Sophos Phish Threat Reviews

I use Sophos Phish Threat to test employee security awareness. Essentially, my clients utilize Phish Threat to ensure that users are not clicking on suspicious emails or links. It is a simulated campaign that I set up, so it is not a major threat, however, it allows me to identify vulnerable human resources within an environment.

Sophos Phish Threat effectively identifies susceptible employees. It depends on knowing my staff. For example, if I receive an email claiming my Facebook account is compromised, I immediately recognize it as suspicious, as I don't have Facebook. If I know my staff use LinkedIn, I utilize the LinkedIn simulation. Similarly, if they bank with Absa, I use the Absa simulation. 

There isn't a single 'one size fits all' approach. Sophos Phish Threat ensures users do not click on dodgy emails or dodgy links within an environment.

I have a customer who faces problems with phishing, and they wanted to have Sophos Central mail separate emails from spam or phishing emails, for example, by using SPS verification. But the user is the weak point. And the customer wanted to train their users and test their knowledge. We made a proof of concept for this customer and applied Phish Threat to around 100 users out of almost 8,000 users. The customer was happy to see that 100 users received the phishing test, an email, and just ten or 12 users clicked on it. The users were then directed to the training videos. The customer felt it was a great solution and told all their customers about it. CSOs and CIOs mainly value the solution.

I find the solution's reports very valuable. Here in Brazil, we must have some phishing tests in Portuguese. This is valuable to test the user's knowledge. The reports let us know how many users clicked on something, and the emails and videos are in Portuguese to train the users.

The primary use case of Sophos Phish Threat is to educate users on identifying fraudulent or spam links, thereby preventing them from clicking on malicious links.

Sophos Phish Threat is valuable as it is easy to use and effectively educates end users on the threats they may face and how to identify them. It helps users recognize fraudulent or spam links, preventing them from clicking harmful links. It has improved user awareness, leading to a reduction in ransomware and Trojan attacks, contributing significantly to the organization's security posture.

The most valuable features of Sophos Phish Threat are internal web filtering and security.

Sophos Phish Threat can improve load balancing.

Sophos Phish Threat is primarily used for email. It is used for filtering and securing your email.

Sophos Phish Threat is great. It is easy to use.

Sophos Phish Threat product is the solution we integrated into our infrastructure when I became the Chief Information Security Officer. It is a good solution because it is used for sensitizing our staff to the risk linked to information security. Additionally, we measure and confirm the efficiency of staff after awareness campaigns. If they are not fully aware then they have to complete the training again.

The solution is easy to integrate because it is on the cloud. We have been able to limit users to only accessing the Sophos platform by modifying the firewall and Sophos platform settings. The dashboard gives us detailed reports allowing us to be able to manage better.

The major use cases attached to the solution stem from the fact that my company caters to the needs of a lot of customers who use the solution and haven't faced any problems with it or any malware, spyware, or ransomware attacks.

One of the company's customers who used the solution faced an issue last year, and our company fixed it before reporting it to the Sophos customer support team. The customer support team of Sophos helped resolve the problem faced by one of our company's customers within seven working days with the help of AnyDesk.

The solution is mostly used in the banking sector when they want to have penetration testing. They use this tool to check if they are compliant with the policies and procedures of the financial institute. That use case was one I was told to be engaged with and aware I am of that.

My client found that it improved their organization, which was a financial organization.