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

Secure Email Gateway

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

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

Daniel Merkl

IT Support in Information Technology at Cypress Healthcare (51-200 employees employees)

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)

Valery Mezentsau View profile

IT Department Manager in Information Technology at Acceptance Solutions Group (51-200 employees employees)

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

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology (11-50 employees employees)

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

Proofpoint Essentials

What is Proofpoint Essentials?

Categories & Use Cases

Key Features

Top Performing Features

Anti-malware

Data Loss Protection

Threat Detection

Areas for Improvement

End-to-End Encryption

Customizability

Management Tools

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