We performed a comparison between NetWitness Platform and Proofpoint Email Protection based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Splunk, Datadog, Wazuh and others in Log Management."NetWitness Platform is valuable for creating rules that the solution must detect."
"What we are mainly using are the RSA concentrator, RSA Decoder, Archiver, Broker, and Log Decoder."
"The solution is really scalable for the high-end power, enterprise customer."
"Their technical support responds quickly and are knowledgable."
"The software is scalable to whatever is required, and you can also put a lot of resources in the cloud."
"The most valuable features are the integration and ease of use."
"The most valuable feature of RSA NetWitness Logs and Packets are the alerts and correlations tools."
"The product's initial setup phase was not at all difficult."
"The stability is very good."
"The solution is very user-friendly."
"It's detection of true positives are great, as it's cloud based it's very scalable and stable."
"As a cloud-based product, it can scale well."
"URL scanning and online relay service are the most valuable features of Proofpoint Email Protection."
"Proofpoint is the main tool for blocking spam because it denies the connection altogether."
"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 blocking capabilities, it blocks a lot of potential threats."
"We have encountered issues with unresolved crashes."
"The multi-tenant capabilities are lagging compared to IBM QRadar."
"There are instances where you try to run the reports and then it does not give you the desired outcome."
"The documentation is not as structured as I would like, personally, and I think that it can be improved and made much more user-friendly."
"The solution should have more integration capabilities with different platforms."
"There is no support for this product in this country, so problems have to be resolved through global technical teams."
"Sometimes, it gives me static when integrating Windows-based systems. It should produce a precise log of sorts as to where the problem is. For example, a few days ago because of the McAfee application firewall, I couldn't get access to the particular Windows machine. So, my team and I had to figure out by ourselves that there was a virus responsible for the obstacle. This solution should trigger a meaningful log or message indicating the reason the user or implementer can't get into the machine."
"The tool's integration capability isn't so great."
"Pricing for the platform could still be cheaper."
"Proofpoint Email Protection's interface is confusing and could be improved."
"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 price could be improved."
"I would want better spear phishing protection in the essentials package."
"The solution should add post-sales training."
"Proofpoint Email Protection could improve the Mail Trace feature and make navigation easier."
"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."
NetWitness Platform is ranked 20th in Log Management with 36 reviews while Proofpoint Email Protection is ranked 1st in Secure Email Gateway (SEG) with 44 reviews. NetWitness Platform is rated 7.4, while Proofpoint Email Protection is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of NetWitness Platform writes "Can find out if there is lateral movement, but integration and workflow need 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". NetWitness Platform is most compared with Splunk Enterprise Security, RSA enVision, IBM Security QRadar, Microsoft Sentinel and Cisco Secure Network Analytics, 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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