We performed a comparison between Proofpoint Email Protection and Webroot Advanced Email Encryption powered by Zix 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 scales quite well."
"Provides better control over emails, especially those sent via Office 365 on the cloud."
"The most valuable feature of Proofpoint Email Protection is the central location dashboard for viewing all the related information for risk."
"The stability is very good."
"It is a very scalable solution."
"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."
"The most valuable features of Proofpoint Email Protection are the performance from being on the cloud."
"The most valuable features are the business email compromise protection and targeted attack prevention."
"They do a better job of determining what's real and what's not than most of the other solutions we have tried, and it's been very painless to use."
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"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 largest complaint that we hear from our customers is that there is no local support."
"The incident reporting on offer needs to be improved. It's lacking right now. It should be on the platform somewhere."
"The price could be improved."
"Proofpoint has a lot of false alarms."
"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."
"I would want better spear phishing protection in the essentials package."
"The flexibility of the solution can be improved."
"They have some areas that could be improved. For example, we also use this solution for email encryption, which was clunky and could be improved, but the email security itself has been excellent."
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Proofpoint Email Protection is ranked 1st in Secure Email Gateway (SEG) with 46 reviews while Webroot Advanced Email Encryption powered by Zix is ranked 13th in Secure Email Gateway (SEG). Proofpoint Email Protection is rated 8.4, while Webroot Advanced Email Encryption powered by Zix is rated 7.0. 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 Webroot Advanced Email Encryption powered by Zix writes "Inexpensive, with good email security, but the technical support could be improved". 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 Webroot Advanced Email Encryption powered by Zix is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Office 365 and Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP).
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