Proofpoint is pretty much foolproof
July 30, 2019
Proofpoint is pretty much foolproof
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Proofpoint Email Protection
We use Proofpoint Email Protection across our whole company to protect our users from getting malware, viruses, spoofed emails, phishing emails, etc. We use Office 365 as our backend email system and it works seemlessly with it. Before getting Proofpoint Email Protection we used to get tons of phishing emails and spoofed emails but 99% of those have stopped since implementing it.
- Can send daily emails to users showing what emails got caught in their individual spam quarantine
- Very extensive search engine to search for emails sent/received
- Easy to block or allow emails in the system
- It seems there are too many options to let you block or allow emails. It is easy to do still but can be confusing as there are like 5 different places you can do it so maybe simply that somehow.
- Make an easy way to block email names vs their email address, for example if the email name says Joe Smith but the address says sweet1@hotmail.com when it should be joe.smith@yourcompany.com there should be an easy way to block that kind of email.
- When doing searches for emails, the from address a lot of times looks weird, different than what you searched for. For example you searched for an email from bobsmith@gmail.com but the from field in the search results may say emailsender101138383093@email.server.number2113.org which is confusing.
- It has pretty much stopped all spoofed emails, don't think we have seen 1 spoof since implementing
- It helps increase worker productivity since it cuts way down on junk email thus not wasting as much time reading it
- It has opened our eyes to the sheer amount of email threats out there
We didn't look at any other alternatives. Proofpoint reached out to us via cold call, the guys seemed really nice so we met with them for lunch and loved their showing of the product and in the end purchased it.