We performed a comparison between Microsoft BitLocker and Sophos Mobile based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, McAfee, Sophos and others in Endpoint Encryption."The most valuable feature is the authentication process which is very fast."
"The solution is included in Windows 11."
"Microsoft BitLocker can be used to ensure that stolen PCs or laptops do not lose their data."
"The platform provides good performance."
"As a Microsoft shop, we find this product easy to use."
"One significant aspect is that without the BitLocker key, you can't log in to the user's laptop. I appreciate the capability to encrypt the user's hard drive, ensuring access only with the recovery key. In an enterprise setup, we store all BitLocker keys on our server. So, whenever a user attempts to log in, the architecture authenticates with the key. This ensures that our data is secure. Even if the user's laptop is lost, we have confidence that the data remains inaccessible. So far, our user data is well-protected."
"It's my understanding that the initial setup is straightforward."
"I liked the way it works with our Microsoft tools. As we roll out Intune, we can validate if the device has been encrypted, and if not, we can push it down. It is pretty simple to deploy."
"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."
"The security features work well."
"They always add more features to this product."
"The solution is quite user-friendly."
"One of the most valuable features of Sophos Mobile is the Wifi password."
"I like the level of interaction that the product offers with the other products in our company's environment."
"The solution provides us with data protection."
"The pricing should be improved."
"User profiles can be improved so that people can create their own passwords. It has one password per machine, which is a problem. We would prefer each user to have his or her own boot password. Each user can have a username and password or biometrics, such as fingerprints and iris scanner, integrated into the boot process, but I really can't see that coming anytime soon, if ever."
"The biggest one for us is revoking access. So, even though someone downloads something to a device, we want the ability to cloak that device or data and bring it back or make that data unusable for that person. Currently, BitLocker doesn't give us that ability. It basically encrypts it. We're seeing if identity management or IAM allows us to do that. We're kind of looking at third-party software that does that for us."
"More customization options would have been nice, such as password selection, actions when the screen is locked, etc."
"I would like to be able to encrypt our cloud tenancy."
"The people at the first level of support refer you to articles that do not pertain to the problem at hand."
"If integration with Active Directory are not mandatory for him, I think that there are many other solutions in the market that equal or are much stronger than Microsoft."
"There are options which could be implemented to make it a little more like PGP Whole Disk Encryption."
"For Sophos Mobile, it is difficult to get good support."
"We would like to see graphics showing the use of each device."
"The features of Sophos Mobile could improve. The way the system works together could be better. Additionally, the integration with other Sophos products could improve."
"It could be more secure."
"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."
"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."
"We encounter issues while working with iOS."
"Our support reps are based in the Philippines, and it's hard to connect with them sometimes. It took me about two months to resolve my issue, so it wasn't a good experience."
Microsoft BitLocker is ranked 1st in Endpoint Encryption with 61 reviews while Sophos Mobile is ranked 9th in Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) with 13 reviews. Microsoft BitLocker is rated 8.2, while Sophos Mobile is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Microsoft BitLocker writes "User-friendly, easy to set up, and offers real-time machine status updates". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos Mobile writes "Stable product with central administration to manage device security ". Microsoft BitLocker is most compared with ESET Endpoint Encryption, McAfee Complete Data Protection, Symantec Endpoint Encryption, Trend Micro Endpoint Encryption and WinMagic SecureDoc, whereas Sophos Mobile is most compared with Microsoft Intune, ManageEngine Endpoint Central, Jamf Pro, VMware Workspace ONE and Lookout.
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