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    Proofpoint Insider Threat Management

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/AAn Insider Threat Management (ITM) solution, Proofpoint’s ObserveIT ITM (acquired by Proofpoint November 2019) protects against data loss and brand damage involving insiders acting maliciously, negligently, or unknowingly. ObserveIT correlates activity and data movement, enabling security teams to identify user risk, detect insider-led data breaches, and accelerate security incident response.N/A

    Symantec IGA

    Score8 out of 10
    N/ASymantec IGA (formerly Layer7 Identity Suite & CA Identity Suite) from Broadcom provides comprehensive identity management and governance capabilities. In addition, Symantec IGA performs risk analysis and certification and enables remediation actions in real-time during the access provisioning steps, thereby improving audit performance and risk posture with preventive policy enforcement.N/A
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    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    User Ratings
    Proofpoint Insider Threat ManagementSymantec IGA
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
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    Support Rating
    10.0
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    User Testimonials
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    Likelihood to Recommend
    Proofpoint
    Proofpoint Insider Threat Management (ObserveIT) is well suite for organization that are ready to implement risk based solution and do not compare it feature by feature with Classic DLP products. It's aim to analyze and prevent misuse(both accidental or intentional) and educate users.
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    Broadcom
    If an organization is looking for a good comprehensive identity management/governance suite that is easy to implement, CA identity manager may be a good/robust product. It is best to understand specific use case for your organization and try out the product before a final purchase decision as is the case with all sw products.
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    Pros
    Proofpoint
    • Takes screen captures of user's activities to understand suspicious activities better.
    • User friendly management interface makes it better.
    • Ease of upgrading all of the related servers and its agent.
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    Broadcom
    • It has complete identity management and governance capabilities equipped with a simple, intuitive user experience and helps simplify processes such as user access requests and access certifications. This in turn helps in improved productivity and user satisfaction.
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    Cons
    Proofpoint
    • it can be more affordable
    • Many organization are not ready to implement insider threat solutions and prefer classic DLP
    • don't have more dislikes
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    Broadcom
    • Bringing on new users and removing existing user when new employee/contractors join or leave an organization can be improved by linking directly to HR module.
    • The slightly complicated GUI makes drill down difficult for a new user.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Proofpoint
    It depends on the our needs actually. Audit has big space on our environment, so we need to put anything infront of them clearly. ObserveIT makes it perfectly.
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    Broadcom
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    Support Rating
    Proofpoint
    Easy to access them, immediate response and huge knowledge make them nearly perfect. Also their supports have great sense of humour :)
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    Broadcom
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    Alternatives Considered
    Proofpoint
    Proofpoint Insider Threat Management (ObserveIT) is so called next generation of DLP systems ensuring that you can use it after deployment, no need to create comprehensive regex and patterns of data
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    Broadcom
    The final contenders were CA and Oracle - Oracle was tedious to implement and maintain while on the other hand CA was easy to implement and maintain and came at a much lower price.
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    Return on Investment
    Proofpoint
    • Organization will benefit DBA activity and Privileged Access analytics
    • Ensures user privacy by anonymizing
    • You get full visibility of insider threats and solution can reduce costs by using out-of the box risk activity library
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    Broadcom
    • For us, it was a fairly easy implementation over 60 day period that provided ROI fairly quickly
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