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Proofpoint Email Protection vs. Symantec Messaging Gateway

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Proofpoint Email Protection

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AProofpoint 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

    Symantec Messaging Gateway

    Score8 out of 10
    N/ASymantec offers their platform, the Symantec Messaging Gateway, as a secure email gateway.N/A
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    Proofpoint Email ProtectionSymantec Messaging Gateway
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
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    Proofpoint Email ProtectionSymantec Messaging Gateway
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Proofpoint Email ProtectionSymantec Messaging Gateway
    Considered Both Products
    Proofpoint
    Chose Proofpoint Email Protection
    Proofpoint meets all the security requirements stipulated in the company's policies, has a good platform administration, is easy to implement, has very robust research tools, the reports help our security operations center, good support, flexibility of working in the cloud, and …
    Incentivized
    Chose Proofpoint Email Protection
    Sandboxing, TAP, TRAP along with on-premise device and cloud capability.
    Incentivized
    Chose Proofpoint Email Protection
    Proofpoint was able to match or beat every feature of all competitors and used our own real data to prove their effectiveness. We placed ProofPoint behind our existing email gateway to detect what they were missing, and we were shocked. Our old vendor was allowing live viruses, …
    Incentivized
    Chose Proofpoint Email Protection
    MessageLabs (that is now owned by Symantec) is another promising alternative to Proofpoint. It has more or less similar features and pros and cons. Proofpoint is specialized in email security whereas Symantec has a plethora of products in the security space. With their recent …
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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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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Proofpoint Email ProtectionSymantec Messaging Gateway
    Secure Email Gateway
    Comparison of Secure Email Gateway features of Proofpoint Email Protection and Symantec Messaging Gateway
    Feature
    Proofpoint Email Protection
    8.0
    79 Ratings
    Symantec Messaging Gateway
    -
    Ratings
    Anti-malware10.077 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizability7.076 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Loss Protection6.049 Ratings00 Ratings
    Threat Detection8.076 Ratings00 Ratings
    Sandboxing7.058 Ratings00 Ratings
    End-to-End Encryption10.059 Ratings00 Ratings
    Management Tools8.075 Ratings00 Ratings
    User Ratings
    Proofpoint Email ProtectionSymantec Messaging Gateway
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (96 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Availability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.3
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)