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CloudSEK XVigil vs Proofpoint Email Protection comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

CloudSEK XVigil
Ranking in Digital Risk Protection
4th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
5.9
Number of Reviews
6
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Proofpoint Email Protection
Ranking in Digital Risk Protection
3rd
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
98
Ranking in other categories
Email Security (1st), Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) (3rd), Office 365 Protection (1st), Secure Email Gateway (SEG) (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2026, in the Digital Risk Protection category, the mindshare of CloudSEK XVigil is 3.4%, up from 2.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Proofpoint Email Protection is 2.6%, up from 1.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Digital Risk Protection Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Proofpoint Email Protection2.6%
CloudSEK XVigil3.4%
Other94.0%
Digital Risk Protection
 

Featured Reviews

NishantKandpal - PeerSpot reviewer
Cyber Security Manager at RJ Corp Retail
Proactive monitoring has protected our assets and delivers early alerts from hidden threats
We are receiving real-time alerts. If any alerts are categorized as high or critical, they are converted into a ticket management system for us to work on. Regarding ransomware, there is currently no case, but CloudSEK XVigil is a notification tool that analyzes and correlates everything to notify us if something will occur. If a ransomware attack were to happen, it would notify us a few minutes or a few hours before, informing us that a particular asset has been exposed and that this exposure could create a ransomware attack in our environment. Regarding reports, we have automated all reports we receive on a weekly basis. With over ten thousand employees, we identify which users' email IDs or passwords have been exposed outside the environment and receive those notifications in our reports. The report generation has been fully automated.
Vivek_Jaiswal - PeerSpot reviewer
Cyber Security Senior Specialist at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Advanced email defenses have protected healthcare staff and simplified incident response
There are many things that could be improved, but once you are very well-known about this application, you could perform that improvement plan. There are many scenarios where I have worked with Proofpoint Email Protection where a requirement was not fulfilled due to the limitation of the product. For example, we have Report Phish automation. With Proofpoint Email Protection, we can configure Report Phish and forward the email to any email addresses or shared mailboxes that we provide in the configuration. That email is forwarded as is with whatever the user reports as a phishing email. However, some organizations do not want the reported phishing email to go as is into their ticketing tool because it might contain malicious attachments and malicious links that are not required to go into their internal organization. Proofpoint Email Protection has that limitation. They cannot forward or restrict, but could forward only limited information such as some header information, sender subject details, or only limited information. As it is, the email can be forwarded, not as limited information. Proofpoint TRAP solution also has limitations. It cannot create alert notifications for some specific requirements because Proofpoint works the way it is designed, and if you want it to work based on our requirement, that should not be possible. There is a scope of limitations here. There are many improvements that should be made. First, they should work on their false positive minimization. Proofpoint generally takes all emails, investigates them, and classifies them. There are many situations where legit emails are blocked because that domain is found to be under a malicious category somehow, but actually it is not. False positive minimization could be improved, and they could enhance their other applications or solutions. There are many things that they could improve from each application and each portal.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"CloudSEK XVigil positively impacted my organization, allowing us to initiate a lot of takedowns for applications with our brand and logo that were wrongly listed on third-party websites, and thankfully, those were removed."
"CloudSEK XVigil's threat intelligence is advanced compared to other solutions I have seen or used, and no other tool provides the solutions CloudSEK XVigil does, making it a great product."
"In the past three years, we have taken down more than 1000 pages, monitored more than 700 credential leaks, and identified at least around 300 code leaks using CloudSEK XVigil."
"CloudSEK XVigil is very advanced with automated features and AI capabilities."
"CloudSEK XVigil has positively impacted our organization by being easy to use for our small tier organization."
"CloudSEK XVigil has positively impacted my organization by automating processes that were previously manual, which we struggled with due to our large network, and since integrating CloudSEK XVigil, it has dramatically changed our workflow and reduced the manpower needed."
"The most valuable features are the business email compromise protection and targeted attack prevention."
"There is no downtime."
"The solution scales quite well."
"It's a mature product. It does a good job in detection."
"Compared to other products, Proofpoint's real-time threat intelligence makes it less noisy; they collect and share threat information effectively, which benefits all customers."
"Out of these three, no other email gateway can be compared with Proofpoint Email Protection."
"They have customized security rules, mature rules, anti-virus protection, as well as email authentication similar to SPF, DKIM, and DMARC."
"The spam filter for email is good."
 

Cons

"CloudSEK XVigil can be improved by focusing more on vulnerabilities like open redirection, broken access control, and OWASP Top 10, which need to be enhanced and made more accurate."
"I feel that some improvements in alerts and notifications can be really useful."
"The dashboard is good, but I want to make it more mature with additional features so that we can view all the services we use and all critical notifications in a unified platform."
"I give it nine out of ten because sometimes I need to coordinate with the backend team for the takedown process."
"I think CloudSEK XVigil could improve its B-Vigil suite, particularly regarding attack surface monitoring application headers as compared to Bitsight, which provides a good amount of data that could be included in CloudSEK XVigil."
"The largest complaint that we hear from our customers is that there is no local support."
"The false positives are an issue."
"As an enterprise, we have high demands on the services, and if we have to wait for something like a week or weeks, it is not acceptable; we need solutions in one or two days sometimes because if there is spam going around, you cannot wait weeks."
"I think Proofpoint Email Protection could be slightly more intuitive."
"The initial setup is complex."
"It's scalable, but the devil's in the details — you have to know your email volumes."
"The incident reporting on offer needs to be improved. It's lacking right now. It should be on the platform somewhere."
"Proofpoint is a little bit expensive."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"The licensing is basically $8/user."
"Proofpoint Email Protection is a reasonably priced product, which means that it is neither too low nor too high in terms of price."
"It is expensive."
"We sell annual licenses for this solution."
"Clients pay for an annual subscription of Proofpoint Email Protection. Every client always finds it expensive."
"The end customer is buying our solution, which can be for monthly or annual usage depending on our payment and business model."
"They are competitively priced, but I have been forced to get quotes for other solutions now because they haven't been responding to requests to do the work that we would like them to do."
"It is on a yearly basis. Their floor for SMB doesn't matter. The user count is 100 users and below at $2,500 a year. Its cost is higher than other solutions. It is probably about 20% to 30% higher than what you would get with Microsoft. There are no additional costs. All costs are factored in. It can be improved pricing-wise so that it is affordable for the SMB market."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Legal Firm
17%
Insurance Company
11%
Retailer
10%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Computer Software Company
8%
Comms Service Provider
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
No data available
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business27
Midsize Enterprise24
Large Enterprise54
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for CloudSEK XVigil?
I do not have visibility on the pricing, setup cost, and licensing for CloudSEK XVigil because, as I mentioned, I work as an associate, and all those decisions are made by my bosses and senior mana...
What is your primary use case for CloudSEK XVigil?
I primarily use CloudSEK XVigil for brand and risk monitoring for a pharmaceutical client. CloudSEK XVigil has a module for executive impersonations where we configured use cases and alerts rules b...
What advice do you have for others considering CloudSEK XVigil?
I have rated CloudSEK XVigil a seven out of ten. I have rated it a seven because of the suggested improvements, and if those can be included, it could be a nine or ten for me. I think CloudSEK XVig...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Proofpoint Email Protection?
This is not something that I deal with regarding pricing, setup cost, and licensing.
What needs improvement with Proofpoint Email Protection?
For a beginner level, someone who is very new to email security might find it difficult to manage as an admin. Navigation can be concerning because Proofpoint Email Protection has different console...
What is your primary use case for Proofpoint Email Protection?
Proofpoint Email Protection serves as our email security solution. The entire SOC team uses Proofpoint Email Protection. The granularity in admin access is different, so each team has their own acc...
 

Also Known As

XVigil
Proofpoint Enterprise Protection, Proofpoint Digital Protection
 

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Sample Customers

ooredoo, HDFC, Olam, SWIGGY, gojek, Axis Bank
Blocket, University of Waterloo, Lincoln Memorial University, WellSpan Health, U-Haul, Carestream Health, Westinghouse
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