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Sophos Intercept X

7.8 /10

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What is Sophos Intercept X?

The World’s Best Endpoint Protection

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Sophos Intercept X Ratings

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79 Likeliness to Recommend

3
Since last award

94 Plan to Renew

2
Since last award

85 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

1
Since last award

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Emotional Footprint Overview

+86 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love Sophos Intercept X?

0% Negative

13% Neutral

87% Positive

Pros

Acts with Integrity
Effective Service
Saves Time
Appreciates Incumbent Status

Feature Ratings

Average 76

Encryption and Decryption Support

Environment Support

Real Time Scanning

Endpoint Support

Customizable and Pre Canned Policies

Data Discovery (DLP)

Email and IM Support

Activity Monitoring Alerts

Centralized Reporting Engine

Application Monitoring

Forensic Analysis Support

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 72

Ease of IT Administration

Business Value Created

Ease of Implementation

Vendor Support

Quality of Features

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Breadth of Features

Usability and Intuitiveness

Ease of Customization

Ease of Data Integration

Availability and Quality of Training

Sophos Intercept X Reviews

Zari W.

Role: Industry Specific Role
Industry: Consulting
Involvement: End User of Application

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Verified Reviewer

Submitted May 2022

Amazing Endpoint Protection Features

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Sophos Intercept X from other similar products?

As Endpoint protection, Sophos offers best features and is affordable too. This is a hard to come by combination

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

I like the endpoint protection features. The software comes at a manageable cost I like that deploying it is seamless The software receive regular updates

What do you dislike most about this product?

Sophos has never disappointed us. It has worked better than expected

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

I recommend Sophos as it's the best when it comes to endpoint protection. It's affordable and offers Amazing features. It's the best I have interacted with

Pros

Helps Innovate
Performance Enhancing
Trustworthy
Unique Features

Karundu B.

Role: Finance
Industry: Finance
Involvement: End User of Application

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Feb 2022

Enhanced Data Security at An Affordable Cost

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Sophos Intercept X from other similar products?

With Sophos Enduser Protection Bundles, it's all about less work and better protection. This is because the software provides a set of tools that works together to ensure enhanced security while you focus on other important matters.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Sophos Enduser Protection Bundles is advanced yet easy to use. It comes as a set of tools to that complements each other to offer best security for business data. The software is affordable

What do you dislike most about this product?

Nothing really to complain about Sophos Enduser Protection Bundles

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

For best data protection, Sophos Enduser Protection Bundles offers a set of tools that enhance data security. Using this software is easy and it's affordable too.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Trustworthy
Efficient Service
Effective Service

Tom C.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Engineering
Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Nov 2021

Product is great and easily to configure

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Sophos Intercept X from other similar products?

The feature Sophos Intercept is is great as it auto remediates any threats detected. It also keeps the security database constantly up to date. Combined with Sophos central to manage the devices this product leads over any other.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

The product does not spam endusers with content notifications which can always frusta the user. It sits silently in the background protecting the devices and provides detailed reports about any threats the administrator.

What do you dislike most about this product?

When running a scan it can affect the performance of the machine slowing it down quite dramatically.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

I would recommend this for companies that support remote working post COVID due the the Sophos Central portal as this is easy to administrate and apply polices to users. It helps ensure that users databases are constantly up to date protecting against threats.

Pros

Reliable
Performance Enhancing
Unique Features
Efficient Service

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Sophos Intercept X Ratings

79 Likeliness to Recommend

3 Since last award

94 Plan to Renew

2 Since last award

85 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

1 Since last award

Emotional Footprint Overview

+86 Net Emotional Footprint

How much do users love Sophos Intercept X?

Pros

Feature Ratings Average rating of all product features, some of which may not be shown below

Encryption and Decryption Support Support for real-time decryption and re-encryption of information.

Environment Support Breadth of protocol support, cloud protection, peer to peer, Web 2.0, and virtualization environment support.

Real Time Scanning The solution scans content and context of files in real-time, 24/7.

Endpoint Support Multiple operating system and device type support with offline protection, removable media, print screen, and copy and paste support.

Customizable and Pre Canned Policies Centralized reporting engine with out-of-the-box policy support and custom policy creation with bi-directional workflow integration.

Data Discovery (DLP) Structured (content registration or data fingerprinting) and unstructured (keywords, lexicons, metadata tags, statistical analysis, etc.) data identification.

Email and IM Support The solution scans inbound and outbound messages for security violations.

Activity Monitoring Alerts User access patterns can be monitored with rule-based alerts for sensitive data access requests.

Centralized Reporting Engine The solution provides a central reporting engine for policy creation and management with canned reports and RBAC.

Application Monitoring The solution monitors applications which may store sensitive data (e.g. clipboard).

Forensic Analysis Support Query capabilities with pre-built and custom drill down, pivot, and parsing; includes export functions and event session reconstruction.

Vendor Capability Ratings Average rating of all vendor capabilities, some of which may not be shown below

Ease of IT Administration This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

Business Value Created Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.

Ease of Implementation Successfully implementing new software is necessary to realize its full value and promote end user adoption. This data indicates whether or not the product is easy to implement.

Vendor Support The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.

Quality of Features Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement Vendors who don't stay on top of emerging needs and trends won't enable you to meet your business goals. Use this data to separate innovators from imposters.

Breadth of Features Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

Usability and Intuitiveness End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

Ease of Customization Don't get bogged down in a difficult customization; use this data to make sure you can easily achieve the functionality you need for your particular situation.

Ease of Data Integration Use this data to determine whether the product will cause headaches or make data integration easy.

Availability and Quality of Training Effective and readily available training enables users to get the most out of the software you've chosen. Use this section to make sure your vendor's training programs and materials measure up.

Sophos Intercept X Reviews

Zari W.

Amazing Endpoint Protection Features

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Karundu B.

Enhanced Data Security at An Affordable Cost

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Tom C.

Product is great and easily to configure

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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Feature Ratings

Encryption and Decryption Support

Environment Support

Real Time Scanning

Endpoint Support

Customizable and Pre Canned Policies

Data Discovery (DLP)

Email and IM Support

Activity Monitoring Alerts

Centralized Reporting Engine

Application Monitoring

Forensic Analysis Support

Vendor Capability Ratings

Ease of IT Administration

Business Value Created

Ease of Implementation

Vendor Support

Quality of Features

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Breadth of Features

Usability and Intuitiveness

Ease of Customization

Ease of Data Integration

Availability and Quality of Training