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)."It is a scalable product."
"A notable aspect that I appreciate is their ongoing effort to redesign the portal, giving it a fresh and centralized appearance."
"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."
"Infinity has come to give us total protection."
"The solution is very stable. I would estimate it's 99.9% stable, if not more."
"We have full control over what our employees can do with the devices we provide them, to provide a secure and reliable network infrastructure."
"We can add our environments and can configure and manage them easily which is why administrators are happy with this tool."
"The tool's most valuable feature for threat prevention is the encryption alarm. I find the centralized management console, including the log analyzer and reports in Check Point Infinity, extremely beneficial for enhancing security and operations efficiency in our enterprise. I would rate it a perfect ten out of ten, as it effectively helps us analyze logs, and detect potential attacks."
"It's a mature product. It does a good job in detection."
"I like all the features with Proofpoint, such as how it filters the spam and marketing mail, lost reality mail, blocks phishing attacks, blocks malicious attachments, and stops phishing links. Also it can defend against the business email compromise impersonation technique. It is a complete solution for all email attacks. It filters for the bad, malicious attachments. If there is any executable file, it can be deleted. It is a good, complete solution."
"As a cloud-based product, it can scale well."
"Proofpoint Email Protection is stable enough and does its job of virus, malware, and email scam detection. Setting it up is not too complicated."
"Proofpoint Email Protection is a good product, and its most beneficial feature is the Threat Response Auto-Pull. I also like that it's an integrated email security solution."
"The initial implementation is pretty easy to handle."
"It is a very scalable solution."
"It's very good at identifying threats."
"The cost of maintaining and purchasing the security components is high."
"They need to update the guides."
"The tool's technical support lags."
"I think that the pricing for the Check Point products should be reconsidered, as we found it to be quite expensive to purchase and to maintain."
"We need improvement around the Smart-1 cloud solution."
"We'd like to see support for fiber connections."
"Check Point Infinity's web application is sometimes a little slow."
"One of the main improvements that can be made is the latency in the portal."
"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."
"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."
"The incident reporting on offer needs to be improved. It's lacking right now. It should be on the platform somewhere."
"They do not have an on-demand scan for the internal viruses and internal users, and they don't have a scan for the exchange server against viruses and spam as Symantec does."
"The false positives are an issue."
"Proofpoint Email Protection is an expensive solution."
"Integration and filtering out who you want and don't want to have integrated ID could be improved."
"The price could be improved."
Check Point Infinity is ranked 14th in Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) with 23 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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