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McAfee Security for Email Servers vs. Proofpoint Email Protection

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    McAfee Security for Email Servers

    Score5.8 out of 10
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    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
    McAfee Security for Email ServersProofpoint Email Protection
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    McAfee Security for Email ServersProofpoint Email Protection
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details
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    Considered Both Products
    McAfee
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    Proofpoint
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    100%
    Would buy again
    10 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    8 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    10 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    83%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    5 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
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    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    7 Answers
    Features
    McAfee Security for Email ServersProofpoint Email Protection
    Secure Email Gateway
    Comparison of Secure Email Gateway features of McAfee Security for Email Servers and Proofpoint Email Protection
    Feature
    McAfee Security for Email Servers
    9.9
    1 Ratings
    16% above category average
    Proofpoint Email Protection
    8.0
    79 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Anti-malware10.01 Ratings10.077 Ratings
    Customizability9.01 Ratings7.076 Ratings
    Data Loss Protection10.01 Ratings6.049 Ratings
    Threat Detection10.01 Ratings8.076 Ratings
    Sandboxing10.01 Ratings7.058 Ratings
    End-to-End Encryption10.01 Ratings10.059 Ratings
    Management Tools10.01 Ratings8.075 Ratings
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    Enterprises
    Microsoft Exchange
    Score8.6 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    McAfee Security for Email ServersProofpoint Email Protection
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (96 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.3
    (5 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    McAfee Security for Email ServersProofpoint Email Protection
    Likelihood to Recommend
    McAfee
    In my experience the McAfee Security for Email Servers is well suited for the all the types of organization and their employees who main concern is security for their mailing application. As they need to protect the sensitive data sent and receive through mail and also wants to protect their employee and organizations sensitive data. Also, I don't see any scenario where McAfee Security for Email Server is not suited as every organizations wants to protect their data and employee from the many cyber attacks.
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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
    McAfee
    • mail filtering
    • threat protection
    • threat response
    • customer support
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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.
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    Cons
    McAfee
    • Intelligent threat detection
    • Data protection can be improved
    • Pricing can be improved
    • monitoring of spam sending patterns and IP behavior can be improved
    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.
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    Usability
    McAfee
    No answers on this topic
    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
    McAfee
    No answers on this topic
    Proofpoint
    There were no appliance errors or unplanned outages during five years of operation.
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    Performance
    McAfee
    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
    McAfee
    No answers on this topic
    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
    McAfee
    The McAfee Security for Email Servers is very robust and compact against many newly generated cyber threats. Also the McAfee Security for Email Servers is very easy to operate and understand. The great thing about the McAfee Security for Email Servers is it's ability to determine the threat pattern and disabled it before it occurs and causes the problem in daily operations is too good.
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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.
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    Scalability
    McAfee
    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
    McAfee
    • The layer of protection provided by the McAfee Security for Email Servers from cyber attacks is on of the highlight of it.
    • It is the one of the best solution to prevent your organizations employee to fall prey to the attacks like phishing, spamming and many more.
    • The most incredible thing McAfee Security for Email Servers does is that it can be great in dealing with the attacks and detection of cyber threats even before they impact your business.
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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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