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)."A one-stop shop for email protection"
"The most valuable features are the business email compromise protection and targeted attack prevention."
"Proofpoint Email Protection's initial installation is straightforward. It took us less than a day to complete the implementation."
"It's detection of true positives are great, as it's cloud based it's very scalable and stable."
"The stability is very good."
"I like all the features with Proofpoint, such as how it filters the spam and marketing mail, lost reality mail, blocks phishing attacks, blocks malicious attachments, and stops phishing links. Also it can defend against the business email compromise impersonation technique. It is a complete solution for all email attacks. It filters for the bad, malicious attachments. If there is any executable file, it can be deleted. It is a good, complete solution."
"The solution scales well."
"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."
"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."
"The interface makes it really easy to administer and configure."
"The filtering aspect is the solution's most valuable feature."
"This is a stable, scalable product that provides a reliable email protection layer."
"The most valuable feature is the URL relay protection because it protects users from phishing attacks."
"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 initial setup is complex."
"There is room for improvement in detecting and preventing phishing attacks. While the solution performs well in some aspects, it struggles with phishing threats."
"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 product's deployment is complex and requires technical knowledge."
"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."
"The largest complaint that we hear from our customers is that there is no local support."
"The stability and UI are the two areas of the solution with certain shortcomings that need improvement."
"Reporting could have more options for users to customize desired results."
"In the advanced version, you have DLP, Data Loss Prevention, but when you buy the standard version, you don't have it."
"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 are a few issues with integration that need to be addressed; this would help make deployment easier for new users."
"There aren't enough advanced settings. They should offer more advanced options."
Earn 20 points
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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