Sophos Email vs. Trend Micro Email Security

Sophos Email is ideal for protecting business email from advanced threats. It comes with features that make it easy to detect and block email threats, such as spam, phishing, ransomware, and data leaks. In addition, Sophos Email is ideal for email encryption and helps train teams to identify phishing threats.

Incentivized

Trend Micro Email Security is really a good tool to protect email from cyber attacks and provide end-to-end email data security. The encryption function is amazing. The anti-malware function is really helpful it's performed real-time email scanning.

Incentivized

• 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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• Policy creation and customization are quick and easy for both inbound and outbound emails.
• Logs are easy to search.
• End user email quarantine digests are convenient.

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• Reporting could be more granular, it's the most glaring weakness of the product.
• The ability to drill down into data from the dashboard would be very helpful for reporting as well.
• Reverse AD sync so when active directory users are removed, they are removed from Sophos as well would be helpful.

Incentivized

• Take less memory resources, so the computer does not slow down.
• More frequent product updates.
• Make it easier to set up.

Incentivized

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.

Incentivized

The product really does everything it can and offers it very simply. In other words, after using it for many years like us, it feels as if the email system could not exist without Trend Micro Email Security. Using email in a corporate structure without this or any other product is the job of brave people.

Incentivized

The solution is very scalable, with a possibility to be customized; which means that Sophos Email can be configured depending on our own situation and context not on a general way. On the other hand, Sophos Email has a broad feature set; I mean, along with core spam and malware protection, Sophos offers advanced features such as real-time
link following, threat isolation, spoof protection, etc.

While Trend Micro Email Security provides enhanced email security capabilities to mitigate most email threats one of the major draw back was certain filters do not provide a wider time frame for searches within a single search.

I have always found the answers I have needed in the documentation or online, and have not needed to contact Sophos Secure Email Gateways' support team. This, I think, bodes well for how their software is easy to use and has good documentation when you cannot find what you need in the basic interface.

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As a reseller, it can be difficult to locate the appropriate support number to call, however, once a case has been opened for a support request, it is generally resolved fairly quickly.

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Many other solutions are a complicated setup and take a lot of time for the configuration. With Sophos email we were setup and seeing data/emails within an hour. As I have described the ease of use from a high-level for someone like me a Director just peeking into the system or an analyst that can do a deep dive is one of the best users interfaces I have seen for any product.

Incentivized

It's a simple solution to configure and monitor, you just need to edit records in dns and spf. there are pre-set security rules that can be modified and implemented very simply.
You can quickly check the path of an email and the rules that checked the email to understand the cause of the block

• The reality is that no product is a one stop shop for complete protection. The user will always be a potential weak point in the system. With that said, Sophos' disclaimers have been a huge help as they can immediately make suspicious emails known with a few simple tags. That alone can create a sort of checkpoint for our users that takes them out of the dangerous 'autopilot' mode.

Incentivized

• eliminating the threat before it enters the organization makes the network more secure
• You don't have to check all PCs when a user clicks on a fake link because the email is delete before.
• eliminate spam and ads