We performed a comparison between Darktrace and SonicWall Email Security 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."Safe attachments, safe links, policies, and the ability to protect from zero-day threats are the most valuable features."
"Does a thorough job of examining email and URLs for malicious content."
"The benefit that stands out to me is the ability for multiple individuals to collaborate simultaneously within the same document. Additionally, there is the option to save the document directly in the integrated OneDrive or SharePoint."
"The technical support is good and quick to resolve issues."
"Some of the valuable features on the email side are anti-phishing, anti-malware, and Safe Links."
"Microsoft Defender for Office 365's most valuable feature is its performance."
"Defender helps us prioritize threats across our organization."
"It gives us visibility into threats and, for endpoints, it helps us to prioritize threats. We used to have a lack of visibility, but now our time to detect and respond has decreased."
"One thing I appreciate is Antigena Email, which is for email protection."
"The most valuable features of Darktrace are the tracing of unusual external emails and monitoring the local network."
"Artificial intelligence and machine learning functionalities are valuable."
"The ability to detect activity on the network is very useful to us. Even if it's not necessarily an illegal activity, if it is abnormal activity, it is able to detect it and notify us."
"I find it very good in the way that they show the past events, including the attack history."
"The most valuable feature of Darktrace is the AI that detects abnormal network activity."
"The platform has many modules, and each module examines a different situation in the behavior."
"The active threat dashboard is the most valuable feature of this solution."
"The anti-spam aspect of the solution is its most valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature is that it protects from spam."
"There are no wasted extras and the interface is really simple."
"The most valuable feature of SonicWall Email Security is the blocking of emails using keywords. If there are any particular keywords in the subject, that we want to block from receiving from a particular person we can do it. Additionally, the blocking of emails is easy. we can release that one and we can block some of the keywords also like that."
"This solution provides very good email security that protects us against spamming and malware."
"The product is easy to manage in terms of configurations."
"It is a very scalable solution."
"According to our customers, the product's most valuable feature is the ability to detect spam and reduce phishing emails."
"Microsoft Defender for Office 365 should be more proactive."
"The phishing and spam filters could use some improvement."
"Microsoft security solutions work as expected. They are constantly updating the solutions to make them better. At the same time, the changes can impact a customer's environment, and we need to adjust settings. Sometimes we aren't aware of the changes, and nothing is pushed from the backend automatically."
"Too many false positives and lacks an accurate capability to detect malicious SharePoint sites."
"The GUI is sometimes slow to fetch the device report and could be improved."
"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."
"About eight months ago, we started to measure the quantity of phishing and spam that we have been receiving, and it has been increasing a lot. That means that protection for our email is not as good as we were expecting."
"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."
"A reporting portal could be a great addition to help customize reports."
"Darktrace does not have any capabilities to configure."
"The level of tracking within the network from the transmission level up to the machine level can use improvement."
"The user interface and the configuration are a bit complex and should be improved or simplified."
"Getting logs from different sources can be a challenge."
"I'd love them to see maybe covering the cloud a bit more."
"The solution could be easier to use."
"Upper management wasn't sold on the value proposition."
"They should integrate the solution with third-party platforms."
"A lot of spoofed emails are still coming to the end-user, so the configuration for this option needs to be improved."
"SonicWall Email Security could improve by making the file blocking and the release feature easier to use"
"They need well-trained partners in Nigeria."
"The platform's control panel needs enhancement."
"Updates could be released more frequently."
"We would like to see more information on a dashboard about what is happening when it comes to spamming and malware."
"There could be definition updates included in the subscription."
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Darktrace is ranked 11th in Email Security with 65 reviews while SonicWall Email Security is ranked 19th in Email Security with 12 reviews. Darktrace is rated 8.2, while SonicWall Email Security is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Darktrace writes "Great autonomous support, offers an easy setup, and has responsive support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SonicWall Email Security writes "Effective threat prevention, reliable, and beneficial keyword blocking". Darktrace is most compared with CrowdStrike Falcon, Vectra AI, SentinelOne Singularity Complete, Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks and Cisco Secure Network Analytics, whereas SonicWall Email Security is most compared with Fortinet FortiMail, Barracuda Email Security Gateway, Sophos Email, Fortinet FortiMail Cloud and Avanan. See our Darktrace vs. SonicWall Email Security report.
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