Proofpoint Targeted Attack Protection (TAP) Information Reviews & Insights

Score9.1 out of 10

65 Reviews and Ratings

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TrustRadius Insights for Proofpoint Targeted Attack Protection (TAP) are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

Pros

Effective URL Blocking: Several users have praised Proofpoint TAP for its effective URL Blocking feature, which has prevented malicious URLs from infiltrating their systems. This feature not only alerts users about potential compromises but also provides concise threat context, enabling them to understand the nature of the threats they face.

Integration with Proofpoint TRAP: Many reviewers have valued the seamless integration between TAP and Proofpoint TRAP. By combining these two solutions, users are able to streamline their workflow and enhance security measures. The integration detects spam and phishing emails, providing an added layer of protection against cyber threats.

Accurate Attachment Detonation: Users have expressed high satisfaction with TAP's sandbox attachment detonation feature. This functionality effectively vets attachments for threats, allowing users to confidently analyze email attachments without risking system compromise. The ability to detect malicious attachments and boast a false positive rate of less than 0.001% over three years has been particularly impressive to reviewers.

Proofpoint Targeted Attack Protection (TAP) Reviews

3 Reviews

InformationComputer Software1Computer Networking1Broadcast Media1

TAP away those threats!

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

November 21, 2020

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Proofpoint Targeted Attack Protection is used across our entire company covering all email domains.

Pros

URL rewrite feature is extremely useful for finding users at risk
Very attacked people is great for end user awareness targeted training
The dashboard is very intuitive and has useful data for reporting efficacy

Cons

Small issue but it would be great if they got on board with SAML 2.0 authentication for the dashboard
Would be nice to combine PPS and TAP dashboards into one view for reporting

Likelihood to Recommend

TAP is great where you have diverse email solutions and if you have a multi-vendor security strategy. They partner with leading security providers to increase security posture and telemetry.

Mike Kelley

CISO (Chief Information Security Officer) in Information Technology at EW Scripps (Broadcast Media, 5001-10,000 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

TAP is worth its price. It really saves time and makes your network save.

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

July 18, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

TAP is an optional module for Proofpoint Email Security that can be licensed. It consists of "URL Defense" and "Attachment Defense." The first one is a mighty tool which provides security for inbound mail traffic by analyzing (and blocking) access to harmfull external URLs. 'Attachment Defense' is even mightier. As a company, you get a lot of emails with attachments, especially documents like PDFs or Microsoft Office file formats. Attachment Defense is a Sandbox cloud service provided by Proofpoint, which analyzes these files and checks if they contain bad content like malicious macros. All normal Antivirus scanners work signature-based, so they are not able to open a document like Adobe Reader or MS Office would do it. This is what Proofpoint Targeted Attack Protection does for you. Up to now, there is no other way to automatically check every attachment this way (Sandboxing).

Pros

It's a carefree solution for automatic approval of (bad) attachments.
A carefree solution for automatic approval of bad URLs.
Alerts for admins if the attachments or allowed URL clicks afterwards turned out to be malicious.
A lot of information about malware campaigns inside the TAP Dashboard, and useful info, like who's the most attacked target in your company.

Cons

Expensive (but justified).
A lot of German companies are very sensitive about their data and privacy. You have to trust Proofpoint here.

Likelihood to Recommend

It is (of course) well suited if you have a lot of mail traffic which contains attachments and external URLs. In general, Proofpoint Targeted Attack Protection will suit you if your users have no sense of security, and if they click on every link without thinking for a second if a mail looks legitimate or not. Better safe than sorry!

Verified User

Engineer (Computer Networking company, 201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

Reseller

3 years of experience

Proofpoint Targeted Attack Protection

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

December 8, 2018

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Proofpoint Targeted Attack Protection for Email is being used by our organization to identify malicious email campaigns and which users that it might affect. It is being used across the whole organization, and identifies the VAPs (Very Attacked People) as well as VIP users, to narrow down our focus during an investigation into an incident.

Pros

Identify whether an email was received or blocked by a user.
Identify whether a malicious link in an email was clicked on or not.
Listing of the severity of the campaign, as well as the spread (how many other customers were affected).
Cloud integration ( in progress).

Cons

Integrating the GUI with the Email Security Admin portal (instead of two different logins).

Likelihood to Recommend

Proofpoint Targeted Attack Protection for Email is good for identifying malicious email campaigns, and whether a user might be affected by this (if they clicked any links in the email). We can also see whether this was a broad email campaign or specifically targeted towards our company or a certain industry, or possibly specific users.

Verified User

Analyst in Information Technology (Computer Software company, 10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience