Microsoft 365 vs. Proofpoint Email Protection

Microsoft 365

7,168 Reviews and Ratings

Proofpoint Email Protection

217 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Microsoft 365	Score8.7 out of 10	N/A	Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365) is a Microsoft Cloud subscription service that includes Microsoft Office products (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook, Publisher, and Access). The software can be installed across multiple devices and ensures that users always have the most up-to-date version of the included Office applications.	$5 Per User Per Month
Proofpoint Email Protection	Score8.4 out of 10	N/A	Proofpoint Email Protection is available as an on-premise or cloud based solution and blocks unwanted, malicious and impostor emails with granular search capabilities and visibility into all messages. Outbound controls include encryption and data loss prevention, while continuity capabilities ensure business communications can continue as normal in the event of an email outage. With Proofpoint's Email Protection, you can protect your people, data, and brand from today’s threats…	N/A

Pricing

Microsoft 365

Proofpoint Email Protection

Business Basic: $5.00
Per User Per Month
Individual: $5.84
*Per Month
Business - Apps: $8.25
Per User Per Month
Enterprise - F3: $10.00
Per User Per Month
Business Standard: $12.50
Per User Per Month
Business Premium: $20.00
Per User Per Month
Enterprise - E3: $32.00
Per User Per Month
Enterprise - E5: $57.00
Per User Per Month

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Pricing Offerings
Microsoft 365	Proofpoint Email Protection
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

No setup fee

No setup fee

*When billed annually.

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Key User Insights
	Microsoft 365	Proofpoint Email Protection
Considered Both Products	Microsoft No answer on this topic	Proofpoint Verified User Chose Proofpoint Email Protection Microsoft Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection needs to improve a lot to catch up to Proofpoint's abilities and features. We used ATP for a year but malicious emails were slipping through. Proofpoint was much more efficient in catching malicious emails. With ATP the … Incentivized Helpful? Nicole Dohrman Network Security Analyst in Information Technology at Ameren (Utilities, 10,001+ employees) Chose Proofpoint Email Protection As a previous Exchange administrator, ProofPoint allowed us to move many security-based mail flow rules into the system. This simplified our Exchange mail flow and allowed for more detailed and concise rules. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Proofpoint Email Protection Works very well - probably much better in terms of feature set and customisability. The quality of message filtering is fantastic. But from an administrative perspective it is more difficult to manage than the others. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Proofpoint Email Protection We currently have Microsoft ATP turned on behind Proofpoint and Proofpoint's TAP. ATP almost never alerts us to any issues due to the filtering by Proofpoint. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Proofpoint Email Protection It's definitely better and more robust and reliable than our previous solution (McAfee Email Gateway), but when compared to Mimecast they are pretty much on par. Both solutions offer a very good solution to email security. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Proofpoint Email Protection I have used Symantec Brightmail, Cisco Ironport, and Trend Micro Email Security. We selected Trend's product due to the price, but it failed miserably at clustering and overall email delivery. Proofpoint came in second as it checked off a lot of the boxes that we required in … Incentivized Helpful? Hasan Sayed Team Lead in Information Technology at Saint-Gobain (Building Materials, 10,001+ employees) Chose Proofpoint Email Protection Sandboxing, TAP, TRAP along with on-premise device and cloud capability. Incentivized Helpful? Oliver Strojan Exchange /Proofpoint Administration/Support in Information Technology at Adidas (Sporting Goods, 10,001+ employees) Chose Proofpoint Email Protection EOP (Exchange online protection) Incentivized Helpful? Mallinath Doddamani IT-Administrator / IT-Consultant in Information Technology at at HWS Informationssysteme GmbH(External at Adidas AG) (Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees) Chose Proofpoint Email Protection We have not used any other product so far apart from Proofpoint. Incentivized Helpful? Casey Ketcham Sr. Network Administrator in Information Technology at NPC International (Restaurants, 10,001+ employees) Chose Proofpoint Email Protection We didn't look at any other alternatives. Proofpoint reached out to us via cold call, the guys seemed really nice so we met with them for lunch and loved their showing of the product and in the end purchased it. Incentivized Helpful? Andrew Maledy Manager, Corporate IT in Human Resources at PayByPhone (Computer Software, 51-200 employees) Chose Proofpoint Email Protection I would trade it for Office 365 in a heartbeat. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Proofpoint Email Protection Proofpoint gives you a better feature set, with more comprehensive tools, and much better visibility and reporting than you can get with an out of the box deployment of Office 365 Online protection. We needed more visibility into what was happening and why and that is something … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Proofpoint Email Protection Proofpoint > Microsoft Office 365 protection (we did not utilize 365 ATP). The tools within Microsoft Office365 are time-consuming to use and are in different locations in the portal. It was such a hassle trying to track threats. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Proofpoint Email Protection We used to rely on Google's Gmail built-in protection which is limited. For example, there is not much administration control around the spam filter and how it detects spam. We cannot make a custom rule or policy to handle spam. Proofpoint provides more control to the email … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Proofpoint Email Protection This is the only product we have used. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Proofpoint Email Protection Most recently we've looked at Microsoft's Email protection services associated with Office 365, but they are still not quite ready for prime time. Proofpoint's logging, search and threat analysis capabilities are literally years ahead of Microsoft in this product space. … Incentivized Helpful?
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	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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Features

Microsoft 365

Proofpoint Email Protection

Comparison of Secure Email Gateway features of Microsoft 365 and Proofpoint Email Protection
Feature	Microsoft 365 - Ratings	Proofpoint Email Protection 8.0 79 Ratings
Anti-malware	00 Ratings	10.077 Ratings
Customizability	00 Ratings	7.076 Ratings
Data Loss Protection	00 Ratings	6.049 Ratings
Threat Detection	00 Ratings	8.076 Ratings
Sandboxing	00 Ratings	7.058 Ratings
End-to-End Encryption	00 Ratings	10.059 Ratings
Management Tools	00 Ratings	8.075 Ratings

User Ratings
	Microsoft 365	Proofpoint Email Protection
Likelihood to Recommend	7.8 (240 ratings)	10.0 (96 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.5 (6 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Usability	7.2 (8 ratings)	9.0 (3 ratings)
Availability	- (0 ratings)	9.1 (1 ratings)
Performance	- (0 ratings)	8.2 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	8.9 (54 ratings)	8.3 (5 ratings)
Implementation Rating	9.0 (2 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Product Scalability	- (0 ratings)	8.2 (1 ratings)