FWIW, we had a lot of issues with Mimecast's greylisting functionality. We
promptly switched to Proofpoint and have been happy since.

- Sean

On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 10:46 AM, Richard Stovall <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thanks for the replies, everyone.  We are on-premise Exchange, and I don't
> see that changing anytime soon.  The Exchange ATP service appears to be the
> type of thing I'm looking for, but it's only for hosted customers.  AFAICT,
> MX Guarddog only uses signature-based AV, so they're out.  Mimecast and
> Proofpoint look worth pursuing.  Thanks again.
>
> On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 6:59 PM, Michael Tavares <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Having used EOP for several months, my recommendation would be to look at
>> another product.  I have had a lot of malware get through EOP.  Submitted
>> samples to MS and they are baffled as to why they get through.   Not sure
>> having to pay extra for Exchange Advanced Threat Protection is worth it.
>> I have moved on to proofpoint, much better filtering results with them.
>>
>>
>>
>> Mike
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* [email protected] [mailto:
>> [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Brian Desmond
>> *Sent:* Monday, October 05, 2015 4:47 PM
>> *To:* [email protected]
>> *Subject:* RE: [NTSysADM] E-mail threat protection service for SMBs
>>
>>
>>
>> *Have you looked at the Exchange Online Protection and Exchange Advanced
>> Threat Protection offerings? *
>>
>>
>> *Thanks, Brian*
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* [email protected] [
>> mailto:[email protected] <[email protected]>] *On
>> Behalf Of *Richard Stovall
>> *Sent:* Monday, October 5, 2015 1:16 PM
>> *To:* [email protected]
>> *Subject:* [NTSysADM] E-mail threat protection service for SMBs
>>
>>
>>
>> I am looking to add another layer of anti-malware/anti-phishing/anti-spam
>> protection to our company's e-mail and am thinking about adding a hosted
>> service to the mix.  We have an on-premise Barracuda (which I like and plan
>> to keep) and its native abilities combined with some pretty restrictive
>> filtering policies have worked well for us.  We've been lucky so far, but
>> it requires a lot of manual work to triage quarantined items.
>>
>>
>>
>> Ideally I'm looking for a service that actually opens and detonates all
>> types of allowed attachments and linked URLs with a view to looking for
>> signs of malicious activity.
>>
>>
>>
>> Proofpoint Essentials looks interesting.  Are there any others out there
>> I should be looking at?
>>
>>
>>
>> Also, for those that haven't seen it, there is a very interesting site at
>> https://www.reverse.it/ that does fascinating work analyzing uploaded
>> files for signs of malware.  Similar to virustotal.com but much more
>> analysis rather than just AV results.  They have a solution that I'm
>> looking at as well.
>>
>
>

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