We performed a comparison between NetWitness Platform and Proofpoint Email Protection based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Splunk, Datadog, Wazuh and others in Log Management."The most valuable features are its ingestion of logs and raising of alerts based on those logs."
"The most valuable feature is the security that it provides."
"The newer 11.5 version that my team is using has found it to have good mapping."
"The packet capture aspect of it is a valuable feature because it is quite different from a traditional SIEM solution that only carries out investigations based on captured logs."
"The most valuable features are the packet decoder, log decoder, and concentrator."
"It gives the ability to investigate into network traffic in the Net and the organization what we couldn't do before."
"The most valuable feature is that we can create our own connectors for any application, and NetWitness provides the training and tools to do it."
"Setting up NetWitness is straightforward. There are multiple connectors, including standard and specialized connectors. One purpose of the connectors is the enhanced capability integrate the custom applications. NetWitness comes with E6 appliances and application images that we use for the initial configurations and for the OS stack information. From there, you can consider the correlation rules, integrate the different log sources, and easily create correlation rules and backlog reports."
"The Phish Alarm button allows users to submit questionable emails for review and complete analysis."
"As a cloud-based product, it can scale well."
"It is a very scalable solution."
"The most valuable feature of Proofpoint Email Protection is the blocking capabilities, it blocks a lot of potential threats."
"Proofpoint Email Protection is a good product, and its most beneficial feature is the Threat Response Auto-Pull. I also like that it's an integrated email security solution."
"The most valuable feature is the option to edit the inbound security."
"The stability is very good."
"The solution blocks malicious emails containing viruses and malware and reduces them out of spam."
"The tool's integration capability isn't so great."
"Log aggregation is an issue with this solution because there are a huge number of alerts in a single instance."
"I'd like to see improvement in its ease of use. It's basically unusable. It's overly complex."
"The solution should have more integration capabilities with different platforms."
"An area for improvement would be better automation and more inbuilt use cases."
"It is not so easy to customize this product."
"The user interface is a little bit difficult for new users and it needs to be improved."
"The documentation is not as structured as I would like, personally, and I think that it can be improved and made much more user-friendly."
"The flexibility of the solution can be improved."
"The initial setup is complex."
"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."
"Proofpoint Email Protection could improve by allowing more customization of the reports, such as exceptions and black-and-white lists."
"The high cost of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"I would want better spear phishing protection in the essentials package."
"We'd like to have the ability to create more customized reports."
"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."
NetWitness Platform is ranked 20th in Log Management with 36 reviews while Proofpoint Email Protection is ranked 1st in Secure Email Gateway (SEG) with 44 reviews. NetWitness Platform is rated 7.4, while Proofpoint Email Protection is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of NetWitness Platform writes "Can find out if there is lateral movement, but integration and workflow need improvement". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Proofpoint Email Protection writes "A reasonably priced product that offers protection to emails, along with spam filters". NetWitness Platform is most compared with Splunk Enterprise Security, RSA enVision, IBM Security QRadar, Microsoft Sentinel and Cisco Secure Network Analytics, whereas 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.
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