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The leader in Human-Centric cybersecurity. 87 of the Fortune 100 trust Proofpoint to stop human-targeted attacks, safeguard their data and make their people more resilient. It prevents today's advanced email attacks, provides actionable visibility, and automated remediation that effectively stops threats while increasing your operational efficiencies. Proofpoint helps organizations break the attack chain by protecting data, investigating insiders, and blocking cloud threats. Our platform addresses the full spectrum of data loss scenarios by providing a holistic view across channels in a cloud-native interface and combining content, behavior, and threat telemetry.
Reviews (652)
Madhukar Pandey
Centralized policies have reduced data leakage and optimize investigations across channels
Reviewed on Sep 30, 2026
Review provided by PeerSpot
What is our primary use case?
Proofpoint Enterprise DLP primarily protects email and web channels in our organization. We have implemented both Proofpoint Enterprise DLP and cloud DLP solutions. When someone sends an email outside the organization, it first goes to email exchange and then to Proofpoint Enterprise DLP. The system scans all content of the email, including attachments, and takes necessary action based on our configured policies. Once approved, the email goes to the email gateway and then outside the organization to the recipient server or email ID.
For cloud usage, we are using OneDrive and SharePoint where Proofpoint Enterprise DLP functions as a CASB solution. Whenever someone shares an external document or external data containing sensitive information such as PII, the DLP performs real-time scanning and blocks the external connection.
Regarding our main use cases, due to regulatory requirements, any customer PII data going outside the organization is monitored and blocked if it exceeds our specific threshold. Additionally, we have blocked encrypted data over email because no DLP solution can read encrypted data. These are our major implemented use cases.
How has it helped my organization?
Proofpoint Enterprise DLP has positively impacted our organization by helping us with compliance. We have set up a workflow where whenever anyone attempts to send blocked data according to our policy, we receive notifications and all alerts. The tool helps us prevent data leakage across channels, maintaining exfiltration prevention, compliance, and the auditing process.
The positive impact includes various measurable metrics. Business operations continue as usual while we have reduced false positive detection to approximately 30 to 40 percent with the predefined templates or configurations available in Proofpoint Enterprise DLP. Additionally, whenever someone sends data that is blocked, the system directly sends an email to the reporting manager who can release the data if it is a genuine activity, thus not impacting normal business operations. Overall, operation calls have been reduced by approximately 20 to 30 percent. The numbers demonstrate that false positive detection with the predefined template is reduced to 30 percent, and operation calls have decreased by 20 to 30 percent with Proofpoint Enterprise DLP.
What is most valuable?
Proofpoint Enterprise DLP offers coverage for email, endpoint, and cloud solutions, along with a centralized policy and investigation workflow. The centralized approach provides significant relief for both the investigation process and policy creation. The solution also includes a useful insider threat investigation capability.
The centralized policy and investigation workflow has helped our team significantly on a daily basis. When we deploy any policy, we do not have to create separate policies for different channels such as email, endpoint, and cloud. A single policy can be implemented across all three channels, which are the major channels through which data is exfiltrated. During investigation, if a user is performing insider threat activities or has malicious intent, we can see in a single console which channel they attempted to use to exfiltrate or send data if it was blocked. This gives us better visibility and a superior investigation capability in one console.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Proofpoint Enterprise DLP for more than two and a half years.
George B.
Easy to Use with Instant Policy Updates, but Downtime Alerts Could Be Faster
Reviewed on Sep 23, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
I like the ease of use, and the fact that any policy modifications are applied almost instantaneously.
What do you dislike about the product?
When services go down, it often feels like we’re notified too late, which leaves us significantly delayed in responding.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The refined GUI makes it easier to run refined searches more quickly and with clearer results.
juwon f.
Effective Daily Protection Against Most Email Bourne Threats
Reviewed on Sep 23, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
We use it on a day to day basis the tool is effective at preventing most email threats, there are just a few limitations I would like tweaked. Like attachment field being evaluated as one instead of on an individual attachment basis
What do you dislike about the product?
Main issue is with the evaluation logic in the attachment field, all attachments are treated as one leading to false positives and potentially DLP incidents if one attachment satisfies a DLP rule all other files can be sent out. Not ideal
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It allows us to take a step back sometimes knowing that most spam and malicious emails are automatically take care of
Todd R.
Keeps My Inbox Clean from Spam and Malware
Reviewed on Sep 23, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
How effectively it keeps my inbox clean from spam and malware.
What do you dislike about the product?
I have yet to encounter any downsides to using Proof point Core Email Protection
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Removing common attack vectors for malware from user's every day work routine.
Vasu T.
Complete Email Protection from Proofpoint
Reviewed on Sep 23, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
It provides highly accurate email threat detection and stops threats before they reach users’ inboxes.
What do you dislike about the product?
A bit complex, multip-portal user interface is a major issue that needs to be fixed.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Email Threat Protection Simplified Proactively.
Virus Protection & Email Fraud Defense
Virus Protection & Email Fraud Defense
Mikhail M.
More Trustworthy Email Protection with Proofpoint but lacks in features for Canadian customers vs US
Reviewed on Sep 23, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
I can trust Proofpoint email protection more compared to what we used before. The lack of it for us is satori is not available in Canada.
What do you dislike about the product?
Would like to have satori abuse mailbox for Canadian users.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It protect against phishing, malware and other email threats
Dan J.
Core Email Protection: Single-Pane Metrics That Cut Tooling and Training Costs
Reviewed on Sep 22, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
Core Email Protection gives analysts and managers tools and metrics in a single pane of glass that otherwise requires multiple products, disciplines and training. This significantly cuts down expenses in multiple disparate security tools and training.
What do you dislike about the product?
Currently there is not a simple and effective method to report false positive/false negative results. Neither is there a good process to correct those results and future occurrences.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
This product addresses the challenge of providing the security team with clear, specific signals to focus on. It also offers the advantage of having actionable tools available immediately within the product, so the team can respond quickly and effectively.
Jiten A.
Effective Email DLP Flow, Though Too Many Pages and Re-Routing
Reviewed on Sep 22, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
The process flow for Email DLP is effective. With policy routes and email firewall making life easier to navigate unique usecases
What do you dislike about the product?
Multiple pages and re-routing in order to fulfill requirement
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The email protection helps support email encryption effectively
Paul Z.
Essential Protection for Our Organization
Reviewed on Sep 22, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
I'm not sure, everything I guess. I don't see how our organization would protect itself without it
What do you dislike about the product?
nothing. it works great. other than the DNS/load balancer outage we had recently, not a complaint about the product itself really.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Pretty much everything related to the email gateway.
Keveroy C.
Proofpoint Email Protection That’s Truly Set-and-Forget
Reviewed on Sep 22, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
I like Proofpoint, emails protection because its almost like a set it and forget it solution.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometime you can get lost if you dont use the interface as much.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The problem that it solves for my organization is that before the solution that we used to use we had to be tweaking policies and doing a lot of work around for it to protect our emails and prevent spoofing and spams.