We performed a comparison between Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance and Proofpoint Email Protection based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about RSA, AuditBoard, Trend Micro and others in GRC."Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance helps with extra collaboration and ensures communication is within the framework."
"The Phish Alarm button allows users to submit questionable emails for review and complete analysis."
"The most valuable features of Proofpoint Email Protection are ease of use, data loss prevention, antivirus, and spam protection."
"The spam filter for email is good."
"The most valuable features of Proofpoint Email Protection are the performance from being on the cloud."
"The archive feature is valuable."
"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."
"The solution's technical support is good. I rate the technical support a ten out of ten."
"The product should incorporate more automation with the help of AI."
"Proofpoint should have better integration with complex environments that need more than one instance of Proofpoint, as there are issues with nested instances."
"The largest complaint that we hear from our customers is that there is no local support."
"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."
"The Secure Mail aspect should have an Outlook add-in, instead of an external dashboard that outside users have to access."
"Proofpoint has a lot of false alarms."
"Proofpoint Email Protection is an expensive solution."
"Pricing for the platform could still be cheaper."
"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."
Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance is ranked 13th in GRC with 1 review while Proofpoint Email Protection is ranked 1st in Secure Email Gateway (SEG) with 44 reviews. Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance is rated 9.0, while Proofpoint Email Protection is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance writes "Helps with extra collaboration and ensures communication is within the framework". 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". Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance is most compared with RSA Archer, Barracuda Email Protection, Mine PrivacyOps, MEGA HOPEX and Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention, 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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