We performed a comparison between Proofpoint Email Protection and Sophos Email Appliance [EOL] 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 offers very good flexibility. You can blacklist or whitelist with ease."
"The most valuable feature of Proofpoint Email Protection is the TAP Dashboard. It provides more detailed information that can be used for forensic analysis. This is an advantage that other email security providers, such as Cisco, IronPort, or Microsoft do not offer in their dashboards."
"There is no downtime."
"Proofpoint is the main tool for blocking spam because it denies the connection altogether."
"They have customized security rules, mature rules, anti-virus protection, as well as email authentication similar to SPF, DKIM, and DMARC."
"As a cloud-based product, it can scale well."
"URL scanning and online relay service are the most valuable features of Proofpoint Email Protection."
"The solution blocks malicious emails containing viruses and malware and reduces them out of spam."
"Email encryption, because it fulfills our business needs."
"The interface makes it really easy to administer and configure."
"The filtering aspect is the solution's most valuable feature."
"The solution is very easy to use, especially the cloud version which is very, very simple. There are some good templates already built-in, so we can just select the template, and you will get all the necessary functionality. The only one thing you have to do is point all your traffic in the cloud."
"This is a stable, scalable product that provides a reliable email protection layer."
"The ease of use and the security offered by the solution are its most valuable features. It also offers good information protection."
"The most valuable feature is the URL relay protection because it protects users from phishing attacks."
"I would want better spear phishing protection in the essentials package."
"Proofpoint Email Protection could improve on the training. Every organization is different and to fine-tune it to block everything properly there needs to be better training. Sometimes it can block some of the information it shouldn't."
"The product's deployment is complex and requires technical knowledge."
"Proofpoint Email Protection's interface is confusing and could be improved."
"Proofpoint Email Protection could improve the Mail Trace feature and make navigation easier."
"Integration for reporting needs to be improved, it's too complex."
"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 solution could be improved with the addition of PLP and email encryption features."
"Reporting could have more options for users to customize desired results."
"There are a few issues with integration that need to be addressed; this would help make deployment easier for new users."
"In the advanced version, you have DLP, Data Loss Prevention, but when you buy the standard version, you don't have it."
"The reporting functionality is in major need of improvement."
"More things need to be integrated into this device, like DLP, so we can have a complete solution in one box."
"There aren't enough advanced settings. They should offer more advanced options."
"In the next release of this solution, I would like to see more user awareness, such as information about phishing email attacks that have been prevented."
Earn 20 points
Proofpoint Email Protection is ranked 1st in Secure Email Gateway (SEG) with 44 reviews while Sophos Email Appliance [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Secure Email Gateway (SEG). Proofpoint Email Protection is rated 8.4, while Sophos Email Appliance [EOL] is rated 8.4. 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 Sophos Email Appliance [EOL] writes "An easy to use solution with reasonable pricing and good stability". 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 Sophos Email Appliance [EOL] is most compared with .
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