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Cloud Email Protection vs. Proofpoint Core Email Protection

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricCloud Email Protection

by Fortra

Proofpoint Core Email Protection

by Proofpoint

Overall rating4.54.6
Review count10628
Ease of use9.08.7
Ease of setup8.98.6
Quality of support8.29.0
Meets requirements9.09.4
NPS6074.471545
Small Business0.0%4.6%
Mid-Market20.0%29.5%
Enterprise80.0%65.9%
Total page views1512,102
Total LLM citations18517,373

Cloud Email Protection

Fortra Cloud Email Protection is a cloud-native platform driven by an advanced system of machine learning (ML) models, Large Language Models (LLMs), and neural networks to detect and mitigate advanced email threats. For the broadest possible protection, our solution references hundreds of curated, high-fidelity threat indicators from newly observed threats every day—all gathered by Fortra’s Global Inbox Threat Intel—that have bypassed traditional Secure Email Gateways.

Pros

    Proofpoint Core Email Protection

    Proofpoint Collaboration Security tackles multichannel, multistage attacks with 99.999% detection accuracy. It identifies and remediates advanced email threats including BEC, ransomware, phishing, ATO, and exec impersonations. The solution blocks threats across email and other digital communication and collaboration platforms, i.e. MS Teams, WhatsApp, Slack, LinkedIn, OneDrive, protecting users anywhere they work, on any device. Customers get protection against both internal and supplier account compromise, and strengthens human resilience against emerging threats.

    Pros

    • Protection
    • Email Security
    • Ease of Use
    • Effective
    • Security
    • Customer Support