We performed a comparison between Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP) 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."The deployment capability is a great feature."
"Does a thorough job of examining email and URLs for malicious content."
"I like its investigation capabilities, as that is what is most important to me. It is fairly simple with a user-friendly interface."
"Safe attachments, safe links, policies, and the ability to protect from zero-day threats are the most valuable features."
"Defender is a SaaS platform, so it offers more flexibility. Managing the permissions is easier. The solution's automated detection and response features are scalable."
"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."
"Defender enables us to secure all 365-related activity from a single place. It gives us visibility into everything happening in Outlook, protecting us against phishing and other email-based threats. Defender helps us detect any suspicious behaviors."
"Our customers are satisfied with Defender for 365 because Microsoft products are easy to use and customize to meet the client's needs. Everything is in one place, so we can adjust policies as needed for phishing, DLP, ATP, or any other security features that our clients want to apply."
"It is scalable."
"It has a really nice web-based administration console."
"It is an easy solution."
"It's all running in the backend, so it doesn't affect the app functionality."
"We use the solution in all our environments. We use it for remedy tickets and give them updates. It was our main communication point."
"The scalability is pretty good; it does what it is supposed to do."
"Microsoft EOP's most valuable feature is a shared mailbox."
"It provides security to both on-premises and Azure infrastructures."
"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."
"Sophos Email is in the cloud and integrated with its firewall."
"I found the user interface friendly."
"The most valuable feature is its email security."
"The most significant aspect is the response filtering concerning attachments and links."
"Sophos Email is a stable solution."
"It is a stable solution...It is a scalable solution."
"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."
"Microsoft sometimes has downtime, and we'll get several incidents coming in back to back. We have a huge backlog of notifications, many of which may be false positives. However, there might be serious alerts, so we can't risk dismissing all of them at once."
"The GUI is sometimes slow to fetch the device report and could be improved."
"Configuration requires going to a lot of places rather than just accessing one tab."
"The pre-sales cost calculations could be more transparent."
"You should be able to deploy Defender for every subscription without the need to add servers."
"They can improve their security in a way where a customer can know if all their attachments are safe or not to open through a report. The solution does its job perfectly, but it never reports to the customer whether those attachments have been stopped before or not."
"It would be better if it were more scalable. It depends on the architecture, but we would like to make it more scalable for both data centers."
"The product must provide better malware detection."
"I think the implementation could be more streamlined."
"The solution needs to improve its backup."
"It doesn't protect against everything. We do need protection for, for example, endpoints."
"Online Protection has an issue in that it doesn't provide an option to stop impersonation."
"When the product is being updated, it changes some of the setups. The support team is also not good."
"When you're using a Microsoft product solution, you can scale it, but if you're not, there are limitations."
"The licensing can be on the expensive side, especially in the cloud space."
"We have experienced issues while migrating from on-prem to the cloud. The tool needs to improve its stability."
"The main drawback is regarding the technical support."
"Lacks visibility into spam emails."
"Enhancing rule creation and customization features would provide users with greater control over their email security settings."
"Sophos Email can improve security."
"It was sometimes hard to find the settings in the solution's interface."
"Sophos Email could improve DLP features."
"The solution should be able to support the cloud environment."
"Servicing and support are areas with shortcomings where the solution needs to improve."
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Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP) is ranked 3rd in Email Security with 34 reviews while Sophos Email is ranked 10th in Email Security with 26 reviews. Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP) is rated 8.2, while Sophos Email is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP) writes "An effective email security solution that provides DLP, Safe Attachment, and Safe Links". 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". Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP) is most compared with Proofpoint Email Protection, Cisco Secure Email, Mimecast Email Security, Fortinet FortiMail and Abnormal Security, whereas Sophos Email is most compared with Fortinet FortiMail, Proofpoint Email Protection, Barracuda Email Security Gateway, Perception Point Advanced Email Security and Hornetsecurity 365 Total Protection. See our Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP) vs. Sophos Email report.
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