Proofpoint Email Protection Valuable Features
The most valuable feature of the solution is the protection it offers to emails, along with the spam filters.
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reviewer1624176
Global Account Manager at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
Its main defense is to stop malicious emails from coming through. There is a sandbox environment where you can open malicious or suspicious emails to make sure that they're not malicious, instead of taking the risk of having your employees do it. This is definitely something that everybody needs nowadays, especially with the rise in cyber attacks.
Proofpoint Email Protection offers an additional layer of protection compared to other brands like Microsoft, Mimecast, and Barracuda. While these major companies excel at detecting malicious attachments, the solution goes further by analyzing the context of emails, allowing for more nuanced decision-making.
The solution doesn't slow down things. It's very effective at blocking spam and phishing emails.
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Proofpoint Email Protection
March 2024
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The product serves as an email sandbox to check attachments and ensure that everything is secure.
RM
reviewer86589
Senior Information Security Analyst at a healthcare company with 1-10 employees
The solution's whole server is valuable because has robust algorithms, AI that learns what goes through a company's email server, and strong rules for analyzing data. Competitor's products are just standard email filters that block or pass with no ongoing AI for learning.
The security is very strong and comparatively better than Cisco CES. For example, in the last six months there has been an uptick in phishing campaigns or malicious email attachments purporting to come from Geek Squad. I see a substantial number of these troublesome emails pass through CES, Barracuda, and Mimecast but I have not seen a single email pass through the solution.
The Phish Alarm button allows users to submit questionable emails for review and complete analysis. A submitted email is analyzed in the cloud sandbox and the results are provided along with the actual email. Substantial information is included in this dynamic analysis such as email details, URLs, links, domains, ages of accounts, and what the email is intending to do. No other product offers this type of built-in email analysis. I have reviewed three different products including Cofense and they all send the email with its metadata to the user's security response team for manual review.
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Enayat-Galsulkar
Senior Information Security Consultant at Dimah Capital
All the security features in the tool are good enough. It provides ransomware protection. The solution is always available. There is no downtime. There is no loss of data. We also have Emergency Inbox services. If our Exchange Server is down, we could still retrieve our emails from Proofpoint’s cloud. The tool provides us with all the basic and advanced security features. The dashboard is quite good. I rate the product’s user experience and administrative interface a seven out of ten.
View full review »The most valuable feature of Proofpoint Email Protection is the blocking capabilities, it blocks a lot of potential threats.
View full review »Proofpoint Email Protection's advantage is that, when it's working properly, it tends to catch more threats as compared to other products.
View full review »The solution is very user-friendly.
View full review »The most valuable feature of Proofpoint Email Protection is the central location dashboard for viewing all the related information for risk.
View full review »The stability is good.
The spam filter for email is good.
The solution can scale.
We have found the initial setup to be straightforward.
View full review »The targeted attack protection that we use has been great, as has the email filtering and the rules that we have set for Proofpoint. The quarantine capabilities are very useful.
You can scale the solution.
It's a mature product. It does a good job in detection.
View full review »It's great for email protection.
It's very good at identifying threats.
There is useful sandboxing available.
The pricing is very reasonable. This is an affordable product.
Technical support is very good.
View full review »Overall, it is a good product.
We like that it provides everything in a single dashboard. On that, we can find all the information related to the risks involved within a suspicious email.
The initial setup is very, very easy.
It's a stable, reliable product.
As a cloud-based product, it can scale well.
Customer support is very helpful and responsive. They are great at answering questions.
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reviewer2322027
Senior Information Security Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 201-500 employees
The solution blocks malicious emails containing viruses and malware and reduces them out of spam.
URL scanning and online relay service are the most valuable features of Proofpoint Email Protection.
View full review »The most valuable feature is the option to edit the inbound security.
View full review »The protection has been fair so far. We haven't had any issues.
It's easy to set up. The deployment is also fast.
The solution has been stable.
The solution scales well.
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reviewer1515735
Information Technology Help Desk Technician at a consumer goods company with 51-200 employees
The solution offers very good flexibility. You can blacklist or whitelist with ease.
Their entire dashboard is excellent. It's completely user-friendly, it's easy to navigate. Anything you need to get done, you can do right from the dashboard, which is incredible.
What makes it so easy is the features of Proofpoint and how secure it is.
You could have no IT experience and go in there and control Proofpoint. If your company says "Hey, we need somebody to control Proofpoint," you could hire a kid out of high school to learn it. That's how easy it is.
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Luis Brown
Chief Information Security Officer at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees
Its anti-phishing functionality is very valuable to the organization. As outlined above, we are able to automatically respond to Phishing Reports as well as stop as much as 80% of most Phishing Attacks at the front end leaving only a small percentage to be handled after the fact.
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reviewer1550484
Chief Information Officer at a consumer goods company with 51-200 employees
The setup was easy.
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Bau PAO
Business Development Manager at Skytex Consultant Limited
The archive feature is valuable.
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Sheikh Rehan
Data Security Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
The value for us is that we now have much better control over emails, especially those sent via Office 365 on the cloud. We've configured it so that all emails go to Proofpoint and are quarantined or encrypted. I believe the quarantine email function is very rare to find in other solutions. It's a powerful tool and I believe cost effective.
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reviewer2248428
Senior System Engineer at a computer software company with 11-50 employees
Proofpoint Email Protection is the best solution from the perspective of email security. The solution has a lot of email protection features for spam and phishing campaigns, and it also has a platform to educate the end users.
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Chawapat Kongdumrongkiat
Product Consultant at M.Tech
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.
View full review »The most valuable features of Proofpoint Email Protection are the performance from being on the cloud.
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Chawapat Kongdumrongkiat
Product Consultant at M.Tech
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.
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reviewer1319712
Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
The solution is dedicated to email security and that is its core business. It is a leader in comparison to other vendors.
The solution has very strong detection for most phishing and malicious emails received from the outside. It is stronger in this area than competitors.
The TRAP is great for analytics and correlations related to the mailbox.
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reviewer1050960
CISO at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
The URL rewrites on the solution are excellent.
The system offers good flexibility.
The initial implementation is pretty easy to handle.
The solution is quite reliable and doesn't fail.
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reviewer1759677
Information Technology Security Risk Manager at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Proofpoint Email Protection's detection for true positives are great. False negatives or type two errors are very low. Type one errors are acceptable and this capability is the one that allows the least amount of spam to enter.
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reviewer1711266
Dipl.Ing.
The most valuable feature of this solution is that it's a one-stop shop for email protection.
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reviewer1501215
Principal Consultant at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
There's Microsoft Office 365 email protection. The one good thing they have over Microsoft is their incredible search engine. That's why our clients like it. They like the search engine because they can search anything to do with their messages incredibly easily. This allows them to find troubleshooting issues. That's a big selling point.
There are some tools within it that are amazing. Even from a configuration standpoint, it's a hardened system. It's never been penetrated, so that's another great feature about Proofpoint.
They handle combined attacks. Defender for Office 365 does this as well. For instance, if you have an obfuscated URL embedded into an email and the email looks very legitimate, they can track that. Provepoint offers the same flexibility when combined with Office 365 as well. You can do your spam scores, and you can set up policies for people. From here, they can make a decision whether to select a spam policy or not. You can do the same thing with a lot of products, but Proofpoint makes it easy.
They all have quarantines where you can release messages. They're all very on par with each other. However, if you don't have Defender for Office 365, the feature parity is just not there. But there are lots of selling points, Proofpoint, in particular, takes care of. Still, they have a business continuity piece that is lacking in the Office 365 suite.
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reviewer1309926
Head of IT Department at a construction company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I like all the features with Proofpoint, such as how it filters the spam and marketing mail, lost reality mail, blocks phishing attacks, blocks malicious attachments, and stops phishing links. Also it can defend against the business email compromise impersonation technique. It is a complete solution for all email attacks. It filters for the bad, malicious attachments. If there is any executable file, it can be deleted. It is a good, complete solution.
Additionally, the user interface is good, it's easy to use. Whoever has good technical skills can understand it. Even the normal user can handle this solution easily. By the way, I was using Symantec Messaging Gateway. I don't recommended it at all, it makes a lot of issues. A lot of false positives were happening. So I started evaluating Proofpoint and Mimecast. Both products are okay, but I liked Proofpoint more because I saw that it has a high accuracy, offers a very good service, and their support is amazing. So as a whole product, I preferred Proofpoint. But Mimecast is also good.
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Ken Wottge
Information Security Officer at UC San Diego Health System
The most valuable feature is the ability to remove bad messages that were delivered, prior to being classified as unwanted.
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reviewer1977531
Analyst
The pricing is great.
It has a nice interface.
The features are very good.
The stability is very good.
The solution is scalable.
View full review »The state-of-the-art security is the solution's most valuable aspect.
The solution scales quite well.
The product offers very good value for money.
The solution is very easy to handle overall.
The implementation process is simple and straightforward.
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LeticiaLezama
General contador at Dicofra
The most valuable features of Proofpoint Email Protection are ease of use, data loss prevention, antivirus, and spam protection.
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reviewer1261605
Director at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
The solution is very simple.
The anti-spam features are excellent on the email firewalls.
The program's interface is easy to use. We've found that end-users have been very happy in terms of the usage provided and the delivery of an email solution that protects them.
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reviewer1625004
Gerente de operaciones at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
The most valuable feature of Proofpoint Email Protection is the dashboards and their visibility, easy configuration, and artificial intelligence. Additionally, the reports are very important and helpful.
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Sridhar Rudra
Security Professional at Qatar Computer Services WLL
The most valuable features are the business email compromise protection and targeted attack prevention.
With Proofpoint, you have this targeted attack feature wherein you can protect them from specifically targeting high profile users of an organization.
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reviewer1458411
Network Security Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
The sandbox update is very accurate.
They have customized security rules, mature rules, anti-virus protection, as well as email authentication similar to SPF, DKIM, and DMARC.
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Proofpoint Email Protection
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about Proofpoint Email Protection. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
767,667 professionals have used our research since 2012.