TrustRadius Insights for Sophos Phish Threat are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.
Business Problems Solved
Sophos PhishThreat offers detailed reports on user behavior, empowering administrators to identify weak areas and provide targeted training. It effectively blocks phishing attacks and safeguards user data. Users appreciate the real-time detection and alerting feature, which assists in identifying breaches and zero-day attacks. By allowing users to view emails that are not caught by automated scans, the software enables enhanced protection by blocking additional links and emails.
Moreover, Sophos Phish Threat plays a crucial role in educating employees about phishing awareness and facilitating informed decision-making for better self-protection. Organizations benefit from increased awareness among employees and leadership, thanks to campaign data and dashboard results. It keeps email surfing secure and shields against email phishing threats. Furthermore, it provides an affordable solution for implementing phishing awareness campaigns and training.
Additionally, users find that Sophos Phish Threat helps educate employees on recognizing phishing emails, tailoring education for those most vulnerable, and improving job satisfaction. Since its implementation, there have been no issues due to employees being well-informed about evolving phishing emails. By customizing phishing tests for all users in an organization, Sophos Phish Threat better prepares them to identify potential threats.
The software is highly effective in raising awareness of generalized phishing and spearphishing attacks, ensuring that individuals are knowledgeable and respond appropriately. With its dashboard of phishing simulations, it allows for targeted training of users who were caught by the simulations. Lastly, Sophos Phish Threat assists organizations in enhancing their security posture and mitigating insider risks through comprehensive phishing simulations and training programs.
We used to to get an insight on our insider risk by performing a phishing simulation on all staff at a client site. The software provides a very helpful dashboard of the simulation and provides training for the users who were caught by the simulation. This helped us provide a client with ways they could improve their security and reduce the impact of insider risks.
Pros
Dashboards
Details of user interactions with the training
Templates for the simulations
Integrating well with Office 365
Cons
The templates can be quite basic, they are more suited to Gsuite than Office 365
Likelihood to Recommend
It is well suited for companies wishing to get an insight on the insider risk aspect of cyber security and it comes with a free trial, which is really helpful to work out if it is a good fit for you. Bigger companies using licensing like Microsoft E5 may benefit from using the Microsoft Phishing simulations rather than external.
VU
Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology (51-200 employees)
Sophos allows my colleagues and me to safely engage in all of our digital activities without fear of researching on the wrong website or getting hit with spam that might lead to vulnerabilities. It's quick & works silently in the background providing a seamless experience that doesn't interrupt my daily workflows.
Pros
Seamless.
Fast.
Over-protection.
Cons
Suggest times to run.
Run out of working hours for full checks.
Provide context around threats & how to avoid.
Likelihood to Recommend
If you're looking for a tool to maximize digital productivity without hindering the effectiveness of your workforce, Sophos is a great tool. It quickly & safely manages the threat level across all of our digital channels to reduce the potential engagement with fishy characters or websites that might present vulnerabilities.
We use Sophos Phish Threat across the organization to ensure that people are aware of and acting appropriately with generalized phishing and spearphishing attacks. We set up a schedule to periodically send out phishing emails. When employees respond to them or click links in them, it takes them to training modules so they can know how to better respond, especially as scammers are getting even more clever in the ways they try to get money or spread viruses in our business.
Pros
Set up an easy-to-use low overhead system of training and protection.
Works through a single pane of glass when using other Sophos products.
Cons
It could be more robust.
Better variety of phishing emails.
Likelihood to Recommend
If you're already using Sophos products, Phish Threat is a great addition to what you're already using. Because it's available under the same single pane of glass as most other Sophos things and can be added for a nominal cost to existing Sophos services, it's a great add-on. There are better single solution products out there, but those can cost more and/or they have to be serviced under a different logon and website.
We have had some incidents where users would fall for phishing emails. Sophos Phish Threat has been purchased to train our users and give them a lot of awareness about phishing and how to spot a phishing mail. We use it in the whole organization, and send out a false phishing email every now and then. Users who click will be enrolled in training and have to finish the awareness training.
Pros
Great templates for the setup of phish threats.
The overview is simple.
Easy to set up and use with other Sophos products.
The training and awareness videos and tutorials are spot on.
Cons
It should be easier to follow up with a user when they haven't completed training.
More options for reporting would be nice.
Better choice of users as all emails have been imported (aliases, dist. list. etc) taking up licenses.
Likelihood to Recommend
The application has created a lot of awareness of phishing and other email hacks. People have become more focused on spotting emails and letting the IT Department know. People also feel bad after clicking one of our false phishing emails and learn a lot from it. So Sophos Phish Threat is well suited for organizations who might have a lot of junior users or, in general, feel exposed to phishing emails. There's not a lot of scenarios where I would say it's not well suited, as people always can improve their ability to spot a phishing mail and know how to handle it.
We use Sophos Phish Threat to test all our users in the organization. We are able to customize phishing tests for the department or user in what they will see most often. This helps better prepare our users for possible phishing emails they could get to their work email or even their personal email.
Pros
Updated phishing scams and training
Ease of use interface
Reports on Passing and failing.
Cons
I wish I could mark manually that someone passed the training that way if a big group gets caught we can sit down and use our training class for the users.
Likelihood to Recommend
It is great for our corporate environment so we can target departments or specific users for certain phishing scam testing. I like the reporting function to see who is avoiding taking the training as well as being able to tell who has a high number of failures in the company. I do not think that there is a reason you should not be phishing your employees.