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."The solution's technical support is good. I rate the technical support a ten out of ten."
"They have customized security rules, mature rules, anti-virus protection, as well as email authentication similar to SPF, DKIM, and DMARC."
"Provides better control over emails, especially those sent via Office 365 on the cloud."
"The Phish Alarm button allows users to submit questionable emails for review and complete analysis."
"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."
"The solution scales well."
"It was easy to set up."
"The initial implementation is pretty easy to handle."
"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 the Mail Trace feature and make navigation easier."
"The incident reporting on offer needs to be improved. It's lacking right now. It should be on the platform somewhere."
"The largest complaint that we hear from our customers is that there is no local support."
"I would want better spear phishing protection in the essentials package."
"The product's deployment is complex and requires technical knowledge."
"Proofpoint has a lot of false alarms."
"Proofpoint should have better integration with complex environments that need more than one instance of Proofpoint, as there are issues with nested instances."
"The false positives are an issue."
"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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