We performed a comparison between Check Point Infinity and Proofpoint Email Protection based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Palo Alto Networks, ESET and others in Advanced Threat Protection (ATP)."The solution is very stable. I would estimate it's 99.9% stable, if not more."
"A notable aspect that I appreciate is their ongoing effort to redesign the portal, giving it a fresh and centralized appearance."
"It is one of the best brands and products in terms of centralization."
"It has come to reinforce the security architecture of the organization since it covers all the necessary pieces of security."
"For me, one of the best features of Check Point Infinity is to be able to have the possibility of emulating the activity of attached files with malicious content in such a short time."
"We can add our environments and can configure and manage them easily which is why administrators are happy with this tool."
"Powerful cyber security functionalities track workflows to block all threats that may arise and affect the workflow chain."
"The product, a cloud-based unified security solution, facilitates the automation of security threat detection and vulnerability management across various endpoints, including mobile and IoT devices. A notable feature is the centralized administration, allowing monitoring of existing solutions from web and mobile devices in a unified interface."
"Proofpoint Email Protection is stable enough and does its job of virus, malware, and email scam detection. Setting it up is not too complicated."
"The most valuable features of Proofpoint Email Protection are ease of use, data loss prevention, antivirus, and spam protection."
"The initial implementation is pretty easy to handle."
"The most valuable features of Proofpoint Email Protection are the performance from being on the cloud."
"The solution is very user-friendly."
"It's very good at identifying threats."
"The solution's technical support is good. I rate the technical support a ten out of ten."
"Proofpoint Email Protection is the best solution from the perspective of email security."
"One of the main improvements that can be made is the latency in the portal."
"In the future, I would like to see new developments that allow us to centralize the cloud."
"There is an issue with high agent size, which impacts performance."
"They need to update the guides."
"We need improvement around the Smart-1 cloud solution."
"Check Point Infinity is not compatible with Windows 8."
"While Check Point Infinity is a robust and innovative solution, some areas could benefit from improvement. One area is the user-friendly integration of privacy-focused features."
"It seems that the performance varies, likely influenced by the client's size and the provisioning of resources."
"The incident reporting on offer needs to be improved. It's lacking right now. It should be on the platform somewhere."
"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 false positives are an issue."
"Integration for reporting needs to be improved, it's too complex."
"It's scalable, but the devil's in the details — you have to know your email volumes."
"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."
"The high cost of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The solution could lower its price."
Check Point Infinity is ranked 14th in Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) with 22 reviews while Proofpoint Email Protection is ranked 1st in Secure Email Gateway (SEG) with 44 reviews. Check Point Infinity is rated 8.6, while Proofpoint Email Protection is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Check Point Infinity writes "Provides robust cybersecurity with a comprehensive suite of features, expert support, and scalable cloud-based architecture, ensuring effective threat detection and continuous 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". Check Point Infinity is most compared with Cisco Secure Network Analytics, CyberArk Privileged Access Manager, Skybox Security Suite and Microsoft Defender for Office 365, 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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