Security Gateway Features

Administration (4)

Intelligence Reporting: Based on 11 Security Gateway reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Actively gathers data on suspicious sources and characteristics of potentially malicious content
Email Integration Suppor: Based on 10 Security Gateway reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Supports secure implementation with popular email applications and clients.
Access Management: Based on 12 Security Gateway reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Allows administrators to set user access privileges to permit approved parties to access sensitive data.
Data Loss Prevention: Has pre-built data loss prevention (DLP) functions which prevent employees or accounts that have been hacked from sending out sensitive information.

Maintenance (4)

Auditing: Based on 12 Security Gateway reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Access pre-built and custom reports to monitor user activity and storage.
Allow and block lists: Based on 12 Security Gateway reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Prevents previous committers of fraud and other suspicious accounts from future communications
Compliance: As reported in 11 Security Gateway reviews. Supports compliance with PII, GDPR, HIPPA, PCI, and other regulatory standards.
Archiving: Based on 11 Security Gateway reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Archives conversations, files, and other communications for future reference

Security (6)

Anti-Malware/Anti-Spam: Based on 12 Security Gateway reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Prevents malware or spam in emails either through predictive or reactive anti-malware/anti-spam tools.
Encryption: Based on 11 Security Gateway reviews. Encrypts the content of emails and their attachments.
Quarantine: Based on 11 Security Gateway reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Isolates potentially malicious content and files before they can gain network access
Advanced Threat Protection (ATP): Includes advanced tools, including machine learning analysis to detect threats often missed by traditional filtering tools, such as unsafe attachments, advanced malware, and targetted social engineering attacks.
Anti-Phishing: Prevents both phishing attacks and spear-fishing attacks, including impersonation attacks.
Account takeover prevention: Has pre-built data loss prevention (DLP) functions which prevent employees or accounts that have been hacked from sending out sensitive information.

Functionality (10)

Anti-Spam: Prevents unwanted emails including bulk, mass, or other junk emails from reaching recipients mailboxes.
Anti-Malware: Prevents emails with malicious links or attachments embedded with malware, such as ransomware, spyware, and other viruses, from reaching email recipients.
Anti-Phishing: prevent social-engineering attacks such as phishing, spear-phishing, and c-level executive impersonation attacks.
Filtering Functionality: Provides filters such as: approved senders, whitelists, greylists such as bulk emails that may not be malicious, blocked senders, blacklists, IP reputation, content (such as profanity, credit card numbers, password protected files, and other sensitive information), virus detection, re-directs and malicious URLs, newsletter detection, attachment size, and invalid recipients.
Quarantine: Includes a quarantine area for users to manually inspect suspicious emails.
Outbound Email Monitoring: Monitors outgoing mail to prevent data loss by encrypting messages or preventing the messages from being sent.
Advanced Threat Intelligence/Protection: Includes advanced threat protections such as machine learning to conduct abnormal behavioral analysis, display name spoof detection especially regarding c-level impersonation attacks, detecting lookalike email domains that are visually confusing.
Archiving: Offers archival email retention for compliance purposes.
Reporting: Offers standard reporting functionality.
On-prem deployment: Supports on-premises deployments of secure email gateways, which requires a company to maintain their own hardware. This is different than Cloud Email Security software which protects cloud-based email environments and do not require on-premises hardware installations.