Sophos Intercept X vs. WithSecure Business Suite

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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• Very stable and cost-effective.
• Better integration with leading database vendors would be great; this would address features that are missing like x-windows support and concurrent secure file transfers.
• Patching is relatively fast and not as frequent as other vendors (with no impact on adherence to security best practices).

• Very easy to install and low storage footprint.

Incentivized

• 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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• Most up to date secure/encryption technology.
• Very fast to set up and maintain.
• Supported by all major hardware platforms (Microsoft, Linux).

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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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• X-windows support could be more robust.
• Virtual shell adaptation could be improved.
• Greater concurrency for large secure transmissions would be a great add-on.

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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.

Incentivized

• Support organization is active, so is online community boards.
• There have been no significant issues that haven't been able to be quickly addressed by either online documentation or F-Secure support.
• Easy to use diagnostic tools and information gathering, make problem analysis fast.
• Phone support can be different due to time zone differences, but this has not been a major issue.

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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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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

Incentivized

• This suite of software does not have any mentionable competition, in my opinion.
• It adheres to current security protocols, in-frequent patching requirements, low IT overhead, and on-going support are exemplary.
• Robust documentation and online community boards help keep support and maintenance transparent and efficient.
• Legacy support for older OS' is quite useful.
• Simplicity when onboarding into custom hybrid network configurations is also vital.

Incentivized

• 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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• Very low cost.
• Low IT overhead (very low network bandwidth, CPU, storage utilization).
• Supported by all major hardware vendors.

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