We performed a comparison between Proofpoint Email Protection and Wombat Security Education Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about KnowBe4, Proofpoint, Sophos and others in Security Awareness Training."The most valuable feature is the option to edit the inbound security."
"It is a very scalable solution."
"It's very good at identifying threats."
"Proofpoint is the main tool for blocking spam because it denies the connection altogether."
"The tool has improved our workflow by ensuring people receive only the emails they need for work rather than being inundated with hundreds or thousands of unnecessary emails daily."
"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 most valuable feature of Proofpoint Email Protection is the central location dashboard for viewing all the related information for risk."
"As a cloud-based product, it can scale well."
"Most valuable is the SSO integration with our AD, so the users can employ our federation service to log in."
"Proofpoint has a lot of false alarms."
"Integration and filtering out who you want and don't want to have integrated ID could be improved."
"I would want better spear phishing protection in the essentials package."
"The email DLP portion could be a bit easier."
"Sometimes it detects false positives."
"It's scalable, but the devil's in the details — you have to know your email volumes."
"The accessibility of Proofpoint Email Protection, particularly access to product trials, could be improved. It's hard to get a trial for Proofpoint Email Protection, and many customers prefer not just to do the POC or demo but try the product out."
"The false positives are an issue."
"We would like to create reports for local IT leaders in a different way, more suitable for upper management."
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Proofpoint Email Protection is ranked 2nd in Security Awareness Training with 46 reviews while Wombat Security Education Platform is ranked 8th in Security Awareness Training. Proofpoint Email Protection is rated 8.4, while Wombat Security Education Platform is rated 8.0. 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 Wombat Security Education Platform writes "Improves employees' security awareness, integrates with AD, and user synchronization works well". 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 Wombat Security Education Platform is most compared with SAP SuccessFactors Learning and KnowBe4.
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