Compare Area 1
to Proofpoint Email Security
Choose Area — the only Preemptive, Cloud-Native Email Security Solution
Choose Area — the only Preemptive, Cloud-Native Email Security Solution
Traditional Secure Email Gateways (SEGs) are unable to innovate at the pace of attackers. On average, SEGs such as those from Proofpoint fail to stop 30 percent of phishing attacks — particularly the most dangerous and highly targeted Business Email Compromise (BEC), supply chain fraud and ransomware attacks.
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Proofpoint Email Security | Area 1 Horizon | |
ACTION TIMING | Delayed — relies on detection after active campaign or after messages reach inboxes | Preemptive — stops threats before they reach inboxes. |
EFFICACY | Misses phish, BEC and highly targeted social engineering-based attacks | Accurately determines maliciousness and minimizes false positives without relying on large sample sizes |
EASE OF USE/MANAGEMENT | Time-consuming initial setup, ongoing tuning and cumbersome administration; workflow process can be disruptive to end users | Deploys within 30 minutes; nothing to install or “tune”; automatic cloud-based updates |
THREAT DETECTION & INTELLIGENCE | Limited phishing focus and intel; doesn’t protect against insider threats | Discovers and monitors emergent campaign infrastructure in the wild |
SOURCE ANALYSIS | Limited – no phish indexing, limited infrastructure monitoring | Detects source of campaign; high-speed phish indexing; attacker infrastructure monitoring |
STRUCTURE ANALYSIS | Limited message thread and context analysis | Understands message / thread context, message structure analysis |
SENTIMENT ANALYSIS | Limited intent analysis | Understands full conversation and intent; relationships and social graph mapping |
SURFACE ANALYSIS | Limited – requires additional products for broader surface threat detection | Protects against external, internal, partner, web and network-based threats |
SCALE & PERFORMANCE | Limited – not dynamically scalable | Architectured to handle cloud traffic spikes; analytics processing and orchestration at scale |
Key email security criteria ratings comparing Area 1 to Proofpoint, according to the GigaOm Radar for Phishing Prevention and Detection:
Leading companies deploy Area 1 anti-phishing service behind (or as a replacement for) Proofpoint and other traditional secure email gateways (SEGs).
Why? Area 1 regularly discovers (and blocks) hundreds of thousands of phishing emails that are missed by Proofpoint and other SEG-based vendors.