We performed a comparison between Proofpoint Email Protection and Webroot Advanced Email Encryption powered by Zix based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Proofpoint, Barracuda Networks, IRONSCALES and others in Secure Email Gateway (SEG)."There is no downtime."
"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 of Proofpoint Email Protection is the blocking capabilities, it blocks a lot of potential threats."
"Proofpoint Email Protection's initial installation is straightforward. It took us less than a day to complete the implementation."
"The solution blocks malicious emails containing viruses and malware and reduces them out of spam."
"The solution has very strong detection for most of the phishing and malicious emails received from the outside."
"As a cloud-based product, it can scale well."
"The most valuable feature of Proofpoint Email Protection is the central location dashboard for viewing all the related information for risk."
"They do a better job of determining what's real and what's not than most of the other solutions we have tried, and it's been very painless to use."
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"Some use cases haven't been dealt with yet."
"Proofpoint Email Protection is an expensive solution."
"They do not have an on-demand scan for the internal viruses and internal users, and they don't have a scan for the exchange server against viruses and spam as Symantec does."
"Proofpoint has a lot of false alarms."
"The solution should add post-sales training."
"The high cost of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The initial setup is complex."
"The largest complaint that we hear from our customers is that there is no local support."
"They have some areas that could be improved. For example, we also use this solution for email encryption, which was clunky and could be improved, but the email security itself has been excellent."
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Proofpoint Email Protection is ranked 1st in Secure Email Gateway (SEG) with 46 reviews while Webroot Advanced Email Encryption powered by Zix is ranked 13th in Secure Email Gateway (SEG). Proofpoint Email Protection is rated 8.4, while Webroot Advanced Email Encryption powered by Zix is rated 7.0. The top reviewer of Proofpoint Email Protection writes "A reasonably priced product that offers protection to emails, along with spam filters". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Webroot Advanced Email Encryption powered by Zix writes "Inexpensive, with good email security, but the technical support could be improved". 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, whereas Webroot Advanced Email Encryption powered by Zix is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Office 365 and Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP).
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