We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiMail Cloud and Sophos Email based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud Email solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."I am impressed with the tool's ability to setup rules and destinations. It also helps to monitor suspicious items."
"This solution is easy to install. The deployment takes about forty-five minutes."
"The most valuable feature is the advanced threat protection."
"The most valuable features are the low price and its ability to integrate with other Fortinet products."
"FortiMail Cloud is very fast."
"The deployment is simple."
"It has the best feature for processed mail analysis."
"The most valuable features are filtering and sandboxing."
"The tool's most valuable feature is the anti-spam detection filter. Its threat email intelligence features help to identify email data."
"The solution protects users from phishing links and spam."
"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."
"I have found Sophos Email to be scalable."
"The best thing about it is the logs."
"The anti-malware, risk scanning has been pretty spot on."
"I found the user interface friendly."
"Sophos Email is a stable solution."
"Fortinet FortiMail Cloud doesn't have AI features, making it an outdated tool for me."
"It is slightly difficult to configure FortiMail in the cloud with Exchange on-premise, especially the quarantine mailbox access for end-users."
"The dashboard could use improvement."
"Its GUI needs improvement."
"The tool's UI can be simple since it's cluttered now and you can't understand where you are going. It's not obvious to find out the menus or things that you are looking to find."
"Email sorting is missing from this solution."
"The URL filtering and handling should be enhanced because it doesn't support all languages. I believe that this would be easy to enhance in the future."
"The downside of this solution is that it is difficult to implement policies on FortiMail."
"Enhancing rule creation and customization features would provide users with greater control over their email security settings."
"The product could include all the essential features and capabilities, similar to the on-premise, server-based version."
"Servicing and support are areas with shortcomings where the solution needs to improve."
"The solution has not found a way to block certain kinds of phishing emails."
"The tool’s stability should be improved."
"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 main drawback is regarding the technical support."
"The solution should be able to support the cloud environment."
Fortinet FortiMail Cloud is ranked 6th in Cloud Email with 18 reviews while Sophos Email is ranked 10th in Email Security with 26 reviews. Fortinet FortiMail Cloud is rated 8.2, while Sophos Email is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiMail Cloud writes "A reliable email security solution with deep integration capabilities and exceptionally strong support". 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". Fortinet FortiMail Cloud is most compared with Fortinet FortiMail, Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration, Microsoft Defender for Office 365 and Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP), whereas Sophos Email is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP), Fortinet FortiMail, Proofpoint Email Protection and Barracuda Email Security Gateway. See our Fortinet FortiMail Cloud vs. Sophos Email report.
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