McAfee WebAdvisor (discontinued) vs. Sophos Web Content Filtering

McAfee Web Protection is a great tool when your work requires you to surf the internet a lot and download files. Being a Software Developer, I have to search for a lot of things and have to visit lots of websites for solutions or learning new concepts. Having McAfee's Web Protection enables me to visit only the sites that are safe and it even blocks the trackers. It also scans the files (usually software and codes) that I download and lets me know whether they are safe to open or not.

Incentivized

Before Sophos, I would receive scammers regarding tradeshow lists. People wanted me to pay for lists, but these people weren't actually from the tradeshows. I can now block those, and have received much fewer of those scams. I am also able to open emails within quarantine to view them before deleting, releasing, allowing, or blocking. I use this to my advantage, and am able to make better decisions on what to do with the emails.

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• Make Web Surfing safe and secure.
• Block Trackers.
• Notifies if a webpages are safe.
• Scans downloads.

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• Sophos does an excellent job of category-based content filtering. It's easy to configure and flexible for many environments with the ability to tighten or loosen restrictions as requirements determing.
• Sophos' built-in capabilites can force safe search rules to protect against content work-arounds like Image search and search engines in general.
• The Sophos XTreme architecture also helps improve the overall performance of the Web Content Filtering solution. It is very quick and very transparent when in use on the network.

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• It shows a lot of popups to upgrade to AntiVirus which gets annoying sometimes.

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• It only allows UTF-8 encoded characters.
• It does not support metadata.
• It does not support comments in the custom filter file.

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Sophos has been a much easier product to configure and eventually manage, with preset rules and policies to start off right out of the box, saving administrators time from adding every category and or site. However you can add/import all know good company sites (internal url's) as well as local sites for a safer settings. (know sites)

Incentivized

• I am not sure about that as I am just a user and have not been involved with the ROI aspect.

Incentivized

• Super positive impact, the Sandstorming Add On, it increases protection at it's maximum level (for new or existent/variant threats).
• Customers often have the need of a system capable of report everything that the network is being handed, Sophos Web Content Filtering achieves this.
• The ROI is very fast since top management quickly see results on filtering and reporting of what is really going on within their networks.

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