IRONSCALES vs SonicWall Capture Advanced Threat Protection comparison

IRONSCALES and SonicWall are both solutions in the Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) category. IRONSCALES is ranked #16 with an average rating of 9.0, while SonicWall is ranked #23 with an average rating of 9.0. IRONSCALES holds a 2.9% mindshare in ATP, compared to SonicWall’s 1.6% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of IRONSCALES users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of SonicWall users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 1, 2024

SonicWall Capture Advanced Threat Protection and IRONSCALES compete in the cybersecurity solutions sector. SonicWall has the upper hand in network security, while IRONSCALES leads in specialized email security and phishing threat detection.

Features: SonicWall provides comprehensive threat detection, real-time threat intelligence, and firewall integration to enhance network security. IRONSCALES offers AI-driven phishing threat analysis, automated threat resolution, and easy integration with email platforms like Microsoft 365.

Room for Improvement: SonicWall could enhance its email security features and machine learning capabilities for better threat detection. Improving reporting functionalities and expanding AI analytics would be beneficial. IRONSCALES would gain from broadening its network security offerings, strengthening its incident response strategies, and refining its user interface for more intuitive management.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: SonicWall offers a straightforward deployment with smooth integration into existing network systems, complete with extensive documentation and technical support. IRONSCALES provides a swift, cloud-based setup that minimizes disruptions, supported by responsive customer service.

Pricing and ROI: SonicWall demands a significant upfront investment, justified by comprehensive security features and long-term ROI through minimized network vulnerabilities. IRONSCALES delivers a cost-effective subscription model for email security, with high ROI from reduced phishing threats.

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Categories and Ranking

IRONSCALES

Ranking in Advanced Threat Protection (ATP)

16th

Average Rating

9.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Email Security (14th), Secure Email Gateway (SEG) (5th)

SonicWall Capture Advanced ...

Ranking in Advanced Threat Protection (ATP)

23rd

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) category, the mindshare of IRONSCALES is 2.9%, up from 2.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SonicWall Capture Advanced Threat Protection is 1.6%, up from 0.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
IRONSCALES	2.9%
SonicWall Capture Advanced Threat Protection	1.6%
Other	95.5%

Advanced Threat Protection (ATP)

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reviewer2770017

Email Security Analyst at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

Has improved threat analysis by providing clear email correspondence history and reporting tools

The best features IRONSCALES offers are the investigation tabs, headers, and correspondence history, which stand out the most for me. The investigation tabs are valuable for my work because reporting goes a long way in terms of playbooks and having a full investigation. The investigation tab knows exactly how to put the information in a way that makes it very easy for reports to get done fast. Security awareness training is a big part of IRONSCALES. The platform offers a broad spectrum in terms of what campaigns can be run for security awareness for users as well as reporting back on how users interact with their mails and understanding where the vulnerabilities lie. IRONSCALES has positively impacted my organization by making email security simple in terms of controlling mails, understanding where the threats are, and protecting the organization itself.

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Mohamed Fouad

Cybersecurity Team Leader at EMAK For Integrated Solutions

Advanced sandboxing has protected our environment and stops unknown threats in real time

The most capable feature of SonicWall Capture Advanced Threat Protection is the accurate verdict of the file, and I have used many other types of sandboxing, but using SonicWall Capture Advanced Threat Protection is truly helpful for our organization. In my experience, the best features SonicWall Capture Advanced Threat Protection offers include accuracy for the submitted files, and one of the most valued features is its usability, as it is so usable and helpful to integrate with other solutions, making it a fantastic product overall. It is easy to set up and connect SonicWall Capture Advanced Threat Protection with other solutions, as it can be integrated with many products, supporting real-time memory inspection, rapid signature deployment, broad file type support, and block until verdict capability, along with flexible configuration, while providing comprehensive reporting. SonicWall Capture Advanced Threat Protection supports sandbox evasion techniques, which is important since sophisticated malware increases the evasion capability to detect and deceive sandboxing environments. SonicWall employs deception techniques simulating user interaction or fake high volume targets to determine when custom malware can still potentially bypass detection through environment-aware code. SonicWall Capture Advanced Threat Protection positively impacts our organization by helping us stop advanced persistent threats, as we have defined our targeted adversaries and increased security for our organization.

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Quotes from Members

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Pros

"The solution captures a bit more of the unknown, quantifies it, and applies intelligence to it to pick out and stop a lot of phishing emails that come through."

"The report function through Gmail is probably the most valuable feature. The next most valuable features are simulation and training."

"The fact that it is set-and-forget is valuable. Once you turn it on, you very rarely have to micromanage it, whereas, with a lot of spam filters, you have to go in very often."

"The stability is good."

"There is buzz around phishing awareness training. When I make a campaign, all of a sudden people in our organization are talking, thinking, and wondering about it. Therefore, it keeps people on their toes. That is perfect because it does exactly what we want it to do."

"I would say the most valuable feature is what they call Themis. It's like a virtual analyst that uses the decisions that system admins make to generate a score for whether an email is legitimate, spam, or phishing. It gets better based on the decisions that we make over time. The automation piece is great as well. The integrated approach of email security combined with employee awareness training is excellent."

"IRONSCALES has positively impacted my organization by making email security simple in terms of controlling mails, understanding where the threats are, and protecting the organization itself."

"For me, the mobile app is most valuable. All other features are also very useful, but the mobile app makes it really easy for me to manage on the go. I don't have to be at my desk. I could be at the shops, or it could be in the evening when I am out, and I can get a notification on my phone that there is an incident that has been raised. I can sort it out very quickly without having to be at my work PC."

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"We use it for protection against viruses and ransomware attacks."

"We get alert messages whenever there is a new threat. We are notified at the firewall level that things are blocked, which keeps us in our comfort zone."

"I like this setup for a firewall. You can set things up very easily and you can automate items as well. It's a very robust firewall solution for enterprise as well as small businesses."

"The ATP (Advanced Threat Protection) on scanning is the most valuable feature."

"They have a large database of commonly known things that they can catch automatically, then they have anything which is questionable go to the sandbox and be examined there before going into our network."

"The reporting that you get from it is the most valuable feature. You can see it via the appliance itself, and also via the MySonicWall account for the registered device. You are able to select the file if it's malicious, and you can select it in the reporting and see what triggered it, and things like that. I found that to be quite useful."

"In my experience, the best features SonicWall Capture Advanced Threat Protection offers include accuracy for the submitted files, and one of the most valued features is its usability, as it is so usable and helpful to integrate with other solutions, making it a fantastic product overall."

"It also has an easy configuration. The feedback that we get from our customers is that it's a good product."

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Cons

"The user interface could be more attractive to users. The UI is not brightened or appealing."

"In addition to integrated training, they should also have personalized training that you don't have to do as part of a phishing campaign or a simulation."

"IRONSCALES should bundle more features together instead of separating them and charging additional licensing fees."

"There is a feature called Account Takeover, which isn't what I want it to be able to do. I know that they're working on that, but when they first started the Account Takeover feature in incident management, it didn't have much information. It didn't have any usability to it. I already had tools in place that were better."

"I would love to see the indication of compromise and how the solution utilizes open source resources. It would be good to see that included in the paid versions. It would be a small addition but add a lot of value for clients."

"The simulation and training piece could be improved by having more granularity in terms of scheduling how campaigns are run and allowing people to directly take the training rather than having to go through an official campaign. That's not available yet."

"The tool supports 15 to 16 languages, but the content it uses in the training in Spanish has certain limitations."

"I think the tool can continue to hone the product to ensure the detections are accurate."

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"I would say the solution needs a much simpler user interface, but the functionality of the firewall is quite extensive. You need the user interface to be that way. However, if there was a way to make the user interface a little easier, that would be great."

"SonicWall should promote their roadmap and improve their marketing to customers."

"Having an on-premise solution as well would be an option for some people, but they'll want to use a cloud solution for their sandboxing. Certain sites would want to keep all the checks done on an on-premise appliance. All the checking, rather than sending that up into a cloud engine."

"SonicWall had a recent layoff. This is a concern for us, because now we are missing the local presence from both the engineering and sales side."

"We would like to get immediate alerts from the alerting system without using third-parties."

"The setup needs improvement. It needs to be made more user-friendly."

"It does fare well against enterprise products."

"If anything at all, it would be some very minor updates that need to be done, but in terms of changes, nothing comes to mind."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Considering the value it provides, it is definitely worth the cost. We don't have to do manual analysis and remediation of phishing emails, which saves us a lot of hours. Its licensing is based on the number of users being supported and the number of email addresses being protected. I'm not aware of any additional costs."

"We pay $3000 plus a little more a year for the number of employees we have, and we're not even that big. The solution is at the higher end in terms of cost. It's not the most expensive product, but I would say it's worth the price if you have a high volume of email traffic. In our case, the solution has inspected over 162,000 emails between three and four months. It saved us a lot of time and money. It's a worthwhile investment because a bad actor only has to succeed once; we must defend against everything in our business. IRONSCALES offers a sense of security and confidence from being well protected."

"They are pretty much the same as all the other competitors in the market."

"There is an installation cost. Since we have this as a managed service, we pay for licensing and the managed service itself. Other than that, there are no additional costs."

"The product is available as a middle-priced tool. I think it is not the cheapest solution."

"As compared to everything else we looked at, it was good. It was the best value for the dollars."

"I don't know about its pricing because I don't run the budget or pay the bills, but if it was extortionate, we probably would be looking to scrap it, and because we are not, I assume its price is okay."

"IRONSCALES is an expensive solution."

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"It's thirty dollars per user and we have 30 users."

"The best deal from SonicWall is to buy the HA pair. When you buy the initial one, you receive the second one at a significant discount. If there is an event and something happens to one firewall, then you have the second firewall to roll into. For the price, it's pretty to tough to beat and not a lot of other firewall vendors offer it. You battle for a discount on both. Where with SonicWall, if you buy one, the second one is at half price. It's pretty straightforward."

"When you compare it with other solutions, they are cheaper and more economical."

"We get our value for our money."

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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company

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Government

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Small Business	7
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Small Business	5
Midsize Enterprise	3

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about IRONSCALES?

The solution captures a bit more of the unknown, quantifies it, and applies intelligence to it to pick out and stop a lot of phishing emails that come through.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for IRONSCALES?

While I don't specifically oversee the pricing details, I understand that IRONSCALES is in the range of similar solutions while offering better results.

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What needs improvement with IRONSCALES?

I would really prefer to drill down more on correspondence history. It provides detailed background information to actually understand what's going on. If there were clickable drill downs on specif...

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Overview

IRONSCALES delivers cutting-edge AI-driven email phishing detection and prevention, seamlessly integrating with Microsoft 365 for enhanced security.

IRONSCALES, with its advanced AI capabilities, focuses on email security by detecting phishing threats, mitigating business email compromises, and preventing impersonation. Its integration with Microsoft 365 strengthens spam filters, automatically responding to suspicious emails. The platform is used globally for threat inspection, quarantine, and end-user incident reporting. Staff training is enhanced through simulated phishing campaigns, offering an extra layer of protection beyond Microsoft's spam filters. Areas for improvement include better Google Suite integration, pricing adjustments, and enhanced reporting features.

What features make IRONSCALES stand out?

AI Phishing Detection: Advanced algorithms for identifying phishing threats.
Microsoft 365 Integration: Seamless enhancement of email security within Microsoft systems.
Mobile App: Manage email threats on the go.
Anti-Phishing Training: Simulated campaigns for staff education.
Multi-Organization Management: Centralized administration for multiple entities.

What benefits and ROI should you consider?

Time-Saving: Automated detection and response to threats improve efficiency.
Comprehensive Security: Offers an additional protection layer beyond standard spam filters.
Ease of Use: Intuitive integration and user-friendly design streamline operations.
Risk Reduction: Minimizes potential email security breaches through proactive threat management.

In finance, IRONSCALES plays an essential role in safeguarding sensitive data from phishing attacks, ensuring compliance with industry standards. Educational institutions use IRONSCALES for training faculty and students on recognizing phishing attempts, thereby enhancing overall cybersecurity awareness. IT sectors leverage its capabilities for managing complex threat landscapes.

IRONSCALES

SonicWall Capture, a cloud based service available with SonicWall firewalls, revolutionizes advanced threat detection and sandboxing with a multi-engine approach to stopping unknown and zero-day attacks at the gateway, and with automated remediation. Customers benefit from high security effectiveness, fast response times and reduced total cost of ownership.

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Sample Customers

Allegheny Millwork, Ayrshire College, Nium, Orris, Paramount School District, Pres Les, PRT Staffing, Recovery Unplugged, Telit, WebHelp

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