Proofpoint Email Protection vs. Trend Micro InterScan Messaging Security

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Proofpoint Email Protection
Score 8.6 out of 10
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Proofpoint 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
Trend Micro InterScan Messaging Security
Score 9.3 out of 10
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Trend Micro offers the InterScan Messaging Security secure email gateway with anti-spam, advanced threat & data loss prevention, and encryption capability.N/A
Pricing
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Offerings
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Features
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Secure Email Gateway
Comparison of Secure Email Gateway features of Product A and Product B
Proofpoint Email Protection
8.0
Ratings
4% below category average
Trend Micro InterScan Messaging Security
7.5
Ratings
11% below category average
Anti-malware10.00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Customizability7.00 Ratings7.40 Ratings
Data Loss Protection6.00 Ratings6.70 Ratings
Threat Detection8.00 Ratings7.80 Ratings
Sandboxing7.00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
End-to-End Encryption10.00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Management Tools8.00 Ratings6.40 Ratings
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
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Usability
9.0
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Availability
9.1
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Performance
8.2
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Support Rating
8.3
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10.0
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Product Scalability
8.2
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User Testimonials
Proofpoint Email ProtectionTrend Micro InterScan Messaging Security
Likelihood to Recommend
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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If your organization does not have any email security solution, its good to start off with Trend Micro InterScan solution. It helps against malicious emails and malicious traffic by filtering such content at the gateway level itself. With DLP customizable templates already in place place it reduces the TAT to deploy DLP content filtering rules. At the same time, it gives you real time protection against evolving or new threats. Management is easy as it provides single admin dashboard to control everything
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Pros
  • 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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  • Blocks spam.
  • Analyzes attachments.
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Cons
  • The pricing is high and there are many licenses for things I feel should be part of other products.
  • The UI is slightly dated and has a lot of room for improvement.
  • The separate products should have one pane of glass for administration. Currently, if you own several of the products it feels quite disjointed when using them.
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  • Protection again clickbait messages.
  • Reporting
  • Management interface.
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Usability
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
There were no appliance errors or unplanned outages during five years of operation.
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Performance
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
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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Easy to use, easy to pull data, easy to see what is going on in our specific environment.
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Alternatives Considered
Proofpoint Email Protection allows configuration and granularity that far exceeds those features we'd been able to use with the Barracuda Email Security Gateway product. In addition, the robust Proofpoint reporting features give us and our decision makers much improved detail to make informed decisions about our security posture.
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Trend Micro InterScan Messaging Security is much cheaper than Kasprsky Security for Email Server. Trend Micro InterScan Messaging Security is easier to install and the maintenance effort required is much less than this required by Kasprsky Security for Email Server. However Kasprsky Security for Email Server does have a better GUI and does indeed offer a better protection degree. However, taking into account that both were tested behind a firewall, most of the threats had already been eliminated there...
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Scalability
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
  • 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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  • InterScan Messaging Security has caught multiple malicious messages that our public facing mail gateway has missed.
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