We performed a comparison between Palo Alto Networks WildFire and Proofpoint Email Protection based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Proofpoint has an edge over WildFire in this comparison. Compared with WildFire, it is easier to set up and has a proven ROI.
"It is a stable solution...It is a scalable solution."
"It catches modified signatures of known viruses."
"The solution is completely integrated with all the other Palo Alto products. I think that it is the best part for endpoint protection. The firewall features include URL and DNS filtering, threat protection, and antivirus."
"Detailed reporting on analysis of content. The inspections are easily applied to security policy profiles and profile groups, and may be assigned on a per-rule basis."
"With this product, we receive the best monitoring and reports."
"The most valuable features of the solution are user-friendliness, price, good security, and cloud-related options."
"The most valuable features of this solution are sandbox capabilities."
"It has a user-friendly interface."
"Proofpoint Email Protection's initial installation is straightforward. It took us less than a day to complete the implementation."
"The most valuable features of Proofpoint Email Protection are ease of use, data loss prevention, antivirus, and spam protection."
"The most valuable feature is the option to edit the inbound security."
"The most valuable features of Proofpoint Email Protection are the performance from being on the cloud."
"The most valuable feature of Proofpoint Email Protection is the blocking capabilities, it blocks a lot of potential threats."
"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."
"As a cloud-based product, it can scale well."
"It was easy to set up."
"In the future, I would like to see more automation in the reporting."
"When comparing this solution to others it is not as good overall."
"Any enhancements should likely be focused on the firewall appliance to further strengthen overall security capabilities, such as refining app and user identity features."
"As a firewall and 360 degrees of security, there needs to be more maturity."
"The cost of the solution is excessively high."
"The support is good but they could be faster."
"The VPN and decryption need improvement."
"The technical support response needs improvement."
"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."
"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 could improve the Mail Trace feature and make navigation easier."
"The solution could be improved with the addition of PLP and email encryption features."
"Sometimes it detects false positives."
"Some use cases haven't been dealt with yet."
"The email DLP portion could be a bit easier."
"The product's deployment is complex and requires technical knowledge."
Palo Alto Networks WildFire is ranked 3rd in Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) with 58 reviews while Proofpoint Email Protection is ranked 1st in Secure Email Gateway (SEG) with 44 reviews. Palo Alto Networks WildFire is rated 8.4, while Proofpoint Email Protection is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Palo Alto Networks WildFire writes "Good technical support and provides automatic analysis that saves us time in filtering email". 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". Palo Alto Networks WildFire is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGate, Juniper SRX Series Firewall, Fortinet FortiSandbox and Check Point SandBlast Network, whereas Proofpoint Email Protection is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP), Cisco Secure Email, Fortinet FortiMail and KnowBe4.
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