We performed a comparison between Proofpoint Email Protection and Webroot Advanced Email Encryption powered by Zix 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 initial implementation is pretty easy to handle."
"It was easy to set up."
"The stability is very good."
"The anti-spam features are excellent on the email firewalls."
"Provides better control over emails, especially those sent via Office 365 on the cloud."
"The Phish Alarm button allows users to submit questionable emails for review and complete analysis."
"A one-stop shop for email protection"
"It's detection of true positives are great, as it's cloud based it's very scalable and stable."
"They do a better job of determining what's real and what's not than most of the other solutions we have tried, and it's been very painless to use."
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"The accessibility of Proofpoint Email Protection, particularly access to product trials, could be improved. It's hard to get a trial for Proofpoint Email Protection, and many customers prefer not just to do the POC or demo but try the product out."
"The solution could be improved with the addition of PLP and email encryption features."
"The false positives are an issue."
"Proofpoint has a lot of false alarms."
"The Secure Mail aspect should have an Outlook add-in, instead of an external dashboard that outside users have to access."
"The solution should add post-sales training."
"Proofpoint should have better integration with complex environments that need more than one instance of Proofpoint, as there are issues with nested instances."
"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 have some areas that could be improved. For example, we also use this solution for email encryption, which was clunky and could be improved, but the email security itself has been excellent."
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Proofpoint Email Protection is ranked 1st in Secure Email Gateway (SEG) with 44 reviews while Webroot Advanced Email Encryption powered by Zix is ranked 14th in Secure Email Gateway (SEG). Proofpoint Email Protection is rated 8.4, while Webroot Advanced Email Encryption powered by Zix is rated 7.0. 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 Webroot Advanced Email Encryption powered by Zix writes "Inexpensive, with good email security, but the technical support could be improved". 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 Webroot Advanced Email Encryption powered by Zix is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP) and Barracuda Email Security Gateway.
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