Alert Logic Managed Detection and Response vs. Sophos Intercept X

Alert Logic Managed Detection and Response

Sophos Intercept X

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Alert Logic	Score 9.0 out of 10	N/A	Alert Logic delivers managed detection and response (MDR) with comprehensive coverage for public clouds, SaaS, on-premises, and hybrid environments. Alert Logic is a HelpSystems brand since the 2022 acquisition announced in March.	N/A
Sophos Intercept X	Score 8.9 out of 10	N/A	Sophos Endpoint Protection (Sophos EPP) with Intercept X is an endpoint security product providing an antivirus / antimalware solution that when upgraded with Intercept X or Intercept X Advanced provides advanced threat detection and EDR capabilities.	$28 per year per user

Pricing

Alert Logic Managed Detection and Response

Sophos Intercept X

Editions & Modules

No answers on this topic

Intercept X Advanced: $28
per year per user
Intercept X Advanced with XDR: $48
per year per user
Sophos Managed Threat Response: $79
per year per user

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Alert Logic	Sophos Intercept X
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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Pricing is for a 3-year commitment. Government and Education pricing available.

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Community Pulse
	Alert Logic Managed Detection and Response	Sophos Intercept X
Considered Both Products	Alert Logic John Grosjean DevOps Engineer Chose Alert Logic No one else had a good product offering married with the high level of support. The cheaper options such as Alien Vault all seemed to have inferior products and little/no support. And the really big enterprise products might work great, but require a great deal of skills to set … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Alert Logic How well the Alert Logic team, and ours integrated; plus costs were the biggest factors in selection. Ease of implementation and someone watching our back 24/7/365 made the selection of this product easy. Secondly, it helped us keep our WAF vendor honest on what types of … Incentivized Helpful? JE Jamie Elliott Sr. Network Engineer - Contract Work Chose Alert Logic If anyone has ever used Cisco products to manage threat detection they will tell you that, while Cisco products are good, they aren't the most user friendly. Multiple pieces are needed to do what Alert Logic can do in one product. The user interface is ok and the search … Incentivized Helpful? Wera Michalska Marketing Chose Alert Logic I was using Alert Logic Insight for myself to improve my skills and ability to it. My organization was not happy using our previous website security program so I recommended for them to use this software. It has been more than 1 year and still, they are using this program … Incentivized Helpful? Nathan Venno IT Director Chose Alert Logic I've found Barkly to be much better than these products at protecting my systems. It does not require the horsepower that these do to run. It uses systems resources well. It protects well. It alerts and updates well. This is a good AV system to have on your endpoints and is a … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Alert Logic There are alternatives some of which have a greater overhead and require more in-house technical skills. Alert Logic provide a full service so for us this was a better solution. Incentivized Helpful?	Sophos Intercept X Verified User Anonymous Chose Sophos Intercept X Bitdefender was garbage, and it did not work well for non-persistent VDI desktops. Even though we bought it we dumped it after a month and bought Sophos instead. The difference was like night and day. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Sophos Intercept X Sophos Intercept X is one of the industry leaders for a reason. Apart from integration issues, Sophos Intercept X stands above the rest when it comes to protection and usability. I have used at least 30 different antiviruses, antimalware, and antiransomeware programs and none … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Sophos Intercept X They have almost the same features but we ended up with a better offer for Sophos. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Sophos Intercept X Sophos Intercept X offers a far more comprehensive and stable product when pitted up against Comodo Advanced Endpoint Protection and Watchguard Endpoint Security - both of which we offer as low cost alternatives for customers who are adamant about not paying for Sophos … Incentivized Helpful? IR Ian Reger IT Specialist Chose Sophos Intercept X Sophos Intercept X is easy to manage and deploy under your business. I think it is comparable to BitDefend with the ability to send out deployment via email or directly add it to the computer. I have noticed that Bitdefender seems to eat a lot of resources during its scans … Incentivized Helpful? William Scott Coates IT Support Specialist Chose Sophos Intercept X Webroot endpoint protection is not even in the same league as Sophos Intercept-X. I have tested and compared both sides by side, run simulations and it's not even close. Plus the Sophos central management is so much better. Easier to view user activities and apply policies and … Incentivized Helpful? AP Ash Patel Director of IT and Facilities Chose Sophos Intercept X I personally found Sophos Intercept X GUI to be easy to use. The agent is easy to deploy on client machines and runs in the background silently. It has a very good virus, malware scan engine that picks out a high percentage of malicious software. The price was also very … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Sophos Intercept X Sophos is much more user friendly and scalable for partners who wish to [centralize] all security across the IT industry, from email security, server security, phish threat management and more. Incentivized Helpful? Beau Sorensen COO Chose Sophos Intercept X We have used Avast, AVG, Panda, Sophos' original antivirus product, and Symantec before and it is better than each of them. The cloud console is the star of the show and it dramatically reduces the cost and effort needed to install the product. Other products were only … Incentivized Helpful? Reginald Johnson Managing Consultant - DevOps Chose Sophos Intercept X It is one of the only products that will scan all code in memory and arbitrary data for malicious behaviors. Incentivized Helpful? Shawn Umansky Network Engineer Chose Sophos Intercept X We have been using this product for a number of years, which shows that it has worked well for us. I don't recall the other products we reviewed. Incentivized Helpful? Ramon Vazquez IT Director Chose Sophos Intercept X It provides more features for the same price. These added features differentiate Sophos from the rest of the pack, making it a better solution. Also, the ability to integrate with your Sophos firewall if you have one adds another level of integration and protection. This … Incentivized Helpful? Sarah Urbani IT Chose Sophos Intercept X Sophos Intercept X is just easier to implement and manage. Incentivized Helpful? Steven Hiersche, Jr. Director Of Information Technology Chose Sophos Intercept X We didn’t evaluate any other products. I used Sophos at a previous company and when I started here, they were using the on-prem version. We immediately migrated to central and haven’t looked back. I am aware of the competitors, but once you are comfortable with a quality … Incentivized Helpful? BC Ben Coppard IT Manager Chose Sophos Intercept X Sophos offered better value for money whilst beating the above products on detection and prevention. The GUI is fantastic and easy to use and works seamlessly on top of other features like DLP, application control and web monitoring. I would recommend getting the XG firewall as … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Sophos Intercept X Sophos Intercept-X gave us a more well-rounded solution. Incentivized Helpful? Jane Updegraff Senior Systems Administrator Chose Sophos Intercept X Sophos Intercept X is a little less expensive than the comparable package from Trend Micro and a little more expensive than a comparable package from Symantec, but in my opinion, it's easier to operate and it's got better centralized controls than both of the others. But the … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Sophos Intercept X Trend Micro offered similar protection, however at the time did not offer EDR as a solution. The big benefit to Trend Micro was the capability to push out the installation of the agent to assets within the Trend Micro console, eliminating the need for a GPO or deployment … Incentivized Helpful? Thayer Ramahi Director, IMIT Chose Sophos Intercept X We found Sophos is a full suit in one, easy to deploy, manage and very effective. Incentivized Helpful? Neil Taylor Trade Floor Infrastructure Manager Chose Sophos Intercept X Sophos is by far the simplest of the products to setup and going in a very short period of time at a very similar price point. Trend is overly complex and relied on an appliance for each ESX node meaning you lose one appliance and then you lose protection across multiple … Incentivized Helpful? Eric V. Zarghami Deputy CIO Chose Sophos Intercept X Besides legacy malware protection, Sophos is doing a good job in protecting against ransomware, thanks to their Intercept X and its behavioral analytics that would stop ransomware that was never seen in wild. Incentivized Helpful? Alex Farling Managing Partner Chose Sophos Intercept X Best in class... PERIOD... Bit Defender is a good AV product by itself, but it lacks in Next Gen Heuristic detection. It has allowed malware to get past it in our client environments, even with Admin permissions restricted. Sophos is hands down a superior product when paired … Incentivized Helpful? Ryhlen Schoeberl Server Administrator Chose Sophos Intercept X Sophos I feel is a better product upon installation we had a few systems that reported threats that ESET did not catch. Sophos also has multiple other products that we were able to bundle together and still have one interface to do. Intercept X, Endpoint Protection, and … Incentivized Helpful? Jon Shurtliff Vice President of Information Technology Chose Sophos Intercept X In our analysis we discovered that for the price and feature set, Sophos was able to rise above the rest. Pricing is always a large consideration, however it isn't the only consideration - the feature set that Sophos Endpoint Protection provided over its competitors made the … Incentivized Helpful? Matt Rogers Information Technology and Web Support Specialist Chose Sophos Intercept X We used to use Symantec Endpoint Protection. At the time we were using it (it may very well be different by now), it required a bit more maintenance and we were constantly having issues with definitions not being downloaded as well as issues updating the software itself. We … Incentivized Helpful?

Features

Alert Logic Managed Detection and Response

Sophos Intercept X

Endpoint Security

Comparison of Endpoint Security features of Product A and Product B
	Alert Logic Managed Detection and Response - Ratings	Sophos Intercept X 8.9 Ratings 4% above category average
Anti-Exploit Technology	00 Ratings	7.10 Ratings
Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)	00 Ratings	9.00 Ratings
Centralized Management	00 Ratings	10.00 Ratings
Hybrid Deployment Support	00 Ratings	8.00 Ratings
Infection Remediation	00 Ratings	10.00 Ratings
Vulnerability Management	00 Ratings	8.40 Ratings
Malware Detection	00 Ratings	10.00 Ratings

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User Ratings
	Alert Logic Managed Detection and Response	Sophos Intercept X
Likelihood to Recommend	8.7 (0 ratings)	9.0 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)
Usability	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	- (0 ratings)	8.1 (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Alert Logic Managed Detection and Response	Sophos Intercept X
Likelihood to Recommend	If you have a web platform or any other exposed system, it's important to have an IDS in place. This can be difficult to do right, and if you're a smaller business, you can't have a team dedicated to managing security. Alert Logic takes that burden, makes sure it's working right, and allows your team to focus on your product. With that in mind, it's not a silver bullet, and I took off one point ONLY because I think it would be harder to justify in a large enterprise with a security team already in place. Maybe there's another product out there that'll solve that use case, but Alert Logic was perfect for our needs. Incentivized John Grosjean DevOps Engineer Read full review	Sophos Intercept-X is well suited for any environment big or small. There is even a home version that is free that I highly recommend for anyone at home. If you are looking for endpoint protection that is centrally managed, catches everything, and has many features this is the product for you. Incentivized William Scott Coates IT Support Specialist Read full review
Pros	The cloud managed service; the cost benefit and 24x7 monitoring The Alert system went from possibly 24 hours to 1 hour The benefit of nothing having to write our own queries Incentivized JE Jamie Elliott Sr. Network Engineer - Contract Work Read full review	Sophos is a little too good at DLP. But it is indeed very good at not allowing our data to leave our endpoints without strict adherence to policy. Sophos is very good at protecting endpoints against viruses and other malware. Sopho is really good at informing us of what is happening on our endpoints. OOTB reporting is way better than expected. Incentivized Jane Updegraff Senior Systems Administrator Read full review
Cons	Overall the product and service works well and addresses all our key requirements so we have no real negatives to share. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	The migration from on-prem sophos to cloud sophos, could have been a little more seamless Would love to get more insight on what was blocked or flagged and what it was trying to do Better and more granular feature management from group policies Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	No answers on this topic	We have gotten a great product for the price. Easy to maintain and set up on new devices. Support is great and easy to work with and understand. Incentivized Ryhlen Schoeberl Server Administrator Read full review
Usability	No answers on this topic	The usability has never been a problem. Sophos Intercept X is a program you can install and let protect your company without much intervention. Apart from a few policies, Sophos will keep you protected better than most any product on the market. Sophos Intercept X works quite well when you are looking to "tighten your grip" on user's access to websites, programs, and add-ons. Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	No answers on this topic	Most of the support reps are fantastic. There have been a few though that have had to be escalated via Account Manager when they haven't followed up but this is a rare instance, and often followed up by the Support Manager for APAC. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Implementation Rating	No answers on this topic	Best thing was the help pushing out via group policy and was able to get instructions for that on sophos site Incentivized Ryhlen Schoeberl Server Administrator Read full review
Alternatives Considered	I've found Barkly to be much better than these products at protecting my systems. It does not require the horsepower that these do to run. It uses systems resources well. It protects well. It alerts and updates well. This is a good AV system to have on your endpoints and is a sound financial investment if you are looking to protect your assets from virus/malware/ransomware. Incentivized Nathan Venno IT Director Read full review	I don't feel it's fair to compare Sophos Intercept X with the versions of Symantec and AVG that I have used in the past - as that was such a long time ago. I'm sure those other companies have released far more features than I used all those years ago Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	It is pretty complicated to understand for beginner levels when you start to use it. The product is really secure and reliable for any organization. Best side of this software is that it is not like other security programs. Unlike them, this software is stronger and has 24/7 security. Incentivized Wera Michalska Marketing Read full review	Before we had Intercept X, we had several infections of ransomware. Since that time it has stopped at least 10 attempts, saving us thousands of man-hours and hundreds of thousands of dollars. By decreasing the time needed for malware remediation, it has saved us the cost of .25 FTE in the IT department. Initial setup was cumbersome and cost us .1 FTE in additional costs the first year. Incentivized Beau Sorensen COO Read full review
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