We performed a comparison between Check Point Infinity and Proofpoint Email Protection based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Palo Alto Networks, Fortinet and others in Advanced Threat Protection (ATP)."The Check Point Infinity security architecture enables organizations to fully implement all of the Zero Trust Principles."
"The most valuable features of the solution stem from factors like ease of use, visibility, and cost to the enterprise."
"It is a scalable product."
"I would rate the stability a ten out of ten. Stability is always important. I haven't faced any issues with the Infinity Portal in the last six or seven years."
"Powerful cyber security functionalities track workflows to block all threats that may arise and affect the workflow chain."
"The tool's most valuable feature for threat prevention is the encryption alarm. I find the centralized management console, including the log analyzer and reports in Check Point Infinity, extremely beneficial for enhancing security and operations efficiency in our enterprise. I would rate it a perfect ten out of ten, as it effectively helps us analyze logs, and detect potential attacks."
"We have full control over what our employees can do with the devices we provide them, to provide a secure and reliable network infrastructure."
"Check Point Infinity's threat prevention capabilities benefitted our organization."
"Its anti-phishing functionality is the most valuable. Certainly, the biggest problem I have is phishing."
"It's a mature product. It does a good job in detection."
"The solution offers very good flexibility. You can blacklist or whitelist with ease."
"The anti-spam features are excellent on the email firewalls."
"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 most valuable feature is the ability to remove bad messages that were delivered, prior to being classified as unwanted."
"The most valuable feature of Proofpoint Email Protection is the central location dashboard for viewing all the related information for risk."
"The most valuable features are the business email compromise protection and targeted attack prevention."
"Technical support is something that needs improvement."
"They need to update the guides."
"The updates could be less frequent."
"We'd like to see support for fiber connections."
"The licensing model for Check Point Infinity is not clear."
"Technical support is pretty delayed."
"I think that the pricing for the Check Point products should be reconsidered, as we found it to be quite expensive to purchase and to maintain."
"The cost of maintaining and purchasing the security components is high."
"It's scalable, but the devil's in the details — you have to know your email volumes."
"The accessibility of Proofpoint Email Protection, particularly access to product trials, could be improved. It's hard to get a trial for Proofpoint Email Protection, and many customers prefer not just to do the POC or demo but try the product out."
"You only receive one model in Proofpoint Email Protection and the other ones you have to purchase at a high price. There should be more available with the solution and additional models should be less expensive."
"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 false positives are an issue."
"Proofpoint Email Protection could improve by allowing more customization of the reports, such as exceptions and black-and-white lists."
"The incident reporting on offer needs to be improved. It's lacking right now. It should be on the platform somewhere."
Check Point Infinity is ranked 14th in Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) with 26 reviews while Proofpoint Email Protection is ranked 1st in Secure Email Gateway (SEG) with 44 reviews. Check Point Infinity is rated 8.8, while Proofpoint Email Protection is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Check Point Infinity writes "Provides robust cybersecurity with a comprehensive suite of features, expert support, and scalable cloud-based architecture, ensuring effective threat detection and continuous 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". Check Point Infinity is most compared with CyberArk Privileged Access Manager, Cisco Secure Network Analytics, Skybox Security Suite and Microsoft Defender for Office 365, 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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