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    Avast Email Security

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/AAvast Email Security is a service available and delivered through the company's CloudCare security management console. Three features of Avast Email Security service allow employees and customers to manage their email more safely: Anti-spam to keep email boxes free of unwanted email, encrypted emails ensure that incoming and outgoing email are securely delivered , and email archiving allows users to manage the size and storage for inboxes.N/A

    Proofpoint Email Protection

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AProofpoint Email Protection is available as an on-premise or cloud based solution and blocks unwanted, malicious and impostor emails with granular search capabilities and visibility into all messages. Outbound controls include encryption and data loss prevention, while continuity capabilities ensure business communications can continue as normal in the event of an email outage. With Proofpoint's Email Protection, you can protect your people, data, and brand from today’s threats…N/A
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Avast Email SecurityProofpoint Email Protection
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    Gen (NortonLifeLock, Avast, Avira, AVG)
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    Proofpoint
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    83%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
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    Comparison of Secure Email Gateway features of Avast Email Security and Proofpoint Email Protection
    Feature
    Avast Email Security
    9.1
    1 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Proofpoint Email Protection
    8.0
    79 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Anti-malware9.01 Ratings10.077 Ratings
    Customizability9.01 Ratings7.076 Ratings
    Data Loss Protection10.01 Ratings6.049 Ratings
    Threat Detection9.01 Ratings8.076 Ratings
    Sandboxing9.01 Ratings7.058 Ratings
    End-to-End Encryption9.01 Ratings10.059 Ratings
    Management Tools9.01 Ratings8.075 Ratings
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    Barracuda Email Protection
    Score10 out of 10
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    Medium-sized Companies
    Avanan
    Score9.4 out of 10
    Avanan
    Score9.4 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Avanan
    Score9.4 out of 10
    Avanan
    Score9.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Avast Email SecurityProofpoint Email Protection
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
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    10.0
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    Usability
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    9.0
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    Availability
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    9.1
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    Performance
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    8.2
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    Support Rating
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    8.3
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    Product Scalability
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    User Testimonials
    Avast Email SecurityProofpoint Email Protection
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Gen (NortonLifeLock, Avast, Avira, AVG)
    Avast Email Security is ideal for people who care [about] email security. With Avast Email Security you need not worry about spamming and malware attacks. Also, if you regularly share confidential information, Avast Email Security comes in handy when it comes to encrypting emails to ensure no unauthorized access. Therefore, the software is ideal for many companies and professionals such as doctors, accountants, and insurance firms.
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    Proofpoint
    Well suited: Proofpoint does a pretty good job at protecting us from spam emails. I was able to block a lot of emails coming from SendGrid by blocking SendGrid emails with a custom spam filter. However, SendGrid has a lot of legit emails too so I was able to create another rule to allow those emails from certain people, then block the rest. That way business need was met but spam emails are blocked. Less Appropriate If you are trying to monitor internal to internal emails Proofpoint is probably a little over featured for that.
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    Pros
    Gen (NortonLifeLock, Avast, Avira, AVG)
    • Avast Email Security is so easy to use and anyone can decrypt and encrypt emails
    • The software offers better protection to emails
    • The software is relatively affordable
    • With Avast Email Security, it is easy to manage inbox sizes of individual emails
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    Proofpoint
    • Spam - catches these emails before hitting the inbox.
    • Daily digest - provides users with a list of the emails that were blocked and allows them to choose to release them if they are legitimate emails.
    • Ensures that emails coming into our organization is safe for our users and verifies the email is coming from stated senders email server.
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    Cons
    Gen (NortonLifeLock, Avast, Avira, AVG)
    • I have not experienced any issues that I can list here.
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    Proofpoint
    • Proofpoint could offer more frequent training opportunities to customers at all levels of expertise.
    • Proofpoint can always continue to strive to keep its product a leader in the industry.
    • Proofpoint's support site could be overhauled to provide a more logical flow.
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    Usability
    Gen (NortonLifeLock, Avast, Avira, AVG)
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    Proofpoint
    Very robust and solid product in protecting our emails. The engineers who assisted with our implementation was very knowledgable and great to work with. Easy to use by end-users. Administration and management are also easy for IT. Great dashboard and reporting tools for business reviews.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Gen (NortonLifeLock, Avast, Avira, AVG)
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    Proofpoint
    There were no appliance errors or unplanned outages during five years of operation.
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    Performance
    Gen (NortonLifeLock, Avast, Avira, AVG)
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    Proofpoint
    Most important thing is the performance of processing mails. Even in a complex environment the system keeps performing on a very high Level.
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    Support Rating
    Gen (NortonLifeLock, Avast, Avira, AVG)
    No answers on this topic
    Proofpoint
    We use ProofPoint support quite often to fix issues and assist with setting up features and rules. Each time we have created a ticket, they have been very helpful and respectful. Each ticket has been treated with the appropriate SLA time and attention. We also enjoy the regular check-ins from the engineers when tickets are open but we get busy with other tasks.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Gen (NortonLifeLock, Avast, Avira, AVG)
    Avast Email Security is a great tool more so if your have other Avast products. It is easy to use, very secure and offers great features to protect your emails. It is the best I have used
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    Proofpoint
    We previously used halon anti-spam, which lasted us well until our organization really started to grow and it was not able to keep up with the amount of mail we were receiving. The support is also nothing compared to Proofpoint's professional services offering. Halon was also not able to have the complex rules that Proofpoint can offer.
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    Scalability
    Gen (NortonLifeLock, Avast, Avira, AVG)
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    Proofpoint
    You can add a lot of agents to your environment if you need them. And you can operate hardware appliances and virtual appliances in the same cluster.
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    Return on Investment
    Gen (NortonLifeLock, Avast, Avira, AVG)
    • By keeping spamming and other online threats away, we do not have to worry about corrupt emails or hacking instances.
    • With Avast Email Security, we do not have to worry about data loss
    • Avast Email Security makes it easy to encrypt and decrypt emails thereby ensuring data privacy
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    Proofpoint
    • Having easy-to-reach backups of all employee emails has made Proofpoint worth it by itself. That plus the countless times that spam/malicious emails did not make it through to the intended person that could have potentially cost the organization a lot of money.
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