We performed a comparison between Proofpoint Email Protection and Sophos Email Appliance [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Proofpoint, Barracuda Networks, Mimecast and others in SEG (Secure Email Gateway)."As a cloud-based product, it can scale well."
"It's a mature product. It does a good job in detection."
"Its anti-phishing functionality is the most valuable. Certainly, the biggest problem I have is phishing."
"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 feature of Proofpoint Email Protection is the blocking capabilities, it blocks a lot of potential threats."
"The spam filter for email is good."
"The most valuable feature of Proofpoint Email Protection is the central location dashboard for viewing all the related information for risk."
"The solution blocks malicious emails containing viruses and malware and reduces them out of spam."
"The filtering aspect is the solution's most valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature is the URL relay protection because it protects users from phishing attacks."
"The ease of use and the security offered by the solution are its most valuable features. It also offers good information protection."
"This is a stable, scalable product that provides a reliable email protection layer."
"Email encryption, because it fulfills our business needs."
"The interface makes it really easy to administer and configure."
"The solution is very easy to use, especially the cloud version which is very, very simple. There are some good templates already built-in, so we can just select the template, and you will get all the necessary functionality. The only one thing you have to do is point all your traffic in the cloud."
"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."
"Proofpoint Email Protection could improve the Mail Trace feature and make navigation easier."
"The solution should add post-sales training."
"The solution's server console and cluster dashboard have been the same for four years so need to be upgraded."
"Proofpoint has a lot of false alarms."
"Proofpoint Email Protection is an expensive solution."
"Proofpoint Email Protection could improve by reducing the price."
"The incident reporting on offer needs to be improved. It's lacking right now. It should be on the platform somewhere."
"In the advanced version, you have DLP, Data Loss Prevention, but when you buy the standard version, you don't have it."
"Reporting could have more options for users to customize desired results."
"There aren't enough advanced settings. They should offer more advanced options."
"More things need to be integrated into this device, like DLP, so we can have a complete solution in one box."
"There are a few issues with integration that need to be addressed; this would help make deployment easier for new users."
"In the next release of this solution, I would like to see more user awareness, such as information about phishing email attacks that have been prevented."
"The reporting functionality is in major need of improvement."
Earn 20 points
Proofpoint Email Protection is ranked 1st in SEG (Secure Email Gateway) with 44 reviews while Sophos Email Appliance [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in SEG (Secure Email Gateway). Proofpoint Email Protection is rated 8.4, while Sophos Email Appliance [EOL] is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Proofpoint Email Protection writes "A reasonably priced product that offers protection to emails, along with spam filters". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos Email Appliance [EOL] writes "An easy to use solution with reasonable pricing and good stability". 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, whereas Sophos Email Appliance [EOL] is most compared with .
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