We performed a comparison between NetWitness Platform and Proofpoint Email Protection based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Splunk, Wazuh, Datadog and others in Log Management."It's fully scalable. There is no limit. Of course, the license limits per day the number of terabytes. In my opinion, it's very flexible."
"It gives the capability for the incident response team to correlate logs to identify any kind of problem like malware and incidents in a general sense, both for logs and packets."
"Alerting Module: It provides real-time event processing language on all the logs/packets stream for advanced alerting, i.e., using SQL LIKE statements."
"The most valuable features are its ingestion of logs and raising of alerts based on those logs."
"The software is scalable to whatever is required, and you can also put a lot of resources in the cloud."
"Their technical support responds quickly and are knowledgable."
"What we are mainly using are the RSA concentrator, RSA Decoder, Archiver, Broker, and Log Decoder."
"The most valuable feature is the correlation. It can report in real-time and monitor the management."
"It's very good at identifying threats."
"As a cloud-based product, it can scale well."
"The spam filter for email is good."
"The most valuable feature is the option to edit the inbound security."
"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 most valuable features of Proofpoint Email Protection are the performance from being on the cloud."
"The solution has very strong detection for most of the phishing and malicious emails received from the outside."
"The solution blocks malicious emails containing viruses and malware and reduces them out of spam."
"The initial setup is complex. There are other solutions that are easier to implement."
"The tool's integration capability isn't so great."
"The documentation is not as structured as I would like, personally, and I think that it can be improved and made much more user-friendly."
"If we have the ability to run a dynamic analysis through malware in the same suite, it would be great to have a sandbox solution to analyze malware through dynamic analysis."
"The initial setup was complex because it takes a lot of time to complete the implementation."
"It is not so easy to customize this product."
"The initial setup is very complex and should be simplified."
"The system architecture is complex and sometimes it’s hard to troubleshoot potential problems."
"The largest complaint that we hear from our customers is that there is no local support."
"The price could be improved."
"There is room for improvement in detecting and preventing phishing attacks. While the solution performs well in some aspects, it struggles with phishing threats."
"The accessibility of Proofpoint Email Protection, particularly access to product trials, could be improved. It's hard to get a trial for Proofpoint Email Protection, and many customers prefer not just to do the POC or demo but try the product out."
"Integration for reporting needs to be improved, it's too complex."
"Proofpoint has a lot of false alarms."
"The solution's server console and cluster dashboard have been the same for four years so need to be upgraded."
"The product's deployment is complex and requires technical knowledge."
NetWitness Platform is ranked 18th in Log Management with 36 reviews while Proofpoint Email Protection is ranked 1st in Secure Email Gateway (SEG) with 46 reviews. NetWitness Platform is rated 7.4, while Proofpoint Email Protection is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of NetWitness Platform writes "Can find out if there is lateral movement, but integration and workflow need improvement". 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". NetWitness Platform is most compared with Splunk Enterprise Security, RSA enVision, IBM Security QRadar, Cisco Secure Network Analytics and Microsoft Sentinel, 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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