We performed a comparison between Proofpoint Email Protection and Webroot Advanced Email Encryption powered by Zix 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)."They have customized security rules, mature rules, anti-virus protection, as well as email authentication similar to SPF, DKIM, and DMARC."
"The solution scales quite well."
"It was easy to set up."
"As a cloud-based product, it can scale well."
"The archive feature is valuable."
"Proofpoint Email Protection's advantage is that, when it's working properly, it tends to catch more threats as compared to other products."
"It is a very scalable solution."
"The solution's technical support is good. I rate the technical support a ten out of ten."
"They do a better job of determining what's real and what's not than most of the other solutions we have tried, and it's been very painless to use."
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"Proofpoint should have better integration with complex environments that need more than one instance of Proofpoint, as there are issues with nested instances."
"We'd like to have the ability to create more customized reports."
"The solution could lower its price."
"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."
"The Secure Mail aspect should have an Outlook add-in, instead of an external dashboard that outside users have to access."
"Integration and filtering out who you want and don't want to have integrated ID could be improved."
"Proofpoint Email Protection could improve the Mail Trace feature and make navigation easier."
"The scalability can be improved, and the solution can be optimized."
"They have some areas that could be improved. For example, we also use this solution for email encryption, which was clunky and could be improved, but the email security itself has been excellent."
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Proofpoint Email Protection is ranked 1st in Secure Email Gateway (SEG) with 44 reviews while Webroot Advanced Email Encryption powered by Zix is ranked 14th in Secure Email Gateway (SEG). Proofpoint Email Protection is rated 8.4, while Webroot Advanced Email Encryption powered by Zix is rated 7.0. 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 Webroot Advanced Email Encryption powered by Zix writes "Inexpensive, with good email security, but the technical support could be improved". 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 Webroot Advanced Email Encryption powered by Zix is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP) and Barracuda Email Security Gateway.
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