We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiMail and Sophos Email Appliance [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Cisco, TitanHQ and others in Email Security."Our customers are satisfied with Defender for 365 because Microsoft products are easy to use and customize to meet the client's needs. Everything is in one place, so we can adjust policies as needed for phishing, DLP, ATP, or any other security features that our clients want to apply."
"The basic features are okay and I'm satisfied with the Defender."
"I would say that 90% of the spam and phishing attack emails get blocked right off the bat."
"Microsoft Defender for Office 365 is a stable solution."
"The product's scalability is good."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Defender for Office 365 is the ease of use."
"Microsoft Defender for Office 365 helps people to work remotely. It is a secure solution. We don't need to use our company's computers or get VPN connections to the networks. I can control how they share screens and what they send to the devices. It keeps our organizations confidential and sensitive information safe."
"The product is not resource-intensive."
"Fortinet FortiMail is easy to use and the detection rate is very good. You can customize content filters and profiles are done easily. Additionally, there is a sandbox integration feature that is good."
"We found the initial setup to be mostly straightforward."
"It has a very high level of security through special licensing with solutions like FortiGuard, sandboxing solutions in the cloud, and URL rewriting solutions."
"The antiphishing capabilities are very good."
"It is a scalable solution."
"The most valuable aspects of this solution are that it protects us from spam and phishing attacks. We had a lot of attacks coming in and then we deployed this solution and they stopped. We no longer have any spam or phishing issues."
"A full-featured email gateway solution that contains security threats reliably."
"This excellent email gateway minimizes spam, inspects suspicious emails and isolates infected attachments with little administrative effort."
"The most valuable feature is the URL relay protection because it protects users from phishing attacks."
"This is a stable, scalable product that provides a reliable email protection layer."
"Email encryption, because it fulfills our business needs."
"The filtering aspect is the solution's most valuable feature."
"The interface makes it really easy to administer and configure."
"The solution is very easy to use, especially the cloud version which is very, very simple. There are some good templates already built-in, so we can just select the template, and you will get all the necessary functionality. The only one thing you have to do is point all your traffic in the cloud."
"The ease of use and the security offered by the solution are its most valuable features. It also offers good information protection."
"The custom alerts have to improve a lot."
"The product must provide better malware detection."
"The pre-sales cost calculations could be more transparent."
"The GUI is sometimes slow to fetch the device report and could be improved."
"Too many false positives and lacks an accurate capability to detect malicious SharePoint sites."
"Several simulation options are available within 365, and the phishing simulation could be better."
"Microsoft Defender for Office 365 should be more proactive."
"They can improve their security in a way where a customer can know if all their attachments are safe or not to open through a report. The solution does its job perfectly, but it never reports to the customer whether those attachments have been stopped before or not."
"I think the security of the product could improve."
"The solution could be improved by providing a virtual machine facility with a complete set of options in the VM setup."
"The solution's pricing is flexible and can be adjusted for African utility companies. Microsoft often offers special pricing formulas for African governments and organizations and it is similar to Fortinet FortiMail. In my country, government institutions receive discounted pricing from Fortinet FortiMail."
"The product's cybersecurity features could be better."
"Limited ability to upgrade hardware may lead to some performance issues that might otherwise be improved."
"It is not easy to install."
"There are features that other solutions have that this one is lacking, such as reporting options. I hope in future releases they advance their features list."
"I don't know if it is possible, but I would like to see Artificial Intelligence and machine learning introduced."
"There are a few issues with integration that need to be addressed; this would help make deployment easier for new users."
"In the next release of this solution, I would like to see more user awareness, such as information about phishing email attacks that have been prevented."
"More things need to be integrated into this device, like DLP, so we can have a complete solution in one box."
"In the advanced version, you have DLP, Data Loss Prevention, but when you buy the standard version, you don't have it."
"There aren't enough advanced settings. They should offer more advanced options."
"Reporting could have more options for users to customize desired results."
"The reporting functionality is in major need of improvement."
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Fortinet FortiMail is ranked 5th in Email Security with 54 reviews while Sophos Email Appliance [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Email Security. Fortinet FortiMail is rated 8.6, while Sophos Email Appliance [EOL] is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiMail writes "Good GUI and configuring security policies is easy but the pricing needs improvement". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos Email Appliance [EOL] writes "An easy to use solution with reasonable pricing and good stability". Fortinet FortiMail is most compared with Cisco Secure Email, Barracuda Email Security Gateway, Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP), Fortinet FortiMail Cloud and Proofpoint Email Protection, whereas Sophos Email Appliance [EOL] is most compared with .
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