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."The most valuable feature is the ability to remove bad messages that were delivered, prior to being classified as unwanted."
"The solution has very strong detection for most of the phishing and malicious emails received from the outside."
"It's a mature product. It does a good job in detection."
"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."
"Proofpoint Email Protection offers an additional layer of protection compared to other brands like Microsoft, Mimecast, and Barracuda. While these major companies excel at detecting malicious attachments, the solution goes further by analyzing the context of emails, allowing for more nuanced decision-making."
"It was easy to set up."
"Proofpoint is the main tool for blocking spam because it denies the connection altogether."
"As a cloud-based product, it can scale well."
"The solution protects users from phishing links and spam."
"The tool is a good solution for protecting against email attacks and monitoring networks. It supports our compliance efforts and is easy to use and stable."
"The platform is scalable when installed on server-based systems."
"I have found Sophos Email to be scalable."
"The tool's most valuable feature is the anti-spam detection filter. Its threat email intelligence features help to identify email data."
"The most significant aspect is the response filtering concerning attachments and links."
"The best thing about it is the logs."
"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."
"The flexibility of the solution can be improved."
"The initial setup is complex."
"The stability and UI are the two areas of the solution with certain shortcomings that need improvement."
"The reporting section could be enhanced. I like some reports but if they could allow us to create custom reports with more flexibility it would enhance the reports more."
"It's scalable, but the devil's in the details — you have to know your email volumes."
"Unfortunately, the whole product is going downhill right now, ever since they were sold to Thoma Bravo. We're constantly having problems with stability and the product in general."
"Proofpoint Email Protection is an expensive solution."
"The solution could be improved with the addition of PLP and email encryption features."
"The main drawback is regarding the technical support."
"Servicing and support are areas with shortcomings where the solution needs to improve."
"Sophos Email has few improvements to implement, including the handling of incoming emails in the systems. It needs to add additional feature that helps in enhancing the scanning processes of these emails. While adding these features, it should work towards improving the current features also."
"The solution should be able to support the cloud environment."
"Sophos Email needs to increase the number of promos."
"Enhancing rule creation and customization features would provide users with greater control over their email security settings."
"The tool's integration becomes an issue when the internet connection is weak."
"The tool's pricing is expensive. In its future release, the tool should make reporting easier to view."
Proofpoint Email Protection is ranked 2nd in Office 365 Protection with 46 reviews while Sophos Email is ranked 4th in Office 365 Protection with 28 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 Hornetsecurity 365 Total Protection. See our Proofpoint Email Protection vs. Sophos Email report.
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