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PowerDMARC vs. Proofpoint Targeted Attack Protection (TAP) vs. Sophos Email

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    PowerDMARC

    Score7 out of 10
    N/APowerDMARC empowers organizations to combat business email compromise (BEC), email spoofing and helps the user to set strong email authentication controls. With its proprietary AI and threat intelligence services, PowerDMARC ensures that only legitimate emails are sent from the user's own domain, and it protects the brand’s reputation. PowerDMARC is single SaaS platform that provides DMARC, DKIM, SPF, BIMI, Hosted MTA-STS and TLS-RPT.

    $8

    per month

    Proofpoint Targeted Attack Protection (TAP)

    Score9.1 out of 10
    N/AProofpoint Targeted Attack Protection (TAP) helps organizations efficiently detect, mitigate and respond to known and unknown advanced threats that target people and VIPs through email. TAP provides unparalleled effectiveness in stopping targeted attacks that use polymorphic malware, weaponized documents and credential-stealing phishing techniques to obtain sensitive information. TAP seamlessly integrates with the Proofpoint secure email gateway (Proofpoint Email Protection) to deliver best…N/A

    Sophos Email

    Score9.1 out of 10
    N/ASophos Email is presented as Predictive Cloud Email Security Powered by Artificial Intelligence designed to block spam and malware, as well as protect employees and block phishing attempts.N/A
    Pricing
    PowerDMARCProofpoint Targeted Attack Protection (TAP)Sophos Email
    Editions & Modules
    Basic
    starting at $8
    per month
    Enterprise
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    PowerDMARCProofpoint Targeted Attack Protection (TAP)Sophos Email
    Free Trial
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    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Features
    PowerDMARCProofpoint Targeted Attack Protection (TAP)Sophos Email
    Secure Email Gateway
    Comparison of Secure Email Gateway features of PowerDMARC and Proofpoint Targeted Attack Protection (TAP) and Sophos Email
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    Sophos Email
    9.2
    21 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Anti-malware00 Ratings00 Ratings9.521 Ratings
    Customizability00 Ratings00 Ratings9.021 Ratings
    Data Loss Protection00 Ratings00 Ratings9.018 Ratings
    Threat Detection00 Ratings00 Ratings10.020 Ratings
    Sandboxing00 Ratings00 Ratings9.016 Ratings
    End-to-End Encryption00 Ratings00 Ratings9.018 Ratings
    Management Tools00 Ratings00 Ratings9.021 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    PowerDMARCProofpoint Targeted Attack Protection (TAP)Sophos Email
    Likelihood to Recommend
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    9.0
    (43 ratings)
    9.0
    (24 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
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    5.3
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    Usability
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    Support Rating
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    2.8
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    Implementation Rating
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    User Testimonials
    PowerDMARCProofpoint Targeted Attack Protection (TAP)Sophos Email
    Likelihood to Recommend
    PowerDMARC
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    Proofpoint
    Proofpoint Targeted Attack Protection is a great security application for notifying our team about when our users click on malicious links. It provides a good explanation of the attack scenario, including the Sender, Subject, as well as other users that this attack has been sent to. It is also very useful in helping provide metrics on what types of attacks have been sent to the organization historically.
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    Sophos
    Sophos Email is ideal for protecting business email from advanced threats. It comes with features that make it easy to detect and block email threats, such as spam, phishing, ransomware, and data leaks. In addition, Sophos Email is ideal for email encryption and helps train teams to identify phishing threats.
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    Pros
    PowerDMARC
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    Proofpoint
    • Impostor email detection is a fantastic feature and works very well.
    • The sandbox feature helps to ensure confidence that their evaluation of the email threat is valid.
    • Easy to use (and understand) dashboard make identifying and managing email threats a breeze.
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    Sophos
    • We could customize it to have a certain level of workflow. We manage to enforce certain email (based on key-phrases) to be quarantined before send it to the recipient. And the email needs to be approved (manually) before being released.
    • For certain type (using regex) of email, we will encrypt it if it's sent outside our organization domain.
    • Scalable
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    Cons
    PowerDMARC
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    Proofpoint
    • Their admin web GUI is cumbersome and unclear in many ways. The learning curve is steep so you have to stay up on things yourself whenever a new feature or service is added.
    • They sometimes add a feature to their toolbox without informing their customers. This is true even when the feature added does not cost extra.
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    Sophos
    • I would love to see tips integrated into the user interface from the management side to allow for easier dissection of email headers. This would allow lower level admins that may work at smaller companies to better understand the information presented.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    PowerDMARC
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    Proofpoint
    Not my decision, but I have made it very clear this product does not perform. I have emails from our users on how bad it is after switching to it.
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    Sophos
    It was easy to use and easy to implement. You don't need previous knowledge on the products, after we got this up and running, it took us hours to put everything together. The transition was easy and seamless.
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    Usability
    PowerDMARC
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    Proofpoint
    The interface is simple to use but still contains the information needed to conduct thorough investigations. If you own licenses for other Proofpoint tools, Proofpoint Targeted Attack Protection is easily accessible from those applications. The ability to sandbox URLs within the TAP interface is a great feature as well. The overall performance of the GUI is seamless, especially if enabled with your organization's SSO.
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    Sophos
    It's mostly great and for policies and features, it does everything we would ask it to and more. The only thing keeping it from being a 10 is the lack of granularity in the reporting, which is actually an issue within Sophos Central as a whole. The ability to drill down from dashboards into accurate, detailed data would be very helpful at times.
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    Support Rating
    PowerDMARC
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    Proofpoint
    Generally have had good response and resolution time with knowledgeable technicians, and if needed the ticket is moved to someone with more expertise to better address the issue. Have used the ticketing portal, phone, as well as the beta chat feature (permanent please!)
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    Sophos
    Support is slow to respond. They call back outside of normal business hours despite clearly being advised when they should call. They try to BS you that the platform is working properly although there is hard evidence to the contrary. Once you get to senior level of support they agree that the product is incapable of performing properly in its current iteration.
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    Implementation Rating
    PowerDMARC
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    Proofpoint
    Proofpoint managed the installation and made it very simple. We had a dedicated installation engineer who checked in on use periodically after go-live to ensure that there were no issue.
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    Sophos
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    Alternatives Considered
    PowerDMARC
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    Proofpoint
    This is the first product of its kind that I've used personally. The last 3 companies that I worked for also used Proofpoint, which includes Proofpoint Targeted Attack Protection, so I don't have a way to really compare it. I have seen that it is a leader in the industry.
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    Sophos
    Many other solutions are a complicated setup and take a lot of time for the configuration. With Sophos email we were setup and seeing data/emails within an hour. As I have described the ease of use from a high-level for someone like me a Director just peeking into the system or an analyst that can do a deep dive is one of the best users interfaces I have seen for any product.
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    Return on Investment
    PowerDMARC
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    Proofpoint
    • Saves IT time when an attack is successful and isn't reported in a timely manner or at all until damages are done. IT has to spend less time and effort because we are able to stop it before it spreads.
    • Protecting business resources and assets is a huge positive impact. TAP allows us to better protect our business and information within.
    • The only negative thing is that it doesn't automatically handle these attacks - but that is what TRAP is for! I wish Proofpoint bundled TAP and TRAP.
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    Sophos
    • AI-powered email threat prevention ensures that no threats reach our email system, preventing data contamination.
    • The BEC defense ensures our business reputation remain in place.
    • URL protection protects our users from clicking on malicious links that would otherwise compromise our email systems.
    • Ability to encrypt emails keeps our email data secure which a plus.
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