Proofpoint Essentials

Score7 out of 10

10 Reviews and Ratings

Community insights

TrustRadius Insights for Proofpoint Essentials for Small Business are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

Pros

Reliable and Industry-leading Email Gateway: Many users have found Proofpoint Email Protection to be a reliable and industry-leading email gateway. They appreciate its advanced machine learning technology, which enables it to catch both known and unknown threats. This has been mentioned by several reviewers as a key advantage of using Proofpoint.

Excellent Customization Options: Numerous users praise Proofpoint for its excellent customization options. They find the ability to customize filtering policies to be top-notch, allowing them to tailor the software according to their specific needs. This level of customization has been appreciated by many reviewers.

User-Friendly Interface and Navigation: A significant number of users mention that they find Proofpoint's user interface easy to navigate and manage. They appreciate how tasks such as creating/editing/removing users, managing quarantine, and adding/removing domains are straightforward. The user-friendly interface has been highlighted by multiple reviewers as a positive aspect of using Proofpoint.

Reviews

3 Reviews

Proofpoint Essentials - People_centric Email Protection and Visibility

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

April 21, 2022

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

Likelihood to Recommend

Proofpoint Essentials for Small Business is well suited for users up to 500, for Office 365 (Microsoft’s cloud-based email and collaboration platform).

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

Reseller

2 years of experience

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

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

March 14, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Proofpoint Essentials for Small Business for all of our email and spam filtering as well as spoofing protection. It is used across our entire organization in conjunction with Office 365 for email. It helps us filter out spam and protect against [phishing] attacks. We can also [set up] filters that can block certain emails that pose as C-level [executives.]

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

Likelihood to Recommend

With the small business being in the name it is probably best suited for a small business. Our business is about 150 total employees but we are continuing to grow. So far we haven't seen any issues with the increased amount of users. There may be some higher-level licenses that may be suited for larger companies but I don't have any experience with that.

Daniel Merkl

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

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

Proofpoint Essentials - your right choice!

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

January 24, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Originally when my company switched from the on-premise mail solution to the cloud, there was an opened question of using integrated security options provided by cloud mail system or bring separate solution that will be more flexible, easy to deploy and manage. After reviewing several "small business" oriented solutions and comparing the functionality, time of deployment and cost, my company decided to choose Proofpoint Essentials for Small Business.

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

I would definitely recommend it for fast and easy deployment with no need of constant managing solution. It is a solid solution that will do all what you need for the email security. Especially when you have a small IT team or even do not have enough experienced specialists to handle email security questions - Proofpoint is what I would recommend to use. I gave it 9 of 10 points only because of the price, you can find find more cheap solutions on the market.

Valery Mezentsau

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

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

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