We performed a comparison between Fortra's Agari 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."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."
"I would say that 90% of the spam and phishing attack emails get blocked right off the bat."
"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."
"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."
"The initial setup was easy."
"The product is not resource-intensive."
"There are several features that I consider valuable."
"The email protection is excellent, especially in terms of anti-phishing policies."
"I am impressed with the tool's discovery capabilities which help me find out who is sending the emails on the company's behalf. I also find the ability to detect and generate reports on phishing emails a valuable feature."
"It comes with a lot of helpful tips for complicated areas."
"If spam or some kind of malicious email gets past Mimecast and gets into our email environment, we can go into Agari and we can search for it."
"It is really important for large companies to have the brand protection that is provided by Agari."
"The filtering aspect is the solution's most valuable feature."
"This is a stable, scalable product that provides a reliable email protection layer."
"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."
"Email encryption, because it fulfills our business needs."
"The most valuable feature is the URL relay protection because it protects users from phishing attacks."
"The ease of use and the security offered by the solution are its most valuable features. It also offers good information protection."
"I'd like some additional features any product can give me to protect our environment in a better way."
"The custom alerts have to improve a lot."
"The UI needs to be more user-friendly."
"You should be able to deploy Defender for every subscription without the need to add servers."
"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."
"The GUI is sometimes slow to fetch the device report and could be improved."
"Microsoft Defender for Office 365 could improve by giving customers information on techniques to prevent threats. For example, information about best practices on how to protect their own devices against hackers and scammers, such as educational information or training. This would help others have a better understanding of cyber security. Additionally, there can be more security features added."
"We need to be able to whitelist data at the backend."
"The product's user interface is clunky. We have difficulty in finding what we need. I would also like to see automation in the onboarding processes."
"Some customers in the financial sector do not like the cloud solution because they don't want data to be transferred to a US-based cloud."
"The protocol is quite complicated, which may not be something that could be improved, but it would be better if it was simplified."
"There aren't enough advanced settings. They should offer more advanced options."
"There are a few issues with integration that need to be addressed; this would help make deployment easier for new users."
"The reporting functionality is in major need of improvement."
"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."
"In the advanced version, you have DLP, Data Loss Prevention, but when you buy the standard version, you don't have it."
"More things need to be integrated into this device, like DLP, so we can have a complete solution in one box."
"Reporting could have more options for users to customize desired results."
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Fortra's Agari is ranked 27th in Email Security with 4 reviews while Sophos Email Appliance [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Email Security. Fortra's Agari is rated 8.6, while Sophos Email Appliance [EOL] is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Fortra's Agari writes "Helps to detect and generate reports on phishing emails and saves from email compromises ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos Email Appliance [EOL] writes "An easy to use solution with reasonable pricing and good stability". Fortra's Agari is most compared with Proofpoint Email Protection, Cisco Secure Email, Valimail Monitor, Abnormal Security and Mimecast Email Security, whereas Sophos Email Appliance [EOL] is most compared with .
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