We performed a comparison between Proofpoint Email Protection and SecurityIQ based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about KnowBe4, Proofpoint, Sophos and others in Security Awareness Training."Proofpoint Email Protection is the best solution from the perspective of email security."
"The stability is very good."
"They have customized security rules, mature rules, anti-virus protection, as well as email authentication similar to SPF, DKIM, and DMARC."
"The solution scales well."
"The anti-spam features are excellent on the email firewalls."
"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."
"Proofpoint is the main tool for blocking spam because it denies the connection altogether."
"The archive feature is valuable."
"They have a a a knowledge base and a program. They have a very robust training system for the new for different levels of of professionals. That is their most valuable feature."
"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."
"Proofpoint Email Protection is an expensive solution."
"Proofpoint Email Protection could improve the Mail Trace feature and make navigation easier."
"The Secure Mail aspect should have an Outlook add-in, instead of an external dashboard that outside users have to access."
"Sometimes it detects false positives."
"Proofpoint Email Protection has a new approach to email security with its API feature. Currently, it only works with Office 365. In the future, it would be beneficial if it also works with Gmail, as Check Point is currently the only brand that has API email security for Gmail. It would be beneficial if Proofpoint Email Protection could add this integration, they would be more competitive with other vendors."
"The high cost of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"We find the cost to be prohibitive."
"The training should be improved in regards to the needs of the customers. It has to be understood what kind of training should be provided and also provide assessments."
Proofpoint Email Protection is ranked 2nd in Security Awareness Training with 46 reviews while SecurityIQ is ranked 6th in Security Awareness Training with 1 review. Proofpoint Email Protection is rated 8.4, while SecurityIQ 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 SecurityIQ writes "An Automatic Solution for providing Tailored Training To Employees ". 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 SecurityIQ is most compared with .
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