We performed a comparison between Proofpoint Email Protection and Sophos Phish Threat based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Security Awareness Training solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The solution is very user-friendly."
"Its anti-phishing functionality is the most valuable. Certainly, the biggest problem I have is phishing."
"Proofpoint Email Protection is a good product, and its most beneficial feature is the Threat Response Auto-Pull. I also like that it's an integrated email security solution."
"It's very good at identifying threats."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is the option to edit the inbound security."
"Proofpoint Email Protection's advantage is that, when it's working properly, it tends to catch more threats as compared to other products."
"A one-stop shop for email protection"
"The scalability is very good."
"It is easy to use."
"It is very simple to install and you can do it by yourself."
"The solution is easy to integrate because it is on the cloud. We have been able to limit users to only accessing the Sophos platform by modifying the firewall and Sophos platform settings. The dashboard gives us detailed reports allowing us to be able to manage better."
"I find the solution's reports very valuable."
"I have found the implementation process to be simple and straightforward."
"It is simple to push tests out to a group of users."
"The installation is straightforward. You only need to upload the user's email address to the cloud and you can start using it."
"I would want better spear phishing protection in the essentials package."
"The accessibility of Proofpoint Email Protection, particularly access to product trials, could be improved. It's hard to get a trial for Proofpoint Email Protection, and many customers prefer not just to do the POC or demo but try the product out."
"The high cost of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"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."
"The scalability can be improved, and the solution can be optimized."
"The email DLP portion could be a bit easier."
"Proofpoint Email Protection could improve the Mail Trace feature and make navigation easier."
"I want Security Awareness Training in there as a package deal. A lot of companies are starting to value email security a little bit more and take it a little bit more seriously, and the great product that we link together with a lot of these sales is a training product called Security Awareness Training. It is an upsell that we do with Proofpoint, and it is definitely something that I recommend everybody with email security to look into. It would be great if Security Awareness Training is included with the email security."
"Sophos Phish Threat can improve load balancing."
"Sophos Phish Threat can improve by adding other languages, such as Mandarin or Cantonese to their online trainer video center, it would be helpful."
"The pricing of Sophos Phish threat can be improved."
"I would like to see more manager-level training that teaches what needs to be done after a phishing email attack is found."
"Sophos should offer tests where we can emulate new attacks happening now."
"The security could be simplified within the product."
"It would be great if the price was reduced."
"The security of the solution could improve."
Proofpoint Email Protection is ranked 1st in Security Awareness Training with 44 reviews while Sophos Phish Threat is ranked 3rd in Security Awareness Training with 10 reviews. Proofpoint Email Protection is rated 8.4, while Sophos Phish Threat is rated 8.8. 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 Sophos Phish Threat writes "Significantly reduced phishing attacks in my customers' environments by training their users". 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 Sophos Phish Threat is most compared with KnowBe4 and Mimecast Awareness Training. See our Proofpoint Email Protection vs. Sophos Phish Threat report.
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