Sophos Web Content Filtering vs. Symantec Web Security Service

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.

Incentivized

Symantec Web Security Service monitors and filters network traffic to protect web servers from cyberattacks. Its single dashboard view, excellent UI/UX, and easy DLP integration make it a market leader. Excellent sandboxing for safe browsing in restricted IT networks. Threat categorization and stateful SSL description of web traffic to identify dynamic threat vectors. However, alerts and notifications only work quickly when large-scale DDoS attacks happen.

Incentivized

• 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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• Complete web protection.
• Easy to setup.
• Great reputation and credibility.

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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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• Advanced and targeted attacks
• Policy granularity
• better support

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The support has become average ever since broadcom acquisition and they moving to GCP. There is no focus of existing customers as the presale do not exist

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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

Symantec Web Security Service is a powerful tool for moderating website traffic and protecting user data. Easy DLP integration makes it a market leader, and it works with Symantec DLP and EDR to protect remote users' browsing activity. Threat categorization and stateful SSL description of web traffic to identify dynamic threat vectors. Unified threat dashboard with seamless alerting. So compared to other solutions, it is standout.

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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• Slightly on the costlier side.
• Less risk of security lapse.
• Extensive protection against web attacks.

Incentivized