We performed a comparison between Barracuda PhishLine and Proofpoint Email Protection based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Proofpoint, KnowBe4, Sophos and others in Security Awareness Training."Barracuda PhishLine continues to evolve because as the attacks get more sophisticated, they get integrated into the campaigns. Then the users are exposed to the latest attacks in the form of a training session rather than in real life. They're much better prepared for these real-life ransomware attacks that come through via email."
"The solution offers very good flexibility. You can blacklist or whitelist with ease."
"The Phish Alarm button allows users to submit questionable emails for review and complete analysis."
"Proofpoint is the main tool for blocking spam because it denies the connection altogether."
"The most valuable feature of Proofpoint Email Protection is the blocking capabilities, it blocks a lot of potential threats."
"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 spam filter for email is good."
"A one-stop shop for email protection"
"The stability is very good."
"The initial setup of Barracuda PhishLine is very easy. All of it can be set up in approximately one hour with someone that has some IT training and previous exposure to Barracuda."
"They do not have an on-demand scan for the internal viruses and internal users, and they don't have a scan for the exchange server against viruses and spam as Symantec does."
"The scalability can be improved, and the solution can be optimized."
"The price could be improved."
"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."
"Proofpoint Email Protection could improve by reducing the price."
"The largest complaint that we hear from our customers is that there is no local support."
"We find the cost to be prohibitive."
"Some use cases haven't been dealt with yet."
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Barracuda PhishLine is ranked 9th in Security Awareness Training while Proofpoint Email Protection is ranked 1st in Security Awareness Training with 44 reviews. Barracuda PhishLine is rated 0.0, while Proofpoint Email Protection is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Barracuda PhishLine writes "Efficient threat repelling, continual updates, and friendly support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Proofpoint Email Protection writes "A reasonably priced product that offers protection to emails, along with spam filters". Barracuda PhishLine is most compared with KnowBe4, whereas 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.
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