Cisco Secure Email (formerly Cisco Email Security) vs Proofpoint Essentials

Likelihood to Recommend

In our organization and with our partners, email is the vast majority of our communications for doing business from ordering, quoting, and updates. Having an email security solution from a trusted brand is key. Great solution if you use a lot of email communications. Not as important if your company uses other forms of communications.

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Victor Lau

Network Architect

BSSTelecommunications, 10,001+ employees

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I would definitely recommend it for fast and easy deployment with no need of constant managing solution. It is a solid solution that will do all what you need for the email security. Especially when you have a small IT team or even do not have enough experienced specialists to handle email security questions - Proofpoint is what I would recommend to use. I gave it 9 of 10 points only because of the price, you can find find more cheap solutions on the market.

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Valery Mezentsau

IT Department Manager

Acceptance Solutions GroupFinancial Services, 51-200 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

Cisco Secure Email (formerly Cisco Email Security)

Proofpoint Essentials

Anti-malware

Cusomizability

Data Loss Protection

Threat Detection

Sandboxing

End-to-End Encryption

Management Tools

Pros

Antispam
Phishing protection
Email Antivirus
DLP
Graymail prevention

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Verified User

Manager in Information Technology

Education Management Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Easy to use
Automated user account creation
Automated user account deletion
Lots of options to make it work for your specific environment

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Daniel Merkl

IT Support

Cypress HealthcareHospital & Health Care, 51-200 employees

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Cons

Managing multiple Cisco ESA without additional hardware
More mail policy template for email security best practice
Lowering the price

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Budi Ezeddin

Senior Technical Specialist

Synnex Metrodata IndonesiaInformation Technology & Services, 201-500 employees

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Add encryption (secure emails) of outbound email to Business license.
Real-time user creations. Now it applies changes only in the beginning of the next hour.
More appearance customization for portal.
Sometimes it is blocking the same domain or sender again and again even if it was release and approved.

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Valery Mezentsau

IT Department Manager

Acceptance Solutions GroupFinancial Services, 51-200 employees

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Usability

Cisco Secure Email (formerly Cisco Email Security) 8.7

Based on 4 answers

I would overall give this product a 10 out of 10. I don't see many flaws at all and it does what it's meant to do and helps put my clients' minds at ease when sending personal information via email. This software allows you to send secure emails to those intended to receive them. This helps not only myself but also clients feel safe when emailing secure documents that contain personal and financial information.

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Robert Marinaro

Mortgage Processor

Advisors Mortgage Group, LLCFinancial Services, 501-1000 employees

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No score

No answers yet

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Support Rating

Cisco Secure Email (formerly Cisco Email Security) 8.5

Based on 5 answers

It provides us with another layer of defense and has proven to be a great asset and return on investment. Nothing is perfect but this is definitely something to evaluate if you are in the market looking to implement a new email gateway solution or upgrade from something that you already have in place.

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Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology

Law Practice Company, 1001-5000 employees

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No score

No answers yet

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Alternatives Considered

Cisco [Email Security] is the most mature for email security solution. They also gave us special discount

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Budi Ezeddin

Senior Technical Specialist

Synnex Metrodata IndonesiaInformation Technology & Services, 201-500 employees

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I think Proofpoint is a lot easier to use and has a simpler design. I also really like the automated user creation and deletion which I'm not sure if Symantec had. We had use Symantec through an old MSP so it wasn't a decision we made to change but I would have changed if it was our [decision.]

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Daniel Merkl

IT Support

Cypress HealthcareHospital & Health Care, 51-200 employees

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Return on Investment

Email availability got better.
Less SPAM & less false positives.
Clean emails from viruses.
Lots of phishing attacks were stopped.

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Verified User

Manager in Information Technology

Education Management Company, 1001-5000 employees

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We are a financial company that requires a lot of regulations on the information security side, so Proofpoint is one of the key tools that closes lots of potential security breaches.
Decreased almost to zero the number of SPAM, Fraud and Phishing attacks.
Using that solution doesn't require to have a dedicated specialist for email security.

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Valery Mezentsau

IT Department Manager

Acceptance Solutions GroupFinancial Services, 51-200 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Rating Summary

Cisco Secure Email (formerly Cisco Email Security)

Proofpoint Essentials

Cisco Secure Email (formerly Cisco Email Security)

Proofpoint Essentials

Cisco Secure Email (formerly Cisco Email Security)

Proofpoint Essentials

Cisco Secure Email (formerly Cisco Email Security)

Proofpoint Essentials

Cisco Secure Email (formerly Cisco Email Security) vs Proofpoint Essentials