We performed a comparison between Proofpoint Email Protection and SonicWall Email Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Secure Email Gateway (SEG) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The solution has very strong detection for most of the phishing and malicious emails received from the outside."
"The most valuable feature is the option to edit the inbound security."
"The stability is very good."
"The archive feature is valuable."
"Proofpoint Email Protection's advantage is that, when it's working properly, it tends to catch more threats as compared to other products."
"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."
"Proofpoint Email Protection is the best solution from the perspective of email security."
"Beside a few issues with specificity in the email protection controls, this product is very good at handling email security."
"The most valuable feature of SonicWall Email Security is the blocking of emails using keywords. If there are any particular keywords in the subject, that we want to block from receiving from a particular person we can do it. Additionally, the blocking of emails is easy. we can release that one and we can block some of the keywords also like that."
"There are no wasted extras and the interface is really simple."
"The most valuable feature is that it protects from spam."
"This solution provides very good email security that protects us against spamming and malware."
"The product is easy to manage in terms of configurations."
"The most valuable features are the anti-spam, anti-phishing, anti-virus, and anti-spoofing."
"The anti-spam aspect of the solution is its most valuable feature."
"The stability and UI are the two areas of the solution with certain shortcomings that need improvement."
"The false positives are an issue."
"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."
"The solution could be improved with the addition of PLP and email encryption features."
"Integration for reporting needs to be improved, it's too complex."
"The scalability can be improved, and the solution can be optimized."
"Integration and filtering out who you want and don't want to have integrated ID could be improved."
"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."
"They should integrate the solution with third-party platforms."
"They need well-trained partners in Nigeria."
"The platform's control panel needs enhancement."
"There could be definition updates included in the subscription."
"The technical support from the company is not always very good at solving issues, but they offer access to a good community of users where problems are easily solved."
"We would like to see more information on a dashboard about what is happening when it comes to spamming and malware."
"The protection level for email security isn't 100%. I'm still getting some spam and junk mail."
"SonicWall Email Security could improve by making the file blocking and the release feature easier to use"
Proofpoint Email Protection is ranked 1st in Secure Email Gateway (SEG) with 44 reviews while SonicWall Email Security is ranked 19th in Email Security with 12 reviews. Proofpoint Email Protection is rated 8.4, while SonicWall Email Security is rated 7.8. 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 SonicWall Email Security writes "Effective threat prevention, reliable, and beneficial keyword blocking". 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 SonicWall Email Security is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Fortinet FortiMail, Barracuda Email Security Gateway, Sophos Email and Cisco Secure Email. See our Proofpoint Email Protection vs. SonicWall Email Security report.
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