Netwrix Endpoint Protector vs Proofpoint Email Data Loss Prevention (DLP) comparison

Netwrix Endpoint Protector vs. Proofpoint Email Data Loss Prevention (DLP)

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Cloudflare

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Spencer Malmad

Owner at Tech Exchange

It's easy to set up because you point the DNS to it, and it's working in under 15 minutes

Cloudflare is highly scalable. Cloudflare is a system with a web portal that the end users like me see. It's a console where we can adjust the DNS, caching, and security features all in that console. Cloudflare owns thousands of servers across the world that cache the data. It's a powerful solution. When clients sign up for Cloudflare, they're getting this monster content delivery network, security, and a web application firewall in one. It's all rolled into one, and it's massive. Unless you have your website hosted on a massive hosting provider, there's no way that you can deliver the amount of data that Cloudflare can provide to the end users. If you have static content, there's no way that you can ever match what Cloudflare can do. Obviously, there are competitors to Cloudflare that do the same, but I'm saying other types of solutions. Let's say you go with F5. Great, that's on-prem. That's in your colo. You can't deliver as much data to the internet as you can with a CDN. You don't have to spend $20,000 on a net scaler, F5, or whatever Cisco's selling now. You don't have to buy that. You pay them $50 a month or $150 a month. It's totally worth it because even in five years, you'll never get the performance value, not just the actual ROI. You have to consider how much throughput you can get with Cloudflare.

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Mohammad Amir Hossain

Head of IT Infrastructure at Samsung

Block USBs and manage ports effectively across multiple OS platforms

There is an important feature that needs to be added. In Linux, it is difficult to control uninstallation. Users can uninstall it at any time, and we can only monitor that it is uninstalled. If there is a feature that can notify in the master dashboard that an agent has been uninstalled, it would be very beneficial.

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Han Pieterse

Cosultant at Kadaster

Offers flexible licensing and easy setup, but has challenges with European compliance

It is difficult to meet the European security compliancy regulations using Proofpoint since it is very focused on the American market, differing significantly from European policies. Additionally, there is uncertainty about the future level of license pricing because American organizations sometimes change their product offerings. Barracuda's Active Directory checking feature is one area where Proofpoint could improve.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The solution is stable, and the DNS servers are simple to use."

"The overall experience with Cloudflare is positive, with a rating of eight out of ten."

"The solution offers the flexibility to control configuration rules."

"Generally, I am satisfied with this product."

"The solution is very good at mitigating threats."

"The tool is user-friendly."

"Cloudflare offers CDN and DDoS protection. We have the front end, API, and database in how you structure applications."

"The most valuable feature is the web application firewall."

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"The console is friendly and it supports Mac."

"The software is easy to use and the dashboard is intuitive."

"Its robust security audit and compliance functionalities prove especially beneficial for businesses in sectors like BFSI (Banking, Financial Services, and Insurance) and Information Technology."

"Endpoint Protector's best features are its protection and user-friendliness."

"The product's most valuable feature is its ability to support Linux operating systems."

"It is fantastic in terms of the granularity of the policies. It has many built-in policies, and we can add or create more policies as well. It is perfect, and it gives us more options. We have some users who go outside and then come inside. With EPP, we can even control those users who are outside. If they need to access the media that we are using right now, we can provide OTP messages so that they can access the media even when they are outside of their organization. With our previous solution, we were facing some issues in doing this."

"The core of its value lies in obtaining logs remotely and exercising control over what employees can or cannot use."

"The versatility regarding the exit point Endpoint Protector supports in making sure that important data doesn't leave our organization is vital for us. In the industry that we're in, data breaches are a significant concern. While our staff is contractually required to maintain confidentiality and they're all very aware that they shouldn't try and transfer company data of different classifications elsewhere to non-company devices, there's a risk."

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"Proofpoint offers flexibility in licensing, accommodating various levels from small businesses to governments."

"We have too many features included in the solution. These include third-party malware detection as a primary feature and a secondary feature focused on dealing with various security threats."

"Proofpoint offers flexibility in licensing, accommodating various levels from small businesses to governments."

Cons

"Although I think it's quite good, it doesn't provide me with all the features I would expect to have if I were using Imperva."

"There could be more courses with engineers. I like e-learning, however, having a specialist in a classroom is more comfortable for me."

"We're facing challenges due to an upgrade in the machine learning model. The problem arises from some users abusing the APIs, resulting in an influx of suspicious traffic. Cloudflare's learning model mistakenly identifies this traffic as human. Consequently, it assigns it a higher trust score, akin to legitimate human traffic, causing complications in our architecture. Previously, such traffic would have been categorized as suspicious, enabling us to apply appropriate blocking rules. However, we encounter difficulties distinguishing between genuine and suspicious traffic with the new categorization. Despite these challenges, overall, Cloudflare remains the preferred solution compared to Azure, AWS CloudFront, and Google Cloud Armor."

"Integration involving API with other products could be more user-friendly."

"In the last two years, there has been a certain amount of downtime when using the VDM."

"The reporting can definitely be improved to offer a lot more explanation on something that may have happened or has actually happened."

"Cloudflare could be improved by introducing a mid-tier pricing option."

"The product needs to improve its automation."

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"The policy engine could use a bit of work. They're definitely going in the right direction. We've been working with them over the last few weeks to try and optimize that. But it's reasonably clear that they're just not putting as much effort into the policy engine as into other things, like content discovery."

"They have many predefined classifiers in terms of data identifiers, and they should improve this."

"If CoSoSys comes up with a suite of Host DLP, along with Network DLP and SaaS DLP, it will cover all of the aspects of a DLP solution."

"We are currently facing an issue where it is blocking the Winman software, which is something that we don't want to happen because we use it in our accounts department to pay taxes."

"The only aspect that prevents it from being a perfect solution is the occasional slower response time."

"We are using it to only apply media restrictions. When we are installing a new agent, we have to install EPP manually on a device. It would be great if the installations can be done from the server instead of me going to each PC or device to implement EPP or using a policy. They should have some sort of system so that a domain admin can install EPP on all PCs from a central manager."

"When you want to uninstall and reinstall, there are a lot of issues. You have to do a lot of workarounds to reinstall Endpoint Protector. This is a major issue that we have constantly because we still have old systems with XP. While there are only very few, we need to run them because there are machines attached that only run on XP. When we need to uninstall and reinstall on XP or Windows 10, we have serious issues left in the Registry Editor everywhere. There is a lot of manual interference to get the reinstallation to work. For the uninstallation of Endpoint Protector, they need to work on this so it doesn't leave any leftovers behind."

"Customization could be a lot better."

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"The tool is expensive."

"It is difficult to meet the European security compliance regulations using Proofpoint since it is very focused on the American market, differing significantly from European policies."

"It is difficult to meet the European security compliancy regulations using Proofpoint since it is very focused on the American market, differing significantly from European policies."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"We are using the free version."

"The solution is expensive when compared to other products but offers unlimited bandwidth."

"The pricing depends on the usage, but the cheapest would be around 5,000 USD a month."

"The price of the solution is expensive."

"It's a premium model. You can start at zero and work your way up to the enterprise model, which has a very high pricing level."

"When you compare Cloudflare DNS to other solutions, such as Akamai, the price is reasonable."

"Cloudflare's pricing is not much higher and is good for middle-level organizations."

"A free version of the solution is available."

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"The pricing depends on the customers."

"We found the pricing pretty attractive. However, volume-based pricing wasn't available."

"This solution was not too cheap or too expensive. But for the amount of features that they are offering, it was reasonable."

"I don't have any issue with the licensing and pricing. I would love for it to be cheaper, but at the same time I'm getting a lot from it."

"From what we've seen, their pricing is a lot lower than the other stuff we've looked at. I actually don't have any concerns with their pricing. They were probably the most reasonable company out there for the features that were offered. It was pretty straightforward in terms of licensing, and you just pay for the license."

"The minimum number of licenses they sell is 50 or 150 users."

"For what it's doing, the cost is somewhat high for us, but it's the cost of doing business with the clients that we have."

"This is a budget-friendly solution that covers all the aspects of host-level DLP."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Educational Organization

17%

Computer Software Company

14%

Comms Service Provider

Financial Services Firm

Computer Software Company

17%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Manufacturing Company

11%

University

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Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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Questions from the Community

Which is the best DDoS protection solution for a big ISP for monitoring and mitigating?

Cloudflare. We are moving from Akamai prolexic to Cloudflare. Cloudflare anycast network outperforms Akamai static GR...

Which would you choose - Cloudflare DNS or Quad9?

Cloudflare DNS is a very fast, very reliable public DNS resolver. It is an enterprise-grade authoritative DNS service...

What do you like most about Cloudflare?

Cloudflare offers CDN and DDoS protection. We have the front end, API, and database in how you structure applications.

What do you like most about Endpoint Protector?

Its robust security audit and compliance functionalities prove especially beneficial for businesses in sectors like B...

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Endpoint Protector?

When we started, the price was reasonable, but it has been increasing over time. I rate the price as four, indicating...

What needs improvement with Endpoint Protector?

There is an important feature that needs to be added. In Linux, it is difficult to control uninstallation. Users can ...

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Proofpoint Email Data Loss Prevention (DLP)?

The licenses for Proofpoint are effective, however, there is uncertainty about future pricing as American organizatio...

What needs improvement with Proofpoint Email Data Loss Prevention (DLP)?

It is difficult to meet the European security compliancy regulations using Proofpoint since it is very focused on the...

What is your primary use case for Proofpoint Email Data Loss Prevention (DLP)?

I know the portfolio of Proofpoint. I work with email backup and email security. Most of the time, I consult for vari...

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Overview

Cloudflare is a highly-regarded Content Delivery Network (CDN) and a Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) protection solution. The robust global connectivity cloud platform that is Cloudflare ensures users are able to connect to the Internet quickly, securely, and reliably. Cloudflare is one of the world's largest networks in the marketplace today. Using Cloudflare, businesses, educational entities, NGOs, vloggers, bloggers, and anyone else with an internet presence can experience more secure, faster websites and applications.

Currently, there are millions of Internet locations on Cloudflare, and the Cloudflare network
continues to grow every day by the thousands. The solution is able to fulfill the requests for
millions of websites seamlessly and serves on average 45 million HTTP requests per second.

Cloudflare has safe, secure data centers in close to 300 cities worldwide to ensure every
client request is filled as quickly as possible. It is Cloudflare’s edge network that makes this
possible by keeping content and other services as close to each client as possible, so the
information requests are always only seconds away.

Many organizations that work in democracy, civil society, human rights, or the arts are able to
access Cloudflare's highest levels of protection for free via Project Galileo. Additionally, official
election websites can be secured from hacking and fraud through Cloudflare’s Project
Athenian, also at no additional cost.

Cloudflare can also help organizations of all sizes develop a robust zero-trust strategy to
ensure the highest levels of productivity and profitability. Employees, stakeholders, and end users have a greater level of satisfaction and overall improved user experience, which can, in
turn, result in higher revenues and overall ROI. Zero-trust and BYOD (bring your own device)
access ensure end users and employees always have the best resources and technology
available to them at all times.

Cloudflare benefits

Cloudflare has many benefits. Some of its most valuable benefits include:

- Faster load times

- Robust DNS security

- Intuitive cloud Web Application Firewall (WAF)

- Free universal SSL

- Image enhancement

- Automatic browser caching

- Next-generation cloud load balancer

- Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP)

- Rate limiting

- Minification

- Zero-trust capabilities

- Cost-effective

- Reduced carbon footprint

Reviews from real users

“Many websites require an SSL certificate because they sell stuff and want SSL. Cloudflare
comes with an SSL certificate built in. It's automatic. You sign yourself up for Cloudflare, and
an SSL certificate automatically protects your website. If you have a connection between your
website and your host, the server, Cloudflare, and the host, you don't necessarily need a
certificate.” Spencer M., Owner at Tech Exchange

“What I like best about Cloudflare is that my company can use it to trace and manage
applications and monitor traffic. The solution tells you if there's a spike in traffic. Cloudflare
also sends you a link to check your equipment and deployment and track it through peering,
so it's a valuable tool.” Daniel P., Network Engineer at Ufinet

“The most valuable feature of Cloudflare is the GUI. You are able to control the solution very
well through the interface. There is a lot of functionality that is embedded in the service.” PeerSpot user, Competence Center Manager at a tech services company

Cloudflare

Content Aware Protection
Scanning data in motion
Monitor, control and block file transfers. Detailed control through both content and context inspection.

Device Control
USB & peripheral port control
Lockdown, monitor and manage devices. Granular control based on Vendor ID, Product ID, Serial Number and more.

Enforced Encryption
Automatic USB encryption
Encrypt, manage and secure USB storage devices by safeguarding data in transit. Password-based, easy to use and very efficient.

eDiscovery
Scanning data at rest
Discover, encrypt and delete sensitive data. Detailed content and context inspection through manual or automatic scans

Netwrix

Proofpoint Email Data Loss Prevention (DLP) protects sensitive corporate data by monitoring, detecting, and preventing email data breaches. It leverages advanced policies and real-time monitoring to ensure compliance and reduce risks effectively.

Proofpoint Email DLP addresses critical enterprise needs by safeguarding against email data leaks with comprehensive policy frameworks and intelligent monitoring capabilities. It offers customizable templates for various compliance standards, aiding IT departments in maintaining data security without complicating internal processes. Implementing Proofpoint Email DLP enhances data protection strategies and minimizes the risk of accidental leaks.

What are the key features of Proofpoint Email DLP?

Policy Frameworks: Pre-configured and customizable templates for regulatory compliance.
Real-Time Monitoring: Instantly detects and addresses potential data violations as emails are processed.
Incident Management: Provides detailed reports for quick investigation and resolution.
Integration: Easily integrates with other security systems to offer comprehensive data protection.

What benefits or ROI should users expect?

Data Security Enhancement: Reduces data breach risks through proactive monitoring and policies.
Compliance Support: Ensures adherence to industry standards with customizable policy templates.
Operational Efficiency: Streamlines incident management, reducing response time and resource allocation.
Risk Mitigation: Minimizes accidental data leaks, safeguarding company reputation.

In industries like finance and healthcare, where data sensitivity is paramount, Proofpoint Email DLP is commonly implemented. These sectors benefit significantly due to its robust compliance features, enabling firms to protect client data and meet stringent regulatory requirements efficiently.

Proofpoint

Sample Customers

Trusted by over 9,000,000 Internet Applications and APIs, including Nasdaq, Zendesk, Crunchbase, Steve Madden, OkCupid, Cisco, Quizlet, Discord and more.

Samsung, Toyota, Philips, Zeppelin, Western Union, eBay

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Netwrix Endpoint Protector vs. Proofpoint Email Data Loss Prevention (DLP)