Mimecast Awareness Training vs. Sophos Phish Threat

Organisations looking to make cyber awareness training easy and engaging for their staff, Mimecast won't let you down. It's affordable, easy to work with and practical. The video series cover specific topics like strong passwords, phishing and general cyber security followed by a short quiz after each video. Employees always find the guy in the bathrobe an absolute hilarious addition to the training, but in so many ways is a brilliant way to highlight just how easy it is to overlook pratical implementations of cyber security.

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If you're looking for a tool to maximize digital productivity without hindering the effectiveness of your workforce, Sophos is a great tool. It quickly & safely manages the threat level across all of our digital channels to reduce the potential engagement with fishy characters or websites that might present vulnerabilities.

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• Engaging content
• Professionally presented with a high level of polish and production
• Dynamic MI with pivoted actions to resolve pinch points
• Integration with AD infrastructure to minimize roll-out workload and expense

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• 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.

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• Custom Templates take time investment to get right
• Group templates and training are more US orientated that UK

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• 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.

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It is easy to use and setup. You can schedule the Phish email test to be
sent out in the future or right away. You can also send to all users in
your list as well as stagger so all users do not get the email at the
same time and tell each other there is a test going on

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Support is solid but not spectacular. While I haven't used support for Phish Threat specifically, this is a general rating for Sophos' support across the board. It could be easier to find the FAQ or other information I need, but when I've needed to reach out to support they've been good to work with.

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Highly engaging, short and sharp and relevant. Other solutions we found to be nonengaging and not suitable for Australian audiences. The training was to long in length and employees would often just avoid the training all together. Mimecast is the exact opposite of this, no problems at all with engagement and relevancy which has not only contributed to our compliance requirements, but also enhanced our organisations cyber security general awareness as employees are actually now completing the modules.

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• Compliance Adherence
• High Risk Employee Additional Training
• Program Assurance

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• 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.

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