McAfee Security for Email Servers vs. Sophos Email

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
McAfee Security for Email Servers
Score 7.2 out of 10
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Sophos Email
Score 8.9 out of 10
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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
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Offerings
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Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
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Considered Both Products
McAfee Security for Email Servers
Chose McAfee Security for Email Servers
The McAfee Security for Email Servers is very robust and compact against many newly generated cyber threats. Also the McAfee Security for Email Servers is very easy to operate and understand. The great thing about the McAfee Security for Email Servers is it's ability to …
Sophos Email

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Features
McAfee Security for Email ServersSophos Email
Secure Email Gateway
Comparison of Secure Email Gateway features of Product A and Product B
McAfee Security for Email Servers
9.9
1 Ratings
17% above category average
Sophos Email
7.2
19 Ratings
15% below category average
Anti-malware10.01 Ratings7.219 Ratings
Customizability9.01 Ratings6.919 Ratings
Data Loss Protection10.01 Ratings7.516 Ratings
Threat Detection10.01 Ratings6.918 Ratings
Sandboxing10.01 Ratings7.814 Ratings
End-to-End Encryption10.01 Ratings7.416 Ratings
Management Tools10.01 Ratings6.619 Ratings
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User Ratings
McAfee Security for Email ServersSophos Email
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(1 ratings)
7.3
(22 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
1.1
(2 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(9 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
2.8
(11 ratings)
User Testimonials
McAfee Security for Email ServersSophos Email
Likelihood to Recommend
McAfee
In my experience the McAfee Security for Email Servers is well suited for the all the types of organization and their employees who main concern is security for their mailing application. As they need to protect the sensitive data sent and receive through mail and also wants to protect their employee and organizations sensitive data. Also, I don't see any scenario where McAfee Security for Email Server is not suited as every organizations wants to protect their data and employee from the many cyber attacks.
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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
McAfee
  • mail filtering
  • threat protection
  • threat response
  • customer support
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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
McAfee
  • Intelligent threat detection
  • Data protection can be improved
  • Pricing can be improved
  • monitoring of spam sending patterns and IP behavior can be improved
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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
McAfee
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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
McAfee
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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
McAfee
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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
McAfee
The McAfee Security for Email Servers is very robust and compact against many newly generated cyber threats. Also the McAfee Security for Email Servers is very easy to operate and understand. The great thing about the McAfee Security for Email Servers is it's ability to determine the threat pattern and disabled it before it occurs and causes the problem in daily operations is too good.
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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
McAfee
  • The layer of protection provided by the McAfee Security for Email Servers from cyber attacks is on of the highlight of it.
  • It is the one of the best solution to prevent your organizations employee to fall prey to the attacks like phishing, spamming and many more.
  • The most incredible thing McAfee Security for Email Servers does is that it can be great in dealing with the attacks and detection of cyber threats even before they impact your business.
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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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