We performed a comparison between Mimecast Email Security and Sophos Email based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Office 365 Protection solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The solution's performance is good."
"The product's most valuable features are impersonation protection and phishing countermeasures."
"The piece that is most valuable from the Mimecast standpoint will be the sandboxing feature."
"The initial setup is very straightforward."
"The solution is pretty straightforward to use and easy to set up."
"The interface of this solution is very easy to navigate and user-friendly. There is no delivery in email and other communications, making it reliable. The configuration is relatively easy."
"Mimecast certainly helped my customers reduce phishing emails."
"We like Mimecast's spam filtering. The email signature feature is also a big plus for our users."
"There are many features that are important, but among those, the spam protection feature is very valuable. It help us to safeguard the email against phishing and ensures that there is maximum security enabled for our communication processes. It has a huge role in protecting our emails from potential threats."
"Sophos Email is in the cloud and integrated with its firewall."
"The speed and stability were fine."
"The deployment is very easy. It's quite straightforward."
"Sophos Email offers encryption and malware protection, provides visibility into emails, has 99% accuracy in catching spam, enhances organizational safety, integrates with various vendors like Microsoft, is deployable with any email service, prevents data loss, features authentication rules, synchronizes with Active Directory and Azure, and includes a self-service portal. The product is very flexible."
"I find the comprehensive features of Sophos Email most valuable."
"It is a stable solution...It is a scalable solution."
"Good VIP protection, time of click protection and the Sandstorm feature."
"The solution is complex and not easy to use."
"The solution's console interface was recently changed for the admins, but the previous one was much better because we could open tabs on it."
"The detection rates are an area for improvement."
"The installation is not so straightforward."
"The solution is very expensive."
"The attachment scanning feature doesn't work properly."
"The filtering needs more flexibility."
"The price could be better, it should be reduced."
"It was sometimes hard to find the settings in the solution's interface."
"Sophos Email can improve security."
"Sophos Email has few improvements to implement, including the handling of incoming emails in the systems. It needs to add additional feature that helps in enhancing the scanning processes of these emails. While adding these features, it should work towards improving the current features also."
"The solution has not found a way to block certain kinds of phishing emails."
"The tool's integration becomes an issue when the internet connection is weak."
"The security of the solution could improve."
"Servicing and support are areas with shortcomings where the solution needs to improve."
"The installation of Sophos Email could be easier. It's a bit difficult because setting up the email virtually requires some bit of technical knowledge."
Mimecast Email Security is ranked 5th in Office 365 Protection with 23 reviews while Sophos Email is ranked 3rd in Office 365 Protection with 23 reviews. Mimecast Email Security is rated 7.8, while Sophos Email is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Mimecast Email Security writes "It gives clients peace of mind and helps them educate their users about threats". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos Email writes "Ensures that there is maximum security enabled for our communication processes". Mimecast Email Security is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP), Abnormal Security, Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration and Cisco Secure Email, whereas Sophos Email is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP), Fortinet FortiMail, Proofpoint Email Protection and Barracuda Email Security Gateway. See our Mimecast Email Security vs. Sophos Email report.
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