We performed a comparison between Check Point Infinity and Proofpoint Email Protection based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Palo Alto Networks, ESET and others in Advanced Threat Protection (ATP)."The sandblast threat emulation is great."
"Powerful cyber security functionalities track workflows to block all threats that may arise and affect the workflow chain."
"It has come to reinforce the security architecture of the organization since it covers all the necessary pieces of security."
"New Check Point technologies can be found via this portal."
"The tool's most valuable feature for threat prevention is the encryption alarm. I find the centralized management console, including the log analyzer and reports in Check Point Infinity, extremely beneficial for enhancing security and operations efficiency in our enterprise. I would rate it a perfect ten out of ten, as it effectively helps us analyze logs, and detect potential attacks."
"The solution is very stable. I would estimate it's 99.9% stable, if not more."
"We can add our environments and can configure and manage them easily which is why administrators are happy with this tool."
"It provides fantastic visibility of security incidents through deconstructing and dissecting the threat's infection protocol."
"Provides better control over emails, especially those sent via Office 365 on the cloud."
"Proofpoint Email Protection is a good product, and its most beneficial feature is the Threat Response Auto-Pull. I also like that it's an integrated email security solution."
"Proofpoint Email Protection is the best solution from the perspective of email security."
"The initial implementation is pretty easy to handle."
"The anti-spam features are excellent on the email firewalls."
"The most valuable feature of Proofpoint Email Protection is the dashboards and their visibility, easy configuration, and artificial intelligence. Additionally, the reports are very important and helpful."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to remove bad messages that were delivered, prior to being classified as unwanted."
"It's detection of true positives are great, as it's cloud based it's very scalable and stable."
"Alert fatigue is a common issue with platforms that have strong detection capabilities. Implementing more filtering and prioritization mechanisms can help address this issue, ensuring that security teams can focus on the most critical threats."
"The solution's reports should be easy to understand and work with."
"The management console has given us some trouble, and the documentation is a little bit rigid in its solution paths."
"We need improvement around the Smart-1 cloud solution."
"It seems that the performance varies, likely influenced by the client's size and the provisioning of resources."
"In the future, I would like to see new developments that allow us to centralize the cloud."
"The console at the beginning also has the section on where to save the logs, however, if by mistake we choose a very remote area, this detail cannot be corrected unless the change of data center where the logs are housed, which is requested through support, which can become a management difficulty."
"While Check Point Infinity is a robust and innovative solution, some areas could benefit from improvement. One area is the user-friendly integration of privacy-focused features."
"The solution's server console and cluster dashboard have been the same for four years so need to be upgraded."
"There is room for improvement in detecting and preventing phishing attacks. While the solution performs well in some aspects, it struggles with phishing threats."
"The scalability can be improved, and the solution can be optimized."
"Proofpoint Email Protection has a new approach to email security with its API feature. Currently, it only works with Office 365. In the future, it would be beneficial if it also works with Gmail, as Check Point is currently the only brand that has API email security for Gmail. It would be beneficial if Proofpoint Email Protection could add this integration, they would be more competitive with other vendors."
"Proofpoint Email Protection could improve by reducing the price."
"Proofpoint Email Protection could improve by allowing more customization of the reports, such as exceptions and black-and-white lists."
"I want Security Awareness Training in there as a package deal. A lot of companies are starting to value email security a little bit more and take it a little bit more seriously, and the great product that we link together with a lot of these sales is a training product called Security Awareness Training. It is an upsell that we do with Proofpoint, and it is definitely something that I recommend everybody with email security to look into. It would be great if Security Awareness Training is included with the email security."
"I would want better spear phishing protection in the essentials package."
Check Point Infinity is ranked 10th in Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) with 26 reviews while Proofpoint Email Protection is ranked 1st in Secure Email Gateway (SEG) with 46 reviews. Check Point Infinity is rated 8.8, while Proofpoint Email Protection is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Check Point Infinity writes "Provide unified threat prevention and response across our entire decentralized finance system". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Proofpoint Email Protection writes "A reasonably priced product that offers protection to emails, along with spam filters". Check Point Infinity is most compared with Cisco Secure Network Analytics, CyberArk Privileged Access Manager, Skybox Security Suite and Microsoft Defender for Office 365, whereas Proofpoint Email Protection is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP), Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Cisco Secure Email and Fortinet FortiMail.
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