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Retarus Email Security vs Sophos Email comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Retarus Email Security
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
5.6
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
Secure Email Gateway (SEG) (16th)
Sophos Email
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
32
Ranking in other categories
Email Security (10th), Office 365 Protection (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

While both are Messaging and Collaboration solutions, they serve different purposes. Retarus Email Security is designed for Secure Email Gateway (SEG) and holds a mindshare of 0.3%, up 0.2% compared to last year.
Sophos Email, on the other hand, focuses on Email Security, holds 2.1% mindshare, down 2.6% since last year.
Secure Email Gateway (SEG)
Email Security
 

Featured Reviews

WAKKAS AHMAD - PeerSpot reviewer
Provides valuable reports that make it easy to take action
Our primary use case for this solution is protecting emails This solution has helped our organization by protecting our emails from various threats. It helped us get customized reports on all of the emails we received on the user side and other data. The feature I found most valuable was getting…
Ahmed_Fahmy - PeerSpot reviewer
Provides a powerful and simple email protection with proven management benefits
Sophos Email is integrated with Office 365 and Google Workspace. It offers anti-spam functionality, which is easy to manage and comes with documentation on how to integrate it with Office 365 and Google Workspace. It provides a defense layer for email protection, scanning every incoming and outbound email for malware and spam. It can also function temporarily as an email solution if my vendor from Office 365 or Google Workspace is out of service.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The feature I found most valuable was getting details on the emails, being alerted once those emails got a bad reputation, and then being able to take action on those emails."
"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 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 cannot guarantee any email by its name. It can be spam. Sophos Email helps to double-check whether an email is spam or not. It has a dashboard which gives an overview of the alerts."
"The best thing about it is the logs."
"Endpoint and server protection are very effective."
"Sophos Email provides both inbound and outbound filtering."
"The filtering capabilities are precious and far superior to others I've used. It's intuitive in what it pushes to quarantine, and users can quickly review, free, or delete items without needing an administrator, making it ideal for a multi-user environment."
"The solution protects users from phishing links and spam."
 

Cons

"This solution needs to improve the area of GUI as well as dashboards because they are very poor in terms of the current email security solution."
"The solution should be able to support the cloud environment."
"A lot of legit emails get quarantined."
"However, the setup was tricky, particularly with the DNS routing between Microsoft Exchange Online and Sophos cloud services. It took me about four attempts to get it working correctly. Despite that, Sophos Email does everything we need, so we don't require any additional capabilities now."
"Their technical support is slow to respond."
"The product could include all the essential features and capabilities, similar to the on-premise, server-based version."
"It was sometimes hard to find the settings in the solution's interface."
"Email installation could be more user-friendly so that it can be done without involving the partner."
"Sophos Email could better detect fake emails, especially when the domain names are similar. It needs to improve spotting spoofed domains, like when one letter differs in a domain name. It also needs to incorporate AI detection. Barracuda detects suspicious emails better. However, malware scanning is better in Sophos Email."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"The tool's price is reasonable. On a yearly basis, there is a 20 percent increase in prices, but it is not an issue."
"It is an expensive solution. On a scale of one to ten, where one is low price, and ten is high price, I rate the pricing a seven."
"The platform is inexpensive. It offers a cost-effective licensing model. We purchase its yearly license."
"The pricing is quite reasonable, with a fixed cost and no additional charges."
"I rate the product's pricing a seven out of ten."
"The tool's pricing is medium."
"The pricing is fair."
"The solution is expensive."
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Computer Software Company
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Manufacturing Company
9%
Comms Service Provider
7%
Financial Services Firm
7%
 

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What do you like most about Sophos Email?
The solution's identity proxy feature is very good and reliable.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Sophos Email?
Sophos Email pricing is a bit high, especially since I purchase through a partner, and they sell it at a higher price since they also seek to make a profit.
What needs improvement with Sophos Email?
Sophos Email does not work with split delivery. If I have a domain with 100 mailboxes and want to protect only 50, it is not recommended by Sophos or not possible to configure.
 

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Del Monte Foods, Terra Verde, spicerhaart, RIVERLITE, Dataprise, SureBridge, Reed's School, Sayfol International School
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