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Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention vs. Proofpoint Email Protection

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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Forcepoint DLP

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AForcepoint Data Loss Prevention (DLP) protects sensitive data everywhere it resides and moves, across endpoints, cloud apps, web, email, and on-premises environments. It delivers unified policy management and centralized control from a single console.N/A

    Proofpoint Email Protection

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/AProofpoint Email Protection is available as an on-premise or cloud based solution and blocks unwanted, malicious and impostor emails with granular search capabilities and visibility into all messages. Outbound controls include encryption and data loss prevention, while continuity capabilities ensure business communications can continue as normal in the event of an email outage. With Proofpoint's Email Protection, you can protect your people, data, and brand from today’s threats…N/A
    Pricing
    Forcepoint DLPProofpoint Email Protection
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Forcepoint DLPProofpoint Email Protection
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Forcepoint DLPProofpoint Email Protection
    Considered Both Products
    Forcepoint
    Chose Forcepoint DLP
    Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but Proofpoint has proven to be a superior product. In our experience Proofpoint has fewer false positives and more out-of-the-box pattern detections requiring less customization. However, there is still a value in having more than one DLP …
    Incentivized
    Proofpoint
    Chose Proofpoint Email Protection
    It's definitely better and more robust and reliable than our previous solution (McAfee Email Gateway), but when compared to Mimecast they are pretty much on par. Both solutions offer a very good solution to email security.
    Incentivized
    Chose Proofpoint Email Protection
    McAfee was going away.
    Incentivized
    Chose Proofpoint Email Protection
    Being able to fine-tune and configure this appliance to suit our needs for any situation that can be thrown at us was one of the largest reasons we selected Proofpoint. Being able to access the shell of the appliance was also a reason we picked them because it allowed us to …
    Incentivized
    Chose Proofpoint Email Protection
    There is a lot of Admin intervention on software updates! Proofpoint doesn't have that and everything is automatic. Also Proofpoint support has remote access to the devices and know your environment before they help you, as your deployment is "registered."
    Incentivized
    Chose Proofpoint Email Protection
    I actually chose to replace McAfee Email Gateway with Proofpoint because Proofpoint was able to filter the emails better. We were spending two to three hours a day managing user quarantine queues. With Proofpoint, we were able to lower that time waste to about an hour a week.
    Incentivized
    Chose Proofpoint Email Protection
    We selected Proofpoint based on a number of factors, including online reviews, pricing, maturity of solution, depth of features, as well as the significantly better understanding the Proofpoint sales team had of our needs. In our assessment, it continually scored well across …
    Incentivized
    Chose Proofpoint Email Protection
    None, Proofpoint was purchased and installed before my arrival at the company.
    Incentivized
    Chose Proofpoint Email Protection
    Proofpoint showed good detection rates and provides the flexibility of creating policies that the competitor was not able to do, or it was much more complicated to do.
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    87%
    Would buy again
    20 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
    10 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    87%
    Delivers good value for the price
    20 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    8 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    91%
    Happy with the feature set
    21 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    10 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    92%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    12 Answers
    83%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    5 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    85%
    Implementation went as expected
    17 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    7 Answers
    Features
    Forcepoint DLPProofpoint Email Protection
    Data Preparation
    Comparison of Data Preparation features of Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention and Proofpoint Email Protection
    Feature
    Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention
    6.3
    2 Ratings
    26% below category average
    Proofpoint Email Protection
    -
    Ratings
    Data Encryption6.32 Ratings00 Ratings
    Secure Email Gateway
    Comparison of Secure Email Gateway features of Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention and Proofpoint Email Protection
    Feature
    Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention
    -
    Ratings
    Proofpoint Email Protection
    8.0
    79 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Anti-malware00 Ratings10.077 Ratings
    Customizability00 Ratings7.076 Ratings
    Data Loss Protection00 Ratings6.049 Ratings
    Threat Detection00 Ratings8.076 Ratings
    Sandboxing00 Ratings7.058 Ratings
    End-to-End Encryption00 Ratings10.059 Ratings
    Management Tools00 Ratings8.075 Ratings
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    Sophos Email
    Score9.1 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Symantec Data Loss Prevention
    Score7.3 out of 10
    Sophos Email
    Score9.1 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Symantec Data Loss Prevention
    Score7.3 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Forcepoint DLPProofpoint Email Protection
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.7
    (35 ratings)
    10.0
    (96 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    7.6
    (7 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    7.7
    (3 ratings)
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    5.3
    (12 ratings)
    8.3
    (5 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Forcepoint DLPProofpoint Email Protection
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Forcepoint
    -Where companies need to secure their attachment, which goes outside, means from their company to outside -Where companies need to ensure their client's personal information -Where companies need DLP. They need to look for Forcepoint only, as they have the upper hand over the rest of their competitors.
    Incentivized
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    Proofpoint
    Well suited: Proofpoint does a pretty good job at protecting us from spam emails. I was able to block a lot of emails coming from SendGrid by blocking SendGrid emails with a custom spam filter. However, SendGrid has a lot of legit emails too so I was able to create another rule to allow those emails from certain people, then block the rest. That way business need was met but spam emails are blocked. Less Appropriate If you are trying to monitor internal to internal emails Proofpoint is probably a little over featured for that.
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    Pros
    Forcepoint
    • It has predominantly protected us from unauthorized parties and has provided us with better visibility and control over our data.
    • This software has also successfully prevented us from both malicious and accidental tasks, which are quite flexible actions when it comes to the violation of data loss prevention policies.
    • This product has been successful in improving compliance and even mitigating compliance violations, which further facilitated IT security.
    • I think there is room for improvement, as the user interface is slightly rough and difficult to adopt in the beginning. The software also hangs up at a few instances, which leads to some wasting of time and annoyance, but other than that, this software is good. The technical staff should work on the complexities for a better user experience.
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    Proofpoint
    • Spam - catches these emails before hitting the inbox.
    • Daily digest - provides users with a list of the emails that were blocked and allows them to choose to release them if they are legitimate emails.
    • Ensures that emails coming into our organization is safe for our users and verifies the email is coming from stated senders email server.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Forcepoint
    • Forcepoint technical support--specially for users who go with essential support--is challenging to get support on time. You need the ticket to be raised long beforehand to get support from TAC. However, in the case of enterprise support, its is not like this technical person will come on a priority basis.
    • However it comes with higher prices, especially for SMB, it is allowed to pay that amount for support only.
    Incentivized
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    Proofpoint
    • Proofpoint could offer more frequent training opportunities to customers at all levels of expertise.
    • Proofpoint can always continue to strive to keep its product a leader in the industry.
    • Proofpoint's support site could be overhauled to provide a more logical flow.
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Forcepoint
    We have been fairly happy with the product and how it has worked. We have looked at other vendors for url filter and such and have not found one that meets our needs or does what we have been doing with Websense. The product has been fairly stable and we have only had a few issues in the past. We have all seen that it was one of the highest leaders from the Gartner Group Magic Quadrant for Web Gateways.
    Incentivized
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    Proofpoint
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    Forcepoint
    For us, Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention was difficult to administer, did not work well when it did work, was incredibly expensive for the feature set you get, and was difficult to uninstall when we moved on from the software. Once it was fully set up, it worked occasionally for us.
    Incentivized
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    Proofpoint
    Very robust and solid product in protecting our emails. The engineers who assisted with our implementation was very knowledgable and great to work with. Easy to use by end-users. Administration and management are also easy for IT. Great dashboard and reporting tools for business reviews.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Forcepoint
    No answers on this topic
    Proofpoint
    There were no appliance errors or unplanned outages during five years of operation.
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    Performance
    Forcepoint
    No answers on this topic
    Proofpoint
    Most important thing is the performance of processing mails. Even in a complex environment the system keeps performing on a very high Level.
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    Support Rating
    Forcepoint
    Support from Forcepoint has been lacking. When calling in with a high priority issue we rarely are able to work with a technician immediately. The queue waits are very long and when you get through there are no support engineers available and we need to wait for a call back for hours it seems.
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    Proofpoint
    We use ProofPoint support quite often to fix issues and assist with setting up features and rules. Each time we have created a ticket, they have been very helpful and respectful. Each ticket has been treated with the appropriate SLA time and attention. We also enjoy the regular check-ins from the engineers when tickets are open but we get busy with other tasks.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Forcepoint
    User friendly solution that makes it easy to deploy and manage. Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention very effective to protecting our valuable data on endpoints and where data lives like in the Cloud, server and on-premises disk drives and its valuable to just set policies once and start utilizing Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention solution.
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    Proofpoint
    We previously used halon anti-spam, which lasted us well until our organization really started to grow and it was not able to keep up with the amount of mail we were receiving. The support is also nothing compared to Proofpoint's professional services offering. Halon was also not able to have the complex rules that Proofpoint can offer.
    Incentivized
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    Scalability
    Forcepoint
    No answers on this topic
    Proofpoint
    You can add a lot of agents to your environment if you need them. And you can operate hardware appliances and virtual appliances in the same cluster.
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    Return on Investment
    Forcepoint
    • The exchange of financial documents with customers creates extreme risk as data loss could result in financial and reputation damage to the customer. The cost of deploying Forcepoint is fractions of pennies compared to the potential financial impact of data loss.
    • There is some administrative overhead associated as false positives are inevitable, requiring a manual review and a potential loss of productivity.
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    Proofpoint
    • Having easy-to-reach backups of all employee emails has made Proofpoint worth it by itself. That plus the countless times that spam/malicious emails did not make it through to the intended person that could have potentially cost the organization a lot of money.
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