Overview
What is Sophos Phish Threat?
Sophos offers security awareness and phishing training and preparation testing via Sophos Phish Threat, the company's phishing attack simulator.
Worth it if you aren't using Microsoft Insider Risk
Sophos - quick & efficient way to scale digital threat protection
Sophos Phish Threat easy test your users knowledge on phishing
A no-brainer add-on for existing Sophos users
Awareness training for end users made easy
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What is Sophos Phish Threat?
Sophos offers security awareness and phishing training and preparation testing via Sophos Phish Threat, the company's phishing attack simulator.
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- No setup fee
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- Free/Freemium Version
- Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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- Business Problems Solved
Sophos PhishThreat offers detailed reports on user behavior, empowering administrators to identify weak areas and provide targeted training. It effectively blocks phishing attacks and safeguards user data. Users appreciate the real-time detection and alerting feature, which assists in identifying breaches and zero-day attacks. By allowing users to view emails that are not caught by automated scans, the software enables enhanced protection by blocking additional links and emails.
Moreover, Sophos Phish Threat plays a crucial role in educating employees about phishing awareness and facilitating informed decision-making for better self-protection. Organizations benefit from increased awareness among employees and leadership, thanks to campaign data and dashboard results. It keeps email surfing secure and shields against email phishing threats. Furthermore, it provides an affordable solution for implementing phishing awareness campaigns and training.
Additionally, users find that Sophos Phish Threat helps educate employees on recognizing phishing emails, tailoring education for those most vulnerable, and improving job satisfaction. Since its implementation, there have been no issues due to employees being well-informed about evolving phishing emails. By customizing phishing tests for all users in an organization, Sophos Phish Threat better prepares them to identify potential threats.
The software is highly effective in raising awareness of generalized phishing and spearphishing attacks, ensuring that individuals are knowledgeable and respond appropriately. With its dashboard of phishing simulations, it allows for targeted training of users who were caught by the simulations. Lastly, Sophos Phish Threat assists organizations in enhancing their security posture and mitigating insider risks through comprehensive phishing simulations and training programs.
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(1-5 of 5)Worth it if you aren't using Microsoft Insider Risk
This helped us provide a client with ways they could improve their security and reduce the impact of insider risks.
- Dashboards
- Details of user interactions with the training
- Templates for the simulations
- Integrating well with Office 365
- The templates can be quite basic, they are more suited to Gsuite than Office 365
Bigger companies using licensing like Microsoft E5 may benefit from using the Microsoft Phishing simulations rather than external.
- Analysis of users interactions with the emails, including how long it was before they clicked on the email
- Templates make setting up simulations really quick and easy
- Training Content Library
- 70%7.0
- Multilingual Training Content
- N/AN/A
- Training Gamification
- 50%5.0
- Industry-Specific Security Training
- 70%7.0
- Individualized Security Training Plans
- N/AN/A
- Phishing Simulations
- 90%9.0
- Security Reporting
- 90%9.0
- Integration with Security Tech Stack
- N/AN/A
- Role-based user permissions
- N/AN/A
- Single sign-on capability
- 70%7.0
- Provided us with good insights to our insider risk of our clients
Sophos - quick & efficient way to scale digital threat protection
- Seamless.
- Fast.
- Over-protection.
- Suggest times to run.
- Run out of working hours for full checks.
- Provide context around threats & how to avoid.
- Scalable.
- Remote start.
- Runs in the background.
- ROI seems to be there though I have no direct stats.
- Positively impacts my web-browsing experience. As an Account Executive, it enables me to do my company research quickly without engaging with any bad actors.
- It runs in the background so it never impedes my workflows.
- Updated phishing scams and training
- Ease of use interface
- Reports on Passing and failing.
- I wish I could mark manually that someone passed the training that way if a big group gets caught we can sit down and use our training class for the users.
- Our employees have become more aware of different phishing tactics used since we have started using Sophos Phish Threat
- We have had an increase in reporting of possible phishing emails since we started using Sophos Phish Threat
- We have also been able to block certain IP addresses from sending us emails since all they do is send phishing emails to us
- Price
- Product Features
- Product Usability
- Product Reputation
- Vendor Reputation
- Existing Relationship with the Vendor
- Positive Sales Experience with the Vendor
- Reporting
- Setting up tests
- Sign up users for mandatory training
- If you have firewall and blocked streaming sites you may have problems with training videos it does take some digging to allow right keywords through firewall
A no-brainer add-on for existing Sophos users
- Set up an easy-to-use low overhead system of training and protection.
- Works through a single pane of glass when using other Sophos products.
- It could be more robust.
- Better variety of phishing emails.
- Users are more aware of and react better to phishing emails.
- We know who is the most gullible or susceptible to phishing campaigns.
Awareness training for end users made easy
- Great templates for the setup of phish threats.
- The overview is simple.
- Easy to set up and use with other Sophos products.
- The training and awareness videos and tutorials are spot on.
- It should be easier to follow up with a user when they haven't completed training.
- More options for reporting would be nice.
- Better choice of users as all emails have been imported (aliases, dist. list. etc) taking up licenses.
- A lot of awareness of phishing emails has resulted in fewer attacks.
- Fewer phishing attacks = less money used on tracing the outcomes of an attack.
- Happier clients who know we're very focused on our security and infrastructure.