Kaspersky EDR Optimum vs. Sophos Email

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Kaspersky EDR Optimum
Score 8.9 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
Kaspersky Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) Optimum helps identify, analyze and neutralize evasive threats by providing easy-to-use advanced detection, simplified investigation and automated response. It is a basic EDR tool for mid-market organizations who are just starting to build their incident response processes.
$14.50
per year on a 3 year license (Pricing is for a 3-year commitment, calculated per year). 1 endpoint
Sophos Email
Score 9.2 out of 10
N/A
Sophos 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
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
Kaspersky EDR Optimum
$14.50
per year on a 3 year license (Pricing is for a 3-year commitment, calculated per year). 1 and 2 year licenses also available. per endpoint
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Kaspersky EDR OptimumSophos Email
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Features
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Secure Email Gateway
Comparison of Secure Email Gateway features of Product A and Product B
Kaspersky EDR Optimum
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Ratings
Sophos Email
7.3
19 Ratings
13% below category average
Anti-malware00 Ratings7.519 Ratings
Customizability00 Ratings7.119 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
Kaspersky EDR OptimumSophos Email
Likelihood to Recommend
8.8
(12 ratings)
7.5
(22 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
1.1
(2 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(9 ratings)
Performance
8.6
(12 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
2.8
(11 ratings)
User Testimonials
Kaspersky EDR OptimumSophos Email
Likelihood to Recommend
Kaspersky Lab
We have been using Kaspersky EDR Optimum for over 10 years, with the evolution of products reaching EDR now, we can verify the integrated responsiveness and visibility of our environment. Great protection tool on all OS. Very good value for money, with the new licensing, all business plans will now have native EDR.
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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
Kaspersky Lab
  • KEDR Optimum is helping to see threat kill chain formation, which helps to get clear picture of the what exactly attacker was trying to do during attack.
  • We are crating prevent execution rules to block the threat in our complete infra.
  • Ioc scan to validate and remove the any active threat entry from our endpoints
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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
Kaspersky Lab
  • Agent package size is little big, if it can be optimize with lite package would be great
  • If possible Host Integrity functionality can be added, to take action as quarantine the non-compliance machine to connect our enterprise network
  • Many times KSC cloud operating slow, if it can optimized for the faster response
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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
Kaspersky Lab
At the moment and unfortunately we'll not renew our licenses, due to the Russian conflict and the company policy that has forced us to get rid of any Russian related product. Before that incident, we were very happy with the product and we did not even think once about changing it... Maybe on the future...
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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
Kaspersky Lab
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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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Performance
Kaspersky Lab
This item can always be improved, perhaps by pre-elaborating very long reports, such that they are built progressively so that when the user wants to consult them, the delay is minimal. It would also be interesting to have a warehouse of reports, which serves as a repository where they can be consulted whenever needed, adding AI capabilities that allow data to be linked together and improve the analysis and possible correlations of events.
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Sophos
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Support Rating
Kaspersky Lab
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
Kaspersky Lab
After several evaluations we concluded that the kasprsky provider has a solution for each processing environment we have.This impacts an excellent cost-benefit for achieving economies of scale on the company's infrastructure. On the other hand, we verified that during its operation, its level of effectiveness in terms of malware detection is excellent. Finally, it provides a desktop patch management solution that we found efficient and effective. Allowing you to automate the distribution of patches with a minimum staffing of technical personnel.
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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
Kaspersky Lab
  • In mayor aspect, saving time for IT/Cybersecurity teams.
  • Agile process to short the operations outages.
  • Centralized view and relevant data for SOC team.
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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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