We performed a comparison between Clearswift SECURE Email Gateway and Proofpoint Email Protection based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Cisco, TitanHQ and others in Email Security."The benefit that stands out to me is the ability for multiple individuals to collaborate simultaneously within the same document. Additionally, there is the option to save the document directly in the integrated OneDrive or SharePoint."
"I like its investigation capabilities, as that is what is most important to me. It is fairly simple with a user-friendly interface."
"Defender for 365 is a comprehensive cloud-based solution. The value of the cloud is that you aren't alone. Threat intelligence and analytics are shared in the cloud. We don't have to find the solution alone. If you face an unknown threat with traditional solutions like Trend Micro and Symantec, you need to open a case and send your information to them to analyze forensically and identify the source of the attack."
"Defender helps us prioritize threats across our organization."
"The initial setup was easy."
"Microsoft Defender for Office 365 has improved my organization's security. It makes it easier to manage the infrastructure without the help of third-party applications."
"Safe attachments, safe links, policies, and the ability to protect from zero-day threats are the most valuable features."
"I would say that 90% of the spam and phishing attack emails get blocked right off the bat."
"A stable solution."
"Ability to create your own content-filtering policies with relative ease."
"It's detection of true positives are great, as it's cloud based it's very scalable and stable."
"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."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to remove bad messages that were delivered, prior to being classified as unwanted."
"The solution is very user-friendly."
"The solution's technical support is good. I rate the technical support a ten out of ten."
"The most valuable features of Proofpoint Email Protection are the performance from being on the cloud."
"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."
"There's room for improvement regarding the time frame for retrieving emails."
"We are always looking for others tools to increase automation on tasks. There can be better integration with other solutions, such as PowerPoint and email."
"The visibility for the weaknesses in the system and unauthorized access can be improved."
"One area for improvement is integration. For example, when it comes to external SaaS platforms, we were not able to get a lot of information on integrations with such apps for security and authentication."
"Several simulation options are available within 365, and the phishing simulation could be better."
"You should be able to deploy Defender for every subscription without the need to add servers."
"Microsoft sometimes has downtime, and we'll get several incidents coming in back to back. We have a huge backlog of notifications, many of which may be false positives. However, there might be serious alerts, so we can't risk dismissing all of them at once."
"We need a separate license and we don't know how to get the license that is required."
"Malware needs improvement."
"FTP server and TRUST Manager functionality."
"Integration and filtering out who you want and don't want to have integrated ID could be improved."
"The scalability can be improved, and the solution can be optimized."
"The solution could be improved with the addition of PLP and email encryption features."
"The initial setup is complex."
"The high cost of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"Sometimes it detects false positives."
"The largest complaint that we hear from our customers is that there is no local support."
"We find the cost to be prohibitive."
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Clearswift SECURE Email Gateway is ranked 38th in Email Security while Proofpoint Email Protection is ranked 1st in Secure Email Gateway (SEG) with 44 reviews. Clearswift SECURE Email Gateway is rated 8.6, while Proofpoint Email Protection is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Clearswift SECURE Email Gateway writes "Facilitates creation of your own content-filtering policies with relative ease". 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". Clearswift SECURE Email Gateway is most compared with Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP), Mimecast Email Security, Cisco Secure Email, Fortinet FortiMail and Barracuda Email Security Gateway, whereas Proofpoint Email Protection is most compared with Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP), Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Cisco Secure Email, Fortinet FortiMail and KnowBe4.
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