We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiMail Cloud and Proofpoint Email Protection based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Secure Email Gateway (SEG) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The deployment is simple."
"This solution is easy to install. The deployment takes about forty-five minutes."
"This is a solid email monitoring and security system that learns and maintains a two-way dialog with email system administrators."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the ability to check to see if the email is real."
"The implementation was very professional. There are a lot of features I can get through Fortinet and FortiMail, such as security. FortiGuard is the most reliable and professional mitigation center to handle incidents and risk that I have to face."
"FortiMail Cloud is very fast."
"I am impressed with the tool's ability to setup rules and destinations. It also helps to monitor suspicious items."
"The encryption features are most valuable to us."
"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 is the option to edit the inbound security."
"The stability is very good."
"The spam filter for email is good."
"It's very good at identifying threats."
"The initial implementation is pretty easy to handle."
"The setup was easy."
"As a cloud-based product, it can scale well."
"I can't see the feedback to the FortiMail gateway."
"They could look at strengthening anti-spam with the newly observed domains."
"I would like to see more advanced sandbox features, where you can actually download to a machine where you can test."
"The URL filtering and handling should be enhanced because it doesn't support all languages. I believe that this would be easy to enhance in the future."
"Its GUI needs improvement."
"The product could be improved by extending reporting tools and adding options for notification."
"The dashboard could use improvement."
"Networking should be simplified."
"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 stability and UI are the two areas of the solution with certain shortcomings that need improvement."
"The solution's server console and cluster dashboard have been the same for four years so need to be upgraded."
"The reporting section could be enhanced. I like some reports but if they could allow us to create custom reports with more flexibility it would enhance the reports more."
"Sometimes it detects false positives."
"Proofpoint has a lot of false alarms."
"Proofpoint Email Protection could improve by reducing the price."
"Proofpoint Email Protection is an expensive solution."
Fortinet FortiMail Cloud is ranked 8th in Secure Email Gateway (SEG) with 18 reviews while Proofpoint Email Protection is ranked 1st in Secure Email Gateway (SEG) with 44 reviews. Fortinet FortiMail Cloud is rated 8.2, while Proofpoint Email Protection is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiMail Cloud writes "A reliable email security solution with deep integration capabilities and exceptionally strong support". 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". Fortinet FortiMail Cloud is most compared with Fortinet FortiMail, Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration, Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP) and SendGrid, 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. See our Fortinet FortiMail Cloud vs. Proofpoint Email Protection report.
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