Proofpoint Essentials

"Proofpoint Essentials"

The feature list is impressive with attachment defence, URL re-writing and Azure AD integration along with standard LDAPS integration. The solution does a good job of blocking spam and viruses and the URL and Attachment defence protect you long after the email has been sent. It's easy to deploy and setup and the portal is quick.

The logs are not instantly updated which doesn't cause a major issue but something to be aware of. Changes such as new users are applied at the top of the hour and are not instant. The licensing model is a challenge however - your processes need to be spot on to remove users from the system to prevent being billed and that's worse when LDAPS is used as it picks up all sorts of users from AD.

The product works well and is technically good. The licensing model sucks however.....

"Does A Good Job Blocking Spam, Increases Email Security"

It's very easy to use. It shows me when emails have been blocked as spam and I can easily login and have a range of options from there. The UI is very simple and user friendly. Defining rules is also very easy, and adding and removing users.

We've had some issues with emails not being delivered. Sometimes it can also be tricky for end users to know how to open encrypted emails. No major issues otherwise.

This email filtering solution is easy to use with a lot of really useful features and controls. It's something I needed to learn, but has vastly improved our organization's security. If you need to block spam this is a good solution.

"Great protection, great price, backed by an industry-leading solution"

Essentials uses the same best-in-class filters and features (attachment defense and TAP) as its Enterprise sibling, with an easier to use and friendlier UI (which is in beta as of May 2019). It's also quite granular on its settings and the new threat dashboard is a welcome addition. Super easy to deploy and get started.

Some of the components have not been updated to the new version and have some weird quirks such as releasing multiple emails from quarantine, reclassifying multiple emails, automatic reports and report exporting. While not work-stopping, they can be annoying. However, they are stated to be rebuilt in 2H 2019. As another reviewer said, changes such as new users are applied at the top of the hour and are not instant.

It is a great product for businesses that want the same level of protection as the Enterprise sibling at a much more affordable price-point without sacrificing a lot of features. Looking forward to see how they incorporate their Cloudmark acquisition into their filters. I'm a big fan of Proofpoint and their mission and would highly recommend it if you're looking for a simple to use, but powerful solution.

"We now have clean email!"

We implemented Proofpoint Essentials to replace a Barracuda appliance. Barracuda was letting through too much spam and since cutting over to Proofpoint, we have had a massive increase in the amount of spam stopped. Things we like about Proofpoint: - Integrates directly with Azure and sync's across our users every hour - Powerful spam filter, we now have clean email! - We have over 55 domain names and its easy for our admin team to add new domain names on to Proofpoint for filtering - End users like the spam quaratine reports. From the reports, end users have control over allowing or blocking senders. Also end users can login to their portal via the spam report - Good pricing. We have 445 users and snagged a great price

The need to publish a TXT record on each domain name to verify it on Proofpoint.

Proofpoint has done a great job in protecting our business from email threats. The service is unobtrusive and end users are happy with its spam filtering. Unlike Barracuda, we no longer have to whitelist senders - Proofpoint is able to work out what is clean email and what is spam.

"Protects with multi-layered protection"

End users are protected with multiple layers of spam and virus filtering. Blocks almost all spam emails. End users like the daily quarantine reports which provides them clear visibility of which spam emails have been stopped. I like the real-time analysis when users click on URL's contained in an email. This has prevented several attempted phishing attacks.

The system doesn't allow split routing of email. You cant configure PPE to deliver email to the email server local to the end user. However, we are moving to Office 365 so this will become a non-issue.

Impressive service that works quietly in the background with minimal day-to-day management. When purchasing, we looked at Proofpoint and Mimecast. We selected the Proofpoint Professional Package which was a third cheaper than the equivilant Mimecast M2A package.

"Managing Director"

Capabilites of accurate anti Spam Filtering, excellent management capabilities, easiness of setup.

Initially we had a lot of false positives, we needed to disable bulk-email quarantine but we are still receving a lot of bulk email so we need to futher tune the level of anti-spam filtering.

Indeed, it did.

"Stops phishing emails"

We use Office 365 as our email platform with 330 mailboxes. Before implementing Proofpoint, we had issues with phishing emails hitting the accounts and senior management team. Since implementing Proofpoint, we have no have virtually no phishing emails reaching users inboxes. Proofpoint also scans outbound email and when we deployed the service, it detected a compromized mailbox that was sending out spam. The azure integration is helpful. This ensure end users get a quarantine report showing emails stopped to the primary email address and all their aliases.

The initial deployment took 90-minutes and involved (a) publishing a TXT record to approve our domain to use Proofpoint, (b) sync'ing Azure with Proofpoint, (c) amending our SPF record, (d) updating our MX records and (e) creating a connector in O365 to route outbound email via Proofpoint. After using Proofpoint for several days, we created a rule in O365 to lockdown incoming SMTP connections to only be allowed from Proofpoint. Overall I wish this process was quicker.

Proofpoint has been rock solid in providing effective protection against email threats.