We performed a comparison between Proofpoint Email Protection and Wombat Security Education Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about KnowBe4, Proofpoint, Sophos and others in Security Awareness Training."Provides better control over emails, especially those sent via Office 365 on the cloud."
"There is no downtime."
"The solution scales quite well."
"Proofpoint Email Protection's initial installation is straightforward. It took us less than a day to complete the implementation."
"The most valuable feature of Proofpoint Email Protection is the blocking capabilities, it blocks a lot of potential threats."
"The tool has improved our workflow by ensuring people receive only the emails they need for work rather than being inundated with hundreds or thousands of unnecessary emails daily."
"As a cloud-based product, it can scale well."
"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."
"Most valuable is the SSO integration with our AD, so the users can employ our federation service to log in."
"We find the cost to be prohibitive."
"The solution's server console and cluster dashboard have been the same for four years so need to be upgraded."
"The email DLP portion could be a bit easier."
"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 Secure Mail aspect should have an Outlook add-in, instead of an external dashboard that outside users have to access."
"Proofpoint Email Protection's interface is confusing and could be improved."
"The stability and UI are the two areas of the solution with certain shortcomings that need improvement."
"The price could be improved."
"We would like to create reports for local IT leaders in a different way, more suitable for upper management."
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Proofpoint Email Protection is ranked 2nd in Security Awareness Training with 46 reviews while Wombat Security Education Platform is ranked 8th in Security Awareness Training. Proofpoint Email Protection is rated 8.4, while Wombat Security Education Platform is rated 8.0. 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 Wombat Security Education Platform writes "Improves employees' security awareness, integrates with AD, and user synchronization works well". 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 Wombat Security Education Platform is most compared with SAP SuccessFactors Learning and KnowBe4.
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