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Proofpoint provides a human-centric approach to security that stops more attacks that cause data breaches and financial loss than Cisco. Analysts, industry experts and customers agree that our continuous detection across the attack chain and pioneering AI offer better efficacy and accuracy.
Legacy security won’t stop modern, targeted attacks. That’s why you need Proofpoint.
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Human-centric visibility
Cisco offers basic reporting for top recipients and blocked messages. But without visibility into trends and user behaviour, it can’t provide contextual insights on employee risk or potential impact.
Proofpoint provides the detailed forensics you need to focus on your very attacked users, understand how they’re being attacked and how they respond. By observing campaigns unique to your organisation’s threat environment, we act as your early warning system, always keeping you one step ahead.
Advanced threat detection
Cisco’s email security struggles to keep up with modern human-targeted threats, relying on artificially limited sandboxing and legacy reputation detection.
Proofpoint uses AI-driven, continuous detection combined with world-class threat intelligence to catch more costly phishing, business email compromise and malware attacks with 99.99% accuracy.
Lighten your security load
Cisco’s priorities lie outside of email, contributing to less frequent updates and very few automation capabilities. This causes significant manual remediation for administrators. And data is often siloed across many products and requires additional licensing.
Proofpoint stops more unwanted messages before delivery, reducing incidents. And it offers automated remediation post-delivery for AI-detected and user reported threats. No hands-on work needed.
Proofpoint vs. Cisco at a glance:
Advanced BEC Detection
(Add-on)
Automated message remediation
(Add-on)
User-reported message automation
Cloud account takeover visibility
In-depth threat reporting including VAPs
Threats blocked pre-delivery
Malware & Phish Detection
URL sandboxing for malware, ransomware, & credential theft
Reputation
Click-time protection
Email warning tags with report suspicious
Customisable configuration and mail routing
Anti-spam (AS), anti-virus (AV, graymail, and user mail controls
AV/AS only
Executive/VIP mail control of unknown senders (Circle of Trust)
Isolate suspicious clicks on rewritten URLs
✓
User risk dashboard (Nexus People Risk Explorer)
Threat Scanning for Internal Mail
✓
(Add-on)
Advanced BEC Detection
(Add-on)
Automated message remediation
(Add-on)
User-reported message automation
Cloud account takeover visibility
In-depth threat reporting including VAPs
Threats blocked pre-delivery
Malware & Phish Detection
URL sandboxing for malware, ransomware, & credential theft
Reputation
Click-time protection
Email warning tags with report suspicious
Customisable configuration and mail routing
Anti-spam (AS), anti-virus (AV), graymail, and user mail controls
AV/AS only
Executive/VIP mail control of unknown senders (Circle of Trust)
Isolate suspicious clicks on rewritten URLs
✓
User risk dashboard (Nexus People Risk Explorer)
Threat Scanning for Internal Mail
✓
(Add-on)
Proofpoint is the proven leader.
Despite recent acquisitions, Cisco has not made major enhancements or innovations to close the identified gaps in their security capabilities. Their customer support continues to suffer, and Forrester notes they rely heavily on third parties and OEM relationships.
Proofpoint addresses all these key areas and more. We are consistently named the market leader in email security by analysts such as Gartner, Frost & Sullivan and Forrester.
Proofpoint ranked No. 1 in G2's Summer 2023 Email Security Report
Consolidate with Proofpoint human-centric cybersecurity platform
Proofpoint human-centric cybersecurity platform can also help you consolidate your discrete IT security controls in critical areas, such as impersonation protection, account takeover protection, security awareness training, and email archiving and compliance.
A comprehensive platform
Cisco’s focus on telecommunications technology has led to lagging email security functionality and minimal integrations. However, for most customers, email is a core security area as it remains the No. 1 threat vector.
Proofpoint email security customers can benefit from our entire platform of protection. It includes additional layers of security, such as email authentication, user education, account compromise detection, adaptive controls and more.
Cloud access and data loss prevention
Cisco’s data loss prevention and management access for email accounts is similarly restricted. They rely heavily on basic protections and manual rule creation and management.
Proofpoint provides dynamic, out-of-the-box data loss prevention for our cloud access management that’s simple to deploy, reduces false positives and provides real-time reporting.
We’re recognised as an industry leader by leading analyst firms and customers alike
KuppingerCole Analysts Report: Leadership Compass Email Security
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Proofpoint Recognised as Overall Market Leader Frost Radar™: Email Security, 2024
Proofpoint Named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Email Security, Q2 2023
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