We performed a comparison between Mimecast Email Security 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."The integration is straightforward."
"Email security is the most valuable feature of the solution."
"It offers an easy initial setup."
"Mimecast certainly helped my customers reduce phishing emails."
"It's really quite user-friendly. In terms of technical superiority and the product itself, there are no complaints. It is really cutting edge."
"The solution is scalable."
"We like the content filtering and secure messaging features."
"Its administration console is very easy to use. The administration console is absolutely important because you interact with the platform through it."
"Sophos Email is in the cloud and integrated with its firewall."
"The feature of Sophos Email that we find most effective for detecting suspicious emails is primarily based on their signatures."
"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."
"Sophos Email provides both inbound and outbound filtering."
"I find the comprehensive features of Sophos Email most valuable."
"It's easy to use and the configuration is straightforward."
"The anti-malware, risk scanning has been pretty spot on."
"I found the user interface friendly."
"As a user, the user interface of the management console could be upgraded, for example."
"The solution should include more AI features instead of Mimecast's more general static configuration tooling."
"I did have a problem with Mimecast. That is why I was looking for an alternative solution because their sender IP address gets poorly rated by Microsoft."
"The filtering needs more flexibility."
"The installation is not so straightforward."
"I'd like to have better support from the product in the future."
"Their support should be improved. They are notorious for sending you to knowledge-based articles rather than actually talking to you, but that is, unfortunately, kind of becoming a trend with everything. In terms of features, I haven't had any complaints. However, I don't like the fact they moved to a paid training subscription model. They used to have a lot of free webinars for training, but they have started to charge for them in the past year."
"They should improve the cookies management feature."
"I would like to see improvements in the initial setup process, ensuring better compatibility with diverse customer infrastructures."
"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."
"A lot of legit emails get quarantined."
"Lacks visibility into spam emails."
"The main drawback is regarding the technical support."
"The solution's sandboxing and spam control features could be improved."
"Sophos Email has few improvements to implement, including the handling of incoming emails in the systems. It needs to add additional feature that helps in enhancing the scanning processes of these emails. While adding these features, it should work towards improving the current features also."
"Their technical support is slow to respond."
Mimecast Email Security is ranked 5th in Office 365 Protection with 25 reviews while Sophos Email is ranked 4th in Office 365 Protection with 28 reviews. Mimecast Email Security is rated 8.0, while Sophos Email is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Mimecast Email Security writes "It gives clients peace of mind and helps them educate their users about threats". 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". Mimecast Email Security is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Abnormal Security, Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP), Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration and Cisco Secure Email, 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 Mimecast Email Security vs. Sophos Email report.
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