Cisco XDR vs. Sophos Intercept X

It is well suited for environments that have a large mix of Cisco products and popular software packages. As a SaaS application it doesn't require much for a local footprint but at the same time won't work in an environment that requires your security tools to store data or run locally.

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Sophos Intercept-X is well suited for any environment big or small. There is even a home version that is free that I highly recommend for anyone at home. If you are looking for endpoint protection that is centrally managed, catches everything, and has many features this is the product for you.

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• Providing visibility for threat risks
• Detecting holes in the network that have vulnerabilites
• Flagging ddos events and kicking off an incident response

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• Sophos is a little too good at DLP. But it is indeed very good at not allowing our data to leave our endpoints without strict adherence to policy.
• Sophos is very good at protecting endpoints against viruses and other malware.
• Sopho is really good at informing us of what is happening on our endpoints. OOTB reporting is way better than expected.

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• XDR can improve with more integrations
• XDR can be improved with more programmability for the end user
• XDR can be improved with more options to mitigate events

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• The migration from on-prem sophos to cloud sophos, could have been a little more seamless
• Would love to get more insight on what was blocked or flagged and what it was trying to do
• Better and more granular feature management from group policies

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We have gotten a great product for the price. Easy to maintain and set up on new devices. Support is great and easy to work with and understand.

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The usability has never been a problem. Sophos Intercept X is a program you can install and let protect your company without much intervention. Apart from a few policies, Sophos will keep you protected better than most any product on the market. Sophos Intercept X works quite well when you are looking to "tighten your grip" on user's access to websites, programs, and add-ons.

Most of the support reps are fantastic. There have been a few though that have had to be escalated via Account Manager when they haven't followed up but this is a rare instance, and often followed up by the Support Manager for APAC.

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Best thing was the help pushing out via group policy and was able to get instructions for that on sophos site

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Cisco XDR is great for companies that primarily run Cisco and provides a more seamless integration than Qradar both in terms of identify risks and mitigating them. Cisco XDR also provides insight through Cisco Talos and gives the end users ability to customize their work flow to threat hunt according to their business needs.

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I don't feel it's fair to compare Sophos Intercept X with the versions of Symantec and AVG that I have used in the past - as that was such a long time ago. I'm sure those other companies have released far more features than I used all those years ago

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• XDR helps contain a security incident event to reduce business impact
• XDR provides real time visibility to alert the business on security risks
• XDR provides ways to mitigate threats

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• Before we had Intercept X, we had several infections of ransomware. Since that time it has stopped at least 10 attempts, saving us thousands of man-hours and hundreds of thousands of dollars.
• By decreasing the time needed for malware remediation, it has saved us the cost of .25 FTE in the IT department.
• Initial setup was cumbersome and cost us .1 FTE in additional costs the first year.

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