We performed a comparison between Proofpoint Email Protection and RiskIQ Illuminate 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)."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 setup was easy."
"The solution blocks malicious emails containing viruses and malware and reduces them out of spam."
"It's a mature product. It does a good job in detection."
"Proofpoint Email Protection is the best solution from the perspective of email security."
"The solution has very strong detection for most of the phishing and malicious emails received from the outside."
"Proofpoint Email Protection is a good product, and its most beneficial feature is the Threat Response Auto-Pull. I also like that it's an integrated email security solution."
"It's very good at identifying threats."
"The solution is stable with 12 years of established historical data."
"The false positives are an issue."
"Proofpoint should have better integration with complex environments that need more than one instance of Proofpoint, as there are issues with nested instances."
"Proofpoint Email Protection's interface is confusing and could be improved."
"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."
"Proofpoint Email Protection could improve by allowing more customization of the reports, such as exceptions and black-and-white lists."
"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."
"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."
"Integration for reporting needs to be improved, it's too complex."
"A low-cost service to evaluate the risk score of a supply chain would be very helpful."
Earn 20 points
Proofpoint Email Protection is ranked 1st in Secure Email Gateway (SEG) with 44 reviews while RiskIQ Illuminate is ranked 13th in Attack Surface Management (ASM). Proofpoint Email Protection is rated 8.4, while RiskIQ Illuminate is rated 0.0. 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 RiskIQ Illuminate writes "Able to discover unpatched servers, offers good stability, and scales very well". 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 RiskIQ Illuminate is most compared with Microsoft Defender External Attack Surface Management, Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Recorded Future and ZeroFOX.
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