IBM Security Network Intrusion Prevention System vs. Proofpoint Advanced Threat Protection

IBM Security Network IPS is a wonderful tool for network and system security, but it requires the technicians with high skills in this field.

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It is great out of the box and uses AI and machine learning to identify threats with minimal input. It does need to be configured and tuned to meet the needs of the organisation. Industry specific software that sends or receives emails may be affected by this product.

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• real-time threat detection and awareness
• integration with Cisco Security Appliances
• provide reliable prevention to threats with high performance for the multi-site and multi-node clustering

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• Spam filtering.
• Automatic retrieval of malicious emails that have gotten through the filter but were later detected using sample data across all the organizations Proofpoint has as customers.

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• The troubleshooting is time-consuming
• Does not work well with SNORT function

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• With our current setup we need to add new users manually.
• Reports aren't that intuitive.
• Mailboxes have to be removed manually.

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Not easy to configure to integrate with other devices.

Not easy to do the troubleshooting.

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Proofpoint offers a lot of products, but they are not particularly well integrated. They all look different, and there is no central location to access them all from, which is disappointing. However, I do know they have a big push for upgrading the UI and usability, so this should improve in the coming months I hope.

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Even though the product is good, the support can be lacking at times. The support needs to know their product inside and out, but there are times in which we figure out things before their support does. I feel as if we should not be able to fix issues that their support cant fix, hence the main reason for support.

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We use both.

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Proofpoint's Advanced Threat Protection, in the past, has identified threats whereby Microsoft's Advanced Threat Protection did not.

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• Cost is not cheap, so the ROI may be low
• It is a trustful tool
• The support is strong

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• PP blocks 5-10 emails per day which are spam or malicious
• I only get a small number of emails per week which are spam
• The only malicious emails I receive are from our internal security team which bypasses the PP threat protection

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