SECURITY-WEB AND EMAIL
PROOFPOINT EMAIL PROTECTION
WINNER: OVERALL
Proofpoint’s Email Protection offering brings together malware detection and blocking with protection against phishing and email fraud threats, enabling fast response to security incidents and prevention of information loss. Key benefits include visibility into the most vulnerable employees that might be targeted within an organization—with that visibility provided by an integrated threat dashboard. Proofpoint Email Protection offers multilayered content analysis to put a stop to threats both known and previously unknown, with capabilities such as signature-based detection prevents paired with dynamic reputation analysis for determining how to manage potential email connections.
Finalist: Barracuda Total Email Protection
With Total Email Protection, Barracuda Networks combines its Barracuda Essentials email security offering with spear phishing defense capabilities and security awareness training. Total Email Protection also allows MSPs to customize implementations to address unique customer requirements in a more simplified fashion.
Finalist: FireEye Email Security
FireEye Email Security now provides full secure email gateway functionality—blocking inbound and outbound malware, phishing URLs and impersonation techniques. Along with standard secure email gateway capabilities such as anti-virus, anti-spam and signature-based anti-malware, FireEye Email Security is designed to better protect customers with threat intelligence gathered from the frontlines.
Finalist: Mimecast Email Security with Targeted Threat Protection
Using Mimecast’s Email Security with Targeted Threat Protection, organizations can leverage multiple detection engines—along with a variety of threat intelligence offerings—to enable email protection from malware, spam, phishing and targeted attacks. Email Security with Targeted Threat Protection is delivered entirely as a cloudbased service.
Finalist: Netskope NextGen SWG
With its NextGen SWG (Secure Web Gateway), Netskope provides advanced capabilities around cloud-based web security—including detection of threats and other malicious activity (via pre-execution script analysis); dynamic sandboxing; and anomaly detection that leverages machine learning to protect both users and data across web activity.
