Looking for a proven email protection tool? Proofpoint is the answer!
July 24, 2019
Looking for a proven email protection tool? Proofpoint is the answer!
Score 8 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Proofpoint Email Protection
Proofpoint Email Protection is used at the enterprise level. This solution acts as an email gateway that receives email on our behalf, does checks for any possible virus, spam, bulk, or other policy filters before delivering email to users within the corporate environment. The emails are further checked for any customized policies like sender or receiver level restrictions, blacklisting or whitelisting, policies around file types or extensions, size of the message or attachment, etc.
- Easy-to-manage and secure cloud based solution.
- Enable multiple policies that can be configured apart from lots of default rule sets.
- Very useful dashboards and reporting features.
- Lack of transparency on algorithms except IP reasons.
- May not integrate with other third party SIEM and MSSP tools.
- Lots of modules but they're sold separately.
- Certainly a value for money.
- Lot of features to take advantages of like malware, spam and bulk filters, but needs a bit of work to get coupled with your in house security monitoring tools.
MessageLabs (that is now owned by Symantec) is another promising alternative to Proofpoint. It has more or less similar features and pros and cons. Proofpoint is specialized in email security whereas Symantec has a plethora of products in the security space. With their recent acquisition of Wombat (which is an ethical phishing platform and automated response platform), Proofpoint is on the strong footing.