We performed a comparison between Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance and Proofpoint Email Protection based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about RSA, AuditBoard, Trend Micro and others in GRC."Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance helps with extra collaboration and ensures communication is within the framework."
"It's a mature product. It does a good job in detection."
"Proofpoint Email Protection is a good product, and its most beneficial feature is the Threat Response Auto-Pull. I also like that it's an integrated email security solution."
"The solution has very strong detection for most of the phishing and malicious emails received from the outside."
"Proofpoint is the main tool for blocking spam because it denies the connection altogether."
"The solution offers very good flexibility. You can blacklist or whitelist with ease."
"Its main defense is to stop malicious emails from coming through. There is a sandbox environment where you can open malicious or suspicious emails to make sure that they're not malicious, instead of taking the risk of having your employees do it. This is definitely something that everybody needs nowadays, especially with the rise in cyber attacks."
"Proofpoint Email Protection is the best solution from the perspective of email security."
"Proofpoint Email Protection's initial installation is straightforward. It took us less than a day to complete the implementation."
"The product should incorporate more automation with the help of AI."
"The false positives are an issue."
"Integration for reporting needs to be improved, it's too complex."
"Some use cases haven't been dealt with yet."
"Proofpoint Email Protection could improve by allowing more customization of the reports, such as exceptions and black-and-white lists."
"Proofpoint should have better integration with complex environments that need more than one instance of Proofpoint, as there are issues with nested instances."
"We'd like to have the ability to create more customized reports."
"The product's deployment is complex and requires technical knowledge."
"Proofpoint Email Protection's interface is confusing and could be improved."
Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance is ranked 13th in GRC with 1 review while Proofpoint Email Protection is ranked 1st in Secure Email Gateway (SEG) with 44 reviews. Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance is rated 9.0, while Proofpoint Email Protection is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance writes "Helps with extra collaboration and ensures communication is within the framework". 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". Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance is most compared with RSA Archer, Barracuda Email Protection, Mine PrivacyOps and Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention, 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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