IRONSCALES vs SonicWall Email Security comparison

IRONSCALES and SonicWall are both solutions in the Email Security category. IRONSCALES is ranked #17 with an average rating of 9.0, while SonicWall is ranked #31 with an average rating of 7.7. IRONSCALES holds a 1.7% mindshare in Email Security, compared to SonicWall’s 0.5% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of IRONSCALES users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 87% of SonicWall users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 3, 2024

SonicWall Email Security and IRONSCALES are both competitors in the email protection and security sector. Based on features and capabilities, IRONSCALES often leads due to its advanced AI and threat remediation features.

Features: SonicWall Email Security provides robust spam filtering, comprehensive reporting, and a strong focus on threat detection to prevent phishing attacks. IRONSCALES offers AI-driven threat detection, automatic remediation, and effective handling of evolving security threats.

Room for Improvement: SonicWall could enhance its feature set to include advanced AI capabilities and more proactive threat management. Additionally, improving user interface simplicity and deployment flexibility would be beneficial. IRONSCALES might improve by offering more competitive pricing, expanding training modules, and enhancing integration capabilities with other security tools.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: SonicWall Email Security features a streamlined deployment process, with support focused on reliability and responsiveness. IRONSCALES provides a cloud-based solution with rapid deployment and personalized customer service, offering flexibility and tailored assistance.

Pricing and ROI: SonicWall Email Security is known for competitive initial setup costs, delivering strong ROI for companies with straightforward security needs. IRONSCALES, despite a higher initial investment, offers superior long-term value through cutting-edge features and automated threat management capabilities.

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Categories and Ranking

IRONSCALES

Ranking in Email Security

17th

Average Rating

9.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) (18th), Secure Email Gateway (SEG) (7th)

SonicWall Email Security

Ranking in Email Security

31st

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the Email Security category, the mindshare of IRONSCALES is 1.7%, down from 2.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SonicWall Email Security is 0.5%, down from 0.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Email Security Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
IRONSCALES	1.7%
SonicWall Email Security	0.5%
Other	97.8%

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Hemeshen Govender

Technology CyberSecurity at Oryx industries

Applies AI automation to clearly identify and stop a lot of phishing emails

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 solution improved our response to phishing attempts. IRONSCALES has a virtual assistant and some AI intelligence that's applied to it. That was the main differentiator between IRONSCALES and Microsoft. The solution's AI automation clearly identifies phishing emails and gives you an overall indication of why it found the mail to be malicious. It does the whole analysis for you to see why the email was deemed a phishing email. The solution's response time is better than that of our previous tool. The solution's user interface is pretty straightforward and user-friendly.

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Swapnil Kulkarni

System Administrator at Ador Powertron Ltd.

Has consistently supported security needs for mid-sized teams with affordable deployment

I do not work with Cloud Secure Edge, CSE, or SMA apart from SonicWall NSA. I am not satisfied with phishing protection, as it falls completely under the email domain security. The customizable policy configuration does not help to tailor email security overall because our systems are not integrated with SonicWall Email Security. We are not using reporting and analytics because it requires completely different software. While all required features are available in SonicWall Email Security for SMBs and startups, we lack analytics features. They provide an option to purchase a complete separate product for analytics, but despite initially having purchased the paper license, due to technical limitations or changes, we cannot use that product. Now they require additional fees to access the analytics feature.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"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."

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

"It is a totally stable solution."

"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."

"AI-driven phishing detection and incident remediation are valuable. It saves time from having to do manual analysis and investigation, and we also get alerts for phishing emails."

"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."

"Their anti-phishing platform is absolutely fantastic. The automated AI piece is amazing, and their technical support is fantastic."

"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."

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"The most valuable feature is that it protects from spam."

"The anti-spam aspect of the solution is its most valuable feature."

"SonicWall Email Security uses multi-layer cloud security."

"The most valuable features are the anti-spam, anti-phishing, anti-virus, and anti-spoofing."

"SonicWall Email Security uses multi-layer cloud security."

"It is a very scalable solution."

"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."

"Beside a few issues with specificity in the email protection controls, this product is very good at handling email security."

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Cons

"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."

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

"I would like it if IRONSCALES had some sort of reminder mechanism, meaning IRONSCALES knows if a user completed the training or not. As long as it hasn't been completed, it keeps reminding every so often, alerts the manager, etc. Right now, it is all in the hands of the employee, and not all of them continue the process, which is a shame."

"The only thing that I could say is that some of the reporting features could be better."

"Its UI could be improved. My pet peeve with a lot of these cloud-based systems is that a lot of times, the interface for the management is a little clunky. If you live and breathe IRONSCALES all day long, you'll obviously know where everything is just from muscle memory, but the system is not designed for people to be in it all day long. You're only supposed to occasionally look at it. When things get moved around, it is not necessarily that intuitive. I'm an IT guy, and I can pretty much take the worst UI and figure it out, but the menus and the options in the interface could be a little cleaner graphically. If you have a quick problem that you want to resolve, it takes a little bit of digging in the admin console, whereas it should take a few clicks up front."

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

"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."

More IRONSCALES cons

"The technical support from the company is not always very good at solving issues, but they offer access to a good community of users where problems are easily solved."

"The pricing could be improved."

"We would like to see more information on a dashboard about what is happening when it comes to spamming and malware."

"The pricing could be improved."

"The platform's control panel needs enhancement."

"I am not satisfied with phishing protection, as it falls completely under the email domain security."

"There could be definition updates included in the subscription."

"The reporting needs improvement."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."

"IRONSCALES is an expensive solution."

"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."

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

"The tool is not very cheap, but it is affordable."

"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."

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"When compared with Cisco, it is very well priced. Cisco is very expensive."

"The cost is cheaper than Sophos. I would rate it as five out of ten."

"I rate the application’s pricing a five out of ten."

"The overall price of SonicWall Email Security should be reduced and there should be an option to purchase one or two licenses more instead of their current policy of bulk increases only. There should be more flexibility in the licensing model. Each license cost approximately $33 annually."

"The platform offers a yearly license."

"Our customers purchase the solution's yearly license."

"We have a two-year license subscription and the price is very high."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

17%

Manufacturing Company

Healthcare Company

University

Computer Software Company

15%

Construction Company

11%

Educational Organization

11%

Financial Services Firm

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	6
Midsize Enterprise	4
Large Enterprise	3

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	11
Midsize Enterprise	2
Large 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?

There are areas that could be improved with this product. Regarding the Spanish language awareness training, while they are producing good content, it appears to be initially produced in English an...

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What do you like most about SonicWall Email Security?

According to our customers, the product's most valuable feature is the ability to detect spam and reduce phishing emails.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for SonicWall Email Security?

The solution is affordable.

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What needs improvement with SonicWall Email Security?

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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 Email Security Platform offers powerful protection to keep email threats out. And sensitive data in. With innovative protection techniques for both inbound and outbound email plus unique management tools, the Email Security platform delivers superior email protection today while standing ready to stop the new attacks of tomorrow.

SonicWall

Sample Customers

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

Star Kay White, Locala Community Partnerships

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