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 solution's technical support is good. I rate the technical support a ten out of ten."
"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."
"The initial implementation is pretty easy to handle."
"The anti-spam features are excellent on the email firewalls."
"The most valuable feature is the option to edit the inbound security."
"URL scanning and online relay service are the most valuable features of Proofpoint Email Protection."
"The solution is very user-friendly."
"They have customized security rules, mature rules, anti-virus protection, as well as email authentication similar to SPF, DKIM, and DMARC."
"The most valuable feature of Symantec Web Isolation is the user-friendliness of the solution."
"Some use cases haven't been dealt with yet."
"The scalability can be improved, and the solution can be optimized."
"Proofpoint Email Protection has a new approach to email security with its API feature. Currently, it only works with Office 365. In the future, it would be beneficial if it also works with Gmail, as Check Point is currently the only brand that has API email security for Gmail. It would be beneficial if Proofpoint Email Protection could add this integration, they would be more competitive with other vendors."
"It's scalable, but the devil's in the details — you have to know your email volumes."
"The product's deployment is complex and requires technical knowledge."
"The email DLP portion could be a bit easier."
"I want Security Awareness Training in there as a package deal. A lot of companies are starting to value email security a little bit more and take it a little bit more seriously, and the great product that we link together with a lot of these sales is a training product called Security Awareness Training. It is an upsell that we do with Proofpoint, and it is definitely something that I recommend everybody with email security to look into. It would be great if Security Awareness Training is included with the email security."
"The flexibility of the solution can be improved."
"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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