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, IRONSCALES and others in Secure Email Gateway (SEG)."URL scanning and online relay service are the most valuable features of Proofpoint Email Protection."
"There is no downtime."
"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 solution has very strong detection for most of the phishing and malicious emails received from the outside."
"Proofpoint Email Protection's initial installation is straightforward. It took us less than a day to complete the implementation."
"The most valuable feature of Proofpoint Email Protection is the central location dashboard for viewing all the related information for risk."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to remove bad messages that were delivered, prior to being classified as unwanted."
"They have customized security rules, mature rules, anti-virus protection, as well as email authentication similar to SPF, DKIM, and DMARC."
"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."
"The interface makes it really easy to administer and configure."
"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."
"This is a stable, scalable product that provides a reliable email protection layer."
"Email encryption, because it fulfills our business needs."
"The ease of use and the security offered by the solution are its most valuable features. It also offers good information protection."
"It has too many screens. It is kind of a conglomeration of products. In other words, they built product A, product B, and product C, and they are yet to integrate them into a single administrative console. I would certainly like to see a more seamless administrative interface. I would also like to see them include more bang for the buck, by including features like email fraud protection, rather than making their product so piecemeal, where you are buying little pieces. I agree with the idea of having multiple tiers or layers, but maybe as small, medium, and large, as opposed to an a la carte menu."
"Unfortunately, the whole product is going downhill right now, ever since they were sold to Thoma Bravo. We're constantly having problems with stability and the product in general."
"We'd like to have the ability to create more customized reports."
"Proofpoint has a lot of false alarms."
"The email DLP portion could be a bit easier."
"Proofpoint Email Protection could improve on the training. Every organization is different and to fine-tune it to block everything properly there needs to be better training. Sometimes it can block some of the information it shouldn't."
"The solution could be improved with the addition of PLP and email encryption features."
"The high cost of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"More things need to be integrated into this device, like DLP, so we can have a complete solution in one box."
"The reporting functionality is in major need of improvement."
"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."
"There aren't enough advanced settings. They should offer more advanced options."
"There are a few issues with integration that need to be addressed; this would help make deployment easier for new users."
"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."
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Proofpoint Email Protection is ranked 1st in Secure Email Gateway (SEG) with 44 reviews while Sophos Email Appliance [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Secure Email Gateway (SEG). 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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