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    Microsoft Defender for Office 365

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft Defender for Office 365 is a security solution used to protect Office 365 against advanced threats, such as phishing and business email compromise. It helps prevent volume-based and targeted attacks, including business email compromise, credential phishing, ransomware, and advanced malware with a robust filtering stack, as well as to detect malicious and suspicious content like links and files across Office 365.N/A

    Sophos Email

    Score7.5 out of 10
    N/ASophos Email is presented as Predictive Cloud Email Security Powered by Artificial Intelligence designed to block spam and malware, as well as protect employees and block phishing attempts.N/A
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Microsoft Defender for Office 365Sophos Email
    Considered Both Products
    Microsoft
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    Sophos
    Chose Sophos Email
    Featurewise, stacks up well. Chosen for integration into other Sophos products, and additional data/insights provided across our entire Sophos estate.
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Microsoft Defender for Office 365Sophos Email
    Secure Email Gateway
    Comparison of Secure Email Gateway features of Microsoft Defender for Office 365 and Sophos Email
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    Microsoft Defender for Office 365
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    Ratings
    Sophos Email
    7.3
    19 Ratings
    14% below category average
    Anti-malware00 Ratings7.519 Ratings
    Customizability00 Ratings7.219 Ratings
    Data Loss Protection00 Ratings7.516 Ratings
    Threat Detection00 Ratings7.118 Ratings
    Sandboxing00 Ratings7.814 Ratings
    End-to-End Encryption00 Ratings7.416 Ratings
    Management Tools00 Ratings6.719 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Microsoft Defender for Office 365Sophos Email
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.6
    (8 ratings)
    7.5
    (22 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
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    1.1
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.2
    (9 ratings)
    Support Rating
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    2.8
    (11 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Microsoft Defender for Office 365Sophos Email
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Microsoft
    Microsoft Defender for Office 365 is found to be well suited for our size company, and easily for smaller or larger companies as well. It does have a few places where improvements can be made, but at least it also asks you to provide feedback to Microsoft, which I have done with certain suggestions or complaints. However, overall it is a very thorough and useful tool when it comes to securing and defending yourself against trending threats.
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    Sophos
    The Sophos email solution is a good fit for my organization which is a mid-size resort with 200 users. Sophos email has revealed unwanted emails that were getting through our built in Microsoft email security scanning and policies so having this extra layer was a no brainier. With that we were able to focus on the bad stuff and even tweak our products with this information from Sophos email.
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    Pros
    Microsoft
    • It has been seamlessly working for us. We have not faced any issue as an end user. I've not faced many issues around accessing my apps, securely accessing and I've also seen certain links being blocked if I do not have correct access based on the security level that is defined for each user.
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    Sophos
    • We could customize it to have a certain level of workflow. We manage to enforce certain email (based on key-phrases) to be quarantined before send it to the recipient. And the email needs to be approved (manually) before being released.
    • For certain type (using regex) of email, we will encrypt it if it's sent outside our organization domain.
    • Scalable
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    Cons
    Microsoft
    • I think it needs to be tuned correctly. For example, afterwards I tried to go in and print once after the implementation was done, I went in and tried to print a file or export a document. Just not possible, which just means it's great, works really well, but it also means that you have to tune your data categorization very carefully.
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    Sophos
    • I would love to see tips integrated into the user interface from the management side to allow for easier dissection of email headers. This would allow lower level admins that may work at smaller companies to better understand the information presented.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Sophos
    It was easy to use and easy to implement. You don't need previous knowledge on the products, after we got this up and running, it took us hours to put everything together. The transition was easy and seamless.
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    Usability
    Microsoft
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    Sophos
    It's mostly great and for policies and features, it does everything we would ask it to and more. The only thing keeping it from being a 10 is the lack of granularity in the reporting, which is actually an issue within Sophos Central as a whole. The ability to drill down from dashboards into accurate, detailed data would be very helpful at times.
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    Support Rating
    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Sophos
    Support is slow to respond. They call back outside of normal business hours despite clearly being advised when they should call. They try to BS you that the platform is working properly although there is hard evidence to the contrary. Once you get to senior level of support they agree that the product is incapable of performing properly in its current iteration.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Microsoft
    Sentinel One. Well, we have two different products at the same time. Just see which one is the best fit for our business. So nowadays we're using both at the same time.
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    Sophos
    I have only tried Sophos Email, and I find it to be a very useful tool, as it protects against information leakage such as fraudulent emails, cloud sandboxing and quarantine, which are essential functions and the product works excellent.
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    Return on Investment
    Microsoft
    • The positive aspect is the security of the employees, security of the data. There is no breach I can say. So it is a good impact. I mean there is not any bad or negative impact.
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    Sophos
    • Sophos Email has been protecting our users, including the administrative branch, who are the target of attacks most frequently.
    • Every month Sophos Email stops about 100,000 malicious emails. We calculate that if these attacks have saved the company time, it prevents us from having a lot of support staff to attend to the cases.
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