We performed a comparison between Fortra's Agari and Proofpoint Email Protection based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Email Security solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Microsoft Defender for Office 365 has improved my organization's security. It makes it easier to manage the infrastructure without the help of third-party applications."
"Defender enables us to secure all 365-related activity from a single place. It gives us visibility into everything happening in Outlook, protecting us against phishing and other email-based threats. Defender helps us detect any suspicious behaviors."
"The benefit that stands out to me is the ability for multiple individuals to collaborate simultaneously within the same document. Additionally, there is the option to save the document directly in the integrated OneDrive or SharePoint."
"The two main features that prove most beneficial for us are URL scanning and attachment scanning."
"Defender for 365 is a comprehensive cloud-based solution. The value of the cloud is that you aren't alone. Threat intelligence and analytics are shared in the cloud. We don't have to find the solution alone. If you face an unknown threat with traditional solutions like Trend Micro and Symantec, you need to open a case and send your information to them to analyze forensically and identify the source of the attack."
"The basic features are okay and I'm satisfied with the Defender."
"I would say that 90% of the spam and phishing attack emails get blocked right off the bat."
"Safe attachments, safe links, policies, and the ability to protect from zero-day threats are the most valuable features."
"It is really important for large companies to have the brand protection that is provided by Agari."
"I am impressed with the tool's discovery capabilities which help me find out who is sending the emails on the company's behalf. I also find the ability to detect and generate reports on phishing emails a valuable feature."
"It comes with a lot of helpful tips for complicated areas."
"If spam or some kind of malicious email gets past Mimecast and gets into our email environment, we can go into Agari and we can search for it."
"It's very good at identifying threats."
"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 blocking capabilities, it blocks a lot of potential threats."
"Proofpoint Email Protection is stable enough and does its job of virus, malware, and email scam detection. Setting it up is not too complicated."
"As a cloud-based product, it can scale well."
"It is a very scalable solution."
"Its anti-phishing functionality is the most valuable. Certainly, the biggest problem I have is phishing."
"URL scanning and online relay service are the most valuable features of Proofpoint Email Protection."
"In one of the reports I can get the exact place where a vulnerable file resides. But for that, I need to explicitly go into the device and check. If they could include that file part in the report, without my having to go to the device itself, that would help."
"The certification training for Defender for 365 needs to be deeper and incorporate Sentinel. I took all the security courses except one, and Sentinel isn't included."
"There is room for improvement with the UI."
"The custom alerts have to improve a lot."
"I'd like some additional features any product can give me to protect our environment in a better way."
"Microsoft wants its well-paying customers to finish testing some of its half-baked products, find bugs, and report bugs back to Microsoft's team, which is a little frustrating for those who have to manage it and roll it up to thousands of people across the organization."
"We need a separate license and we don't know how to get the license that is required."
"Too many false positives and lacks an accurate capability to detect malicious SharePoint sites."
"Some customers in the financial sector do not like the cloud solution because they don't want data to be transferred to a US-based cloud."
"The product's user interface is clunky. We have difficulty in finding what we need. I would also like to see automation in the onboarding processes."
"The protocol is quite complicated, which may not be something that could be improved, but it would be better if it was simplified."
"The false positives are an issue."
"Proofpoint Email Protection's interface is confusing and could be improved."
"Unfortunately, the whole product is going downhill right now, ever since they were sold to Thoma Bravo. We're constantly having problems with stability and the product in general."
"Pricing for the platform could still be cheaper."
"The high cost of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"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."
"It's scalable, but the devil's in the details — you have to know your email volumes."
"The largest complaint that we hear from our customers is that there is no local support."
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Fortra's Agari is ranked 26th in Email Security with 4 reviews while Proofpoint Email Protection is ranked 1st in SEG (Secure Email Gateway) with 44 reviews. Fortra's Agari is rated 8.6, while Proofpoint Email Protection is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Fortra's Agari writes "Helps to detect and generate reports on phishing emails and saves from email compromises ". 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". Fortra's Agari is most compared with Cisco Secure Email, Valimail Monitor, Abnormal Security and Mimecast Email Security, whereas Proofpoint Email Protection is most compared with Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP), Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Cisco Secure Email and Fortinet FortiMail. See our Fortra's Agari vs. Proofpoint Email Protection report.
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