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."
"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 solution scales well."
"As a cloud-based product, it can scale well."
"Its main defense is to stop malicious emails from coming through. There is a sandbox environment where you can open malicious or suspicious emails to make sure that they're not malicious, instead of taking the risk of having your employees do it. This is definitely something that everybody needs nowadays, especially with the rise in cyber attacks."
"Provides better control over emails, especially those sent via Office 365 on the cloud."
"They have customized security rules, mature rules, anti-virus protection, as well as email authentication similar to SPF, DKIM, and DMARC."
"It was easy to set up."
"The tool is a good solution for protecting against email attacks and monitoring networks. It supports our compliance efforts and is easy to use and stable."
"I have found Sophos Email to be scalable."
"The feature of Sophos Email that we find most effective for detecting suspicious emails is primarily based on their signatures."
"I found the user interface friendly."
"The speed and stability were fine."
"The best thing about it is the logs."
"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."
"It is a stable solution...It is a scalable solution."
"The solution could be improved with the addition of PLP and email encryption features."
"The reporting section could be enhanced. I like some reports but if they could allow us to create custom reports with more flexibility it would enhance the reports more."
"The email DLP portion could be a bit easier."
"Proofpoint Email Protection could improve the Mail Trace feature and make navigation easier."
"Unfortunately, the whole product is going downhill right now, ever since they were sold to Thoma Bravo. We're constantly having problems with stability and the product in general."
"There is room for improvement in detecting and preventing phishing attacks. While the solution performs well in some aspects, it struggles with phishing threats."
"The stability and UI are the two areas of the solution with certain shortcomings that need improvement."
"Proofpoint should have better integration with complex environments that need more than one instance of Proofpoint, as there are issues with nested instances."
"The solution's technical support is slow and unresponsive. You need to book time in order to get support."
"The solution should be able to support the cloud environment."
"Lacks visibility into spam emails."
"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 solution has not found a way to block certain kinds of phishing emails."
"Sophos Email needs to increase the number of promos."
"The security of the solution could improve."
Proofpoint Email Protection is ranked 2nd in Office 365 Protection with 46 reviews while Sophos Email is ranked 3rd 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, Perception Point Advanced Email Security and Barracuda Email Security Gateway. See our Proofpoint Email Protection vs. Sophos Email report.
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