Mimecast Advanced Email Security vs. Proofpoint Email Protection

Mimecast Advanced Email Security

196 Reviews and Ratings

Proofpoint Email Protection

217 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Mimecast Advanced Email Security	Score8.6 out of 10	N/A	The Mimecast Secure Email Gateway is a messaging security option with anti-spam / anti-malware, data loss prevention, large file send, and other features, from UK company Mimecast.	N/A
Proofpoint Email Protection	Score8.5 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

Mimecast Advanced Email Security

Proofpoint Email Protection

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Pricing Offerings
Mimecast Advanced Email Security	Proofpoint Email Protection
Free Trial
Yes	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
	Mimecast Advanced Email Security	Proofpoint Email Protection
Considered Both Products	Mimecast Verified User Chose Mimecast Advanced Email Security In my opinion, Mimecast Advanced Email Security outpaces Microsoft in terms of usability and reduction of spam and phishing emails. Mimecast Advanced Email Security was cheaper than Proofpoint, but I suspect Proofpoint is doing better on staying current with trends than … Incentivized Helpful? Adam Nofsinger Director of IT in Information Technology at Leer, Inc. (Business Supplies & Equipment, 51-200 employees) Chose Mimecast Advanced Email Security Mimecast Advanced Email Security had a reputation in the industry we went with, and the price was very competitive at the time. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Mimecast Advanced Email Security It has a better interface and is easy to use and understand. It also has better customer service, which is easy to reach. It is also more commercialized, which makes finding products, solutions, and add-ons better and easier to navigate and purchase. Incentivized Helpful? Scott Johnson Information Security Analyst at AutoVista Group (Automotive, 501-1000 employees) Chose Mimecast Advanced Email Security At the time, Mimecast was the leading industry standard, and we needed a better solution, so it was only natural. After checking out our options, I chose the tool that worked for me the best. Mimecast gave me a platform that did everything i was already working on via one … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Mimecast Advanced Email Security We most seriously looked at Proofpoint, and just felt like Mimecast Advanced Email Security has a slightly better bang for the buck. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Mimecast Advanced Email Security In our opinion, Mimecast Advanced Email Security was better than the other products we tested. It was more about simplicity for us, and we found it simpler to use. Also, our research from other users of these types of products also seemed to recommend the Mimecast Advanced … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Mimecast Advanced Email Security We selected Mimecast mainly based on their reputation. We also demoed SpamTitan and Proofpoint but found that each did not have all of the features we wanted. All three were improvements to our old solution, which was based on SpamAssasin. Do note that Proofpoint has different … Incentivized Helpful?	Proofpoint 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 At the time we selected Proofpoint, Mimecast did not offer comparable features. We are planning to evaluate Mimecast in the first quarter of 2020. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Proofpoint Email Protection We had been using Proofpoint for a number of years but there were a few things PP was not doing so well. So we looked at Mimecast and was seriously considering moving to it, however, Mimecast has 1 fatal flaw they were not able to resolve to our satisfaction so we stuck with … 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? 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 Proofpoint Targeted Attack Protection provides excellent protection and high visibility to threats entering into our organization. Threat Response Auto-Pull gives us the ability to pull the malicious emails out of the user's inbox before the end-users access it. Email Fraud … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Proofpoint Email Protection We selected Proofpoint based on a number of factors, including online reviews, pricing, maturity of solution, depth of features, as well as the significantly better understanding the Proofpoint sales team had of our needs. In our assessment, it continually scored well across … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Proofpoint Email Protection Feature-wise, identical. Mimecast was very affordable compared to Proofpoint. We were able to get annual costs with Proofpoint down to a more acceptable level. Also, the migration costs for us (due to deep customization) was more effort for little return (after PP price was … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Proofpoint Email Protection We looked at Mimecast and Proofoint at the same time. After looking at the feature comparison and ease of administration, we decided that Proofpoint was the way to go. Proofpoint was easier to deploy on premises which is critical to our organization. Mimemcast was difficult to … Incentivized Helpful?
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	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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Features

Mimecast Advanced Email Security

Proofpoint Email Protection

Comparison of Secure Email Gateway features of Mimecast Advanced Email Security and Proofpoint Email Protection
Feature	Mimecast Advanced Email Security 8.0 67 Ratings	Proofpoint Email Protection 8.0 79 Ratings
Anti-malware	8.565 Ratings	10.077 Ratings
Customizability	8.566 Ratings	7.076 Ratings
Data Loss Protection	6.655 Ratings	6.049 Ratings
Threat Detection	8.463 Ratings	8.076 Ratings
Sandboxing	8.058 Ratings	7.058 Ratings
End-to-End Encryption	8.555 Ratings	10.059 Ratings
Management Tools	7.764 Ratings	8.075 Ratings

User Ratings
	Mimecast Advanced Email Security	Proofpoint Email Protection
Likelihood to Recommend	8.5 (79 ratings)	10.0 (96 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	8.7 (2 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Usability	8.2 (54 ratings)	9.0 (3 ratings)
Availability	8.0 (1 ratings)	9.1 (1 ratings)
Performance	8.0 (1 ratings)	8.2 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	6.0 (7 ratings)	8.3 (5 ratings)
Implementation Rating	10.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Configurability	9.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model	10.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Ease of integration	8.8 (28 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Product Scalability	9.0 (1 ratings)	8.2 (1 ratings)
Professional Services	10.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	8.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	8.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)