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McAfee MVISION Mobile vs Sophos SafeGuard comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

McAfee MVISION Mobile
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
8.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
Mobile Threat Defense (9th)
Sophos SafeGuard
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
44
Ranking in other categories
Endpoint Encryption (2nd), Mobile Data Protection (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

McAfee MVISION Mobile and Sophos SafeGuard aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. McAfee MVISION Mobile is designed for Mobile Threat Defense and holds a mindshare of 4.5%, up 4.3% compared to last year.
Sophos SafeGuard, on the other hand, focuses on Endpoint Encryption, holds 7.7% mindshare, up 2.3% since last year.
Mobile Threat Defense Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
McAfee MVISION Mobile4.5%
Zimperium26.1%
Lookout18.5%
Other50.9%
Mobile Threat Defense
Endpoint Encryption Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Sophos SafeGuard7.7%
Microsoft BitLocker16.5%
Symantec Endpoint Encryption8.1%
Other67.7%
Endpoint Encryption
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer1066482 - PeerSpot reviewer
Managing Director at a consultancy with 1-10 employees
A market leader that integrates nicely with other McAfee security products and is quite stable
We are just customers and end-users. We are using the most up-to-date version available at this time. I'd advise potential new users that the key thing is to clearly understand what your requirements are and what your use cases are, and both your business requirements, your technical requirements, and your regulatory requirements. It's important to understand all of those. A company needs to clearly understand all the use cases it needs to manage and make sure they do the appropriate due diligence to find a product that can achieve all those requirements and handle all those use cases. It was an extensive process for us. We did about four to six months of paper-based due diligence - not even a field trial - to make that we were picking the right product. We leveraged a lot of outside vendor-neutral sources like Gartner. So far, I'd rate the solution at a nine out of ten.
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Enterprise Manager and Technical Sales at TechSol Infosec Pvt Ltd
Easy installation and maintenance have improved data security with two-way encryption
I don't see any area for improvement in Sophos SafeGuard. Sophos SafeGuard doesn't have on-premises solutions; it's completely available on the cloud only. It's on a public cloud; they don't have any other deployment models, just their own lease. We are not properly aware if they are using AWS or Microsoft Azure since Sophos employs their own cloud solution, which I think is Amazon. AI is not integrated into Sophos SafeGuard; AI is available in EDR and XDR. AI is not required for this product; it is only focused on key management which they already manage well in other products. The overall rating for the product is a ten out of ten.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The product is one of the market leaders, according to Gartner, on mobile protection."
"Due to the fact that we bought a number of McAfee security products, one of the significant benefits for our company was the integration across multiple security controls, giving us a single pane of glass to monitor, administer, and manage multiple security controls."
"It is seamless and easy to install. We haven't encountered any recent issues."
"I like its ease of use the most; the management console is really nice, I like having one pane of glass that does everything, it does the Sophos anti-virus and encryption, everything that you need is in one place, it is easy to use, and it is also pretty fast."
"The advantage of Sophos SafeGuard stems from the fact that it is more secure than other products in the market."
"With Sophos, I only need to generate the password and give that to a user to be able to allow them to login to the admin page of the Endpoint and do whatever they need to do. The user cannot go ahead and uninstall it. It's kept us much more secure because of this. Should any event happen on a particular system, I'm given the username and the system IP address. I get notifications and can deal with issues right away."
"Compared to the potential loss if a breach occurred, the little higher investment is worth protecting data."
"The most valuable features of the solution are the fact that they are able to encrypt the hard disk and to encrypt USB sticks."
"Sophos is a complete solution that has a range of firewalls and all of the software bundles from the endpoint to the data center."
"Sophos SafeGuard offers one of the best VPNs I've seen, and the solution is very good in terms of securities because all information is protected and encrypted with very good anti-viral applications."
 

Cons

"The one thing that I know that they're working on, that's not quite there in the product, is the artificial intelligence aspect."
"The one thing that I know that they're working on, that's not quite there in the product, is the artificial intelligence aspect."
"The solution is not using other features like booting encryption, because it causes very heavy processing of the workstation."
"Sophos should conduct some seminars to teach people how to use it and also to inform the users about what they should do in case of problems."
"From version eight, Windows 8 onwards, SafeGuard doesn't work 100% of the time, so we have to use BitLocker for the encrypting and only the key management is done by SafeGuard."
"The encryption could be improved."
"The security does not have 100% authentication."
"Technical support isn't so good; it needs to be improved."
"It just needs a little bit more on the reporting side. Its reporting can be improved a little bit in terms of being able to know that things are in the right status."
"If it's possible, they should make all the features available because it's got a lot of features on offer, but you have to buy the license in order to add those features to the normal Endpoint. If they could make all those features available and/or offer a bundling option it would be better."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"I rate the product price a six on a scale of one to ten, where one is a low price, and ten is a high price."
"Licensing for this solution is on a yearly basis."
"We used it for three years. It costs about 1000 ZAR. Maintenance was part of it, so we don't have extra cost. On a scale of one to ten, where one is a low price and ten is a high price, I rate the solution's pricing a three."
"The pricing is reasonable."
"I rate the pricing two or three on a scale of one to ten, where one is expensive, and ten is cheap."
"Licensing is on a yearly basis and the pricing could be better."
"The licenses are dependant on the number of users and computers you have to protect."
"I rate Sophos SafeGuard's pricing a five out of ten."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
15%
Construction Company
13%
Healthcare Company
7%
Outsourcing Company
6%
 

Company Size

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Company SizeCount
Small Business30
Midsize Enterprise9
Large Enterprise8
 

Questions from the Community

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Sophos SafeGuard?
I cannot compare prices precisely, so I would give it a five out of ten rating. I am uncertain. Sophos is slightly more expensive than some other vendors. A bundle might be an option for cost-consc...
What needs improvement with Sophos SafeGuard?
I don't think they have anything to add except that maybe they should do their research to see if there are new additions needed. Everything seems very straightforward.
What is your primary use case for Sophos SafeGuard?
I use Sophos SafeGuard for both end user workstation as well as servers.
 

Also Known As

McAfee MDP, MVISION Mobile
SafeGuard, SafeGuard Encryption
 

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