What do you like best about the product?

ProofPoint does an excellent job of blocking and filtering threats, spam and bulk email without over blocking. The reporting is great and it is easy to searcht he logs for delivery problems. One of my favorite features though is the TRAP/CLEAR functionality. Users can submit suspect emails for anylsis and any email deemed threating will automatically be quarantined across the entire Exchange environment. In addition email retrospectivly deemed threating will also be auto qurantied from all user mailboxes across the environement. This saves a ton of time on clearing up any threat that has post delivery content or was missed initially.

What do you dislike about the product?

My one chief complaint is that the managment protals for the varios componenets are seprerated and not under s single UI. It would be super handy if all of the configuration, anlysis, and reporting wereunder a single UI.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

We employ ProofPoint primarily as an SMTP security gateway. We use it for filtering SPAM and bulk email but really lean on it for detecting and removing malicious email, malware and phish emails.