We performed a comparison between KnowBe4 and Proofpoint Email Protection based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about KnowBe4, Proofpoint, Sophos and others in Security Awareness Training."There are many valuable features. It's already deployed in the cloud, and you don't have to install anything. You just upload your users to the cloud and tweak something if needed. You can whitelist some servers to work with this properly. When everything is ready, you can start using the platform and its many automated features."
"The main thing is the overall report card. We get to tell the percentages of users who click on links and who don't click on links. We also get an overall score or risk score from them, which also helps us."
"Their customizable nature allows us to create scenarios that closely resemble real-world phishing attempts, making them highly relatable to our end users."
"The solution offers very good flexibility. You can blacklist or whitelist with ease."
"Proofpoint Email Protection offers an additional layer of protection compared to other brands like Microsoft, Mimecast, and Barracuda. While these major companies excel at detecting malicious attachments, the solution goes further by analyzing the context of emails, allowing for more nuanced decision-making."
"Proofpoint Email Protection is the best solution from the perspective of email security."
"The archive feature is valuable."
"The solution scales quite well."
"The spam filter for email is good."
"The most valuable feature of Proofpoint Email Protection is the blocking capabilities, it blocks a lot of potential threats."
"It is a very scalable solution."
"It can be more interactive with users. We want to put the users in different scenarios and let them make decisions. For example, instead of making users go through a video and then asking questions, it can have a video where they click on the scenarios and have to make decisions. It can maybe have something like a live simulation. It would be nice for users."
"Enhancing the product's emotional intelligence, particularly by providing training content tailored to specific audiences, is an area for improvement."
"It could be more localized for Ukrainian users. This platform is international, and it has a lot of material in different languages, but not in Ukrainian and Russian languages. There's plenty of different content updated regularly for English, French, and German users. They have a lot more information, and Ukrainian users also want more."
"The email DLP portion could be a bit easier."
"Integration and filtering out who you want and don't want to have integrated ID could be improved."
"Proofpoint has a lot of false alarms."
"Proofpoint Email Protection has a new approach to email security with its API feature. Currently, it only works with Office 365. In the future, it would be beneficial if it also works with Gmail, as Check Point is currently the only brand that has API email security for Gmail. It would be beneficial if Proofpoint Email Protection could add this integration, they would be more competitive with other vendors."
"The price could be improved."
"The solution should add post-sales training."
"The solution could lower its price."
"Sometimes it detects false positives."
KnowBe4 is ranked 1st in Security Awareness Training with 3 reviews while Proofpoint Email Protection is ranked 2nd in Security Awareness Training with 44 reviews. KnowBe4 is rated 9.0, while Proofpoint Email Protection is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of KnowBe4 writes "Provides an ease of customization and robust reporting capabilities ". 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". KnowBe4 is most compared with Terranova Security, Barracuda PhishLine, Arctic Wolf Managed Security Awareness, Sophos Phish Threat and Kaspersky Security Awareness, 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 Barracuda Email Security Gateway.
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