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 most valuable features of Proofpoint Email Protection are ease of use, data loss prevention, antivirus, and spam protection."
"Proofpoint Email Protection is a good product, and its most beneficial feature is the Threat Response Auto-Pull. I also like that it's an integrated email security solution."
"The Phish Alarm button allows users to submit questionable emails for review and complete analysis."
"The initial implementation is pretty easy to handle."
"The setup was easy."
"The solution scales well."
"The archive feature is valuable."
"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."
"I find the comprehensive features of Sophos Email most valuable."
"The platform is scalable when installed on server-based systems."
"The most valuable feature is its email security."
"When you say email security, it's about everything, incoming email, outgoing email, spam, phishing emails, unwanted marketing emails. You can set rules, but the main feature of Sophos Email is to make sure you don't get hacked. 95% of people who are hacked do not get hacked by typing the router password. They are hacked from the inside out, which means they send you a document that is a zero-day attack, you open it, nothing happens, but technically the attack is running in the background of your computer. This is how they gain access to your PC."
"The solution's identity proxy feature is very good and reliable."
"I cannot guarantee any email by its name. It can be spam. Sophos Email helps to double-check whether an email is spam or not. It has a dashboard which gives an overview of the alerts."
"It has enhanced our approach to tackling malware and spam. It is a reliable product with a good user interface."
"It is a stable solution...It is a scalable solution."
"The high cost of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The incident reporting on offer needs to be improved. It's lacking right now. It should be on the platform somewhere."
"It's scalable, but the devil's in the details — you have to know your email volumes."
"Proofpoint Email Protection could improve by allowing more customization of the reports, such as exceptions and black-and-white lists."
"We find the cost to be prohibitive."
"The solution could lower its price."
"Integration for reporting needs to be improved, it's too complex."
"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 solution's technical support is slow and unresponsive. You need to book time in order to get support."
"The main drawback is regarding the technical support."
"A lot of legit emails get quarantined."
"The solution has not found a way to block certain kinds of phishing emails."
"It was sometimes hard to find the settings in the solution's interface."
"The solution's sandboxing and spam control features could be improved."
"Sophos Email needs to increase the number of promos."
"The tool's integration becomes an issue when the internet connection is weak."
Proofpoint Email Protection is ranked 2nd in Office 365 Protection with 44 reviews while Sophos Email is ranked 3rd in Office 365 Protection with 26 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 Perception Point Advanced Email Security. See our Proofpoint Email Protection vs. Sophos Email report.
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