Microsoft Exchange vs. Proofpoint Email Protection

Microsoft Exchange

605 Reviews and Ratings

Proofpoint Email Protection

217 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Microsoft Exchange	Score9.3 out of 10	N/A	Microsoft Exchange is a secure email / messaging gateway with file archiving and encryption / data loss capability, available as a hosted service (Exchange Online) or installed (Exchange Server).	N/A
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 Exchange

Proofpoint Email Protection

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

No setup fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	Microsoft Exchange	Proofpoint Email Protection
Considered Both Products	Microsoft Jane Updegraff Senior Systems Administrator in Information Technology at DRT Holdings, Inc. (Aviation & Aerospace, 501-1000 employees) Chose Microsoft Exchange Office 365 has hosted Microsoft email that is powered by Exchange but which is run completely in the Microsoft cloud and paid for by monthly subscription. Microsoft Exchange, on the other hand, is hosted on-premise and inside your own network. They both work the same way and do … Incentivized Helpful?	Proofpoint Verified User Chose Proofpoint Email Protection Proofpoint is the leader of the pack when it comes to email security services. I have used a range of other providers in the space and Proofpoint is the best. It's ability to identify and block malicious email and threats sets it above all other competitors. Incentivized Helpful? Sateesh Konijeti Information Technology Specialist in Information Technology at Cognizant (Information Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees) Chose Proofpoint Email Protection We have used EOP (Exchange Online Protection) in the past and we also had a POC with Proofpoint which we were excited to use and the results were positive. Before Proofpoint, we had many issues with imposters and TAP issues with EOP, which have been improved with Proofpoint. We … 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? 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? Jane Updegraff Senior Systems Administrator in Information Technology at DRT Holdings, Inc. (Aviation & Aerospace, 501-1000 employees) Chose Proofpoint Email Protection I have not evaluated any others since I have been in this position. But in a previous position I evaluated Mimecast. It's similar and may have a nicer GUI but I don't think it has the same depth as far as bulk of historical detection data. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Proofpoint Email Protection We have been using Proofpoint Email Protection so long that I can't actually remember what we used before. It is highly rated on the Gartner scale and we have not evaluated other products because Proofpoint Email Protection does what it is supposed to. 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? Verified User Chose Proofpoint Email Protection This is the only product we have used. Incentivized Helpful?
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	Delivers good value for the price
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	Happy with the feature set
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	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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Features

Microsoft Exchange

Proofpoint Email Protection

Comparison of Secure Email Gateway features of Microsoft Exchange and Proofpoint Email Protection
Feature	Microsoft Exchange 8.1 80 Ratings	Proofpoint Email Protection 8.0 79 Ratings
Anti-malware	8.163 Ratings	10.077 Ratings
Customizability	7.975 Ratings	7.076 Ratings
Data Loss Protection	8.665 Ratings	6.049 Ratings
Threat Detection	8.064 Ratings	8.076 Ratings
Sandboxing	7.444 Ratings	7.058 Ratings
End-to-End Encryption	8.364 Ratings	10.059 Ratings
Management Tools	8.477 Ratings	8.075 Ratings

User Ratings
	Microsoft Exchange	Proofpoint Email Protection
Likelihood to Recommend	8.8 (98 ratings)	10.0 (96 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	8.0 (3 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Usability	9.0 (2 ratings)	9.0 (3 ratings)
Availability	10.0 (1 ratings)	9.1 (1 ratings)
Performance	9.0 (1 ratings)	8.2 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	9.9 (12 ratings)	8.3 (5 ratings)
Implementation Rating	10.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Configurability	7.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Ease of integration	5.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Product Scalability	10.0 (1 ratings)	8.2 (1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	5.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	8.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)