We performed a comparison between Proofpoint Email Protection and RiskIQ Illuminate based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Proofpoint, Barracuda Networks, IRONSCALES and others in Secure Email Gateway (SEG)."A one-stop shop for email protection"
"The anti-spam features are excellent on the email firewalls."
"I like all the features with Proofpoint, such as how it filters the spam and marketing mail, lost reality mail, blocks phishing attacks, blocks malicious attachments, and stops phishing links. Also it can defend against the business email compromise impersonation technique. It is a complete solution for all email attacks. It filters for the bad, malicious attachments. If there is any executable file, it can be deleted. It is a good, complete solution."
"Proofpoint Email Protection's initial installation is straightforward. It took us less than a day to complete the implementation."
"Provides better control over emails, especially those sent via Office 365 on the cloud."
"Proofpoint Email Protection is stable enough and does its job of virus, malware, and email scam detection. Setting it up is not too complicated."
"The initial implementation is pretty easy to handle."
"The setup was easy."
"The solution is stable with 12 years of established historical data."
"I would want better spear phishing protection in the essentials package."
"Some use cases haven't been dealt with yet."
"Proofpoint should have better integration with complex environments that need more than one instance of Proofpoint, as there are issues with nested instances."
"The solution could be improved with the addition of PLP and email encryption features."
"The high cost of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"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."
"The scalability can be improved, and the solution can be optimized."
"It has too many screens. It is kind of a conglomeration of products. In other words, they built product A, product B, and product C, and they are yet to integrate them into a single administrative console. I would certainly like to see a more seamless administrative interface. I would also like to see them include more bang for the buck, by including features like email fraud protection, rather than making their product so piecemeal, where you are buying little pieces. I agree with the idea of having multiple tiers or layers, but maybe as small, medium, and large, as opposed to an a la carte menu."
"A low-cost service to evaluate the risk score of a supply chain would be very helpful."
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Proofpoint Email Protection is ranked 1st in Secure Email Gateway (SEG) with 44 reviews while RiskIQ Illuminate is ranked 13th in Attack Surface Management (ASM). Proofpoint Email Protection is rated 8.4, while RiskIQ Illuminate is rated 0.0. The top reviewer of Proofpoint Email Protection writes "A reasonably priced product that offers protection to emails, along with spam filters". On the other hand, the top reviewer of RiskIQ Illuminate writes "Able to discover unpatched servers, offers good stability, and scales very well". 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, whereas RiskIQ Illuminate is most compared with Microsoft Defender External Attack Surface Management, Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Recorded Future and ZeroFOX.
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