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Proofpoint Essentials

Score7 out of 10

10 Reviews and Ratings

What is Proofpoint Essentials?

Proofpoint Essentials provides protection against spam, phishing and other email threats, as well as social media protection, user roles and restrictions, and other protections oriented around the needs of small business.

Categories & Use Cases

Top Performing Features

  • Anti-malware

    Anti-malware is a type of software program designed to prevent, detect and remove malicious software

    Category average: 9.1

  • Data Loss Protection

    A set of tools and processes used to ensure that sensitive data is not lost, misused, or accessed by unauthorized users.

    Category average: 7.5

  • Threat Detection

    Threat protection defend against sophisticated malware or hacking-based attacks targeting sensitive data.

    Category average: 8.7

Areas for Improvement

  • End-to-End Encryption

    In end-to-end encryption the data is encrypted on the sender's system or device and only the recipient is able to decrypt it

    Category average: 8.4

  • Customizability

    Customizing email security gateways can improve detection capabilities

    Category average: 7.7

  • Management Tools

    Management tools include administrator dashboards, reports, etc.

    Category average: 8.4

Proofpoint Essentials for Small Business a great value for the price.

Pros

  • Easy to use
  • Automated user account creation
  • Automated user account deletion
  • Lots of options to make it work for your specific environment

Cons

  • I don't have [a lot] of bad things to say about the software its all positives in my book

Return on Investment

  • 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

Alternatives Considered

Symantec Email Security.cloud

Other Software Used

Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365)

Proofpoint Essentials - your right choice!

Pros

  • 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.

Cons

  • Add encryption (secure emails) of outbound email to Business license.
  • Real-time user creations. Now it applies changes only in the beginning of the next hour.
  • More appearance customization for portal.
  • Sometimes it is blocking the same domain or sender again and again even if it was release and approved.

Return on Investment

  • We are a financial company that requires a lot of regulations on the information security side, so Proofpoint is one of the key tools that closes lots of potential security breaches.
  • Decreased almost to zero the number of SPAM, Fraud and Phishing attacks.
  • Using that solution doesn't require to have a dedicated specialist for email security.

Alternatives Considered

Sophos Secure Email Gateways, Cisco Cloud Email Security and Mimecast Secure Email Gateway

Other Software Used

Spiceworks, G Suite, Five9 Virtual Contact Center, VMware ESXi, Azure Active Directory, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), MS SharePoint, FileZilla, Google Hangouts, Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager, Windows Server, Microsoft IIS

Proofpoint Essentials - People_centric Email Protection and Visibility

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

As not only do big companies and enterprises face email-based advanced attacks, there is a need to cover them and Proofpoint Essentials for Small Business does it with the same technology as an Enterprise solution.

Pros

  • For basic protection, the Solution has an Antivirus, Zero hours Filtering, and Impostor protection.
  • Targeted attacks - URL and Attachment Defense.
  • Content filtering.

Cons

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

Return on Investment

  • Proofpoint Essentials for Small Business has a simplified management.
  • It has a Basic Archive and Legal Hold & eDiscovery Management.
  • Integrated DLP that gives benefits to any organization.

Alternatives Considered

FortiMail

Other Software Used

FortiMail, Bitdefender GravityZone, McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator