We performed a comparison between NetWitness Platform and Proofpoint Email Protection based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Splunk, Wazuh, Datadog and others in Log Management."NetWitness can be highly beneficial for incident detection and response."
"It gives the ability to investigate into network traffic in the Net and the organization what we couldn't do before."
"The most valuable features are its ingestion of logs and raising of alerts based on those logs."
"Incident management is its most valuable feature."
"The most valuable features are the packet decoder, log decoder, and concentrator."
"The most valuable feature is that we can create our own connectors for any application, and NetWitness provides the training and tools to do it."
"The most valuable feature is the security that it provides."
"I can have enterprise security, email security, next generation firewall security log, HIDS and NIDS logs, etc. all on the same dashboard. It makes it easy to pinpoint or correlate our server to this. I can find out if there is lateral movement. This is the biggest advantage of this solution."
"The most valuable feature of Proofpoint Email Protection is the central location dashboard for viewing all the related information for risk."
"It's very good at identifying threats."
"The solution scales quite well."
"It is a very scalable solution."
"Its anti-phishing functionality is the most valuable. Certainly, the biggest problem I have is phishing."
"The archive feature is valuable."
"The spam filter for email is good."
"The stability is very good."
"The initial setup is very complex and should be simplified."
"The user interface is a little bit difficult for new users and it needs to be improved."
"The documentation is not as structured as I would like, personally, and I think that it can be improved and made much more user-friendly."
"The initial setup was complex because it takes a lot of time to complete the implementation."
"The threat detection capability and centralizing and upgrading capability need to be improved. The threat alert capability needs to be improved as well because there is some lag time at present. They need to work on their database search too."
"An area for improvement would be better automation and more inbuilt use cases."
"The product's licensing models are complex to understand. This particular area needs improvement."
"Lots of competing products have vulnerability protection built into their products, and this solution would be improved by including that support."
"Proofpoint Email Protection could improve by allowing more customization of the reports, such as exceptions and black-and-white lists."
"Unfortunately, the whole product is going downhill right now, ever since they were sold to Thoma Bravo. We're constantly having problems with stability and the product in general."
"The solution's server console and cluster dashboard have been the same for four years so need to be upgraded."
"The initial setup is complex."
"The email DLP portion could be a bit easier."
"We find the cost to be prohibitive."
"The solution should add post-sales training."
"The price could be improved."
NetWitness Platform is ranked 18th in Log Management with 36 reviews while Proofpoint Email Protection is ranked 1st in Secure Email Gateway (SEG) with 46 reviews. NetWitness Platform is rated 7.4, while Proofpoint Email Protection is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of NetWitness Platform writes "Can find out if there is lateral movement, but integration and workflow need improvement". 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". NetWitness Platform is most compared with Splunk Enterprise Security, RSA enVision, IBM Security QRadar, Cisco Secure Network Analytics and Microsoft Sentinel, 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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