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."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."
"It's detection of true positives are great, as it's cloud based it's very scalable and stable."
"The initial implementation is pretty easy to handle."
"Proofpoint Email Protection is the best solution from the perspective of email security."
"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."
"The solution's technical support is good. I rate the technical support a ten out of ten."
"The most valuable features of Proofpoint Email Protection are ease of use, data loss prevention, antivirus, and spam protection."
"The most valuable feature of Proofpoint Email Protection is the dashboards and their visibility, easy configuration, and artificial intelligence. Additionally, the reports are very important and helpful."
"It has enhanced our approach to tackling malware and spam. It is a reliable product with a good user interface."
"The deployment is very easy. It's quite straightforward."
"It is a stable solution...It is a scalable solution."
"The most valuable feature of Sophos Email is the sandbox. We're able to scan the file, isolate it, and look at it before it is delivered. It is highly effective."
"I have found Sophos Email to be scalable."
"Sophos Email is a stable solution."
"The platform is scalable when installed on server-based systems."
"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."
"We find the cost to be prohibitive."
"The scalability can be improved, and the solution can be optimized."
"Proofpoint Email Protection could improve by reducing the price."
"Proofpoint Email Protection could improve by allowing more customization of the reports, such as exceptions and black-and-white lists."
"The solution should add post-sales training."
"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 initial setup is complex."
"The false positives are an issue."
"The solution's sandboxing and spam control features could be improved."
"It was sometimes hard to find the settings in the solution's interface."
"There have been some issues with compatibility and effectiveness, particularly when integrating it with our firewall. The main challenge has been email protection, especially due to compatibility issues and difficulties with log access and email relay configuration."
"The installation of Sophos Email could be easier. It's a bit difficult because setting up the email virtually requires some bit of technical knowledge."
"The tool's integration becomes an issue when the internet connection is weak."
"The solution has not found a way to block certain kinds of phishing emails."
"Lacks visibility into spam emails."
"The product could include all the essential features and capabilities, similar to the on-premise, server-based version."
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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