We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiMail Cloud and Sophos Email based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud Email solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Content disarming and analysis are essential features in our email security setup"
"The product's initial setup is straightforward and simple, making it an easy-to-use tool."
"The most valuable features are email ATB and Malware Analysis."
"The most valuable features are filtering and sandboxing."
"The scanners with FortiMail are valuable."
"The deployment is simple."
"The most valuable features are the low price and its ability to integrate with other Fortinet products."
"The encryption features are most valuable to us."
"I have found Sophos Email to be scalable."
"The most valuable feature of Sophos Email is the sandbox. We're able to scan the file, isolate it, and look at it before it is delivered. It is highly effective."
"It has enhanced our approach to tackling malware and spam. It is a reliable product with a good user interface."
"I found the user interface friendly."
"The best thing about it is the logs."
"When you say email security, it's about everything, incoming email, outgoing email, spam, phishing emails, unwanted marketing emails. You can set rules, but the main feature of Sophos Email is to make sure you don't get hacked. 95% of people who are hacked do not get hacked by typing the router password. They are hacked from the inside out, which means they send you a document that is a zero-day attack, you open it, nothing happens, but technically the attack is running in the background of your computer. This is how they gain access to your PC."
"The tool's most valuable feature is the anti-spam detection filter. Its threat email intelligence features help to identify email data."
"Good VIP protection, time of click protection and the Sandstorm feature."
"The setup of the rules can be improved. I think it should be simplified and would be the best improvement in the system."
"Its GUI needs improvement."
"This solution is slow and it should be made faster."
"Fortinet FortiMail Cloud doesn't have AI features, making it an outdated tool for me."
"I can't see the feedback to the FortiMail gateway."
"The URL filtering and handling should be enhanced because it doesn't support all languages. I believe that this would be easy to enhance in the future."
"Networking should be simplified."
"I would like to see more advanced sandbox features, where you can actually download to a machine where you can test."
"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."
"Sophos Email can improve mail security."
"The product could include all the essential features and capabilities, similar to the on-premise, server-based version."
"A lot of legit emails get quarantined."
"The tool’s stability should be improved."
"Sophos Email needs to increase the number of promos."
"I would like to see improvements in the initial setup process, ensuring better compatibility with diverse customer infrastructures."
"Lacks visibility into spam emails."
Fortinet FortiMail Cloud is ranked 6th in Cloud Email with 18 reviews while Sophos Email is ranked 10th in Email Security with 25 reviews. Fortinet FortiMail Cloud is rated 8.2, while Sophos Email is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiMail Cloud writes "A reliable email security solution with deep integration capabilities and exceptionally strong support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos Email writes "Ensures that there is maximum security enabled for our communication processes". Fortinet FortiMail Cloud is most compared with Fortinet FortiMail, Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration, Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP) and Darktrace, whereas Sophos Email is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP), Fortinet FortiMail, Proofpoint Email Protection and Barracuda Email Security Gateway. See our Fortinet FortiMail Cloud vs. Sophos Email report.
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