We performed a comparison between Proofpoint Email Protection and Symantec Web Isolation 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)."Proofpoint Email Protection is stable enough and does its job of virus, malware, and email scam detection. Setting it up is not too complicated."
"The solution scales quite well."
"Proofpoint Email Protection is the best solution from the perspective of email security."
"Proofpoint is the main tool for blocking spam because it denies the connection altogether."
"The setup was easy."
"The most valuable features of Proofpoint Email Protection are ease of use, data loss prevention, antivirus, and spam protection."
"As a cloud-based product, it can scale well."
"The archive feature is valuable."
"The most valuable feature of Symantec Web Isolation is the user-friendliness of the solution."
"There is room for improvement in detecting and preventing phishing attacks. While the solution performs well in some aspects, it struggles with phishing threats."
"Proofpoint Email Protection could improve by allowing more customization of the reports, such as exceptions and black-and-white lists."
"The incident reporting on offer needs to be improved. It's lacking right now. It should be on the platform somewhere."
"The solution could lower its price."
"Proofpoint should have better integration with complex environments that need more than one instance of Proofpoint, as there are issues with nested instances."
"Sometimes it detects false positives."
"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."
"The initial setup is complex."
"Symantec Web Isolation could improve by reducing licensing costs."
Proofpoint Email Protection is ranked 1st in Secure Email Gateway (SEG) with 46 reviews while Symantec Web Isolation is ranked 24th in Anti-Malware Tools with 1 review. Proofpoint Email Protection is rated 8.4, while Symantec Web Isolation is rated 9.0. 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 Symantec Web Isolation writes "User-friendly, reliable, and good support". 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 Symantec Web Isolation is most compared with Menlo Security Secure Web Gateway.
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