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Kaspersky Security Awareness vs Proofpoint Email Protection comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Feb 2, 2025

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

Kaspersky Security Awareness
Average Rating
6.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
6
Ranking in other categories
Security Awareness Training (7th)
Proofpoint Email Protection
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
98
Ranking in other categories
Email Security (1st), Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) (3rd), Digital Risk Protection (3rd), Office 365 Protection (1st), Secure Email Gateway (SEG) (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

Kaspersky Security Awareness and Proofpoint Email Protection aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Kaspersky Security Awareness is designed for Security Awareness Training and holds a mindshare of 2.2%, down 3.6% compared to last year.
Proofpoint Email Protection, on the other hand, focuses on Secure Email Gateway (SEG), holds 19.5% mindshare, down 22.3% since last year.
Security Awareness Training Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Kaspersky Security Awareness2.2%
KnowBe413.7%
Riot8.0%
Other76.1%
Security Awareness Training
Secure Email Gateway (SEG) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Proofpoint Email Protection19.5%
Microsoft Defender for Office 36517.0%
Mimecast Email and Collaboration Threat Protection15.9%
Other47.6%
Secure Email Gateway (SEG)
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer2736225 - PeerSpot reviewer
Program Manager at a hospitality company with 51-200 employees
Needs improvement in content and user interface while supporting compliance with ease
There are several areas for improvement. The pricing needs adjustment, the UI needs enhancement, and the management of assignment and completion needs improvement. For instance, when I assign someone a course, it should have a deadline that doesn't automatically increase if the person isn't completing the course. The effectiveness of Kaspersky Security Awareness's interactive modules and real-time cyber scenarios rates at a six. The gamified learning paths rate at a five, indicating definite room for improvement in this area. While we have achieved compliance, the control over the program is limited. Verifying team knowledge is challenging as exam integrity cannot be guaranteed. They need to update the security courses with more real-time or real-life scenarios.
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

"It is pretty detailed and covers very small points across the security domain, which I appreciate about it, and it's very easy to onboard with features such as SSO and enterprise level administration."
"We have been providing this solution to our customers for approximately three or four months, and our customers are really happy with it."
"Kaspersky Security Awareness is a little cheaper and easy to use, allowing us to remotely install and control the PC while giving the administrator great flexibility to control remote PCs and disable them when users try to disable their antivirus for some software."
"Kaspersky Security Awareness is a little cheaper and easy to use."
"Overall, I rate Kaspersky Security Awareness a ten out of ten and actively recommend it to others."
"Kaspersky Security Awareness has deep packet inspection and the ability to capture viruses."
"The gamification aspect of Kaspersky Security Awareness is appreciated by many organizations, including mine, as it offers a fun learning experience."
"The Kaspersky Awareness program supports the Arabic language, which is one of the good points."
"Provides better control over emails, especially those sent via Office 365 on the cloud."
"It's the top choice because no company can operate without security. Ensuring email protection is a major priority for any organization when building its infrastructure."
"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."
"Proofpoint Email Protection has positively impacted my overall security posture, making it easier for users to encrypt files right in the portal and send them to customers, and it is simple for customers to access those files without difficulty."
"Proofpoint Email Protection offers an additional layer of protection compared to other brands like Microsoft, Mimecast, and Barracuda. While these major companies excel at detecting malicious attachments, the solution goes further by analyzing the context of emails, allowing for more nuanced decision-making."
"As a cloud-based product, it can scale well."
"In terms of detection of spam, malware, and virus, the detection is 99.9% accurate."
"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."
 

Cons

"The GUI could be improved."
"There should be more of a drive from their side to promote the product."
"Kaspersky Security Awareness could improve its user interface since it looks outdated, even though the content is top-notch."
"Kaspersky Security Awareness could improve its user interface since it looks outdated, even though the content is top-notch."
"Kaspersky Security Awareness needs improvement in its ability to detect unknown attacks or unknown zero traffic attacks."
"We face difficulties in configuring it, and other vendors may be more user-friendly."
"Proofpoint Email Protection has a lot of false positives, and the infrastructure is a bit complex."
"I believe they still need to improve by consolidating some portals, as currently, you have to log in separately to a few of them."
"The solution could be improved with the addition of PLP and email encryption features."
"The initial setup is complex."
"Integration for reporting needs to be improved, it's a little complex."
"The only downside with Proofpoint Email Protection is the cost."
"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."
"There are a couple of pain points regarding uploading false negatives and other related issues."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Although the price is acceptable and somewhat competitive, it would be better if it were cheaper."
"The more users there are, the cheaper the product is."
"We sell annual licenses for this solution."
"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."
"The licensing is basically $8/user."
"It is multiple times more expensive, which made it very much less attractive."
"Proofpoint Email Protection is a reasonably priced product, which means that it is neither too low nor too high in terms of price."
"Pricing has recently been increased and the cost is a downside"
"The solution is expensive."
"Proofpoint is fairly expensive."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
22%
Outsourcing Company
12%
Hospitality Company
10%
Comms Service Provider
8%
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 primary use case for Kaspersky Security Awareness?
We have been using Kaspersky Security Awareness mostly for compliance. The benefit we have seen is in terms of compliance. We have been able to be compliant, but the control over the program was ve...
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

No data available
Proofpoint Enterprise Protection, Proofpoint Digital Protection
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Insolar, Goods.ru
Blocket, University of Waterloo, Lincoln Memorial University, WellSpan Health, U-Haul, Carestream Health, Westinghouse
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