We performed a comparison between Sophos Email and Vade for M365 based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about TitanHQ, Proofpoint, Barracuda Networks and others in Office 365 Protection."The initial setup was easy."
"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."
"I like its investigation capabilities, as that is what is most important to me. It is fairly simple with a user-friendly interface."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Defender for Office 365 is the ease of use."
"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."
"Microsoft Defender for Office 365's most valuable feature is its performance."
"Defender helps us prioritize threats across our organization."
"The email protection is excellent, especially in terms of anti-phishing policies."
"The speed and stability were fine."
"I find the comprehensive features of Sophos Email most valuable."
"Our client recently received many emails, and their employees didn't realize these emails were phishing attempts. Consequently, they clicked on them and fell victim to the attack. Therefore, it is important to secure their system with Sophos Email Security."
"The best thing about it is the logs."
"I have found Sophos Email to be scalable."
"The platform is scalable when installed on server-based systems."
"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 is a stable solution...My company has no worries about the deployment phase of Vade for Office 365."
"This product's effectiveness could be improved, in terms of detecting unwanted spam or even malware between the emails, compared to other products."
"There is room for improvement with the UI."
"There's room for improvement regarding the time frame for retrieving emails."
"The custom alerts have to improve a lot."
"The certification training for Defender for 365 needs to be deeper and incorporate Sentinel. I took all the security courses except one, and Sentinel isn't included."
"It would be better if it were more scalable. It depends on the architecture, but we would like to make it more scalable for both data centers."
"In one of the reports I can get the exact place where a vulnerable file resides. But for that, I need to explicitly go into the device and check. If they could include that file part in the report, without my having to go to the device itself, that would help."
"They have moved features from one console to another. Things have been moved around in the interface and it takes me time to find where certain features are."
"Their technical support is slow to respond."
"The tool’s stability should be improved."
"Sophos Email needs to increase the number of promos."
"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."
"I would like to see improvements in the initial setup process, ensuring better compatibility with diverse customer infrastructures."
"Sophos Email can improve security."
"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."
"Concerning a bank, data can be confidential, and when a bank needs to transfer such data, it has to be specific to a certain level of conformity, which I did not see in the product."
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Sophos Email is ranked 3rd in Office 365 Protection with 28 reviews while Vade for M365 is ranked 8th in Office 365 Protection with 1 review. Sophos Email is rated 8.0, while Vade for M365 is rated 0.0. The top reviewer of Sophos Email writes "Provides good identity proxy features, but sandboxing and spam control features could be improved". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Vade for M365 writes "A stable tool capable of detecting malware while focusing on anti-phishing to protect its users". Sophos Email is most compared with Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP), Fortinet FortiMail, Proofpoint Email Protection, Perception Point Advanced Email Security and Barracuda Email Security Gateway, whereas Vade for M365 is most compared with Fortinet FortiMail, Avanan, Hornetsecurity Hornet.email, Mailinblack and Perception Point Advanced Email Security.
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