We performed a comparison between KnowBe4 and Proofpoint Email Protection based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Security Awareness Training solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Their customizable nature allows us to create scenarios that closely resemble real-world phishing attempts, making them highly relatable to our end users."
"The main thing is the overall report card. We get to tell the percentages of users who click on links and who don't click on links. We also get an overall score or risk score from them, which also helps us."
"There are many valuable features. It's already deployed in the cloud, and you don't have to install anything. You just upload your users to the cloud and tweak something if needed. You can whitelist some servers to work with this properly. When everything is ready, you can start using the platform and its many automated features."
"It's detection of true positives are great, as it's cloud based it's very scalable and stable."
"The Phish Alarm button allows users to submit questionable emails for review and complete analysis."
"The setup was easy."
"A one-stop shop for email protection"
"Its main defense is to stop malicious emails from coming through. There is a sandbox environment where you can open malicious or suspicious emails to make sure that they're not malicious, instead of taking the risk of having your employees do it. This is definitely something that everybody needs nowadays, especially with the rise in cyber attacks."
"Proofpoint Email Protection's initial installation is straightforward. It took us less than a day to complete the implementation."
"As a cloud-based product, it can scale well."
"Proofpoint Email Protection is the best solution from the perspective of email security."
"Enhancing the product's emotional intelligence, particularly by providing training content tailored to specific audiences, is an area for improvement."
"It could be more localized for Ukrainian users. This platform is international, and it has a lot of material in different languages, but not in Ukrainian and Russian languages. There's plenty of different content updated regularly for English, French, and German users. They have a lot more information, and Ukrainian users also want more."
"It can be more interactive with users. We want to put the users in different scenarios and let them make decisions. For example, instead of making users go through a video and then asking questions, it can have a video where they click on the scenarios and have to make decisions. It can maybe have something like a live simulation. It would be nice for users."
"Proofpoint Email Protection could improve the Mail Trace feature and make navigation easier."
"Proofpoint Email Protection could improve on the training. Every organization is different and to fine-tune it to block everything properly there needs to be better training. Sometimes it can block some of the information it shouldn't."
"The high cost of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The scalability can be improved, and the solution can be optimized."
"Proofpoint should have better integration with complex environments that need more than one instance of Proofpoint, as there are issues with nested instances."
"The email DLP portion could be a bit easier."
"The false positives are an issue."
"Proofpoint Email Protection's interface is confusing and could be improved."
KnowBe4 is ranked 1st in Security Awareness Training with 3 reviews while Proofpoint Email Protection is ranked 2nd in Security Awareness Training with 46 reviews. KnowBe4 is rated 9.0, while Proofpoint Email Protection is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of KnowBe4 writes "Provides an ease of customization and robust reporting capabilities ". 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". KnowBe4 is most compared with Terranova Security, Barracuda PhishLine, Arctic Wolf Managed Security Awareness, Sophos Phish Threat and Kaspersky Security Awareness, 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 Perception Point Advanced Email Security. See our KnowBe4 vs. Proofpoint Email Protection report.
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