We performed a comparison between Proofpoint Email Protection and Wombat Security Education Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Proofpoint, KnowBe4, Sophos and others in Security Awareness Training."Proofpoint is the main tool for blocking spam because it denies the connection altogether."
"The most valuable features are the business email compromise protection and targeted attack prevention."
"Proofpoint Email Protection's advantage is that, when it's working properly, it tends to catch more threats as compared to other products."
"It's detection of true positives are great, as it's cloud based it's very scalable and stable."
"They have customized security rules, mature rules, anti-virus protection, as well as email authentication similar to SPF, DKIM, and DMARC."
"The stability is very good."
"It is a very scalable solution."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to remove bad messages that were delivered, prior to being classified as unwanted."
"Most valuable is the SSO integration with our AD, so the users can employ our federation service to log in."
"The solution could lower its price."
"The product's deployment is complex and requires technical knowledge."
"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."
"The false positives are an issue."
"Unfortunately, the whole product is going downhill right now, ever since they were sold to Thoma Bravo. We're constantly having problems with stability and the product in general."
"The solution's server console and cluster dashboard have been the same for four years so need to be upgraded."
"The price could be improved."
"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."
"We would like to create reports for local IT leaders in a different way, more suitable for upper management."
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Proofpoint Email Protection is ranked 1st in Security Awareness Training with 44 reviews while Wombat Security Education Platform is ranked 8th in Security Awareness Training. Proofpoint Email Protection is rated 8.4, while Wombat Security Education Platform is rated 8.0. 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 Wombat Security Education Platform writes "Improves employees' security awareness, integrates with AD, and user synchronization works 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 Wombat Security Education Platform is most compared with KnowBe4 and SAP SuccessFactors Learning.
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