We performed a comparison between Proofpoint Email Protection and Sophos Email based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Office 365 Protection solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The solution's technical support is good. I rate the technical support a ten out of ten."
"The most valuable feature of Proofpoint Email Protection is the TAP Dashboard. It provides more detailed information that can be used for forensic analysis. This is an advantage that other email security providers, such as Cisco, IronPort, or Microsoft do not offer in their dashboards."
"A one-stop shop for email protection"
"URL scanning and online relay service are the most valuable features of Proofpoint Email Protection."
"Proofpoint is the main tool for blocking spam because it denies the connection altogether."
"The solution offers very good flexibility. You can blacklist or whitelist with ease."
"It's detection of true positives are great, as it's cloud based it's very scalable and stable."
"The solution scales quite well."
"It has enhanced our approach to tackling malware and spam. It is a reliable product with a good user interface."
"I found the user interface friendly."
"I have found Sophos Email to be scalable."
"There are many features that are important, but among those, the spam protection feature is very valuable. It help us to safeguard the email against phishing and ensures that there is maximum security enabled for our communication processes. It has a huge role in protecting our emails from potential threats."
"Good VIP protection, time of click protection and the Sandstorm feature."
"The most valuable feature is its email security."
"The speed and stability were fine."
"The deployment is very easy. It's quite straightforward."
"We find the cost to be prohibitive."
"Proofpoint Email Protection could improve on the training. Every organization is different and to fine-tune it to block everything properly there needs to be better training. Sometimes it can block some of the information it shouldn't."
"The high cost of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The initial setup is complex."
"The incident reporting on offer needs to be improved. It's lacking right now. It should be on the platform somewhere."
"I would want better spear phishing protection in the essentials package."
"It's scalable, but the devil's in the details — you have to know your email volumes."
"The scalability can be improved, and the solution can be optimized."
"Sophos Email has few improvements to implement, including the handling of incoming emails in the systems. It needs to add additional feature that helps in enhancing the scanning processes of these emails. While adding these features, it should work towards improving the current features also."
"Sophos Email needs to increase the number of promos."
"It was sometimes hard to find the settings in the solution's interface."
"A lot of legit emails get quarantined."
"The tool's integration becomes an issue when the internet connection is weak."
"The tool's pricing is expensive. In its future release, the tool should make reporting easier to view."
"The solution has not found a way to block certain kinds of phishing emails."
"Sophos Email can improve security."
Proofpoint Email Protection is ranked 2nd in Office 365 Protection with 46 reviews while Sophos Email is ranked 4th in Office 365 Protection with 28 reviews. Proofpoint Email Protection is rated 8.4, while Sophos Email is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Proofpoint Email Protection writes "A reasonably priced product that offers protection to emails, along with spam filters". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos Email writes "Provides good identity proxy features, but sandboxing and spam control features could be improved". Proofpoint Email Protection is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP), Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Cisco Secure Email and Fortinet FortiMail, whereas Sophos Email is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP), Fortinet FortiMail, Barracuda Email Security Gateway and Hornetsecurity 365 Total Protection. See our Proofpoint Email Protection vs. Sophos Email report.
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