We performed a comparison between Palo Alto Networks WildFire and Proofpoint Email Protection based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Proofpoint has an edge over WildFire in this comparison. Compared with WildFire, it is easier to set up and has a proven ROI.
"Their technical support is outstanding and top-notch."
"The most valuable features of the solution are user-friendliness, price, good security, and cloud-related options."
"The graphic user interface of Palo Alto is good and it's easy to configure."
"They have many different options with Palo Alto WildFire and the set-up is quick. If you have all the details in hand, it does not take more than 15 minutes to deploy a firewall."
"My primary use case for this solution is for a secure gateway."
"The most valuable feature of Palo Alto Networks WildFire is its ability to adapt to environments and its robustness."
"It is stable and pretty much scalable."
"We get support in the free version."
"URL scanning and online relay service are the most valuable features of Proofpoint Email Protection."
"A one-stop shop for email protection"
"It is a very scalable solution."
"I like all the features with Proofpoint, such as how it filters the spam and marketing mail, lost reality mail, blocks phishing attacks, blocks malicious attachments, and stops phishing links. Also it can defend against the business email compromise impersonation technique. It is a complete solution for all email attacks. It filters for the bad, malicious attachments. If there is any executable file, it can be deleted. It is a good, complete solution."
"Provides better control over emails, especially those sent via Office 365 on the cloud."
"It was easy to set up."
"The archive feature is valuable."
"Proofpoint Email Protection is stable enough and does its job of virus, malware, and email scam detection. Setting it up is not too complicated."
"The support is good but they could be faster."
"The cost of the solution is excessively high."
"I think it would be nice for Palo Alto to work without the connection to the cloud. It is 100% powerful when connected to the cloud. But, if you disconnect from the cloud, you only get 40-50% power."
"The initial setup was complex."
"The price of WildFire should be reduced in order to make it more affordable for our customers."
"They can keep on doing more updates. As new malware and viruses are coming out, they can make sure that WildFire is up to date."
"Many years back an update caused an issue with the firewall. However, Palo Alto not only informed us of said issue, they also sent an update that fixed the issue before I even had time to log in to determine if the issue affected our services."
"Other vendors have some sort of bandwidth management built into the firewall itself and Palo Alto is missing that."
"Proofpoint should have better integration with complex environments that need more than one instance of Proofpoint, as there are issues with nested instances."
"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."
"It's scalable, but the devil's in the details — you have to know your email volumes."
"The largest complaint that we hear from our customers is that there is no local support."
"Proofpoint Email Protection is an expensive solution."
"The email DLP portion could be a bit easier."
"Sometimes it detects false positives."
"The false positives are an issue."
Palo Alto Networks WildFire is ranked 3rd in Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) with 58 reviews while Proofpoint Email Protection is ranked 1st in Secure Email Gateway (SEG) with 46 reviews. Palo Alto Networks WildFire is rated 8.4, while Proofpoint Email Protection is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Palo Alto Networks WildFire writes "Good technical support and provides automatic analysis that saves us time in filtering email". 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". Palo Alto Networks WildFire is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGate, Juniper SRX Series Firewall, Fortinet FortiSandbox and Check Point SandBlast Network, whereas Proofpoint Email Protection is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP), Cisco Secure Email, Fortinet FortiMail and KnowBe4.
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