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."As a cloud-based product, it can scale well."
"The solution has very strong detection for most of the phishing and malicious emails received from the outside."
"The most valuable feature of Proofpoint Email Protection is the central location dashboard for viewing all the related information for risk."
"The most valuable feature of Proofpoint Email Protection is the TAP Dashboard. It provides more detailed information that can be used for forensic analysis. This is an advantage that other email security providers, such as Cisco, IronPort, or Microsoft do not offer in their dashboards."
"The solution's technical support is good. I rate the technical support a ten out of ten."
"The Phish Alarm button allows users to submit questionable emails for review and complete analysis."
"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."
"It's detection of true positives are great, as it's cloud based it's very scalable and stable."
"Most valuable is the SSO integration with our AD, so the users can employ our federation service to log in."
"There is room for improvement in detecting and preventing phishing attacks. While the solution performs well in some aspects, it struggles with phishing threats."
"Pricing for the platform could still be cheaper."
"The initial setup is complex."
"Proofpoint should have better integration with complex environments that need more than one instance of Proofpoint, as there are issues with nested instances."
"Proofpoint Email Protection's interface is confusing and could be improved."
"I would want better spear phishing protection in the essentials package."
"Proofpoint Email Protection could improve by allowing more customization of the reports, such as exceptions and black-and-white lists."
"The Secure Mail aspect should have an Outlook add-in, instead of an external dashboard that outside users have to access."
"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 44 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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