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."
"The solution blocks malicious emails containing viruses and malware and reduces them out of spam."
"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."
"It's very good at identifying threats."
"It's detection of true positives are great, as it's cloud based it's very scalable and stable."
"Proofpoint Email Protection's initial installation is straightforward. It took us less than a day to complete the implementation."
"The archive feature is valuable."
"They have customized security rules, mature rules, anti-virus protection, as well as email authentication similar to SPF, DKIM, and DMARC."
"A one-stop shop for email protection"
"The product should incorporate more automation with the help of AI."
"The false positives are an issue."
"The flexibility of the solution can be improved."
"The solution should add post-sales training."
"The solution could be improved with the addition of PLP and email encryption features."
"Some use cases haven't been dealt with yet."
"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."
"Proofpoint Email Protection could improve by allowing more customization of the reports, such as exceptions and black-and-white lists."
"We find the cost to be prohibitive."
Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance is ranked 14th in GRC with 1 review while Proofpoint Email Protection is ranked 1st in Secure Email Gateway (SEG) with 46 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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