Likelihood to Recommend Qustodio is well-suited for organizations that want to monitor and manage internet usage to ensure a safe and productive online environment. It is useful for companies with strict internet usage policies, as well as those with a bring your own device policy. However, in scenarios where employees need a significant level of internet freedom to perform their job functions, Qustodio may be less appropriate.
Read full review 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.
Read full review Pros Monitoring daily communication throughout the firm Storing historical messaging in a database for audit and tracking purposes Developing rules and guidelines in the system to be automatically enforced Read full review 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. Read full review Cons It could offer more support towards Chromebooks. Read full review It only allows UTF-8 encoded characters. It does not support metadata. It does not support comments in the custom filter file. Read full review Alternatives Considered Qustodio stacks up well against other products like
Norton Family, Kaspersky Safe Kids, and Net Nanny in terms of its features and capabilities. All of these products offer similar features like website filtering, app management, and monitoring of internet activities. However, Qustodio stands out for its ease of use and user-friendly interface. It also offers more granular controls for setting time limits and restrictions, and the alerts it sends are more detailed and informative. Additionally, Qustodio's customer support is also very responsive and helpful.We selected Qustodio over the other products because it offered the best balance of features, ease of use, and customer support. It was also more cost-effective than some of the other options. Overall, Qustodio has proven to be a reliable and effective solution for our organization's internet usage management needs.
Read full review 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)
Read full review Return on Investment Consistent messaging throughout the firm Managing reputation risk Preventing inappropriate or outside-of-scope communication or browsing Read full review 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. Read full review ScreenShots