We performed a comparison between Palo Alto Networks WildFire and Proofpoint Email Protection based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Proofpoint has an edge over WildFire in this comparison. Compared with WildFire, it is easier to set up and has a proven ROI.
"Whole team can use the firewall and understand it."
"I love the idea of Palo Alto Networks WildFire. It's more geared toward preventing malware. If someone's laptop or phone is malware-infected, the tool prevents it from uploading valuable corporate data outside the corporate network. That's what I love about Palo Alto Networks WildFire. It stops malware in its tracks."
"It helps us when segmenting and securing the network and all sort of technologies, all sort of next generation needs. It's next generation phases of firewall like anti-virus, sandboxing, wifi, and VPN."
"The backup is the best feature."
"It catches modified signatures of known viruses."
"WildFire's application encryption is useful."
"We have found that Palo Alto Networks WildFire is scalable. We currently have six thousand users for the product."
"The solution is completely integrated with all the other Palo Alto products. I think that it is the best part for endpoint protection. The firewall features include URL and DNS filtering, threat protection, and antivirus."
"Proofpoint Email Protection is the best solution from the perspective of email security."
"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 Phish Alarm button allows users to submit questionable emails for review and complete analysis."
"The most valuable features of Proofpoint Email Protection are the performance from being on the cloud."
"The solution blocks malicious emails containing viruses and malware and reduces them out of spam."
"Proofpoint Email Protection is stable enough and does its job of virus, malware, and email scam detection. Setting it up is not too complicated."
"The solution scales quite well."
"There is no downtime."
"The support is good but they could be faster."
"The configuration should be made a little bit easier. I understand why it is as it is, but there should be a way to make it easier from the user side."
"The size of Palo Alto's cloud is big but it could be easier to use from a product management perspective."
"In the future, Palo Alto could reduce the time it takes to process the file."
"The VPN and decryption need improvement."
"There are more specialized solutions that compete with Wildfire. Therefore, they need to work on their machine learning and AI to be more competitive."
"They provide a medium level of technical support."
"I don't think it needs to improve anything, except maybe the speed to deploy the changes."
"The scalability can be improved, and the solution can be optimized."
"Pricing for the platform could still be cheaper."
"The largest complaint that we hear from our customers is that there is no local support."
"The solution could be improved with the addition of PLP and email encryption features."
"The solution could lower its price."
"The reporting section could be enhanced. I like some reports but if they could allow us to create custom reports with more flexibility it would enhance the reports more."
"The solution should add post-sales training."
"Sometimes it detects false positives."
Palo Alto Networks WildFire is ranked 3rd in Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) with 58 reviews while Proofpoint Email Protection is ranked 1st in Secure Email Gateway (SEG) with 44 reviews. Palo Alto Networks WildFire is rated 8.4, while Proofpoint Email Protection is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Palo Alto Networks WildFire writes "Good technical support and provides automatic analysis that saves us time in filtering email". 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". Palo Alto Networks WildFire is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGate, Juniper SRX Series Firewall, Fortinet FortiSandbox and Check Point SandBlast Network, whereas Proofpoint Email Protection is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP), Cisco Secure Email, Fortinet FortiMail and KnowBe4.
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