Proofpoint Essentials for Small Business vs. SonicWall Email Security Appliances

Proofpoint Essentials for Small Business is well suited for users up to 500, for Office 365 (Microsoft’s cloud-based email and collaboration platform).

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The SonicWALL line of products are priced pretty well and they are pretty powerful, so I think it would work very well for small and medium sized organizations. Larger organizations may want something with more ports or a solution that matches the rest of their network (for example Cisco ASA), so that the complexity of having different product lines is removed. But for the most part we are very happy with the Dell SonicWALL line for our multiple hospital network.

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• Proofpoint catches all the junk emails (spam, phishing, etc.).
• Light-weight solution, easy to deploy, configure and manage.
• Fast and easy tracking of inbound and outbound emails.
• Quarantine Digest emails - makes reviewing of junk emails to be very simple process
• Analysis of URLs and attachments makes email system to be more safe.

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• Simple GUI interface where everything is in one location and easy to use.
• Simple setup, but allows you to be flexible with different security zones.
• Robust, stays up and running.

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• It will be great to have a TAP Dashboard in Essentials
• Export data to the SIEM
• Customized Policy

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• Manufacturer is focused on several solutions (so likely not enough focus in one area)
• Not the most cost effective solution

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As already wrote, Proofpoint is perfect solution to be deployed quickly without requiring any additional resources or services. Good email tracking logs, excellent reporting features. Great filtering mechanism. Cost effective pricing.

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Barracuda owns this space as far as I am concerned. SonicWall has very robust firewalls, but their other offerings are a little behind times compared to Barracuda. SonicWall also seems to be a lot more expensive than other alternatives. Barracuda offers a 4-year hardware refresh cycle whereas SonicWall does not.

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• It has helped capture malicious emails trying to get company logins and info
• It has helped stop viruses that were sent to emails
• I am not a financial type but I think it has been worth the price

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• Blocks a majority of spam and malicious emails
• Sandboxing options limited
• Not the best solution out there that we have seen

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