Digital Guardian vs. Sophos Central Device Encryption

Overview
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Digital Guardian
Score 7.8 out of 10
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The Digital Guardian Platform from Fortra (formerly HelpSystems, acquired in late 2021) is a cloud-delivered data protection platform purpose-built to stop data loss by both insiders and outsiders on Windows, Mac and Linux operating systems. Additionally, Digital Guardian User Activity Monitoring enables users to detect, investigate and mitigate suspicious user actions to ensure sensitive data doesn’t get out. And Digital Guardian for Data Discovery provides visibility and auditing of sensitive…N/A
Sophos Central Device Encryption
Score 8.7 out of 10
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Sophos Central Device Encryption (formerly SafeGuard) is a full disk encryption solution, based on the technology acquired with Utimaco by Sophos in 2008. It provides full disk encryption for Windows and macOS, and enables users to confidentially share sensitive files. A password protected HTML wrapper ensures only recipients with the correct password can access a document.N/A
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Small Businesses
Paubox Email Suite
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Score 10.0 out of 10
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Score 8.7 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Druva Data Resiliency Cloud
Druva Data Resiliency Cloud
Score 9.6 out of 10
Symantec Encryption
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Score 9.9 out of 10
Enterprises
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Druva Data Resiliency Cloud
Score 9.6 out of 10
Trellix Complete Data Protection
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Score 8.3 out of 10
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Digital GuardianSophos Central Device Encryption
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User Testimonials
Digital GuardianSophos Central Device Encryption
Likelihood to Recommend
Fortra
Digital Guardian has excellent data-preventing solutions, which locate and protect [that] database that [is] super sensitive. More so, Digital Guardian offers complete coverage of endpoint safety and network monitoring. Again, Digital Guardian has a team of elite professionals, who screens and detect any cyber threats. Finally, Digital Guardian has improvised and detailed attack response, very efficient in making the right controls.
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Sophos
We found the incorporated system of both AV and Encryption to be an absolute breath of fresh air for us. It is great for small and mid-sized companies. We rolled this out across our 4 global regions. We created region-specific groups for our endpoints and placed the appropriate endpoints into those groups. [Then] we defined policies for AV and Encryption that would be used inter-region and assigned roles to the different regions' support staff. Great stuff.
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Pros
Fortra
  • Email data leaks - DLP software must prevent certain actions to work well. Let's say you try to copy and paste an SS # to an email, or upload sensitive data to your personal email account. Guardian Edge can prevent that, and then alert administrators that it happened
  • Unauthorized file copies - Guardian Edge can also prevent users from copying files from a sensitive restricted area to somewhere else where they might be able to more easily exfiltrate it. A good example would be from a company file share to a less secure server or their own home drive
  • Alerting Administrators of suspicious activities - Any time a user uploads a file to an upload service or personal email, it is logged and reported as an event to be reviewed. If it found nothing in scanning the data, it will still notify you that it happened so you can review it yourself to confirm it wasn't a false negative.
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Sophos
  • Email encryption, it can encrypt based on the criteria defined. We use regex for this to discover the content.
  • We can have a view of what is the content of the email being quarantined.
  • We use Sophos together with our Email Exchange
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Cons
Fortra
  • Digital Guardian is perfect in database protection, hence, no complaint.
  • Digital Guardian makes the detection process effective, hence, reliable.
  • Finally, Digital Guardian is cloud focused or delivered, hence, concrete and efficient.
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Sophos
  • simply the interface
  • usability for non technical teams
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Alternatives Considered
Fortra
DG is the only DLP platform I've used at my current employer. I used it at my previous employer as well, and we ended up abandoning future deployments of it due to many problems caused by it, especially with web browsers. This was in 2015, rather than the 2018 version I used with my current employer, but I feel it still warrants mentioning. DG works great...when it works. When it doesn't, it's a disaster.
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Sophos
The only other one we looked at was Symantec endpoint encryption this seemed less feature reach and less user friendly.
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Return on Investment
Fortra
  • The professional threat detectors and cyber security analysts [increase] the reliability of the company database.
  • Cloud coverage allows easy deployment and efficient systematic controls.
  • Lastly, Digital Guardian [values] and monitors the procedures or the roles that every player makes in the company.
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Sophos
  • Intangible benefits to the organization data, data is highly secure
  • No worries to users and IT for data stolen outside the organization
  • Protected from malware and ransomware
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