Cisco Secure Endpoint vs. Sophos Intercept X

Cisco Secure Endpoint

Sophos Intercept X

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Cisco Secure Endpoint	Score 9.3 out of 10	N/A	Cisco Secure Endpoint is a comprehensive, cloud-managed endpoint security solution designed to protect devices from advanced malware and cyber threats throughout the entire attack lifecycle—before, during, and after an attack. It offers powerful prevention capabilities to identify and stop threats before they compromise your systems, using multifaceted techniques including risk-based vulnerability management and posture assessments. The solution provides deep visibility and advanced detection…	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

Cisco Secure Endpoint

Sophos Intercept X

Editions & Modules

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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
Cisco Secure Endpoint	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
	Cisco Secure Endpoint	Sophos Intercept X
Considered Both Products	Cisco Secure Endpoint Verified User Anonymous Chose Cisco Secure Endpoint Webroot Antivirus + Internet Security Complete (SecureAnywhere) and Veem Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Cisco Secure Endpoint Integration with the rest of the Cisco security stack made Cisco Secure Endpoint the right product. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Cisco Secure Endpoint Microsoft Defender XDR Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Cisco Secure Endpoint Because of the Cisco ecosystem Incentivized Helpful? FM Florentino Martinez Gragera IT speialist Chose Cisco Secure Endpoint Cisco Umbrella Incentivized Helpful? RA Reggie Abernethy Senior Network System Administrator Chose Cisco Secure Endpoint Cisco Secure Endpoint is easier to deploy and use versus Trend Micro Deep Security. The interface is less intuitive (possibly subjective) when compared to Cisco Secure Endpoint, which required more training for support staff. Also the integration is not as good with Trend. … Incentivized Helpful? JB Jono Bundu Head of IT Chose Cisco Secure Endpoint Other products we use were, I think, well, nothing like Cisco Endpoint. There was Microsoft Defender. I think Sophos and CrowdStrike. I think the visibility and the security. We haven't had any issues with the system. Once it's been implemented, it works fine. The enhancements … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Cisco Secure Endpoint Cisco Secure Endpoint provides better overall support and detection compared to other products used. Strong visibility and a strong range of tools when researching an issue to find either information or resolution. Dashboards are also a lot cleaner than most products and easier … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Cisco Secure Endpoint I was not part of the selection process but know this was purchased on a suite of tools. We get so much more from MDE, CSE doesn’t compare. Incentivized Helpful? Chris Goodhue Network Security Specialist Chose Cisco Secure Endpoint Best tool if you have a heavy Cisco product suite for Intergrations. Send data to our SIEM (QRADAR) well and is easy to deploy with our SCCM. The groups and polices are helpful to customize protection for different endpoint needs. Incentivized Helpful? Scott Quimby VP & CTO, CISSP Chose Cisco Secure Endpoint Huntress is evaluating endpoints from a different perspective. SentinelOne would be an alternative product. Cisco Secure Endpoint always shows up reasonably close to SentinelOne in overall protection. SentinelOne does offer a SOC option which dramatically adds to the … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Cisco Secure Endpoint No participate of the selection Incentivized Helpful? JC Jeff Collins Network Administrator Chose Cisco Secure Endpoint Cisco Secure Endpoint provides much more protection, reporting, and features than Microsoft defender did for us. Incentivized Helpful? LM Licia Matthew Digital Strategist Chose Cisco Secure Endpoint Compared to most competitors, Cisco Secure Endpoint is affordable and offers better protection in features. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Cisco Secure Endpoint Cisco Secure Endpoint works in tandem with Cisco Umbrella, which allows to even further improve the overall security of the systems. Incentivized Helpful? sitaram gurjar System Administrator Chose Cisco Secure Endpoint We were using McAfee but the performance was not good and it consume a high memory. Cisco secure endpoint is very advanced and very lightweight for organizations. The configuration and management are very easy and centralized. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Cisco Secure Endpoint The integration with all the other Cisco platforms made AMP a clear front-runner. Crowdstrike and Sophos had no integration at all and Palo Alto required their firewalls be deployed. Again, as a Cisco Security customer, it made complete sense to leverage their AMP technology. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Cisco Secure Endpoint Compared to Malwarebytes Enterprise, AMP is significantly harder to configure, update, implement, use. The overall burden that AMP puts on the IT department is rather high. Incentivized Helpful? Randy Zuehlke IT Security Manager Chose Cisco Secure Endpoint Cisco Secure Endpoint is an advanced EDR solution that is highly effective and scalable. Our experience previously with MalwareBytes and Microsoft Defender was not horrible, but these products were not as effective and did not integrate well with our other security products to … Incentivized Helpful? Oleksandr Tsapenko IT Project Manager Chose Cisco Secure Endpoint Cisco Advanced Malware Protection (AMP) for Endpoints is one of a wide spectrum of Cisco security products and is the first step that can bring you to start using Cisco AnyConnect and Cisco ISE to integrate with them. Incentivized Helpful? Sebastián Sarasate Infrastructure Manager Chose Cisco Secure Endpoint Being all products of a similar nature, Cisco Advance Malware Protection stands out for its simplicity, low resource consumption, reporting, work dashboards and integration with the rest of the already installed suit. Those are the most notable aspects, although the rest of the … Incentivized Helpful? Wouter Hindriks Technical Team Lead Network & Security Chose Cisco Secure Endpoint AMP is truly an advanced product offering much better protection and actionable information on your environment. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Cisco Secure Endpoint AMP is far superior to Symantec in my opinion. It is much more robust and customizable. It is much easier to manage systems and to spot trouble areas. Deploying and upgrading clients is much simpler. It is a much more lightweight client on the desktop. Overall a much better … Incentivized Helpful? JF Jesus Franco Engineering Executive Chose Cisco Secure Endpoint Although is kinda expensive AMP has been our only choice because of the integration with other products like Umbrella. Incentivized Helpful? NM Nicole McMillian Cyber Security Analyst Chose Cisco Secure Endpoint When looking for a Malware Protection for Endpoints, AMP was our first and only choice. We like the fact that Cisco has a whole line of security software that can work together and so our goal has been to use the Cisco Suite that includes Umbrella, Firepower, AMP. We are very … 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

Cisco Secure Endpoint

Sophos Intercept X

Endpoint Security

Comparison of Endpoint Security features of Product A and Product B
	Cisco Secure Endpoint 7.3 Ratings 16% below category average	Sophos Intercept X 8.9 Ratings 4% above category average
Anti-Exploit Technology	6.70 Ratings	7.10 Ratings
Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)	8.50 Ratings	9.00 Ratings
Centralized Management	4.50 Ratings	10.00 Ratings
Hybrid Deployment Support	8.50 Ratings	8.00 Ratings
Infection Remediation	7.30 Ratings	10.00 Ratings
Vulnerability Management	6.80 Ratings	8.40 Ratings
Malware Detection	8.50 Ratings	10.00 Ratings

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User Ratings
	Cisco Secure Endpoint	Sophos Intercept X
Likelihood to Recommend	8.7 (0 ratings)	9.0 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	4.5 (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)
Usability	7.3 (0 ratings)	9.0 (0 ratings)
Availability	7.3 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	7.6 (0 ratings)	8.1 (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	4.5 (0 ratings)	9.0 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Cisco Secure Endpoint	Sophos Intercept X
Likelihood to Recommend	Cisco Secure Endpoint is well suited for keeping track of the many different and points that we have in our organization. All of these devices can easily be monitored with Cisco Secure Endpoint. It can monitor our servers and our desktops and laptops in our environment. It isn’t as appropriate for our student devices. However, those aren’t as critical since they are just Chromebooks. Incentivized JM Jeremy Miller Director of Technology 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	Threat identification: it finds things we wouldn't have even been looking for. Integration with Secure Malware Analytics for automatic submission of suspicious files. In-depth and complex configuration options for finely tuned policies for different users and endpoints. Part of the Cisco Secure Client product for easier distribution and reduction of running agents on end-user devices Integrates with Secure-X for single-pane of glass view of dashboards. Incentivized Nate Haleen Lead Developer 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	The update mechanism of the client is not obvious and takes some finesse to learn The clients auto update signatures, but not agents which I have seen lead to mixed version levels as it is harder to keep up with It is generally a challenge to manage the licenses and if you let the license lapse, it is a very bad thing in my opinion. Incentivized Scott Quimby VP & CTO, CISSP 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	the renewal must be studied with different factors Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	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	AMP is very difficult to use compared to other products we've seen. It's hard to understand why there are so many different logins for the various products that supposedly integrate with AMP. We had weekly phone calls for months to implement the product yet none of the IT department really enjoys using this product or feels comfortable with the accuracy of detections. The number of false positives is high. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	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
Reliability and Availability	no complain and no issue with availability Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Support Rating	In terms of technical support for Cisco Secure Endpoint, the support has been pretty good. All the cases I submitted were solved in a reasonable time frame, and it was a good experience. However, I find that not as many vendors have the expertise I would expect. Incentivized JC Jeff Collins Network Administrator Read full review	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 participation in implementation Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	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	Other products we use were, I think, well, nothing like Cisco Endpoint. There was Microsoft Defender. I think Sophos and CrowdStrike. I think the visibility and the security. We haven't had any issues with the system. Once it's been implemented, it works fine. The enhancements that come into play, we're benefiting from them. We're benefiting from the Telos threat intel, which is really good as well Incentivized JB Jono Bundu Head of IT 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 ensures minimal spread of cyber threats in case of infiltration thanks to containment response capabilities. By keeping our endpoints threat-proof, our systems and devices run efficiently hence better productivity. It frees IT staff thanks to its automation and ability to keep threats away with minimal intervention. Incentivized JL Jane Lopezh IT Assistant 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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