Proofpoint Email Protection

Proofpoint Email Protection

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Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Proofpoint Email Protection	Score8.3 out of 10	N/A	Proofpoint 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

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Proofpoint Email Protection
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	Proofpoint Email Protection
Considered Both Products	Proofpoint Verified User Chose Proofpoint Email Protection More flexibility to create rules and custom rules; in the on-premises version, these options grow up due to the possibility of access to the command line. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Proofpoint Email Protection Proofpoint Email Protection allows configuration and granularity that far exceeds those features we'd been able to use with the Barracuda Email Security Gateway product. In addition, the robust Proofpoint reporting features give us and our decision makers much improved detail … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Proofpoint Email Protection Microsoft Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection needs to improve a lot to catch up to Proofpoint's abilities and features. We used ATP for a year but malicious emails were slipping through. Proofpoint was much more efficient in catching malicious emails. With ATP the … Incentivized Helpful? Nicole Dohrman Network Security Analyst in Information Technology at Ameren (Utilities, 10,001+ employees) Chose Proofpoint Email Protection As a previous Exchange administrator, ProofPoint allowed us to move many security-based mail flow rules into the system. This simplified our Exchange mail flow and allowed for more detailed and concise rules. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Proofpoint Email Protection We use Symantec DLP for our on-premise protection of endpoints and network traffic. We used to use it for email, but switched to Proofpoint due to the entire business deciding to move to it. We are just one of multiple teams using Proofpoint. I believe Proofpoint was decided … Incentivized Helpful? Frank Haarmann Senior Consultant in Information Technology at CGI Deutschland B.V.&Co.KG (Information Technology & Services, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Proofpoint Email Protection It was only possible to select "Ironport Web Security Appliance" but this has nothing to do with emailing. Actually, we are using Cisco Ironport Email Security in another environment. The administration and management of Proofpoint Email Protection is way more straightforward … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Proofpoint Email Protection I was not involved in the side by side with other products. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Proofpoint Email Protection I have used MessageLabs. Instead of relying on signatures and heuristics for spam detection effectiveness, Proofpoint's spam detection is based on machine learning technology and that is really helpful for overall protection. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Proofpoint Email Protection Works very well - probably much better in terms of feature set and customisability. The quality of message filtering is fantastic. But from an administrative perspective it is more difficult to manage than the others. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Proofpoint Email Protection At the time we selected Proofpoint, Mimecast did not offer comparable features. We are planning to evaluate Mimecast in the first quarter of 2020. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Proofpoint Email Protection We currently have Microsoft ATP turned on behind Proofpoint and Proofpoint's TAP. ATP almost never alerts us to any issues due to the filtering by Proofpoint. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Proofpoint Email Protection We had been using Proofpoint for a number of years but there were a few things PP was not doing so well. So we looked at Mimecast and was seriously considering moving to it, however, Mimecast has 1 fatal flaw they were not able to resolve to our satisfaction so we stuck with … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Proofpoint Email Protection I thought that Proofpoint immediately showed improvements over these products and allowed us to become more "granular" than the mentioned products. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Proofpoint Email Protection Proofpoint is the leader of the pack when it comes to email security services. I have used a range of other providers in the space and Proofpoint is the best. It's ability to identify and block malicious email and threats sets it above all other competitors. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Proofpoint Email Protection I belong to a few tech user boards, and compared to Mimecast, Proofpoint's uptime over the past year has been much better. Incentivized Helpful? Jatin Rai Network Engineer in Information Technology at Adidas (Computer & Network Security, 10,001+ employees) Chose Proofpoint Email Protection Haven't use any other such application in my organisation Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Proofpoint Email Protection We evaluated a few other products and found Proofpoint to be the best fit for our organization. Incentivized Helpful? Lorrie Amerson Network Engineer in Information Technology at Eastern Virginia Medical School (Higher Education, 501-1000 employees) Chose Proofpoint Email Protection We used Barracuda at one point but the price was going up and the performance and features went down or went away all together. Proofpoint has definitely proven to be an amazing product. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Proofpoint Email Protection Proofpoint meets all the security requirements stipulated in the company's policies, has a good platform administration, is easy to implement, has very robust research tools, the reports help our security operations center, good support, flexibility of working in the cloud, and … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Proofpoint Email Protection I would recommend Proofpoint over any other product in this space thanks to Proofpoint's amazing customer service and true-to-their-word email security spam and malware detection systems. Incentivized Helpful? Sateesh Konijeti Information Technology Specialist in Information Technology at Cognizant (Information Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees) Chose Proofpoint Email Protection We have used EOP (Exchange Online Protection) in the past and we also had a POC with Proofpoint which we were excited to use and the results were positive. Before Proofpoint, we had many issues with imposters and TAP issues with EOP, which have been improved with Proofpoint. We … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Proofpoint Email Protection Proofpoint stacks up well against competitors, but I'm choosing not to disclose who the platform replaced. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Proofpoint Email Protection I am not sure what else is out there so I can't really speak to how well it stacks up against others. I can say that it seems to be pretty good for us. It's robust and has good customization. It also has other systems within the Proofpoint family that it works with fairly well. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User 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 Helpful? Verified User Chose Proofpoint Email Protection I have used Symantec Brightmail, Cisco Ironport, and Trend Micro Email Security. We selected Trend's product due to the price, but it failed miserably at clustering and overall email delivery. Proofpoint came in second as it checked off a lot of the boxes that we required in … Incentivized Helpful?
	Would buy again
	100% Would buy again 10 Answers
	Delivers good value for the price
	100% Delivers good value for the price 8 Answers
	Happy with the feature set
	100% Happy with the feature set 10 Answers
	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
	83% Lived up to sales and marketing promises 5 Answers
	Implementation went as expected
100% Implementation went as expected 7 Answers

Features

Proofpoint Email Protection

Comparison of Secure Email Gateway features of Proofpoint Email Protection
Feature	Proofpoint Email Protection 8.0 79 Ratings 5% below category average
Anti-malware	10.077 Ratings
Customizability	7.076 Ratings
Data Loss Protection	6.049 Ratings
Threat Detection	8.076 Ratings
Sandboxing	7.058 Ratings
End-to-End Encryption	10.059 Ratings
Management Tools	8.075 Ratings

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User Ratings
	Proofpoint Email Protection
Likelihood to Recommend	10.0 (96 ratings)
Usability	9.0 (3 ratings)
Availability	9.1 (1 ratings)
Performance	8.2 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	8.3 (5 ratings)
Product Scalability	8.2 (1 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Proofpoint Email Protection
Likelihood to Recommend	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. Incentivized Verified User Read full review
Pros	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 Laurie Keith Help Desk Manager Read full review
Cons	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 Verified User Read full review
Usability	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. Verified User Read full review
Reliability and Availability	Proofpoint There were no appliance errors or unplanned outages during five years of operation. Incentivized Frank Haarmann Senior Consultant Read full review
Performance	Proofpoint Most important thing is the performance of processing mails. Even in a complex environment the system keeps performing on a very high Level. Incentivized Frank Haarmann Senior Consultant Read full review
Support Rating	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. Incentivized Nicole Dohrman Network Security Analyst Read full review
Alternatives Considered	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 Fraser Clark Network Engineer Read full review
Scalability	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. Incentivized Frank Haarmann Senior Consultant Read full review
Return on Investment	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. Incentivized Verified User Read full review
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