We performed a comparison between Proofpoint Email Protection and Trend Micro ScanMail 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 solution blocks malicious emails containing viruses and malware and reduces them out of spam."
"Provides better control over emails, especially those sent via Office 365 on the cloud."
"As a cloud-based product, it can scale well."
"It's a mature product. It does a good job in detection."
"The most valuable features of Proofpoint Email Protection are ease of use, data loss prevention, antivirus, and spam protection."
"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 scales quite well."
"It's detection of true positives are great, as it's cloud based it's very scalable and stable."
"It does the job. Even when our clients have a very high rate of emails per second, there has been no problem."
"I like that Trend Micro ScanMail is very effective and quite strong."
"The analysis part is good."
"What I like the most about Trend Micro ScanMail is its easiness."
"Its integration with mail platforms is valuable."
"The largest complaint that we hear from our customers is that there is no local support."
"The solution should add post-sales training."
"The solution could lower its price."
"We'd like to have the ability to create more customized reports."
"The email DLP portion could be a bit easier."
"The scalability can be improved, and the solution can be optimized."
"I want Security Awareness Training in there as a package deal. A lot of companies are starting to value email security a little bit more and take it a little bit more seriously, and the great product that we link together with a lot of these sales is a training product called Security Awareness Training. It is an upsell that we do with Proofpoint, and it is definitely something that I recommend everybody with email security to look into. It would be great if Security Awareness Training is included with the email security."
"Proofpoint Email Protection's interface is confusing and could be improved."
"The weaknesses of Trend Micro ScanMail are that it doesn't fully protect ad-based web access and lacks proper security for Outlook, iOS, and web browser access."
"The sandboxing part can be improved."
"ScanMail was one of the best solutions a few years ago, but it is no longer the best solution because of its old-fashioned management console. Customers associate it with something that is old because there is no change in the management console. It has old icons, and it is not fresh enough. It is also not easy to use or play with. The report engine is also old-fashioned. Customers want something easier, quicker, and cleaner."
"Its user interface is pretty old-fashioned, and sometimes, it's hard to find the features that you are looking for. The user interface definitely needs some improvement."
"The price could be better. I think it's pretty good compared to other solutions as far as the features are concerned. It basically covers most of the stuff which we require for email security. But it would be better if they made it a little cheaper and more cost-effective. That would make it easier for us to sell it."
Proofpoint Email Protection is ranked 1st in Secure Email Gateway (SEG) with 44 reviews while Trend Micro ScanMail is ranked 27th in Anti-Malware Tools with 5 reviews. Proofpoint Email Protection is rated 8.4, while Trend Micro ScanMail is rated 6.6. 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 Trend Micro ScanMail writes "Integrates well with mail platforms, but the UI is pretty old-fashioned". 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 Trend Micro ScanMail is most compared with Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP), Trend Micro Email Security, Fortinet FortiMail, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint and CrowdStrike Falcon.
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