We performed a comparison between SonicWall Email Security 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."Defender for 365 is a comprehensive cloud-based solution. The value of the cloud is that you aren't alone. Threat intelligence and analytics are shared in the cloud. We don't have to find the solution alone. If you face an unknown threat with traditional solutions like Trend Micro and Symantec, you need to open a case and send your information to them to analyze forensically and identify the source of the attack."
"Some of the valuable features on the email side are anti-phishing, anti-malware, and Safe Links."
"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."
"Defender enables us to secure all 365-related activity from a single place. It gives us visibility into everything happening in Outlook, protecting us against phishing and other email-based threats. Defender helps us detect any suspicious behaviors."
"The two main features that prove most beneficial for us are URL scanning and attachment scanning."
"It also gives the vulnerability status according to the versions you have selected. Let's say you have Google Chrome. It mentions the versions it has, and it updates. Within two hours of an update, it is reflected in the dashboard. That's really nice to have."
"It also gives me good visibility because, with Defender, I'm using a Microsoft product to defend Microsoft products. The integration was really seamless and I have wide visibility because it picks up almost everything. Literally, I can see almost every activity that happens, from the e-mail to the workstation itself."
"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."
"Setup was easy. It took about 30 minutes."
"The product is easy to manage in terms of configurations."
"The most valuable feature is that it protects from spam."
"This solution provides very good email security that protects us against spamming and malware."
"Beside a few issues with specificity in the email protection controls, this product is very good at handling email security."
"According to our customers, the product's most valuable feature is the ability to detect spam and reduce phishing emails."
"The anti-spam aspect of the solution is its most valuable feature."
"There are no wasted extras and the interface is really simple."
"I found the user interface friendly."
"The tool's most valuable feature is the anti-spam detection filter. Its threat email intelligence features help to identify email data."
"The solution's identity proxy feature is very good and reliable."
"The solution protects users from phishing links and spam."
"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."
"Good VIP protection, time of click protection and the Sandstorm feature."
"I have found Sophos Email to be scalable."
"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."
"Microsoft Defender for Office 365 should be more proactive."
"The GUI is sometimes slow to fetch the device report and could be improved."
"The phishing and spam filters could use some improvement."
"The XDR dashboard has room for improvement."
"We noticed that from time to time, Microsoft's stability does have problems. Sometimes the service goes up and down. Sometimes they change without prior notice."
"The product must provide better malware detection."
"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."
"The pre-sales cost calculations could be more transparent."
"A lot of spoofed emails are still coming to the end-user, so the configuration for this option needs to be improved."
"We would like to see more information on a dashboard about what is happening when it comes to spamming and malware."
"The reporting needs improvement."
"SonicWall Email Security could improve by making the file blocking and the release feature easier to use"
"The platform's control panel needs enhancement."
"Updates could be released more frequently."
"The protection level for email security isn't 100%. I'm still getting some spam and junk mail."
"There could be definition updates included in the subscription."
"The main drawback is regarding the technical support."
"The solution's sandboxing and spam control features could be improved."
"Sophos Email could improve DLP features."
"I would like to see improvements in the initial setup process, ensuring better compatibility with diverse customer infrastructures."
"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."
"Sophos Email needs to increase the number of promos."
"It was sometimes hard to find the settings in the solution's interface."
"The product could include all the essential features and capabilities, similar to the on-premise, server-based version."
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SonicWall Email Security is ranked 19th in Email Security with 12 reviews while Sophos Email is ranked 11th in Email Security with 28 reviews. SonicWall Email Security is rated 7.8, while Sophos Email is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of SonicWall Email Security writes "Effective threat prevention, reliable, and beneficial keyword blocking". 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". SonicWall Email Security is most compared with Fortinet FortiMail, Barracuda Email Security Gateway, Fortinet FortiMail Cloud, Proofpoint Email Protection and Avanan, whereas Sophos Email is most compared with Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP), Fortinet FortiMail, Barracuda Email Security Gateway, Perception Point Advanced Email Security and Barracuda Email Protection. See our SonicWall Email Security vs. Sophos Email report.
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