Proofpoint is part of our broader security strategy, alongside tools like IPS, IDS systems, Forescout, and Palo Alto firewalls. It integrates well with our security framework. I rate the product a nine out of ten.
Chief Engineer at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
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2024-06-04T16:58:40Z
Jun 4, 2024
Currently, we can't get it updated. So, if you're a smaller company, it would probably work just fine for you. But when you get to our size, there could be challenges. If you built it from scratch to be spread out more, with more nodes doing dedicated functions, it might work a little better. But, ultimately, that causes additional issues, instead of having one instance to integrate, you now have to integrate with all of them, which is a pain for Splunk and other tools to deal with. Overall, I would rate it a six out of ten. It can work. When it does work, it works well. But right now, outages and issues are higher than we would like to see.
Senior Information Security Analyst at a healthcare company with 1-10 employees
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2022-11-08T20:01:41Z
Nov 8, 2022
For the actual email firewall, Proofpoint has an admin console where you can go in and search emails, see what has been delivered to whom, and all sorts of different metrics. It's a good analytics dashboard, but when you compare it to the kinds of dashboards you see in cloud-hosted solutions, it doesn't even come close to these dashboards in terms of simplicity. The cloud dashboards I've seen are the simplest I have ever encountered so far. On the other hand, none of the dashboards (for email filters, etc.) from solutions such as Cisco Cloud Email Security, Cisco Ironport Email, Barracuda Security, or McAfee are as simplified as Proofpoint's main dashboard. These other dashboards are old-fashioned, take more time to load, and require lots of clicking. In contrast, the Proofpoint dashboard is very advanced and feature-rich, and if they could make the Threat Response dashboard more similar to this main dashboard, that would be lovely. I would rate Proofpoint Threat Response a nine out of ten.
Security Specialist at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
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2019-04-11T19:38:00Z
Apr 11, 2019
As of now, the OEM is developing new features every quarter, so I don't see or feel anything new or better is required, other than some improvements in the reporting.
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No defense can stop every attack. When something does get through, Proofpoint Threat Response takes the manual labor and guesswork out of incident response to help you resolve threats faster and more efficiently. Get an actionable view of threats, enrich alerts, and automate forensic collection and comparison. For verified threats, quarantine and contain users, hosts, and malicious email attachments - automatically or at the push of a button.
Proofpoint is part of our broader security strategy, alongside tools like IPS, IDS systems, Forescout, and Palo Alto firewalls. It integrates well with our security framework. I rate the product a nine out of ten.
Currently, we can't get it updated. So, if you're a smaller company, it would probably work just fine for you. But when you get to our size, there could be challenges. If you built it from scratch to be spread out more, with more nodes doing dedicated functions, it might work a little better. But, ultimately, that causes additional issues, instead of having one instance to integrate, you now have to integrate with all of them, which is a pain for Splunk and other tools to deal with. Overall, I would rate it a six out of ten. It can work. When it does work, it works well. But right now, outages and issues are higher than we would like to see.
For the actual email firewall, Proofpoint has an admin console where you can go in and search emails, see what has been delivered to whom, and all sorts of different metrics. It's a good analytics dashboard, but when you compare it to the kinds of dashboards you see in cloud-hosted solutions, it doesn't even come close to these dashboards in terms of simplicity. The cloud dashboards I've seen are the simplest I have ever encountered so far. On the other hand, none of the dashboards (for email filters, etc.) from solutions such as Cisco Cloud Email Security, Cisco Ironport Email, Barracuda Security, or McAfee are as simplified as Proofpoint's main dashboard. These other dashboards are old-fashioned, take more time to load, and require lots of clicking. In contrast, the Proofpoint dashboard is very advanced and feature-rich, and if they could make the Threat Response dashboard more similar to this main dashboard, that would be lovely. I would rate Proofpoint Threat Response a nine out of ten.
I would rate this solution as seven out of ten.
As of now, the OEM is developing new features every quarter, so I don't see or feel anything new or better is required, other than some improvements in the reporting.