We performed a comparison between Lookout and Sophos Mobile based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Cisco, Microsoft, Palo Alto Networks and others in Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASB)."The protection offered by the product is the most valuable feature. It detects vulnerabilities or traps on our users' phones and then prompts them to clean up their devices. Tools we used previously would only discover, which required us to gather information on the backend, so Lookout is a welcome upgrade."
"On the outside, the main differentiation is because Lookout ingest. They have ingested basically all of the apps for the last ten years and all the versions of all the apps, and we have that in a corporate database that allows us to do very large-scale machine learning and analysis on that data set. That's not something that any of the competitors really have the capability to do because they don't have access to the data set. A lot of the apps you can no longer get them because that version of the app is five or six years old, and it just doesn't exist anywhere anymore, except within our infrastructure. So, the ability to have that very rich dataset and learn from that dataset is a real differentiator."
"The solution is stable."
"The most valuable features are the antivirus as a whole, the anti-malware, and all of the protection features that scan our enterprise devices."
"The management and enrollment process is great, and with the asset management and instant action menu, we can easily maintain and support the users."
"One of the most valuable features of Sophos Mobile is the Wifi password."
"They always add more features to this product."
"The security features work well."
"The initial setup process is straightforward and fast."
"The most valuable feature is the mobile device management capability. You can easily manage all of your mobile devices."
"The remote management and cloud-based maintenance features of this solution are very useful for our organization."
"Sophos can block the Wi-Fi connection on a mobile device. That's one feature we wanted, but the main thing is the ability to disable the device if it's lost or stolen. We need to shut down PayPal, so it can't be used to make unauthorized purchases."
"The stability depends on the service from where you access it. Because sometimes, the place you are in, you have Gateway. You don't have Gateway. The gateway is overutilized. At the end, you need to go through their gateways. And this is the key point here. You have a tracking point. If it's not well orchestrated, and it scales up as you add more to the existing team, you will suffer"
"Lookout was moving into the SSE space. And so their work on SecureWeb Gateway and SD-WAN is still sort of evolving."
"We just submitted an enhancement request reflecting the main area we want to see improvement in; the APIs. Currently, we're able to build dashboards, but it's somewhat backward because we use our MDM API to create them. Lookout should provide API to customers so we can query our data and use it in our cloud, and this is the only outstanding area for improvement with the product right now."
"From the analysis that we've done, they do seem to be maybe a step behind in trying to enter the market with a new solution. But when they do pick up, they do come out with some good products."
"We have experienced issues in updating iOS devices when we set a minimum version requirement policy, and we do not have the option to force automatic installation. This means that the device must be supervised in order for updates to be applied, which we would like to see improved."
"We encounter issues while working with iOS."
"In terms of what could be improved, the initial configuration and setup of the environment could probably be made a little bit easier. There are so many pieces that go into it. Intune is absolutely insane and Sophos is better, but it still is a bit complex to get it all set up correctly."
"There may be necessary adjustments that need to be made because we are facing certain restrictions within the work profile."
"To manage the Apple devices is not that straightforward there are a lot of features the other third parties solutions are offering which Sophos Mobile is not."
"They continue to work on integration with mobile device management and mobile security. They are improving the protection but I think that the capabilities still need to be enhanced."
"The setup should be made easier."
"The product does not work well in iOS."
Lookout is ranked 13th in Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASB) with 5 reviews while Sophos Mobile is ranked 10th in Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) with 12 reviews. Lookout is rated 7.2, while Sophos Mobile is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Lookout writes "Easy to use and setup". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos Mobile writes "Stable product with central administration to manage device security ". Lookout is most compared with Check Point Harmony Mobile, Zimperium, Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint and McAfee MVISION Mobile, whereas Sophos Mobile is most compared with Microsoft Intune, VMware Workspace ONE, Jamf Pro, ManageEngine Endpoint Central and IBM MaaS360.
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