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Overcome DLP Complexity with Proofpoint’s Modern Solution
Customers choose Proofpoint over Microsoft Purview because its human-centric approach delivers superior omnichannel data protection and immediate time to value. So whether you’re just starting your journey and evaluating solutions or your Microsoft deployment has stalled, our comprehensive platform deploys quickly and accelerates incident resolution, saving you time and resources.
Why switch to Proofpoint?
Our lightweight modern DLP architecture scales automatically and assures fast time to value, even if you’ve been mired in a lengthy and unproductive Microsoft Purview deployment.
Maximise the success of your DLP program with Proofpoint professional and managed services that provide design, operational and optimisation support.
Take advantage of our single, economically attractive package and get your DLP program up and running immediately. Contact one of our experts to learn more.
Visibility and management
Microsoft’s data-centric alerts are spread across multiple, fragmented consoles. With inflexible reporting tools, the context of DLP alerts cannot be determined. Ultimately, Microsoft cannot provide the visibility you need. This approach makes investigating alerts burdensome, time-consuming and leads to missed violations that increase risk.
Proofpoint is the only solution that brings together the telemetry of content and user behaviour across the most critical DLP channels—email, cloud applications, endpoint, and web. Our unified console includes all that administrators and analysts need to quickly resolve incidents and prevent data loss: policy management, workflows, alert management, classification sophistication, reporting. For the riskiest users, Proofpoint captures screenshots, providing irrefutable evidence to help inform decisions by HR, legal, privacy, and managers.
Operational efficiency
Microsoft requires manual processes to define policy exceptions to circumvent product limitations and numerous prerequisites prior to installation. This makes system management inefficient, costly and error prone. In addition, changes to policies are frequently pushed after long delays.
Proofpoint delivers straightforward policy management that provides clear visibility into all data and events, supports granular privacy and role-based access controls, and streamlines day-to-day management with policies installed in near real time.
Implementation
Microsoft is time-consuming and difficult to implement, leading to increased costs. Deploying Purview requires installing multiple agents and plugins on the endpoint, yet it can only support limited file types. Organisations can’t use best-in-class endpoint protection because Microsoft restricts them from using solutions outside its portfolio. And Microsoft doesn’t have native professional or managed services for Information Protection.
Proofpoint is quickly implemented, employs a single user mode endpoint agent for DLP and Insider Threat Management, and supports many file types across all channels. Its endpoint protection is agnostic for greater flexibility. Our approach assures fast time to value and can accelerate deployment with its native professional and managed services offerings.
Proofpoint vs. Microsoft Purview at a glance:
Deep user and file context
Screen capture for forensic evidence
Threat hunting for proactive detection/investigation
Single user mode agent for ITM and DLP
Rich DLP detections (Regex, OCR, IDM, EDM) and MIP classification
Monitor and detect file movements with data lineage
Integration with third-party proxy and redirect to Isolation
Account Threat Protection and third-party apps (PFPT Threat Intel)
Dynamic shadow IT (PFPT and Ecosystem)
API, forward and reverse proxy modalities
Broad application connectors
Prebuilt data identifiers and dictionaries
More than 300 file types scanned out of the box
Fingerprinting of sensitive documents
Content matching: IDM, EDM and OCR
Unified Alert Management and DLP Configuration
Granular Data Privacy and Access Controls
Security ecosystem integration (SIEM/SOAR/Teams)
Managed Information Protection
Professional services for Information Protection
Deep user and file context
Screen capture for forensic evidence
Threat hunting for proactive detection/investigation
Single user mode agent for ITM and DLP
Rich DLP detections (Regex, OCR, IDM, EDM) and MIP classification
Monitor and detect file movements with data lineage
Integration with third-party proxy and redirect to Isolation
Account Threat Protection and third-party apps (PFPT Threat Intel)
Dynamic shadow IT (PFPT and Ecosystem)
API, forward and reverse proxy modalities
Broad application connectors
Prebuilt data identifiers and dictionaries
More than 300 file types scanned out of the box
Fingerprinting of sensitive documents
Content matching: IDM, EDM and OCR
Unified Alert Management and DLP Configuration
Granular Data Privacy and Access Controls
Security ecosystem integration (SIEM/SOAR/Teams)
Managed Information Protection
Professional services for Information Protection
"Proofpoint Information Protection is a mature and comprehensive DLP solution based on a cloud-native platform..."
-KuppingerCole Leadership Compass for Data Loss Prevention
Realise business value with Proofpoint DLP
DLP is not just a tool. It is a program. And a successful DLP program is like a three-legged stool that encompasses people, processes and technology. Only Proofpoint provides you with all three legs so you can reliably defend your organisation’s data and realise true business value.
Return on Investment
Microsoft provides an incomplete set of disparate DLP tools that are minimally integrated, expensive to deploy and require a team of costly, highly-trained technologists to operate. It comes with only one leg of the stool that you need for a successful DLP program—technology.
Proofpoint provides you with the people, processes and technology needed for a successful DLP program. Proofpoint Security Awareness helps change the behaviour of your people by providing best-in-class cybersecurity user training. Proofpoint Managed Information Protection provides you with highly skilled experts to co-manage the processes of your DLP program. And our adaptive, human-centric technology transforms information protection across email, cloud, endpoint and web. Our superior time-to-value, visibility into DLP events, and usability guarantees that you will realise ROI immediately and throughout your program’s life.
We’re recognised as an industry leader by leading analyst firms and customers alike.
Proofpoint Recognised in 2023 Gartner® Market Guide for Data Loss Prevention
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