Mail protect issues - possible migration to Sophos Central Email Protection. Any users out there?

[falko1]

Hi all,

 

We currently use LGFL's Mail Protect service and seem to have a few issues. We are considering moving to Sophos Central's Email Protection or maybe just relying on Google Workspace however I like the idea of having a Filter beforehand

 

Does anyone use Sophos Central's Email Protection??

 

 

[HaroonEdTechPro]

Late to the party, and you may already have this deployed. But I've just deployed this at an LGfL school as Microsoft Defender wasn't doing as good as a job as MailProtect.

 

First week of Sophos, seems to be going well, I like some of the features such as banner on emails that tell Staff if the email is from an external recipient or is trusted.

 

Sophos has two modes, you can either enable this as a Gateway (MX records goto Sophos then forwardes to your email service) or Mailflow which seems to be a Connector so MX records remain 365 but still go to Sophos first.

 

It also has a feature called Clawback meaning historic emails with confirmed bad content is removed from the mailboxes. It also protect Staff, by having Data Protection policies so if a Staff Member tries sending out data such as Pupil PII, it can be stopped.

 

MailProtect is great for end-users, giving them a daily breakdown of blocked emails, allowing them to release themselves and is straightforward so minimal Staff training is required. I believe users can unrelease blocked emails from Sophos, but it requires them to have a log in to Sophos Central (with end-user permissions) and then navigate through different menus.

 

TL;DR. Sohpos is more configurable and has greater features, MailProtect is end user-friendly and does block a lot of content.