomaly detection. Meaning it sees the good and bad login attempts to our accounts and does a Geo-IP lookup and notifies me of suspicious behavior. For example, I have an email account that is accessed from different countries at the same time and Avanan detects and reports this. You can also create an exception rule to exclude it from future detections.
It's a brilliant product and deserves recognition. I seriously sleep better now that I have Avanan.
Why do I use two email filters? Because two is better than one in today's environment.
What do you dislike about the product?
After three years of use, I've seen it miss a handful of phishing emails out of the hundreds that Mimecast and Microsoft ATP missed. That's a PRO. User awareness is still an essential part of our layered defenses.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I spent a year with just Mimecast, and it was stressful. I've now had three additional years of Mimecast + Avanan. I can trust Avanan to detect and remove malicious emails. It helps me relax and focus on other work. Malicious email is serious business and a huge problem. Ransomware, using email as the initial attack vector, takes down businesses for days or weeks. Email filtering is step 1 of protecting your company.
Easy setup with 365 APi
What do you like best about the product?
It just works. It requires very little updating or babysitting.
What do you dislike about the product?
It finds email addresses that are no longer active and tries to protect them. When you only pay for active users, it can identify an old account and assign a license. This puts active users in a detect only mode.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Phishing, Malware, and Spam
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Sign up for the trial and see what it can detect in your environment. In read-only mode its no impact on production.
Avanan makes life easier and more secure!
What do you like best about the product?
The best part about Avanan is less man hours chasing problems and knowing email security is in good hands.
What do you dislike about the product?
So far, I have found nothing to dislike.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Avanan helped tremendously in getting our email spam problem under control. Benefits are cost, compared to previous solution and man hours saved.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Compare solutions and I think you will see Avanan stands above the rest.
Can't say enough good things about Avanan.
What do you like best about the product?
Like most everyone else, we have emails that bypass Office 365's filters. Our users will click on nearly anything. Avanan prevents this behavior. We didn't know how much got through until we deployed Avanan. Speaking of deployment, it was simple. So simple that we had the "This can't be all you have to do" moments. Of all the software we use, Avanan ranks at the top of the ones I wouldn't want to be without.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing. Really. It just works. I used to look at it every day to make sure it was doing what it advertised and now I just leave it alone.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The problem of human behavior. We have tried everything to prevent users from clicking emails, but nothing works except preventing them from getting to the user. We even have folks request obvious emails to be delivered after being filtered by Avanan. It's so easy to simply decline the request.
Avanan - Awesome security layer for email (Two Year Review)
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of use and transparent reporting. Most tasks can be done without leaving the Avanan interface. The product seamlessly integrates with G Suite, which is enormous for the K-12 crowd. I like the dashboard setup and event clarity.
Edit: At this point, I am two years into having this product and can only say it has been fantastic for us. This product has saved me an incredible amount of time chasing down, trying to block, or answering questions about spam/phishing emails.
Edit: At this point, I am two years into having this product and can only say it has been fantastic for us. This product has saved me an incredible amount of time chasing down, trying to block, or answering questions about spam/phishing emails.
What do you dislike about the product?
Set up was not entirely painless and took a few phone calls to get resolved, otherwise no real complaints. Set up is easy for the most part, but I think at the time, Google (we are GSuite) was making some background changes that tripped up the process. I did not get the impression that this was an Avanan issue, but it still took a bit to resolve.
Edit: Two years in now, I have to say that these pain points were only during setup. Day-to-day operations are very smooth and the Google integration is much improved. Any real criticisms I had of the product have been resolved.
Edit: Two years in now, I have to say that these pain points were only during setup. Day-to-day operations are very smooth and the Google integration is much improved. Any real criticisms I had of the product have been resolved.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The amount of phishing attempts has grown exponentially in both scale and complexity for years. Avanan gives us a solution that can target criteria that is historically hard to pinpoint and do it inline before the email is ever delivered to the users inbox..... even for cloud services like Gmail.
Edit: Two years in now. This product is excellent at catching emails that are pretending to be from staff members. We were having issues with emails coming in pretending to be from another staff member asking for gift cards etc. and this has almost eliminated them. Another added benefit is that when integrated in GSuite you will get alerts when users log in from odd places. This can help you track down compromised accounts or, in our case (We are K12 education) students using VPNs to try and get past filtering.
Edit: Two years in now. This product is excellent at catching emails that are pretending to be from staff members. We were having issues with emails coming in pretending to be from another staff member asking for gift cards etc. and this has almost eliminated them. Another added benefit is that when integrated in GSuite you will get alerts when users log in from odd places. This can help you track down compromised accounts or, in our case (We are K12 education) students using VPNs to try and get past filtering.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Avanan can be a bit spendy but considering what a security breach can cost I still feel it is worth it. This product has been a fantastic security tool for us and I highly recommend it to anyone looking to shore up email security.
My experiense with Cloudguard SaaS
What do you like best about the product?
Th best i have experienced with the solution is, integration method they have used. Incase of securing our emails, for every other solutions I need to have at least few minutes of downtime. In Cloud guard SaaS, that was completely removed.
Not only downtime, but also the integration method is too simple to use.
Also it can scan the existing email boxes for malwares and phishing.
The best solution with them, but no one ever has with the email security is Identity theft protection, it helps me a lot.
Not only downtime, but also the integration method is too simple to use.
Also it can scan the existing email boxes for malwares and phishing.
The best solution with them, but no one ever has with the email security is Identity theft protection, it helps me a lot.
What do you dislike about the product?
It also have number of difficulties inside it.
1. If I am having a O365 mail domain with abc.com, for alert i get email from noreply@abc.com by default, I didn't configure the email address and I don't have any privilege to change the email address. I need to depend on support team.
2. I can find many details in weekly report. but to find the same details I need to create custom queries in my console. Eg: in my weekly report I have no. of logins with respect to countries, but in console I need to create custom queries. For beginners it is a difficult task also the admin need to create custom queries for nearly every details he finds in the weekly report.
3. Speaking of custom query I cant download the report if it have more than 10,000 entry.
4. Locally transmitting mails are not scanning. Eg: in my Organization if I have 2 groups with 2 different policies, Group A is with alert mode and Group B is with prevent mode. If both A and B receives a malicious mail from internet, it scans and generates alert, but if a guy from Group A send the mail to a guy in Group B, the mail policy will not apply and prevent the mail, it simply allows to him and he gets affected without creating any alert at least.
5. Need for depending on Checkpoint support team is quite more.
1. If I am having a O365 mail domain with abc.com, for alert i get email from noreply@abc.com by default, I didn't configure the email address and I don't have any privilege to change the email address. I need to depend on support team.
2. I can find many details in weekly report. but to find the same details I need to create custom queries in my console. Eg: in my weekly report I have no. of logins with respect to countries, but in console I need to create custom queries. For beginners it is a difficult task also the admin need to create custom queries for nearly every details he finds in the weekly report.
3. Speaking of custom query I cant download the report if it have more than 10,000 entry.
4. Locally transmitting mails are not scanning. Eg: in my Organization if I have 2 groups with 2 different policies, Group A is with alert mode and Group B is with prevent mode. If both A and B receives a malicious mail from internet, it scans and generates alert, but if a guy from Group A send the mail to a guy in Group B, the mail policy will not apply and prevent the mail, it simply allows to him and he gets affected without creating any alert at least.
5. Need for depending on Checkpoint support team is quite more.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I used to secure my O365 suite. I get complete visibility of threats in my mail boxes.
Initially, no. of users are consistently compromised, but using identity theft protection, I have completely over come that using this solution.
Initially, no. of users are consistently compromised, but using identity theft protection, I have completely over come that using this solution.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It would be better, to scan and alert forwarding or sending mails inside the domain.
Kindly include as much as features available in weekly report also in the console. Don't make the admin to depend on the custom queries.
Make the Admin only to depend support team for troubleshooting.
Kindly include as much as features available in weekly report also in the console. Don't make the admin to depend on the custom queries.
Make the Admin only to depend support team for troubleshooting.
A first line defense to protect your emails and collaboration with the cloud
What do you like best about the product?
It is our main source of protection because it has proven to be the only true way to protect email and collaboration in the cloud at the same time. We bring conventional solutions for on-premises email, proxies and native gateways into the organization's system, stopping threats before they successfully reach the inbox by working seamlessly with your existing security. We in turn use its unique architecture built specifically for the cloud to protect us much more in all possible areas and channels
What do you dislike about the product?
It is effective in detecting threats, but recognizing which and where it comes from is necessary to eliminate them and Avanan is not yet trained for this, complementing it in this feature would be essential, being so, we currently use a complement to detect threats to eliminate them and be completely out of risk, however for us is a platform like no other in the market, exceeded the expectations of the entire team
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We connect you to our environment in search of threats always depending on your security system, but before the inbox. Later we also implement it within the cloud, to obtain a better defense against internal threats, the compromise of business email and violated accounts. The best part of this whole process is that we save time as Avanan is implemented as an application and configured with a few clicks, and gives excellent results
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It is a powerful platform to completely secure any organization's cloud, through its professional analysis system that detects threats in cloud applications connected to the business flow such as OneDrive, Google Drive and Teams. With which a huge amount of threats can be caught, exercising a more reliable email security layer. With its easy and fast implementation it is possible to completely forget about virtual threats and fraud, because its functions are specially designed to block phishing, malware and other advanced threats that have evaded existing security
So far, Avanan is the best ever antiphishing solution to manage malicious emails effectively.
What do you like best about the product?
It is so advanced tool that doesn't require many resources to manage it. Not from technical but from business side as well, this tool adds value to an organization.
What do you dislike about the product?
Avanan is an advanced and API based antiphishing tool that works in parallel to MS O365 and also helps to manage spam emails but due to some technical limitation, MS default antispam filter cannot be disabled. So spam emails detected by MS not deliver to Avanan solution.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
With Avanan email security, we are effectively managing phsihing emails, malicious email and BEC emails at the network level that further add value to secure staffs mailbox.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
This is one of the best tool for an organisation if they want to secure cloud email infrastructure with minimum resources and effort.
Advanced email security done right!
What do you like best about the product?
Avanan is almost too good to be true. It literally takes just minutes to install, it learns quickly, and it has effectively reduced my team's time dealing with phishing attempt response by nearly 90%. It was shocking to see truly how many email threats make it through O365's "filtering". Avanan helps me sleep better at night. What more can you ask than that?
What do you dislike about the product?
My only dislike is, honestly, that I didn't learn about Avanan sooner.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We had been experiencing a large number of phishing attempts for a long time, but once COVID-19 hit, those attempts increased significantly in number. It was getting to be too much to manage, knowing that if one user clicks a bad link, it could results in a security incident. While we provide continual security awareness training, I'd MUCH rather prevent them from receiving the emails to begin with and have to think about how to respond to them.
HIGHLY recommend Avanan to anyone seeking enhanced Email security
What do you like best about the product?
I love the Avanan interface. It is intuitive, easy to use, and they have phenomenal support. It just plain WORKS. The machine learning is also phenomenal and has helped me even become better at spotting various phishing techniques.
What do you dislike about the product?
Honestly, if I have encountered any dislikes, querks, or downsides within the Avanan interface, I submit it to them, and they have ALWAYS quickly addressed my concern. If they can't fix it right then and there, then they submit it as a feature improvement request to their development.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Increased overall security for sure. Our users are safer and have far less to worry about, which means I have less to worry about and less possible infections with users. Avanan is constantly catching hundreds of Phishing emails and many that contain malware. Honestly the greatest benefit has been peace of mind.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Dig in, ask questions. You will not be disappointed. I honestly cannot remember ever submitting a question to Avanan which they were not able to answer.
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