Sophos Email Features

Prevents unwanted emails including bulk, mass, or other junk emails from reaching recipients mailboxes.

Prevents emails with malicious links or attachments embedded with malware, such as ransomware, spyware, and other viruses, from reaching email recipients.

prevent social-engineering attacks such as phishing, spear-phishing, and c-level executive impersonation attacks.

Provides filters such as: approved senders, whitelists, greylists such as bulk emails that may not be malicious, blocked senders, blacklists, IP reputation, content (such as profanity, credit card numbers, password protected files, and other sensitive information), virus detection, re-directs and malicious URLs, newsletter detection, attachment size, and invalid recipients.

Includes a quarantine area for users to manually inspect suspicious emails.

Monitors outgoing mail to prevent data loss by encrypting messages or preventing the messages from being sent.

Includes advanced threat protections such as machine learning to conduct abnormal behavioral analysis, display name spoof detection especially regarding c-level impersonation attacks, detecting lookalike email domains that are visually confusing.

Offers archival email retention for compliance purposes.

Offers standard reporting functionality.

Supports on-premises deployments of secure email gateways, which requires a company to maintain their own hardware. This is different than Cloud Email Security software which protects cloud-based email environments and do not require on-premises hardware installations.

Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting