We performed a comparison between Hornetsecurity 365 Total Protection and Sophos Email based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Email Security solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
"Since we have started using the solution, there have been fewer compromises."
"The technical support is good and quick to resolve issues."
"The email protection is excellent, especially in terms of anti-phishing policies."
"The deployment capability is a great feature."
"The benefit that stands out to me is the ability for multiple individuals to collaborate simultaneously within the same document. Additionally, there is the option to save the document directly in the integrated OneDrive or SharePoint."
"The initial setup was easy."
"Defender for 365 is a comprehensive cloud-based solution. The value of the cloud is that you aren't alone. Threat intelligence and analytics are shared in the cloud. We don't have to find the solution alone. If you face an unknown threat with traditional solutions like Trend Micro and Symantec, you need to open a case and send your information to them to analyze forensically and identify the source of the attack."
"The basic features are okay and I'm satisfied with the Defender."
"Hornetsecurity 365 Total Protection is an easy-to-use solution."
"The best part is, I rarely have to access the portal as everything is set up and tweaked the way I wanted it. But the feature set is incredibly granular and allows for deep levels of customization."
"I have a lot of control over spam and phishing emails."
"It is a stable solution...It is a scalable solution."
"It has enhanced our approach to tackling malware and spam. It is a reliable product with a good user interface."
"The feature of Sophos Email that we find most effective for detecting suspicious emails is primarily based on their signatures."
"Sophos Email provides both inbound and outbound filtering."
"The deployment is very easy. It's quite straightforward."
"The anti-malware, risk scanning has been pretty spot on."
"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."
"I have found Sophos Email to be scalable."
"There is room for improvement in terms of reporting."
"We need a separate license and we don't know how to get the license that is required."
"We are always looking for others tools to increase automation on tasks. There can be better integration with other solutions, such as PowerPoint and email."
"One area for improvement is support, in terms of being able to reach them and, especially, technical support for configuration."
"The GUI is sometimes slow to fetch the device report and could be improved."
"There's room for improvement regarding the time frame for retrieving emails."
"The phishing and spam filters could use some improvement."
"There needs to be an improvement in integrating the product to work across multiple operating systems, and to have better support for non-Microsoft file types."
"The solution’s pricing is not reasonable."
"The pricing is a little high compared to other products."
"I guess I would say maybe quick access to training material for end-users. I know partners have access to this but I as an end-user do not have immediate access to new update information."
"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."
"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."
"Servicing and support are areas with shortcomings where the solution needs to improve."
"The solution's technical support is slow and unresponsive. You need to book time in order to get support."
"A lot of legit emails get quarantined."
"Sophos Email needs to increase the number of promos."
"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."
"The solution has not found a way to block certain kinds of phishing emails."
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Hornetsecurity 365 Total Protection is ranked 25th in Email Security with 3 reviews while Sophos Email is ranked 10th in Email Security with 26 reviews. Hornetsecurity 365 Total Protection is rated 9.0, while Sophos Email is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Hornetsecurity 365 Total Protection writes "A stable product that provides security and control over spam and phishing emails". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos Email writes "Provides good identity proxy features, but sandboxing and spam control features could be improved". Hornetsecurity 365 Total Protection is most compared with Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP), whereas Sophos Email is most compared with Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP), Fortinet FortiMail, Proofpoint Email Protection, Barracuda Email Security Gateway and Trend Micro Email Security. See our Hornetsecurity 365 Total Protection vs. Sophos Email report.
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