We performed a comparison between Proofpoint Email Protection and Symantec Web Isolation based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Proofpoint, Barracuda Networks, IRONSCALES and others in Secure Email Gateway (SEG)."The most valuable feature is the ability to remove bad messages that were delivered, prior to being classified as unwanted."
"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."
"They have customized security rules, mature rules, anti-virus protection, as well as email authentication similar to SPF, DKIM, and DMARC."
"The solution's technical support is good. I rate the technical support a ten out of ten."
"The most valuable feature of Proofpoint Email Protection is the blocking capabilities, it blocks a lot of potential threats."
"The stability is very good."
"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."
"The archive feature is valuable."
"The most valuable feature of Symantec Web Isolation is the user-friendliness of the solution."
"Proofpoint Email Protection could improve on the training. Every organization is different and to fine-tune it to block everything properly there needs to be better training. Sometimes it can block some of the information it shouldn't."
"Integration for reporting needs to be improved, it's too complex."
"The solution could be improved with the addition of PLP and email encryption features."
"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."
"Sometimes it detects false positives."
"The email DLP portion could be a bit easier."
"We find the cost to be prohibitive."
"Integration and filtering out who you want and don't want to have integrated ID could be improved."
"Symantec Web Isolation could improve by reducing licensing costs."
Proofpoint Email Protection is ranked 1st in Secure Email Gateway (SEG) with 46 reviews while Symantec Web Isolation is ranked 24th in Anti-Malware Tools with 1 review. Proofpoint Email Protection is rated 8.4, while Symantec Web Isolation is rated 9.0. 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 Symantec Web Isolation writes "User-friendly, reliable, and good support". 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 Symantec Web Isolation is most compared with Menlo Security Secure Web Gateway.
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