We performed a comparison between Proofpoint Email Protection and Symantec Web Isolation based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Proofpoint, Barracuda Networks, IRONSCALES and others in Secure Email Gateway (SEG)."The setup was easy."
"Proofpoint is the main tool for blocking spam because it denies the connection altogether."
"The most valuable features of Proofpoint Email Protection are the performance from being on the cloud."
"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 dashboards and their visibility, easy configuration, and artificial intelligence. Additionally, the reports are very important and helpful."
"Proofpoint Email Protection's advantage is that, when it's working properly, it tends to catch more threats as compared to other products."
"The most valuable feature is the option to edit the inbound security."
"The initial implementation is pretty easy to handle."
"The most valuable feature of Symantec Web Isolation is the user-friendliness of the solution."
"Proofpoint should have better integration with complex environments that need more than one instance of Proofpoint, as there are issues with nested instances."
"We'd like to have the ability to create more customized reports."
"The flexibility of the solution can be improved."
"I would want better spear phishing protection in the essentials package."
"The product's deployment is complex and requires technical knowledge."
"Proofpoint Email Protection's interface is confusing and could be improved."
"Pricing for the platform could still be cheaper."
"Proofpoint Email Protection could improve the Mail Trace feature and make navigation easier."
"Symantec Web Isolation could improve by reducing licensing costs."
Proofpoint Email Protection is ranked 1st in Secure Email Gateway (SEG) with 44 reviews while Symantec Web Isolation is ranked 23rd in Anti-Malware Tools with 1 review. Proofpoint Email Protection is rated 8.4, while Symantec Web Isolation is rated 9.0. 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 Symantec Web Isolation writes "User-friendly, reliable, and good support". 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 Symantec Web Isolation is most compared with Menlo Security Secure Web Gateway.
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