We performed a comparison between Proofpoint Email Protection 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."Proofpoint Email Protection offers an additional layer of protection compared to other brands like Microsoft, Mimecast, and Barracuda. While these major companies excel at detecting malicious attachments, the solution goes further by analyzing the context of emails, allowing for more nuanced decision-making."
"Its main defense is to stop malicious emails from coming through. There is a sandbox environment where you can open malicious or suspicious emails to make sure that they're not malicious, instead of taking the risk of having your employees do it. This is definitely something that everybody needs nowadays, especially with the rise in cyber attacks."
"The initial implementation is pretty easy to handle."
"Its anti-phishing functionality is the most valuable. Certainly, the biggest problem I have is phishing."
"The most valuable features of Proofpoint Email Protection are ease of use, data loss prevention, antivirus, and spam protection."
"The solution is very user-friendly."
"The solution's technical support is good. I rate the technical support a ten out of ten."
"The most valuable feature of Proofpoint Email Protection is the TAP Dashboard. It provides more detailed information that can be used for forensic analysis. This is an advantage that other email security providers, such as Cisco, IronPort, or Microsoft do not offer in their dashboards."
"Sophos Email is a stable solution."
"Sophos Email is in the cloud and integrated with its firewall."
"When you say email security, it's about everything, incoming email, outgoing email, spam, phishing emails, unwanted marketing emails. You can set rules, but the main feature of Sophos Email is to make sure you don't get hacked. 95% of people who are hacked do not get hacked by typing the router password. They are hacked from the inside out, which means they send you a document that is a zero-day attack, you open it, nothing happens, but technically the attack is running in the background of your computer. This is how they gain access to your PC."
"The most valuable feature of Sophos Email is the sandbox. We're able to scan the file, isolate it, and look at it before it is delivered. It is highly effective."
"The anti-malware, risk scanning has been pretty spot on."
"The most significant aspect is the response filtering concerning attachments and links."
"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."
"I found the user interface friendly."
"Proofpoint Email Protection could improve by reducing the price."
"The solution could lower its price."
"Proofpoint Email Protection could improve the Mail Trace feature and make navigation easier."
"The reporting section could be enhanced. I like some reports but if they could allow us to create custom reports with more flexibility it would enhance the reports more."
"We find the cost to be prohibitive."
"The false positives are an issue."
"The Secure Mail aspect should have an Outlook add-in, instead of an external dashboard that outside users have to access."
"Pricing for the platform could still be cheaper."
"The solution's technical support is slow and unresponsive. You need to book time in order to get support."
"The solution has not found a way to block certain kinds of phishing emails."
"I would like to see improvements in the initial setup process, ensuring better compatibility with diverse customer infrastructures."
"Lacks visibility into spam emails."
"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."
"There have been some issues with compatibility and effectiveness, particularly when integrating it with our firewall. The main challenge has been email protection, especially due to compatibility issues and difficulties with log access and email relay configuration."
"Their technical support is slow to respond."
"Sophos Email needs to increase the number of promos."
Proofpoint Email Protection is ranked 2nd in Office 365 Protection with 44 reviews while Sophos Email is ranked 3rd in Office 365 Protection with 25 reviews. Proofpoint Email Protection is rated 8.4, while Sophos Email is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Proofpoint Email Protection writes "A reasonably priced product that offers protection to emails, along with spam filters". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos Email writes "Ensures that there is maximum security enabled for our communication processes". Proofpoint Email Protection is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP), Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Cisco Secure Email and Fortinet FortiMail, whereas Sophos Email is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP), Fortinet FortiMail, Barracuda Email Security Gateway and Perception Point Advanced Email Security. See our Proofpoint Email Protection vs. Sophos Email report.
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