# Proofpoint Core Email Protection Reviews **Vendor:** Proofpoint **Category:** [Secure Email Gateway Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/secure-email-gateway) **Average Rating:** 4.6/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 584 ## About Proofpoint Core Email Protection Proofpoint’s Core Email Protection (CEP) stops 99.99% of all email threats before they become compromises. It stops the broadest range of email cyberattacks, spam and graymail. For security analysts, it provides integrated search and alert-based workflows, automatically remediates user reported emails, and coaches users in-the-moment. Core Email Protection leverages Nexus language models, relationship graphs, machine learning and computer vision to stop advanced email threats. It’s powered by unparallelled email threat data from over 3 trillion emails scanned per year, to automatically stop threats like BEC, account takeovers, QR code phishing, impersonations, and lateral phishing. Customers choose how to deploy Core Email Protection, with SEG and API options available. SEG provides the highest security via defense in depth, with pre-delivery, post-delivery, and click time protection. API is a faster deployment, and augments M365 with the same detection engine to block threats, spam, and graymail. ## Proofpoint Core Email Protection Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users commend the **real-time malware protection** provided by Proofpoint Core Email Protection, ensuring robust security and support. (21 reviews) - Users appreciate the **reliable email security** of Proofpoint Core Email Protection, ensuring peace of mind at work. (19 reviews) - Users value the **effective anti-phishing and anti-malware capabilities** of Proofpoint Core Email Protection, enhancing security significantly. (15 reviews) - Users value the **effective security** of Proofpoint Core Email Protection, enhancing email management and protection for multiple endpoints. (15 reviews) - Users value the **ease of use** of Proofpoint Core Email Protection, appreciating its straightforward interface and configuration. (12 reviews) - Alerts (9 reviews) - Deployment Ease (8 reviews) - Detection Efficiency (8 reviews) - Informational Resource (8 reviews) - Malware Protection (8 reviews) **What users dislike:** - UX Improvement (16 reviews) - Configuration Difficulties (10 reviews) - Users face **intermittent email access issues** and slow updates on threats, complicating their overall experience. (7 reviews) - Users experience a **high rate of false positives** , leading to legitimate emails being flagged as spam frequently. (6 reviews) - Missing Features (6 reviews) - Poor Detection (6 reviews) - Users find the **complexity** of Proofpoint Core Email Protection overwhelming, making configuration and usage cumbersome. (5 reviews) - Email Filtering Issues (5 reviews) - Inadequate Protection (5 reviews) - Poor Customer Support (5 reviews) ## Proofpoint Core Email Protection Reviews ### 1. It is easily to managed email **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tony H. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 10, 2024 **What do you like best about Proofpoint Core Email Protection?** The email security make it easier to filter and it catches more spam than other product. **What do you dislike about Proofpoint Core Email Protection?** There are many login to different console, Proofpoint need to consolidate the console. **What problems is Proofpoint Core Email Protection solving and how is that benefiting you?** We were getting spam before implementing Proofpoint, it is now catching and prevent user from clicking on phishing email. ### 2. Proofpoint Email Security is easy to configure and has great customer support **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Christopher G. | Sr Systems Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 10, 2024 **What do you like best about Proofpoint Core Email Protection?** It is easy to set up and configure. When I need help proofpoint is always willing to get on a call and work with use **What do you dislike about Proofpoint Core Email Protection?** The only downside is sometime the secure send emails can take upto 5 mintues to be aviable. **What problems is Proofpoint Core Email Protection solving and how is that benefiting you?** Secure email send, Email gateway, DLP ### 3. Proofpoint Email Security: Professional Services and Configurability Apart From The Crowd **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Pharmaceuticals | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 15, 2024 **What do you like best about Proofpoint Core Email Protection?** Proofpoint's professional services, from personal interaction to documentation, are outstanding. They really helped me get the most out of the configurability of the solution. **What do you dislike about Proofpoint Core Email Protection?** The *old* interfaces can be clunky, but the modern web-based interfaces are easy to understand and use. **What problems is Proofpoint Core Email Protection solving and how is that benefiting you?** Proofpoint Emal Security is keeping my environment safe from the myriad bad actors and time-wasters that would otherwise continually mislead my colleagues through spam and phishing attacks. ### 4. Bring motivation to the team **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alexander J. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 02, 2024 **What do you like best about Proofpoint Core Email Protection?** That it is an additional product to other solutions **What do you dislike about Proofpoint Core Email Protection?** I didn not find any, so it is difficult to write enough words **What problems is Proofpoint Core Email Protection solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps companies to ensure the e mail secuitz in addition to other solutions ### 5. The best on the market **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Chris W. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 01, 2024 **What do you like best about Proofpoint Core Email Protection?** A highly customisable Email gateway, with excellent protection and feedback **What do you dislike about Proofpoint Core Email Protection?** The UI is a bit outdated but is still functional **What problems is Proofpoint Core Email Protection solving and how is that benefiting you?** Proofpoint email gateway is our front line of defence against email based threats and attack vectors ### 6. Deploy with ease **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Legal Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 30, 2024 **What do you like best about Proofpoint Core Email Protection?** The proofpoint email security and protection is easy to use and easy to deploy. The customer and technical support are top notch. **What do you dislike about Proofpoint Core Email Protection?** I do not have anything dislike about this solution. The minor imperfection is the admin console is a little slow sometimes **What problems is Proofpoint Core Email Protection solving and how is that benefiting you?** This help us defense against phishing and malware email before it even hits the mail server ### 7. Leader but needs a refresh **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alan S. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 01, 2024 **What do you like best about Proofpoint Core Email Protection?** Does a great job at protecting the company with excellent account management and support. **What do you dislike about Proofpoint Core Email Protection?** Legacy interfaces that are not interconnected. **What problems is Proofpoint Core Email Protection solving and how is that benefiting you?** I know that it can be relied on to protect the organisation and reduce human risk. ### 8. Good product with quick dashboard **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jesse H. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 14, 2024 **What do you like best about Proofpoint Core Email Protection?** The product is easy to use, and the dashboard quickly loads valuable information. Lots of options to search for messages, and it gives a lot of helpful information when viewing each message. Customer support has been excelent with dedicated account manager. **What do you dislike about Proofpoint Core Email Protection?** Smart search stopped showing the recipient address if it couldn't match it with an account. Can't seperately search on Quarantined/Discarded, or Quarantined continued. **What problems is Proofpoint Core Email Protection solving and how is that benefiting you?** It provides additional protection and visibility over multiple email facets with quick visual representations of mail flow within our environment. The information you can see when searching for messages is also really helpful. ### 9. Excellent protection at scale **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Insurance | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 01, 2024 **What do you like best about Proofpoint Core Email Protection?** Excellent protection against all threats, ease of use and scalability. Customer support experience is exceptional. **What do you dislike about Proofpoint Core Email Protection?** Product can be difficult to configure in complex environments, but the sales engineering team, PS and TAM were able to assist with all aspects. **What problems is Proofpoint Core Email Protection solving and how is that benefiting you?** The organisation has a complex global infrastructure and centralising security control was causing significant issues and increasing risk. Implementing ProofPoint has consoloidated our email security posture while also adding scale, flexibility and advanced protection. ### 10. Unparalleled Customizability and Reporting **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Manufacturing | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 29, 2024 **What do you like best about Proofpoint Core Email Protection?** I love the flexibility and customizability of the rules. The reporting features also help me zero in on areas that require my focus. **What do you dislike about Proofpoint Core Email Protection?** The GUI is outdated and can be slow. User directory sync is a bit fiddly at times. **What problems is Proofpoint Core Email Protection solving and how is that benefiting you?** It captures almost all the spam and phishing out of the gate, greatly reducing time spent tracking down threats. ### 11. Best in breed email hygiene. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Oliver D. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 10, 2024 **What do you like best about Proofpoint Core Email Protection?** World class inspection and filtering of email and attachements with easy custom filtering. **What do you dislike about Proofpoint Core Email Protection?** Support is hit or miss some engineers are very knowledgeable other not so much. **What problems is Proofpoint Core Email Protection solving and how is that benefiting you?** Proofpoint email security platform prevents the vast majority of malious email and spam from ever reaching our environment. ### 12. Great Email Protection platform **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Marc A. | Manager, Cyber Security and End User Computing, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 10, 2024 **What do you like best about Proofpoint Core Email Protection?** Great solution with a fantastic support team **What do you dislike about Proofpoint Core Email Protection?** So many modules that are being integrated. Sometimes the product differences show. **What problems is Proofpoint Core Email Protection solving and how is that benefiting you?** Best in class email protection. The email team is great at meeting with us and helping us better configure and use the platform. Integrations are valuable. ### 13. Provides tools that help protect our end users. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sean D. | Sr. IT Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 16, 2023 **What do you like best about Proofpoint Core Email Protection?** Proofpoint provides industry leading tools that help protect our end users. This is through both email security and cybersecurity education. Proofpoint delivers one platform to manage and protect our end users and gives IT the necessary tools to combat email threats. **What do you dislike about Proofpoint Core Email Protection?** It isn't easy to pull executive-level summaries and reports. Creating cyber security campaigns can be a bit challenging at times as well. **What problems is Proofpoint Core Email Protection solving and how is that benefiting you?** Protecting our email at the primiater. Proofpoint also gives us tools to send Phishing simulations to our end users which provides guidance on what to look out for in all cyber security threats. ### 14. All in one for Email Security **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rajas B. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 11, 2024 **What do you like best about Proofpoint Core Email Protection?** I like the way it works and it's simplicity. The alerts are spot on and fine tuning isn't that difficult either **What do you dislike about Proofpoint Core Email Protection?** Too many consoles to manage if you have multiple Proofpoint products **What problems is Proofpoint Core Email Protection solving and how is that benefiting you?** It benefiting me by helping me in getting rid of malicious emails ### 15. happy with the solution **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** lucie h. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 01, 2024 **What do you like best about Proofpoint Core Email Protection?** the proofpoint email security is efficient for my company, we are very protected against malicious emails **What do you dislike about Proofpoint Core Email Protection?** the proofpoint digest help to double check the emails proofpoint has filtered **What problems is Proofpoint Core Email Protection solving and how is that benefiting you?** it filters all the malicious emails ### 16. it resolved business email compromise situation that gotten out of control pretty quickly. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Branko S. | Solution Architect, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 01, 2024 **What do you like best about Proofpoint Core Email Protection?** It reduces amount of phish messages to end users to great extent. **What do you dislike about Proofpoint Core Email Protection?** The fact that you cant have more granular control of RBAC **What problems is Proofpoint Core Email Protection solving and how is that benefiting you?** Minimise number of false positives. Make it easier to handle graymail. ### 17. ProofPoint Email experience **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 15, 2024 **What do you like best about Proofpoint Core Email Protection?** Easy to use, takes a hands off approach for the majority of the work through automation, works actively to protect and retroactively remove threats **What do you dislike about Proofpoint Core Email Protection?** Cant wait for the move from the old enterprise version to the new email application **What problems is Proofpoint Core Email Protection solving and how is that benefiting you?** Instead of using the O365 Email defender application, Proofpoint provides VIP protection, Spam filtering, url protection, and retroactive malware email removal through TAP and TRAP ### 18. Great product and highly recommend **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Transportation/Trucking/Railroad | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 15, 2024 **What do you like best about Proofpoint Core Email Protection?** It is super effective! My organization is currently safe from 99.8% of all malicious emails that come through. More than 95% are protected before delivery to my employees. **What do you dislike about Proofpoint Core Email Protection?** There is a lot to learn if you are just starting out. But there are lots of micro learning courses and they are easy to impliment. **What problems is Proofpoint Core Email Protection solving and how is that benefiting you?** They block all unwanted email threats and provide valuable services. ### 19. Broad product, good protection **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Laura B. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 03, 2024 **What do you like best about Proofpoint Core Email Protection?** It gives strong and varied protection in the background with minimal tuning and input required **What do you dislike about Proofpoint Core Email Protection?** Some manual actions are required, can be time consuming **What problems is Proofpoint Core Email Protection solving and how is that benefiting you?** Varied attacks targeting us and our VAPs ### 20. Proofpoint Email Protection is great! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Manufacturing | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 29, 2024 **What do you like best about Proofpoint Core Email Protection?** I like the ease of use and thorough reporting that Proofpoint provides. It's an industry standard for a reason **What do you dislike about Proofpoint Core Email Protection?** There are times where it can be a little unclear on where you need to go to accomplish a task **What problems is Proofpoint Core Email Protection solving and how is that benefiting you?** Phishing attempts. Proofpoint is benefiting us by filtering out malicious emails and providing users a quarantine ### 21. Enterprise solution for org with great operation center **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Henry W. | Manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 10, 2024 **What do you like best about Proofpoint Core Email Protection?** It is wildly used and has a great data set to detect threats **What do you dislike about Proofpoint Core Email Protection?** because it has large set of solutions, it is difficult to get answer for a solution wihout getting bounce around **What problems is Proofpoint Core Email Protection solving and how is that benefiting you?** It solve the need of email seucirty gateway. ### 22. Proofpoint Email has saved us many times. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jeff F. | IT Architect, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 14, 2024 **What do you like best about Proofpoint Core Email Protection?** It just works, we have used it for years and its rare for any phishing or bad email to get into our world. Very easy to implement, as Proofpoint will help you every step of the way, and if you need more direction after word they have great customer support. **What do you dislike about Proofpoint Core Email Protection?** It can be complicated due to the many options and areas in which things are configured and multiple servers. **What problems is Proofpoint Core Email Protection solving and how is that benefiting you?** Keeping the phishing and bad emails away from our executives that love clicking on things :) It protects us, and it just works. ### 23. Actionable Email Security and Intelligence **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Roland T. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 16, 2024 **What do you like best about Proofpoint Core Email Protection?** This product provides actionable security protection and intelligence **What do you dislike about Proofpoint Core Email Protection?** Several consoles for different functionality, but the comany is unifying it **What problems is Proofpoint Core Email Protection solving and how is that benefiting you?** Email security and DLP ### 24. Proofpoint Powerhouse **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Pharmaceuticals | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 01, 2024 **What do you like best about Proofpoint Core Email Protection?** Proofpoint TAP (Targeted Attack Protection) **What do you dislike about Proofpoint Core Email Protection?** Occasional limited context for some threats, i.e why is a domain being flagged. What is the threat being identified (in some instances we may just get the threat ID) **What problems is Proofpoint Core Email Protection solving and how is that benefiting you?** The ability to scale up the protection of our email stack across a global team of colleagues. Enabling the organisation to move at the speed of science and make breakthroughs that change patients lives. ### 25. Proofpoint TAP and TRAP is very helpful for my organization by letting me leverage the data. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Chris M. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 16, 2024 **What do you like best about Proofpoint Core Email Protection?** Versatile, useability and quick notifications **What do you dislike about Proofpoint Core Email Protection?** Not knowing how to use all of the programs that are offered with the suite. **What problems is Proofpoint Core Email Protection solving and how is that benefiting you?** Real-time email protection. ### 26. Increase in Maturity in Protection **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lucas S. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 07, 2024 **What do you like best about Proofpoint Core Email Protection?** The solution helped us greatly improve the level of protection as it allows us to have greater control in addition to advanced features such as monitoring. **What do you dislike about Proofpoint Core Email Protection?** The costs are high and the licensing model could be more diverse. **What problems is Proofpoint Core Email Protection solving and how is that benefiting you?** It drastically reduced the amount of spam, provided protection to the executives, and we still have a clear opportunity to add new features. ### 27. Proofpoint TAP - Detailed reports and Robust Support **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 01, 2024 **What do you like best about Proofpoint Core Email Protection?** TAP Dashboard and insights are really detailed. The Health check feature allows us to drive our email security strategy in the right direction. Along with this, the regular check ins with the support team and the QBRs helps us dig deeper into the threats we are facing **What do you dislike about Proofpoint Core Email Protection?** Nothing that I have specifically come across. **What problems is Proofpoint Core Email Protection solving and how is that benefiting you?** Its the main email protection gateway service providing anti spam and phishing protection. ### 28. PPS/PPD Email Security **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Oil & Energy | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 15, 2024 **What do you like best about Proofpoint Core Email Protection?** PPS/PPD has worked well for us. Looking forward to working with the new product using ML/LLM to help strengthen detection and response capabilities. **What do you dislike about Proofpoint Core Email Protection?** We have caught a portion of missed spam/phishing emails through an effort in M365 defender as well. **What problems is Proofpoint Core Email Protection solving and how is that benefiting you?** PFPT is helping us secure our end users by providing a real time analysis and containment of malicious email communications. ### 29. Proofpoint Email Protection has been great **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Manufacturing | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 29, 2024 **What do you like best about Proofpoint Core Email Protection?** The amount of bad emails it has protected our users from is incredible **What do you dislike about Proofpoint Core Email Protection?** I at first did not like the UI of the module, but they have recently updated it and it is way better. **What problems is Proofpoint Core Email Protection solving and how is that benefiting you?** We were constantly getting hit with phishing attacks but now our users no longer get these emails delivered! ### 30. Comprehensive Email protection suite and TAP **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Biotechnology | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 10, 2024 **What do you like best about Proofpoint Core Email Protection?** TAP and ZAP features that beat the competitors to the market, Ease of implementation and first in class spam and email filtering technology. ProofPOint has been the market leader in my opinion for email protection for quite a while and continue to remain excellent in doing so. **What do you dislike about Proofpoint Core Email Protection?** Complex administration, admin panels could be improved for easier navigation. Requires dedicated engineering at times. **What problems is Proofpoint Core Email Protection solving and how is that benefiting you?** External email identification, TAP/ZAP features to remove malicious files faster than the competition, URL filtering ### 31. good and costumer oriented **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** sergon h. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 01, 2024 **What do you like best about Proofpoint Core Email Protection?** just works as expected and over very good protection **What do you dislike about Proofpoint Core Email Protection?** some times the response to an INC might take some longer as we are used to **What problems is Proofpoint Core Email Protection solving and how is that benefiting you?** solving modern day threats ### 32. Proofpoint Email Security and Protection **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vim R. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 01, 2024 **What do you like best about Proofpoint Core Email Protection?** Ability to implement custom and granular polices. Ability to audit polices before moving them to production **What do you dislike about Proofpoint Core Email Protection?** Efficay isnt always accurate, inconsistency with handling of some mail **What problems is Proofpoint Core Email Protection solving and how is that benefiting you?** Primary Email Gateway ### 33. Amazing tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Yogesh P. | VP Cyber Security Operations, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 10, 2024 **What do you like best about Proofpoint Core Email Protection?** Protect from external and internal threats. Keep all in balance and staying ahead of the curve **What do you dislike about Proofpoint Core Email Protection?** There are no features we don't like. Only item we requested us log exports **What problems is Proofpoint Core Email Protection solving and how is that benefiting you?** Keep business safe by keeping security threat updated ### 34. Proofpoint Email Security and Protection Integration **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rosalyn P. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 10, 2024 **What do you like best about Proofpoint Core Email Protection?** The company was able to use one product Proofpoint Email Security and Protection to replace three products. **What do you dislike about Proofpoint Core Email Protection?** The pricing model can be improved, as well as the ability to customize. **What problems is Proofpoint Core Email Protection solving and how is that benefiting you?** Better integration between Security and Messaging departments. ### 35. Proofpoint isd a great customer focused company **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 11, 2024 **What do you like best about Proofpoint Core Email Protection?** Custoimer service and health checks which result in knowledge transfer. The company is always refining and expanding their portfolio. Very customer focused. **What do you dislike about Proofpoint Core Email Protection?** The only really issue is the original admin Pod is slow and clunky. Most of this functionality has been migrated to a new admin console with all functions on a roadmap. **What problems is Proofpoint Core Email Protection solving and how is that benefiting you?** Solving both our DLP and malware issues. The suite of products really protects the primary vector of compromise in our organization. ### 36. Proofpoint Email Security and Protection experience **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 11, 2024 **What do you like best about Proofpoint Core Email Protection?** We have been using Proofpoint Email Security and Protection in production for a few years. It offers great email protection for our company to ensure we meet security and compliance requirement. **What do you dislike about Proofpoint Core Email Protection?** We still get false-positives fromt time to time and wish this pain-point to be improved. **What problems is Proofpoint Core Email Protection solving and how is that benefiting you?** As a bank we are heavily regulated and need to protect all of our information assets. Proofpoint Email Security and Protect ensures we can meet this compliance requirement. ### 37. Significant Reduction in Phishing Deliveries **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 01, 2024 **What do you like best about Proofpoint Core Email Protection?** Significant Reduction in Phishing Deliveries vs competitors. TRAP/Clear allows for remediation of threats post delivery which given the dynamic landscape of threats is a significantly useful feature. **What do you dislike about Proofpoint Core Email Protection?** Too many URLs, sometimes feels disjointed vs competitors, however this has been address with a pending UI release in 2025, can't wait. **What problems is Proofpoint Core Email Protection solving and how is that benefiting you?** Reduction in phishing deliveries pre delivery, and remediates threats that have slipped through post delivery. ### 38. Great detection and response capability held back by outdated UI **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Chris M. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 01, 2024 **What do you like best about Proofpoint Core Email Protection?** Detection and response is quick and efficient. **What do you dislike about Proofpoint Core Email Protection?** The UI is well overdue an upgrade, which I understand is coming **What problems is Proofpoint Core Email Protection solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mostly to protect against malicious incoming email. ### 39. love it **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** chris g. | ISO, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 01, 2024 **What do you like best about Proofpoint Core Email Protection?** It enab;es our company to have safe emailing. **What do you dislike about Proofpoint Core Email Protection?** nothimg. it simplz is great. our users are happz **What problems is Proofpoint Core Email Protection solving and how is that benefiting you?** Preventing users from dealing with huge amount of spam ### 40. PPS best email security system **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** vikram v. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 10, 2024 **What do you like best about Proofpoint Core Email Protection?** MLX engine, east of the admin UI and API **What do you dislike about Proofpoint Core Email Protection?** Less updates for on-prem pps and bugs with those updates **What problems is Proofpoint Core Email Protection solving and how is that benefiting you?** email spam attacks, Phishing attaks, attachment defense, URL defense are things that's making things easy for us ### 41. Great experience and easy to use. Works very well **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sean B. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 01, 2024 **What do you like best about Proofpoint Core Email Protection?** The information it gives around the email protection **What do you dislike about Proofpoint Core Email Protection?** It is hard to find something bad about it **What problems is Proofpoint Core Email Protection solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps to weed out junk emails effectivly ### 42. Strong email protection with one of the only FedRAMP offerings **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Research | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 30, 2024 **What do you like best about Proofpoint Core Email Protection?** The anti phishing and anti malware capabilities are beyond what our previous solution was capable of. **What do you dislike about Proofpoint Core Email Protection?** The features in the FedRAMP offering, while one of the few email security products in the market, lags behind Proofpoint's commerical product. **What problems is Proofpoint Core Email Protection solving and how is that benefiting you?** We needed better methods of fighting phishing and social engineering. ### 43. The product is great! Much better than what we had in the past **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Melvin R. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 10, 2024 **What do you like best about Proofpoint Core Email Protection?** I like how fast all the functions pn the platform work! **What do you dislike about Proofpoint Core Email Protection?** I wish I could customize a few things on the plaform. **What problems is Proofpoint Core Email Protection solving and how is that benefiting you?** The number of threat emails coming into the enviornment has been greatly reduced ### 44. email protection gateway for our many email tenants **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** eddie l. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 10, 2024 **What do you like best about Proofpoint Core Email Protection?** Centralize email protection for our various email tenants **What do you dislike about Proofpoint Core Email Protection?** support was much better in the past but seems to be getting worse. **What problems is Proofpoint Core Email Protection solving and how is that benefiting you?** Centralize email protection for all our email tenants. Apply customization in a single location ### 45. Email review **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jonas G. | Sikkerhetskonsulent, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 02, 2024 **What do you like best about Proofpoint Core Email Protection?** It's. Secure and good solution. Solves our email problems **What do you dislike about Proofpoint Core Email Protection?** Support and slowness to resolve issues. Please up your game here **What problems is Proofpoint Core Email Protection solving and how is that benefiting you?** They solve spam issues. ### 46. Secure Your Data with Proofpoint! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 29, 2024 **What do you like best about Proofpoint Core Email Protection?** The Proofpoint product covers all aspects of email security and complinace to prevent bad actors from intercepting and phishing. **What do you dislike about Proofpoint Core Email Protection?** No real time insights intu secruty posture, requires additional 3rd party software for secure environment. **What problems is Proofpoint Core Email Protection solving and how is that benefiting you?** Improved security posture along with additional software capabilities. Would like more help with malware ### 47. Proofpoint email security has the best support **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Museums and Institutions | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 10, 2024 **What do you like best about Proofpoint Core Email Protection?** Proofpoint Email Security has a lot of different modules which work together well. Getting it setup takes a little bit of work, but once it's set, it's easy to maintain. Support is always happy to answer any questions or help configure settings. **What do you dislike about Proofpoint Core Email Protection?** sometimes it is not obvious how to safelist or blacklist an email flagged with special circumstances. **What problems is Proofpoint Core Email Protection solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps prevent our organization from being bombarded with spam, phishing, and malicious emails. ### 48. Sr Director **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anish G. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 10, 2024 **What do you like best about Proofpoint Core Email Protection?** TRAP module is good Feature. to support other oEMS **What do you dislike about Proofpoint Core Email Protection?** Archival of email dose not give facility to connect with other oEMS **What problems is Proofpoint Core Email Protection solving and how is that benefiting you?** Email Archival problem we are trying to solve with respect to other OEMs ### 49. Great for small to mid size businesses **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Simon P. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 10, 2024 **What do you like best about Proofpoint Core Email Protection?** Affordable for small to mid size companies. Easy to implement and easy for end users to use **What do you dislike about Proofpoint Core Email Protection?** Not very customizable. Can't stop mail bombs. Limited filter selections **What problems is Proofpoint Core Email Protection solving and how is that benefiting you?** It help stop malware/virus/spam and phishing emails ### 50. Proofpoint Has Robust Email Protection **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Oil & Energy | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 01, 2024 **What do you like best about Proofpoint Core Email Protection?** Proofpoint has a solid product that works well at protecting against email-based threats. They are very slow to release new capabilities. **What do you dislike about Proofpoint Core Email Protection?** It has been taking years for them to move to the new admin portal and they still aren't finished. **What problems is Proofpoint Core Email Protection solving and how is that benefiting you?** The product does a great job at blocking the majority of email-based threats. ## Proofpoint Core Email Protection Discussions - [How is it possible to limit the quaratine folder. I still have too many mails quarantined.](https://www.g2.com/discussions/15180-how-is-it-possible-to-limit-the-quaratine-folder-i-still-have-too-many-mails-quarantined) - 2 comments, 1 upvote - [Is there a road map to enhance the Smart Search feature?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/15126-is-there-a-road-map-to-enhance-the-smart-search-feature) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [What is the best way to allow users to safely release quarantined emails to their inbox ?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/14391-what-is-the-best-way-to-allow-users-to-safely-release-quarantined-emails-to-their-inbox) - 3 comments, 1 upvote - [What is proofpoint PPS Ppps net?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-proofpoint-pps-ppps-net) - 1 comment - [View Proofpoint Core Email Protection pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/proofpoint-core-email-protection/reviews?page=4§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-28+15%3A04%3A28+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=0d43f0a8-3d74-4047-b397-1befab4e1b00&secure%5Btoken%5D=81b040e7329e412df5e3d58bc91697b6f99e9cf3b635873de9920fc394f0b136&format=llm_user) ## Proofpoint Core Email Protection Integrations - [CrowdStrike Product Suite](https://www.g2.com/products/crowdstrike-product-suite/reviews) - [CyberArk Workforce Identity](https://www.g2.com/products/cyberark-workforce-identity/reviews) - [Google Workspace](https://www.g2.com/products/google-workspace/reviews) - [IBM QRadar Suite](https://www.g2.com/products/ibm-qradar-suite/reviews) - [Microsoft 365](https://www.g2.com/products/microsoft365/reviews) - [Microsoft Exchange](https://www.g2.com/products/microsoft-microsoft-exchange/reviews) - [Microsoft Outlook](https://www.g2.com/products/microsoft-outlook/reviews) - [Okta](https://www.g2.com/products/okta/reviews) - [Palo Alto Networks Cortex XSOAR](https://www.g2.com/products/palo-alto-networks-cortex-xsoar/reviews) - [Proofpoint Targeted Attack Protection For Email](https://www.g2.com/products/proofpoint-targeted-attack-protection-for-email/reviews) - [Proofpoint Threat Response](https://www.g2.com/products/proofpoint-threat-response/reviews) - [SailPoint](https://www.g2.com/products/sailpoint/reviews) - [SentinelOne Singularity Endpoint](https://www.g2.com/products/sentinelone-singularity-endpoint/reviews) - [ServiceNow Security Operations](https://www.g2.com/products/servicenow-security-operations/reviews) - [Splunk](https://www.g2.com/products/splunk-2025-01-30/reviews) - [Sumo Logic](https://www.g2.com/products/sumo-logic/reviews) ## Proofpoint Core Email Protection Features **Administration** - Intelligence Reporting - Email Integration Suppor - Access Management - Data Loss Prevention **Administration** - Compliance - Intelligence Reporting - Email Clients - Role-Based Rules **Functionality** - Anti-Spam - Anti-Malware - Anti-Phishing - Filtering Functionality - Quarantine - Outbound Email Monitoring - Advanced Threat Intelligence/Protection - Archiving - Reporting - On-prem deployment **Encryption Techniques - Email Encryption** - Encryption Algorithms - Transport Encryption - End-to-End Encryption **Agentic AI - Email Anti-spam Features** - Autonomous Task Execution - Proactive Assistance **Maintenance** - Auditing - Allow and block lists - Compliance - Archiving **Detection** - Data Exfiltration Detection - Activity Monitoring - Real-Time Detection **Authentication, Verification, and Access Controls - Email Encryption** - Revocation Mechanisms - Access Controls - Digital Signatures - Certificate Authorities **Agentic AI - Secure Email Gateway** - Proactive Assistance **Security** - Anti-Malware/Anti-Spam - Encryption - Quarantine - Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) - Anti-Phishing - Account takeover prevention **Protection** - Targeted Attack Prevention - Policy Enforcement - Spam Filtering **Security Enhancements and Auditing - Email Encryption** - Malware Scanning - Reporting - Audit Trails - Data Loss Prevention (DLP) **Integration, Compatibility, and Usability - Email Encryption** - User-Friendly Interfaces - APIs and SDKs - Email Client Integration - Automation **Agentic AI - Intelligent Email Protection** - Autonomous Task Execution - Adaptive Learning ## Top Proofpoint Core Email Protection Alternatives - [Paubox](https://www.g2.com/products/paubox/reviews) - 4.9/5.0 (562 reviews) - [SpamTitan Email Security](https://www.g2.com/products/spamtitan-email-security/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (176 reviews) - [Mimecast Advanced Email Security](https://www.g2.com/products/mimecast-advanced-email-security/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (314 reviews)