Abnormal Security vs. Proofpoint Essentials for Small Business

Another local organization was compromised, and we were one of the targets of their further attempts. We were 100% protected because the behavioral analysis protected us, but also allowed me to contact that organization and report their compromise. This has actually happened more than one time since going live.

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Proofpoint Essentials for Small Business is well suited for users up to 500, for Office 365 (Microsoft’s cloud-based email and collaboration platform).

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• Spam filtering...we have been able to turn our spam sensitivity down on Exchange allowing more legitimate messages through to user inboxes.
• Malicious email filtering...we experienced several successful phishing attacks over the past year. Abnormal Security has prevented hundreds of individual campaigns since going live in August '22. I cannot thank them enough!
• Automated response for reported emails...my team is small and we do not have enough hours in a day to review and respond to each reported email. Abnormal Security performs additional analysis on those reports and automatically responds for us. If the message is spam or malicious, copies of those emails are looked for throughout the server and deleted.

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• Proofpoint catches all the junk emails (spam, phishing, etc.).
• Light-weight solution, easy to deploy, configure and manage.
• Fast and easy tracking of inbound and outbound emails.
• Quarantine Digest emails - makes reviewing of junk emails to be very simple process
• Analysis of URLs and attachments makes email system to be more safe.

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• None so far, I have been extremely happy with their service.

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• It will be great to have a TAP Dashboard in Essentials
• Export data to the SIEM
• Customized Policy

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Abnormal Security blocks malicious emails that both PhishER and Cisco Secure Email Threat Defense miss. One thing that PhishER does have is the ability to flip a malicious message into a user education phishing email. That's cool, but I think we can just copy/paste the same info into a custom campaign.

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As already wrote, Proofpoint is perfect solution to be deployed quickly without requiring any additional resources or services. Good email tracking logs, excellent reporting features. Great filtering mechanism. Cost effective pricing.

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• Preventing compromises that have historically led to payroll or accounts payable threats.

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• It has helped capture malicious emails trying to get company logins and info
• It has helped stop viruses that were sent to emails
• I am not a financial type but I think it has been worth the price

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