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 archive feature is valuable."
"There is no downtime."
"They have customized security rules, mature rules, anti-virus protection, as well as email authentication similar to SPF, DKIM, and DMARC."
"URL scanning and online relay service are the most valuable features of Proofpoint Email Protection."
"Proofpoint Email Protection is stable enough and does its job of virus, malware, and email scam detection. Setting it up is not too complicated."
"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 quite well."
"The setup was easy."
"The most valuable feature of Symantec Web Isolation is the user-friendliness of the solution."
"Sometimes it detects false positives."
"Proofpoint Email Protection's interface is confusing and could be improved."
"Proofpoint Email Protection could improve by reducing the price."
"You only receive one model in Proofpoint Email Protection and the other ones you have to purchase at a high price. There should be more available with the solution and additional models should be less expensive."
"The false positives are an issue."
"The Secure Mail aspect should have an Outlook add-in, instead of an external dashboard that outside users have to access."
"The email DLP portion could be a bit easier."
"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."
"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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