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AshishKochhar - PeerSpot reviewer
AshishKochhar
Information Technology Team Lead at a manufacturing company with 201-500 employees

The best features of Proofpoint Email Protection are the advanced level of anti-spam and antivirus technology. It has the TAP feature, which is Targeted Attack Protection, that helps me scan URLs and provides URL defense. The solution also has outbound filtering and prevention capabilities. I particularly like the TRAP feature where I can pull out all phishing emails from all users' mailboxes in a single click. The level of security is good, though I feel the pricing could be reduced.

Proofpoint Email Protection automates URL prediction, defense, prevention, and outbound filtering. This means I do not have to manually check who all my risky users are or what kind of emails my users are receiving every day. I do not have to manually check what specific kinds of emails my top management level users are receiving or whether they are receiving phishing emails. The solution takes care of risky sign-in users and performs URL filtering so I do not have to manually do URL filtering myself from separate websites.

My organization is a big organization with 1,300 plus users. To take care of all these users requires a good product because there are so many emails in one day that need to be filtered before they reach the user. I have visibility of the dashboard where I can see how many actual emails there are, how many emails are whitelisted, and how many emails are blacklisted. The solution provides a graphical representation and dashboard view showing how many threats are getting blocked on a daily and monthly basis, allowing me to present this information to management and discuss it with users.

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reviewer5781394
Threat Hunter at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

We use Proofpoint Email Protection for their email security, which is POD. We use their TAP, TRAP, Clear, and we use the TAP ATO.

Proofpoint Email Protection is to keep the bad emails out of the gate. TRAP is to help me analyze user-reported emails to make sure that there is automation behind user-reported emails to reduce manual intervention. Clear does the same thing as well. Clear and TRAP work hand in hand. Then you have TAP ATO that actually monitors suspicious login and suspicious activity that's happening in our environment and alerts us when there is something wrong. Lastly, TAP is to give us the threat that is targeted to our industry.

Proofpoint Email Protection has impacted us by keeping the bad emails and the unwanted emails out. If you are the end user, I am sure you do not want to see a lot of spammy, graymail, cluttering your inbox and then you actually miss the most important email that you are actually supposed to be interacting with. When those bad emails are kept out of the gate, and the user can just focus on the email that matters most to them, I think that is how much Proofpoint Email Protection is impacting the entire organization.

Proofpoint Email Protection provides very attacked individuals visibility into people-based risk within our organization, where we can see all those very attacked individuals in the organization. That is a list that gives us visibility into who will need additional protection from a policy perspective or from a hardening perspective so that we really protect them. The risk score you get from that is very helpful to the organization.

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Steve Bradbury - PeerSpot reviewer
Steve Bradbury
Consultant at Exelixis Inc

Overall, the best features of Proofpoint Email Protection in my opinion are that their systems worked and they owned their mess-ups. I had some early issues early on in the relationship, and they said that the problem was theirs and they did things to fix it. I measure a vendor by how they deal with meeting their promises and getting things done as they said they would, and when things mess up, whether they own it and take care of it. They did both of those things.

Feature-wise, what I appreciate most about Proofpoint Email Protection is that their bread and butter is their email security gateway. That provides top-level, best of breed protections for email services. Then they provide a set of support suites around that to support implementation of security postures.

Proofpoint Email Protection is improving on the level of visibility it provides when it comes to people-based risk within my organization. They have a tool that identifies the most attacked people, called VAPs. It helps me understand who in the organization is being attacked most. They also allow me to identify people who are VIPs, so I can provide reporting on what is happening to them. In general, their visibility is very good on what happened to a message, what was processed, and what was delivered. I can see the characteristics of that message, the recipients, and the senders. This gives me great visibility into the email flow.

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February 2026
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reviewer2801907 - PeerSpot reviewer
reviewer2801907
Senior Cyber Security Specialist at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Proofpoint Email Protection performs very deep investigation on all incoming emails. It scans through multiple Proofpoint cloud applications such as TAP, TRAP, Email Fraud Defense, a customer support portal, and Proofpoint Security Awareness tool, supporting six to seven applications total. All these applications are cooperated and cloud-native, working together to determine whether an email is actually malicious or not. It is very easy to perform sandboxing of the incoming email, conduct investigations, and run checks on multiple sender intelligence and email firewall rules to easily identify incoming emails. Based on the decision, emails can be allowed, sent, or quarantined at the gateway level.

Proofpoint Email Protection can easily integrate with Office 365 cloud application and should be easy to integrate with Exchange on-prem as well, with both working simultaneously. User sync is easy, SSO configuration is straightforward, and managing all incoming domains on the Proofpoint cluster is simple. Most organizations are moving forward with Proofpoint Email Protection because of these capabilities as it is one solution for many problems.

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Kevin Flores - PeerSpot reviewer
Kevin Flores
Specialist Engineer, S Sr at Globant

I have a few favorite features about Proofpoint Email Protection. One of my favorites was the ability to create filters. Under Proofpoint Email Protection, unlike other types of services, an administrator can create global filters or global policies. However, I think that one opportunity area for Proofpoint Email Protection is at the end-user level, where users can create their own policies and settings that will overwrite the global policy and settings. From a security perspective, this can be both an advantage and a gap because if an end-user creates a policy and setting on their end, it will overwrite any policy that the administrator has already set.

My favorite aspects included creating filters and policies to allow or block emails and using country-type lists. For example, if you do not want to allow emails from IPs that are not located in the US or want to block emails from different countries, you have that capability. Another favorite of mine was the anti-spoofing feature. The anti-spoofing settings are powerful because, according to current email rules, every domain needs to have SPF, DKIM, and DMARC configurations or authentications already listed. If a domain is not already verified by these methods, Proofpoint Email Protection will block it or provide a warning to an end-user or administrator stating that the domain is not using the correct SPF or that it is sending from a third-party application but its IPs are not listed in the SPF. As an administrator, this provides better visibility to accomplish requirements with customers. These two features were my favorites.

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reviewer2805597 - PeerSpot reviewer
reviewer2805597
TDR Analyst at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Proofpoint Email Protection offers a very wide range of features such as anti-theft, where it will protect the user identity. It will give a spam-proof, phish-proof experience, and whenever a user receives an email, it will check the content of the email for masquerading or trying to pretend it is from some other person. It will check all these things and then it will allow the email to the user's inbox.

Anti-theft and masquerading are the two main features of the email gateway. It will protect the user's identity. For example, if I am sending an email outside the organization, the email gateway will sit in between the sender and receiver. It will check the alignment and all those things, and it will mask the sender's identity. It will send it as a do-not-reply or send the emails from a do-not-reply email to protect the user's identity. When coming to the masquerading part, it will check for some spelling mistakes and misspelled domain names. These are all the things that I usually see in phishing email cases.

Proofpoint Email Protection has positively impacted our organization in a very fruitful way. The number of phishing attempts that we have seen has gradually decreased by using this email gateway. The number of users that I have started training by using their official manual and the official email protection manual has increased. They have a very good range of trainers from Proofpoint who will deliver trainings on a quarterly basis, so the team will get updated on the active threats that are happening in email activities. It is helping our organization a lot. I can see very good results in the case of phishing emails and spam. They have been reduced drastically.

The phishing emails have been decreased by 60% because of the active threat scanning and URL scanning and all those things. The spam score has been decreased by more than 70%.

It definitely helped the SOC analyst to analyze the events better. It will give a broad range of what things I need to check for when I receive an email. There will be some actions to purge the emails if I find it is suspicious, and I can do the bulk email deletion. Suppose if I received one phishing email, I suspect that many of the members in the organization have received it. In Proofpoint Email Protection gateway, I can search from that sender and I will get all the emails that were received over a period of time. I can purge them all with the same subject line or the emails that I suspect to be a phishing one. That is definitely a time-saver. Otherwise, it would have been hectic work for an IT person to go to each desktop to check whether the email was received or not. It definitely helped a SOC analyst to save time and do more effective and efficient analysis.

Proofpoint Email Protection has enabled the SOC team to save more than 20 hours a week. Before, I used to manually investigate the logs for the phishing emails. Now I have the web gateway or a website where I can check all the phishing and spam emails received. That is definitely very helpful.

Proofpoint Email Protection has influenced the quantity of threats our organization needs to protect against. It will help in analyzing the threats better. It will act as a barrier between the internet and the organization, where it will scan each and every email, incoming and outgoing. If it suspects it to be a phish or spam, it will definitely move it out of the user's inbox. The phish score is a very good thing. By implementing this tool, I have saved more than 20 hours a week and I have got a much more efficient team. The number of threats has also become very low after using this. I used to receive more than 10 to 15 phishing emails before, but after the implementation, only one or two emails will hit the user's inbox. The rest of them will be handled by Proofpoint. For that one or two, I will receive a notification that Proofpoint is suspecting this email, but it wants a confirmation from the user.

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Alex Alexandre - PeerSpot reviewer
Alex Alexandre
System Administrator at INSIGHT CREDIT UNION

I found that the easiest feature to set up for Proofpoint Email Protection is its implementation. I think it was easy to implement, and customer support was very helpful during the implementation process, easing things. Proofpoint Email Protection is a set-it-and-forget-it solution. As long as you set your policies in place and have things in place, it is really straightforward compared to a couple of solutions I have used before.

The time required for email investigations and responses has changed with Proofpoint Email Protection's visibility and automation. With my previous solution, I constantly had to verify whether emails were real threats, which took much time to investigate. Now, it is much more efficient.

Proofpoint Email Protection has significantly influenced the quantity of threats my organization needs to protect against. I have been seeing a lot fewer threats thanks to the technology. Especially now, there is a lot of AI built-in that monitors user behavior. If anything abnormal occurs, I receive a notification or alert, making it easier to assess the situation due to AI's user behavior analysis.

After implementing Proofpoint Email Protection, I noticed a lot of changes in operational efficiency, such as fewer help desk calls because users have the ability to approve spam. They have full control now, and I do not have to worry about them installing Outlook anymore since they can use the app, which I control. This is beneficial for remote users as they can use the Proofpoint Email Protection app to access email, and I can enable or disable access as needed, enhancing safety on my side.

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Swati Bellary
Senior Analyst/Software Engineer at LTIMindtree

The best features in Proofpoint Email Protection that I prefer are TRAP Recall, mainly for handling TRAP-related issues.

Proofpoint Email Protection's admin console provides centralized management that can be interfaced with a SOC team. We configure, monitor, and respond to threat modeling threats. It provides full visibility of email traffic, user risk, and other threats across the organization, delivering threat monitoring and people-level visibility through policy management.

Policy management allows us to prepare rule condition sets where we can allow legitimate domains, permit senders, and create rules backed by policy management. We also receive incident response capabilities, reporting, dashboarding, and scheduling of reports according to user requirements, with integration and automation with the SOC team.

Proofpoint Email Protection reduces the qualities of threats through default policy rules we have configured for credential harvesting, business email compromise, and other email-based attacks. We combine reputation analysis, behavioral detection, sandboxing, and threat intelligence. We conduct internal campaigns that improve alerts and reduce false positives.

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Olufemi Oyinkansola
Senior Security Engineer at Cloudflare

The ability to create custom blocks in Proofpoint Email Protection is a very big deal for me. I enjoy being able to do that, and I appreciate the advanced phishing and BEC protection. I value that it provides a lot of advanced phishing protection and smishing for executives. The TAP, or Targeted Attack Protection, which blocks many sophisticated and URL campaigns, is really nice. One of the features that Proofpoint Email Protection has, that a lot of vendors don't have, is URL Defense, which rewrites links such that even when bad links come in an email and it recognizes them, it rewrites them so you cannot click them and they go into Proofpoint isolation part. Additionally, the Attachment Defense that sandboxes attachments and detects malware from them is impressive. I appreciate that Proofpoint Email Protection has a very good Intel platform that tracks a lot of global threats and can detect threats before they happen or inform me of threats that are salient in my environment through a lot of correlations, making it one of the best.

Using Proofpoint Email Protection definitely helps with reducing the SOC Analyst workloads. In terms of context, Proofpoint Email Protection has good contextual analysis, so it helps reduce the time to containment because we have a lot of information, and while starting up, we do not have to start many procedures from scratch. We reduce a lot of the mean time to containment, and many threats are being caught, resulting in fewer incidents to deal with, which reduces the burnout from our SOC.

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David Dicus
Information Security Architect at Loews Hotels

The best features Proofpoint Email Protection offers excel in the DLP portion, although the email security is falling behind industry standards.

What I appreciate about the DLP portion specifically is that it is very detailed and customizable.

Proofpoint Email Protection has positively impacted my organization by advancing our email security posture. Before I started, there was no email security in place, so we are at least one step further in improving our security posture, although it does not meet the mark in some situations.

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Pavan Ingaleshwar - PeerSpot reviewer
Pavan Ingaleshwar
SOC Analyst at ISECURION

Proofpoint Email Protection effectively identifies malicious links using URL rewriting and time of click analysis, which is very impressive. It significantly reduces the risk of users accessing malicious websites. In several cases during incident investigations, I observed that Proofpoint Email Protection successfully blocked most of the malicious links and blocked credentials harvesting attempts. It also helps prevent malware delivery through email attachments.

From the perspective of SOC analysts, the visibility provided through large threat logs and message trace functionality is very useful during investigations. When users report a suspicious email, I can quickly research and search that message, analyze it, and check the sender reputation and review the attachment behaviors in the sandbox, and it even tells how many days back suspicious or malicious domain has been registered.

I can also determine whether similar emails have been received by other end users. Additionally, Proofpoint Email Protection integrates well with security tools such as SIEM platforms. In our environment, alerts and logs can be correlated with security telemetry. This helps SOC analysts and even SOC interns can use it; it is very user-friendly. They can also identify the broader aspects of attack patterns, such as phishing campaigns targeting multiple users.

Another benefit of using Proofpoint Email Protection is that I can quickly analyze the email if someone or endusers reports it. Before analyzing, it provides the sender address, domain name, receiver name, subject, and the entire raw email header. With Proofpoint Email Protection, if I use it for three to four months, I will be able to find out the intention of the email; it is handy and easy.

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AbhishekKumar21 - PeerSpot reviewer
AbhishekKumar21
Senior Security Engineer at DCIPHERS IT SOLUTIONS (P) LTD

Proofpoint Email Protection is processing a very large number of emails, scanning a very large number of emails which is in the trillions or billions number of emails every year. Technically, they must be having a great threat intelligence because they are going through so many emails. Apart from that, they have a very good offering in which we have URL Defense, where they rewrite the URL, and once the user clicks on it, if the URL is safe, then you can go ahead; otherwise, if it is not, then the user will not be able to redirect it to the particular URL. That is awesome. Microsoft is also providing URL Defense, but they are not working actively, whereas Proofpoint is providing this in a proactive way. Apart from that, Attachment Defense is a very common thing that every other vendor is doing. TAP and TRAP are also part of it, where TRAP is the solution from Proofpoint that pulls out your email that is actually having malware or a phishing attachment. That is a very unique thing that Proofpoint Email Protection is offering in the market. That is why I can consider Proofpoint Email Protection as a number one vendor for email security.

Many things are getting done by Proofpoint Email Protection itself. There is no need that initially you are just going back into the SOC platform or any SIEM platform and creating unnecessary correlation rules to get impact and know which email is actually triggering or which email is malicious. Everything is getting done by Proofpoint Email Protection itself. That is why I would say it is making lives easier for SOC analyst guys.

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Ravishankar KumarPatel - PeerSpot reviewer
Ravishankar KumarPatel
Solution Architect Cybersecurity at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Key highlights include:

  • Nexus AI, which enhances threat detection and context across email threats

  • UEBA (User and Entity Behavior Analytics), providing behavioral insights that differentiate Proofpoint from many competitors

  • Fraud defense and brand reputation insights, which are useful when advising customers
  • Built-in security awareness and guidance, helpful for both customers and service providers

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Jay Jayasinghe - PeerSpot reviewer
Jay Jayasinghe
Cyber Security Engineer at IT Naturally

My most favorite thing about Proofpoint Email Protection is definitely how well it filters emails. The number of emails is a major volume that Proofpoint handles. For the last 24 hours, we received 65,000 plus emails, 4,619 of them have been filtered away, and 60,000 plus have been delivered. Proofpoint actually recognized a vast amount of threats that are targeting the actual network of the customer environment, which is one of my favorite things about it. They do most of the heavy lifting when it comes to attack surface management.

Proofpoint Email Protection has massively improved the attack surface by defending against email borne threats. Looking at reports, I can see there are various attack campaigns running for the past month or so. Without Proofpoint Email Protection, most of these emails would have, slipped through Exchange, gotten into the user's mailbox, and created a lot of trouble for the organization. Thus, Proofpoint Email Protection has definitely improved defenses.

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reviewer2807556 - PeerSpot reviewer
reviewer2807556
Senior Security Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

The best features for me in Proofpoint Email Protection are the URL protection and attachment defense, along with phishing protection and spam detection. The solution is very effective in those aspects.

Proofpoint Email Protection provides huge visibility because we can see who are the most attacked people, for example, and we can enforce our security awareness on these individuals. This is the main feature that we use because we do not have other features configured. I know that Proofpoint has other solutions to analyze user risk and so on, but we did not purchase those.

Proofpoint Email Protection helps significantly because we have the product called Proofpoint TAP, which stands for Targeted Attack Protection. In this console, we receive notifications and alerts related to phishing campaigns and malware campaigns. We are able to be quick and fast in detecting and preventing these situations.

Proofpoint Email Protection provides significant value when compared to M365. A huge amount of emails are being rejected before being delivered to the mailboxes. This helps tremendously. The goal is to deliver only legitimate emails to users with a minimum of false positives as possible, and that is the case with Proofpoint Email Protection.

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reviewer2800347 - PeerSpot reviewer
reviewer2800347
Sr Security Engineer at a comms service provider with 201-500 employees

The best features I liked the most about Proofpoint Email Protection are difficult to pinpoint because it changed its user interface. Initially, it was a very old, clunky user interface, and during the time that I used it, they upgraded to a new modernized user interface. The power, flexibility, configurability, and Proofpoint Email Protection's professional services were some of the biggest selling points for me at the time and the things that I benefited from the most. The solution was very granular and very configurable.

Using Proofpoint Email Protection has impacted my SOC analyst workloads by lessening it over prior tooling that was in place and making it more focused. The tooling is more mature, more modern, and easier to use.

Proofpoint Email Protection did influence the quality of threats my organization needed to protect against. The help Proofpoint Email Protection provided with my threat protection and managing security operations comes from being easier to work with overall than the legacy interface. The new unified interface was a more modern, streamlined interface. It was very granular and very configurable, so the old interface exposed all that and you had to know how to navigate it to get to where you needed to do all those little granular tweaks. The unified interface streamlined that and made it much easier.

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reviewer2805150 - PeerSpot reviewer
reviewer2805150
IT Director at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

The best features Proofpoint Email Protection offers include an easy-to-use dashboard and administrative tools, an easy-to-use quarantine filter for users, and continuous protection. Proofpoint Email Protection has very good reporting capabilities as well as integration with Microsoft 365 email.

We have noticed a huge improvement in productivity of the users by clearing up their inbox of malicious emails and spam, and it has also prevented and secured our environment on a daily basis, making the security team's job much easier. Proofpoint Email Protection has changed my security team's day-to-day tasks; instead of reviewing malicious emails or assisting users, Proofpoint blocks those emails automatically and filters them, saving time for my team.

Using Proofpoint Email Protection has freed up my SOC analysts' time and helps them focus on more important activities. Proofpoint Email Protection provides very deep visibility into insider risk and also has a category called Very Attacked Persons, which highlights which users in the environment are receiving malicious emails and at what level. Proofpoint has helped our environment to be more secure by protecting us from threats, especially over email.

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reviewer2808051 - PeerSpot reviewer
reviewer2808051
Analyst at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

I like the user-friendly interface about Proofpoint Email Protection the most; in both the user view and the administrator view, they are doing great. It is easy to navigate and find the areas where you are heading. From the administrator perspective, there is another benefit because complex data tied with functions are organized well. If you are looking for something on the phishing part, they are quite quick in analyzing the data, and it is based on internal policies that allow quick analysis of many emails. From a user perspective, it is easy to access, for example, how interactive it is while working with the anti-spam filter, where users can go into their Proofpoint Email Protection mailbox to manage trusted and untrusted senders and domains easily without additional login steps. It has been comprehensive and easy to use for both users and administrators.

The level of visibility Proofpoint Email Protection provides into people-based risk within our company shows how we are protecting our employees and company from incoming emails. It is complex because our employees share their contacts, and when we educate them to not use their email addresses anywhere, we gauge our effectiveness in this area. The visibility helps us understand how effective our user education is against email spoofing and spam attacks. On the other side, if a computer gets infected, we gather metrics reflecting how our users are impacted by malware spam, which allows us to target education for those users better. The visibility has been based on two factors: incoming emails and outgoing emails that are marked as suspicious, which aids us greatly.

Proofpoint Email Protection has primarily impacted my SOC analyst workloads by focusing on metrics. If I have an administrator view, I get something from the tool itself, while from a management perspective, they would want to see it differently. The metrics we extract from the tool enable us to comprehensively understand how quickly we act and how effective we are in cybersecurity against public threats, as we are protecting the company and our users.

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Maher Elsherbini
System Administrator at Tutt Bryant Group

Proofpoint Email Protection has helped block risky content by alerting us when someone clicks on a link in a delivered email post-delivery, allowing us to block it after the user opened the email or clicked on the link, or preventing the user from clicking the link while it is on the isolated browser.

I review Proofpoint Email Protection activity every week, checking reports through the Proofpoint admin and using the workbench to check for exposed users, statistics, and to release emails.

All the features that we use in Proofpoint Email Protection are really important to us.

We rely on quarantine management significantly in Proofpoint Email Protection because we receive numerous multimedia and encrypted attachments almost every day.

Quarantine management is the main protection feature for us in Proofpoint Email Protection, although the threat detection is also one of the good features because it is very active and responsive.

Proofpoint Email Protection has positively impacted our organization's protection and has maintained security very well.

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reviewer2805183 - PeerSpot reviewer
reviewer2805183
Cyber Security Analyst at a government with 201-500 employees

Proofpoint Email Protection offers malicious email detection, phishing detection, malicious email removal, and phishing removal as its best features. I find malicious email detection most valuable day-to-day because we don't get infected.

Proofpoint Email Protection positively impacts my organization because it is a simpler solution in terms of user interaction compared to my previous email gateway, and its detection capabilities are considerably more advanced. It has saved time for us with less triage for responders. For administrators, the number of positive incidents we now test has decreased, and end users have less spam and malicious emails. It has reduced triage time and improved response times. Compared to my previous provider, the triage time is reduced by more than 70%.

Proofpoint Email Protection provides considerable visibility through the risk ratings and awareness training results. It has reduced threats by a considerable amount; I would estimate probably over 30%, though this is also due to technical improvements on my end, so I believe it would be less than that.

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reviewer2805303 - PeerSpot reviewer
reviewer2805303
Information Security Analyst at a government with 11-50 employees

Some of the best features of Proofpoint Email Protection are that the user interface is very simple to navigate and the changes are pretty quick. I submit the block request and it's implemented almost right away. I also use TAP in order to look at the blocked domains and how many domains were blocked. This comes very handy to understand the security posture of your organization, especially from the email side of things, in terms of how many threats from email were blocked.

From the TAP dashboard, I go through what is in the wild or what URL is being spread out or what URLs these attackers are trying to use. This gives me an idea as to which area is being targeted. For example, if most of the URLs are related to an e-commerce website, I know that they're using the e-commerce as the main phishing attempt. Or if it's a gift card scam, which usually happens around the Christmas time and holiday seasons, that gives me an idea of what to look for, and if I'm training my users I can train them on a gift card scam. This does help me in that sense as well.

Proofpoint Email Protection has definitely impacted my organization positively. I cannot imagine not having an email protection, and Proofpoint Email Protection is pretty good at doing its job. Nothing is 100%. There are hardly a couple of emails that get slipped through it, but as soon as that happens, we go ahead and block it. There have been cases where we reach out to support, open a case, and then get a particular URL and domain blocked as well, which helps in the security of not just our organization but the overall other Proofpoint Email Protection users globally as well.

Proofpoint Email Protection definitely reduces incidents. If the emails are already blocked by Proofpoint Email Protection, it does not land in the user's inbox, which will definitely save the users from clicking into a malicious link. Additionally, because it gives you the ability to block your own domains, if you get information from a different source that says one of your other vendors has been seeing a lot of phishing attempts from a particular email, we can actually go and add it as well. This gives us the opportunity to block those domains, which makes things even easier for us.

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Adrian Clements - PeerSpot reviewer
Adrian Clements
Cyber engineer at Fortescue

The supplier threat protection feature of Proofpoint Email Protection is particularly valuable. The gateway model prevents emails from reaching the tenant in the first place.

Proofpoint Email Protection ensures users have clean mailboxes and are not bothered by unwanted email. The security operations team spends less time processing unwanted emails or viruses due to Proofpoint Email Protection.

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reviewer2807463 - PeerSpot reviewer
reviewer2807463
Security Specialist at a leisure / travel company with 10,001+ employees

Proofpoint Email Protection helps me with phishing or spam emails by providing their own analytics on determining whether an email is phishing or spam, and their phishing and spam scoring helps dictate that.

Proofpoint Email Protection offers granular controls over what we can do with email flow into and out of the organization, and having a one-product suite where I can manage this makes my job much easier.

Regarding granular controls, we employ a managed service with Proofpoint, and we collaborate with them to roll out different initiatives based on observed threats that Proofpoint reports to us, going through an auditing rule process before we implement it to reduce friction as well as email flow of false positives if it catches any.

Proofpoint Email Protection has positively impacted my organization by definitely lowering the amount of phishing or scam-type emails that our users were receiving, helping them focus more on their work rather than dealing with these types of fraudulent emails.

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Andres H. - PeerSpot reviewer
Andres H.
Infrastructure Analyst at a consultancy with 51-200 employees

TAP alerts, where Proofpoint Email Protection scans emails and sends alerts, provide the ability to review suspicious emails and validate them in a sandbox environment.

Highlighting risky users and identifying them for more training or if targeted externally is useful.

Proofpoint Email Protection also helps in mitigating attack vectors and reducing the amount of threats.

It allows implementing policies that block known threats, reducing exposure and the time for threat identification.

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reviewer2805609 - PeerSpot reviewer
reviewer2805609
Security Analyst at a media company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The best features Proofpoint Email Protection offers are rule-based email protection and policy-based email protection, which are among the best in the industry. We receive a lot of unsolicited emails every day, and Proofpoint filters out all the spam really well.

Because we have control over the policies and rules, I am able to configure the rules according to our requirements, rather than relying on standard out-of-the-box configurations. This helps us curate a solution which is both industry best practice and optimal for our use cases and needs.

Proofpoint Email Protection has positively impacted our organization as it has been deployed for more than five years. It has been a good SEG, protecting our staff members before email hits their inboxes. Whatever is junk or spam gets filtered out, allowing users to spend significantly more time on real work rather than going through unnecessary emails.

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reviewer2500410 - PeerSpot reviewer
reviewer2500410
Senior Cybersecurity Specialist at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

I deal primarily with Proofpoint Email Protection, which is the main focus of Proofpoint's offerings.

Mail security works in conjunction with firewalling for email and DMARC compliance, and there are various authentications involved.

Proofpoint Email Protection is focused on email protection and is the key product.

With Proofpoint Email Protection, I appreciate that it's the industry leader, and its firewalling is very easy to manage and implement. It's also very less noisy.

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reviewer2805666 - PeerSpot reviewer
reviewer2805666
Cyber Security Analyst at a mining and metals company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The best features that Proofpoint Email Protection offers are consistency, security, and ease of setup.

The consistency and security features of Proofpoint Email Protection function effectively, as they block emails that are meant to be blocked and allow emails that are meant to be allowed. In terms of security, Proofpoint Email Protection has caught quite a few malicious emails that have passed through the filters of other security providers.

Proofpoint Email Protection has positively impacted my organization by blocking significantly more phishing emails, and phishing is the main entry point into getting compromised. I have more peace of mind knowing that more malicious emails are getting blocked.

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reviewer2805114 - PeerSpot reviewer
reviewer2805114
Infrastructure Engineer at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

The best features of Proofpoint Email Protection are URL Defense. The URL Defense feature has definitely helped my organization because when URLs come in, end users often don't know if they are safe or not. It is good that Proofpoint hides or changes URLs in a way that is safe. If users even click on them, the links do not go anywhere. Otherwise, when URLs come directly to end users, they could click on malicious links or malware that could be installed or forwarded. I have seen this before in a previous job, and here with using Proofpoint, it is really helpful.

Proofpoint Email Protection has positively impacted my organization because when people know that we are using Proofpoint and they know we have set up a mailbox for protection, they forward issues to that mailbox and we search for them. For safe links and safe attachments, when Proofpoint hides the actual link, it is really helpful for end users, and they know whatever comes to their mailbox is safe to click on. I have definitely noticed fewer incidents, as last month we had maybe one or two tickets for Proofpoint that people wanted, and those are false positives, but it is way less than before without Proofpoint.

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Sophie Alexander
Release lead at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

The best features Proofpoint Email Protection offers include a fantastic customer relationship, intuitive dashboards, and overall it's a good platform to work with.

The dashboards in Proofpoint Email Protection are simple to use, the data is easily understandable and displayed well.

Proofpoint Email Protection has positively impacted my organization by ensuring we are not at risk of a breach through email.

I have noticed improved compliance relating to DMARC since implementing Proofpoint Email Protection.

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Jason Frazer
GRC Analyst at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees

The best features Proofpoint Email Protection offers include the ability to be integrated with other tools like information security awareness training, allowing you to train and perform simulations.

Integrating Proofpoint Email Protection with my other tools and awareness training platforms was smooth, and I did not run into any challenges.

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Erman Sen
Manager, IT Director at Cakmak Avukatlik Ortakligi

From my perspective as a partner, the most beneficial feature of Proofpoint Email Protection is mostly spam filtering; it was very efficient, and we were very happy with the functionality as only relevant emails were allowed for mailboxes.

The Advanced Threat Protection feature was also effective, and we have used the sandbox feature, which was very beneficial.

From a business perspective, the solution was very helpful as it speeded our business flow and increased email delivery.

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Avigyanam Borah - PeerSpot reviewer
Avigyanam Borah
SOC Analyst at Colortokens

The best features that Proofpoint Email Protection offers me include Proofpoint TAP, Proofpoint user click, and Proofpoint detection based on threat intelligence.

I rely most on Proofpoint TAP because it gives a wide view of the email, indicating whether it is shared or comes from a suspicious source, and it provides clear information on the safety of URLs and attachments present in the email.

Proofpoint Email Protection has positively impacted my organization by simplifying the analysis of emails since it provides segregated statements that highlight the important parameters we need to check, allowing us to efficiently conclude if the alerts are false positives or true positives.

It saves us a lot of time because emails from Proofpoint gateway are typically rewritten for safety, which reduces the need for high-impact actions such as isolating devices immediately since we can rely on Proofpoint Email Protection to ensure safety.

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AhmedRamadan - PeerSpot reviewer
AhmedRamadan
Products and solutions director at ITVikings

The most valuable offerings are TAP and TRAP. TAP is the sandbox of Proofpoint, which is extremely effective for phishing attacks, while TRAP serves as an auto-quarantine solution. 

Proofpoint provides an expandable project model, including DLP, email archiving, and encryption, which makes it a complete email security solution.

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reviewer97525344
Security Presales Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It's the top choice because no company can operate without security. Ensuring email protection is a major priority for any organization when building its infrastructure. It effectively stops sophisticated attacks launched by advanced threat actors. It can identify attacks related to impersonation, deception, identity theft, business email compromise, and more.

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reviewer2306271 - PeerSpot reviewer
reviewer2306271
MEP at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees

The phishing and spam filters are the most effective features. There is also a trap feature that is most effective.

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reviewer1977171 - PeerSpot reviewer
reviewer1977171
Logistics Manager at a educational organization with 501-1,000 employees
The main feature I find most effective is that Proofpoint Email Protection scans emails and quarantines the doubtful ones. This is the main purpose of the software and it serves that function very well. View full review »
Pranay Gurrapu - PeerSpot reviewer
Pranay Gurrapu
Cyber Security Engineer at News Corp

The Tap and Trap features. They are the best features, in my opinion. I've worked with other tools which didn't have these features.

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Virgilio Vensamoye
Network Manager at ALACHUA COUNTY ITS

The tool has improved our workflow by ensuring people receive only the emails they need for work rather than being inundated with hundreds or thousands of unnecessary emails daily.

The most valuable feature of Proofpoint Email Protection is the ability to review and access quarantined emails. Sometimes, the tool may classify valid emails as spam, so being able to review and retrieve them is crucial.

The solution has all the plugins needed to integrate with Office 365.

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Stephen Whitehouse - PeerSpot reviewer
Stephen Whitehouse
Group Head of IT at Frontline Ltd

The product serves as an email sandbox to check attachments and ensure that everything is secure.

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SimonClark - PeerSpot reviewer
SimonClark
Cyber Security Advisor - Director at Fort Net UK

Proofpoint Email Protection offers an additional layer of protection compared to other brands like Microsoft, Mimecast, and Barracuda. While these major companies excel at detecting malicious attachments, the solution goes further by analyzing the context of emails, allowing for more nuanced decision-making.

The solution doesn't slow down things. It's very effective at blocking spam and phishing emails. 

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Enayat-Galsulkar
Senior Information Security Consultant at Dimah Capital

All the security features in the tool are good enough. It provides ransomware protection. The solution is always available. There is no downtime. There is no loss of data. We also have Emergency Inbox services. If our Exchange Server is down, we could still retrieve our emails from Proofpoint’s cloud. The tool provides us with all the basic and advanced security features. The dashboard is quite good. I rate the product’s user experience and administrative interface a seven out of ten.

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ArvindSharma2 - PeerSpot reviewer
ArvindSharma2
Security Operations Lead at ChargePoint

The most valuable feature is the option to edit the inbound security. 

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Santhosh Kandadi - PeerSpot reviewer
Santhosh Kandadi
Assistant Vice President at Synchrony

The most valuable feature of the solution is the protection it offers to emails, along with the spam filters.

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Agnieszka Gabrysiak - PeerSpot reviewer
Agnieszka Gabrysiak
Marketing Manager at Veronym

The solution is very user-friendly.

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CoreyWilson - PeerSpot reviewer
CoreyWilson
Director of Infrastructure and Security at Halifax Health

Proofpoint Email Protection's advantage is that, when it's working properly, it tends to catch more threats as compared to other products.

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reviewer86589
Senior Information Security Analyst at a healthcare company with 1-10 employees

The solution's whole server is valuable because has robust algorithms, AI that learns what goes through a company's email server, and strong rules for analyzing data. Competitor's products are just standard email filters that block or pass with no ongoing AI for learning. 

The security is very strong and comparatively better than Cisco CES. For example, in the last six months there has been an uptick in phishing campaigns or malicious email attachments purporting to come from Geek Squad. I see a substantial number of these troublesome emails pass through CES, Barracuda, and Mimecast but I have not seen a single email pass through the solution. 

The Phish Alarm button allows users to submit questionable emails for review and complete analysis. A submitted email is analyzed in the cloud sandbox and the results are provided along with the actual email. Substantial information is included in this dynamic analysis such as email details, URLs, links, domains, ages of accounts, and what the email is intending to do. No other product offers this type of built-in email analysis. I have reviewed three different products including Cofense and they all send the email with its metadata to the user's security response team for manual review.  

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Suhel Khan - PeerSpot reviewer
Suhel Khan
Senior Consultant (SIEM Admin) at IBM

It's great for email protection.

It's very good at identifying threats.

There is useful sandboxing available.

The pricing is very reasonable. This is an affordable product.

Technical support is very good. 

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ManishKumar18 - PeerSpot reviewer
ManishKumar18
Manager Technology - Advanced Analytics and Data Management at Mashreq

Overall, it is a good product.

We like that it provides everything in a single dashboard. On that, we can find all the information related to the risks involved within a suspicious email.

The initial setup is very, very easy.

It's a stable, reliable product.

As a cloud-based product, it can scale well. 

Customer support is very helpful and responsive. They are great at answering questions. 

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Mohamed-Kamal - PeerSpot reviewer
Mohamed-Kamal
Tech manager at MKTech

The stability is good.

The spam filter for email is good.

The solution can scale. 

We have found the initial setup to be straightforward. 

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Sathish Mani - PeerSpot reviewer
Sathish Mani
Senior Manager - Cybersecurity Operations at Likewize

The targeted attack protection that we use has been great, as has the email filtering and the rules that we have set for Proofpoint. The quarantine capabilities are very useful.

You can scale the solution.

It's a mature product. It does a good job in detection. 

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Larry Etzler - PeerSpot reviewer
Larry Etzler
CEO at JL Computers

The most valuable feature of Proofpoint Email Protection is the blocking capabilities, it blocks a lot of potential threats.

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reviewer1624176 - PeerSpot reviewer
reviewer1624176
Global Account Manager at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

Its main defense is to stop malicious emails from coming through. There is a sandbox environment where you can open malicious or suspicious emails to make sure that they're not malicious, instead of taking the risk of having your employees do it. This is definitely something that everybody needs nowadays, especially with the rise in cyber attacks.

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reviewer2322027 - PeerSpot reviewer
reviewer2322027
Senior Information Security Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 201-500 employees

The solution blocks malicious emails containing viruses and malware and reduces them out of spam.

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Michael Maertzdorf - PeerSpot reviewer
Michael Maertzdorf
IT System Administrator at Data 4 Information Technology B.V.

URL scanning and online relay service are the most valuable features of Proofpoint Email Protection.

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Melvin Ong - PeerSpot reviewer
Melvin Ong
Country Manager at PT Symcaw Solutions Indonesia

The protection has been fair so far. We haven't had any issues. 

It's easy to set up. The deployment is also fast. 

The solution has been stable.

The solution scales well. 

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ManishKumar18 - PeerSpot reviewer
ManishKumar18
Manager Technology - Advanced Analytics and Data Management at Mashreq

The most valuable feature of Proofpoint Email Protection is the central location dashboard for viewing all the related information for risk.

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Anuraj Nair - PeerSpot reviewer
Anuraj Nair
Presales Engineer at SNSIN

The most valuable features of Proofpoint Email Protection are the performance from being on the cloud.

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Sheikh Rehan
Data Security Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

The value for us is that we now have much better control over emails, especially those sent via Office 365 on the cloud. We've configured it so that all emails go to Proofpoint and are quarantined or encrypted. I believe the quarantine email function is very rare to find in other solutions. It's a powerful tool and I believe cost effective.

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reviewer1550484 - PeerSpot reviewer
reviewer1550484
Chief Information Officer at a consumer goods company with 51-200 employees

The setup was easy.

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reviewer1515735 - PeerSpot reviewer
reviewer1515735
Information Technology Help Desk Technician at a consumer goods company with 51-200 employees

The solution offers very good flexibility. You can blacklist or whitelist with ease.

Their entire dashboard is excellent. It's completely user-friendly, it's easy to navigate. Anything you need to get done, you can do right from the dashboard, which is incredible. 

What makes it so easy is the features of Proofpoint and how secure it is. 

You could have no IT experience and go in there and control Proofpoint. If your company says "Hey, we need somebody to control Proofpoint," you could hire a kid out of high school to learn it. That's how easy it is.

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reviewer1501215 - PeerSpot reviewer
reviewer1501215
Principal Consultant at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

There's Microsoft Office 365 email protection. The one good thing they have over Microsoft is their incredible search engine. That's why our clients like it. They like the search engine because they can search anything to do with their messages incredibly easily. This allows them to find troubleshooting issues. That's a big selling point.

There are some tools within it that are amazing. Even from a configuration standpoint, it's a hardened system. It's never been penetrated, so that's another great feature about Proofpoint.

They handle combined attacks. Defender for Office 365 does this as well. For instance, if you have an obfuscated URL embedded into an email and the email looks very legitimate, they can track that. Provepoint offers the same flexibility when combined with Office 365 as well. You can do your spam scores, and you can set up policies for people. From here, they can make a decision whether to select a spam policy or not. You can do the same thing with a lot of products, but Proofpoint makes it easy.

They all have quarantines where you can release messages. They're all very on par with each other. However, if you don't have Defender for Office 365, the feature parity is just not there. But there are lots of selling points, Proofpoint, in particular, takes care of. Still, they have a business continuity piece that is lacking in the Office 365 suite.

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Luis Brown
Chief Information Security Officer at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees

Its anti-phishing functionality is very valuable to the organization.  As outlined above, we are able to automatically respond to Phishing Reports as well as stop as much as 80% of most Phishing Attacks at the front end leaving only a small percentage to be handled after the fact.

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Bau PAO
Business Development Manager at Skytex Consultant Limited

The archive feature is valuable.

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Chawapat Kongdumrongkiat
Product Consultant at M.Tech

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.

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reviewer1319712 - PeerSpot reviewer
reviewer1319712
Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

The solution is dedicated to email security and that is its core business. It is a leader in comparison to other vendors. 

The solution has very strong detection for most phishing and malicious emails received from the outside. It is stronger in this area than competitors. 

The TRAP is great for analytics and correlations related to the mailbox. 

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Chawapat Kongdumrongkiat
Product Consultant at M.Tech

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.

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reviewer1977531 - PeerSpot reviewer
reviewer1977531
Analyst

The pricing is great.

It has a nice interface.

The features are very good. 

The stability is very good. 

The solution is scalable. 

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reviewer1759677 - PeerSpot reviewer
reviewer1759677
Information Technology Security Risk Manager at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Proofpoint Email Protection's detection for true positives are great. False negatives or type two errors are very low. Type one errors are acceptable and this capability is the one that allows the least amount of spam to enter.

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it_user1711266 - PeerSpot reviewer
it_user1711266
Dipl.Ing.

The most valuable feature of this solution is that it's a one-stop shop for email protection.

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it_user1309926 - PeerSpot reviewer
it_user1309926
Head of IT Department at a construction company with 1,001-5,000 employees

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.

Additionally, the user interface is good, it's easy to use. Whoever has good technical skills can understand it. Even the normal user can handle this solution easily. By the way, I was using Symantec Messaging Gateway. I don't recommended it at all, it makes a lot of issues. A lot of false positives were happening. So I started evaluating Proofpoint and Mimecast. Both products are okay, but I liked Proofpoint more because I saw that it has a high accuracy, offers a very good service, and their support is amazing. So as a whole product, I preferred Proofpoint. But Mimecast is also good.

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it_user1620072 - PeerSpot reviewer
it_user1620072
Works

The state-of-the-art security is the solution's most valuable aspect. 

The solution scales quite well.

The product offers very good value for money.

The solution is very easy to handle overall.

The implementation process is simple and straightforward.

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it_user1272951 - PeerSpot reviewer
it_user1272951
Security Professional at Qatar Computer Services WLL

The most valuable features are the business email compromise protection and targeted attack prevention.

With Proofpoint, you have this targeted attack feature wherein you can protect them from specifically targeting high profile users of an organization.

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reviewer1458411 - PeerSpot reviewer
reviewer1458411
Network Security Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

The sandbox update is very accurate.

They have customized security rules, mature rules, anti-virus protection, as well as email authentication similar to SPF, DKIM, and DMARC.

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reviewer1050960 - PeerSpot reviewer
reviewer1050960
CISO at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

The URL rewrites on the solution are excellent.

The system offers good flexibility.

The initial implementation is pretty easy to handle.

The solution is quite reliable and doesn't fail.

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reviewer1261605 - PeerSpot reviewer
reviewer1261605
Director at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

The solution is very simple.

The anti-spam features are excellent on the email firewalls.

The program's interface is easy to use. We've found that end-users have been very happy in terms of the usage provided and the delivery of an email solution that protects them.

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Ken Wottge
Information Security Officer at UC San Diego Health System

The most valuable feature is the ability to remove bad messages that were delivered, prior to being classified as unwanted.

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LeticiaLezama
General contador at Dicofra

The most valuable features of Proofpoint Email Protection are ease of use, data loss prevention, antivirus, and spam protection. 

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Tharaka Athukorala
Solution Specialist at South Asian Technologies

Proofpoint Email Protection is the best solution from the perspective of email security. The solution has a lot of email protection features for spam and phishing campaigns, and it also has a platform to educate the end users.

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reviewer1625004 - PeerSpot reviewer
reviewer1625004
Gerente de operaciones at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

The most valuable feature of Proofpoint Email Protection is the dashboards and their visibility, easy configuration, and artificial intelligence. Additionally, the reports are very important and helpful.

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Proofpoint Email Protection
February 2026
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