We performed a comparison between Avanan and Sophos Email based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Email Security solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Microsoft Defender for Office 365 is a stable solution."
"Since we have started using the solution, there have been fewer compromises."
"Threat Explorer is one of the features that I very much like because it is a real-time report that allows you to identify, analyze, and trace security attacks."
"Defender for Office 365 has helped eliminate having to look at multiple dashboards and that is the aspect I like most about it. It is simpler, effective, and convenient. The users like the process efficiency."
"The risk level notifications are most valuable. We get to know what kind of intrusion or attack is there, and we can fix a problem on time."
"Does a thorough job of examining email and URLs for malicious content."
"The technical support is good and quick to resolve issues."
"The solution is very easy to use. All you have to do is to assign the license to the end-user and it's done. The customer will only have the feature activated, and the solution will monitor the emails to determine if they are a threat or not."
"It can retract unsafe emails and remove them from the entire communication channel."
"Email encryption enhances end to end security of any data before it passes through the networking system."
"It can detect corrupted files and filters out documents with viruses."
"Email Attachment Protection detects any insecure files and quickly blocks them to prevent the spread of viruses to other secure documents."
"Easy to use for non-technical users."
"When we don't understand some functionalities, the customer support staff responds fast to our calls and provides immediate action."
"The most valuable feature of Avanan is its effectiveness. When scanning incoming emails for threats it can in an automated fashion, quarantine suspicious attachments."
"The customizable rules allow you to change aspects."
"The most significant aspect is the response filtering concerning attachments and links."
"I have found Sophos Email to be scalable."
"Sophos Email offers encryption and malware protection, provides visibility into emails, has 99% accuracy in catching spam, enhances organizational safety, integrates with various vendors like Microsoft, is deployable with any email service, prevents data loss, features authentication rules, synchronizes with Active Directory and Azure, and includes a self-service portal. The product is very flexible."
"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."
"The solution protects users from phishing links and spam."
"It is a stable solution...It is a scalable solution."
"Sophos Email provides both inbound and outbound filtering."
"I find the comprehensive features of Sophos Email most valuable."
"There's room for improvement regarding the time frame for retrieving emails."
"There needs to be an improvement in integrating the product to work across multiple operating systems, and to have better support for non-Microsoft file types."
"Microsoft Defender for Office 365 should be more proactive."
"There is room for improvement in terms of reporting."
"We need a separate license and we don't know how to get the license that is required."
"One area for improvement is support, in terms of being able to reach them and, especially, technical support for configuration."
"Microsoft sometimes has downtime, and we'll get several incidents coming in back to back. We have a huge backlog of notifications, many of which may be false positives. However, there might be serious alerts, so we can't risk dismissing all of them at once."
"The GUI is sometimes slow to fetch the device report and could be improved."
"It should reduce the amount of time needed for thorough scanning."
"Avanan doesn't cover certain tool segments."
"The overall user interface is not attractive. It needs some improvement."
"The unified dashboard that it displays needs some improvements in terms of the KPIs that they have."
"It is very difficult to find the required documentation."
"The user experience must be improved."
"When sending bulky emails, the system slows down and takes a long time before it responds effectively to our requests."
"In Avanan, the email channel is one of the channels where data leakage happens, and they need to consider it from a DLP perspective."
"The security of the solution could improve."
"Sophos Email could improve DLP features."
"Sophos Email could better detect fake emails, especially when the domain names are similar. It needs to improve spotting spoofed domains, like when one letter differs in a domain name. It also needs to incorporate AI detection. Barracuda detects suspicious emails better. However, malware scanning is better in Sophos Email."
"Sophos Email can improve security."
"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."
"The product could include all the essential features and capabilities, similar to the on-premise, server-based version."
"Enhancing rule creation and customization features would provide users with greater control over their email security settings."
"The solution has not found a way to block certain kinds of phishing emails."
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Avanan is ranked 6th in Email Security with 21 reviews while Sophos Email is ranked 10th in Email Security with 26 reviews. Avanan is rated 9.2, while Sophos Email is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Avanan writes "We've noticed a significant decline from people accidentally or intentionally clicking on things". 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". Avanan is most compared with Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration, IRONSCALES, Perception Point Advanced Email Security, Abnormal Security and Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP), whereas Sophos Email is most compared with Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP), Fortinet FortiMail, Proofpoint Email Protection, Barracuda Email Security Gateway and Kaspersky Security for Mail Server. See our Avanan vs. Sophos Email report.
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