Proofpoint Threat Protection Alternatives

From the start, we had a very good and knowledgeable pre-sales team who offered a thorough POC trial and nothing seemed to be too much trouble. Post sales support has also been good although I have not needed to use this much. The product itself is extremely capable and we have seen a vast improvement over our previous email security gateway. The risk of email threats has reduced significantly, but we have also had users comment on how clean their inboxes are as unwanted email can also be filtered out or diverted to a subfolder. Powerful dashboards, search tools and reporting provide valuable insight into the AI's detection capabilities and reasons why messages have been classified as a threat or otherwise. User interaction via reporting or quarantine reports is handled by an AI agent in the first instance and takes the pressure off the IT team as well as providing a good experience for the end user.

The Mimecast e-mail security platform is the gold standard of e-mail security services. It provides best-of-breed e-mail protection, and has developed into a robust suite of security tools which protect of 2500+ user base.

We've been a Barracuda customer for many years in our organisation and have approximately 80 users across three sites in three different countries under a single Microsoft tenant. It integrates cleanly with Microsoft 365 and has been stable and reliable over the years with only limited intervention required by IT when dealing with quarantined items and false positives.

The Knowbe4 Cloud Email Security, aka Knowbe4 Defend, in relation to Microsoft 365 - has a lot of setup involved, but luckily its almost all automated with a script that KB4 pre-built to connect the services in your Azure environment. The deployment team and the engineer we had ere very good, communicated well and timely, and the engineer knew how to fix certain pain points, which were mainly just customization options that we were choosing to enforce outside the regular deployment plan the provided to us. Once it was up and running, like any other AI tool, it takes time to learn your environment and then fine tune its detections. The dashboards and email notifications are exceptional.

We started looking into Abnormal to replace a more traditional email gateway solution that we had in place. We were spending a lot of time constantly maintaining block lists and sorting through false positives. We were spending a lot of time trying to tweak things to protect against incoming threats, only to have attackers switch tactics and eventually get through. It was a constant cat and mouse game, and we felt we were always behind. When we first deployed Abnormal and ran through a POC, we layered it on top of our existing solution. It was both impressive but also alarming as we quickly discovered the volume and extent of just what was coming through our traditional solution. Abnormal from the time we started the POC to full implementation Abnormal has just worked. I was amazed at just how easy it was to setup and configure as well as just how effective it's been. Abnormal has been truly transformative not only for my team, but our business as a whole.

We have been using Darktrace for just about 2 months now, the platform has been brilliant so far and it was picking up things that our old provider was missing. We have a team of people from Darktrace that are helping us with training, issues and questions and so far they have been able to resolve everything. Our users haven't complained about the new service and it's now protecting the company more with the identity module and the dmarc module as well which all tie in together to fully protect the company. The platform itself is brilliant and so easy to use, the mobile app is one of the features that made us go with Darktrace as you can remediate issues straight away if needed as the AI will automatically block or lock users out if it thinks their account is doing something it doesn't usually do etc.

Sophos Email has delivered an amazing experience as our email security solution. Advanced phishing detection, spam filtering, URL analysis, and attachment inspection work exceptionally well at blocking threats before they reach users. Quarantine management is intuitive, and the integration with Sophos Central provides great visibility. Overall, it's a reliable, high performing solution that gives us strong protection with low maintenance.

The tool provide strong email threat analysis, helps us quickly review user-reported message, and supports efficient phishing investigation. Its accuracy and workflow automation make it easier for our team to identify and respond to suspicious emails.