Why Choose IRONSCALES over Proofpoint

Choosing the right email and messaging security platform is foundational to the protection of your organization. This page compares two of the top-rated email security platforms — IRONSCALES™ and Proofpoint® — to help you choose the platform that’s right for you.
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IRONSCALES provides a self-learning, AI-driven email security platform that continuously detects and remediates advanced threats like BEC, credential harvesting, ATO, and more, in milliseconds. The platform also incorporates employees into the organization’s fight against phishing with integrated email alert banners, report buttons, personalized phishing simulation testing, and advanced security awareness training (SAT).
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For over two decades, Proofpoint has created a legacy by providing businesses with reliable and comprehensive security solutions to protect their data and networks. Their products have been trusted by enterprises around the globe for preventing a wide range of cyberattacks, namely SPAM and malicious content.

Staying Ahead of Modern Email Threats

Traditional email security tools like Secure Email Gateways (SEGs) and authentication protocols can’t keep up with today’s evolving threats. Attackers now use social engineering and advanced tactics that bypass static defenses.

Modern protection must go beyond filtering—it needs to detect and eliminate malicious intent in real time.

Our solution combines Adaptive AI with human intelligence to evolve alongside emerging threats. With instant remediation and insights from 25,000+ global threat hunters, we enhance detection, reduce false positives, and protect against business email compromise, account takeover, VIP impersonation, and more.

This balance of automation, transparency, and expert-driven insights ensures threats are identified and neutralized before they reach your inbox.

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How IRONSCALES Delivers Smarter Protection 

No MX Record Changes – Easy Deployment

Unlike Proofpoint, our solution integrates with your Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, and other platforms seamlessly via API, eliminating the need for complex MX record modifications. Get up and running in minutes with minimal IT involvement.

 

Threat Intelligence Approaches

❌ Proofpoint maintains a proprietary threat intelligence database, updating defenses based on internal research and analyses.

 

✔ IRONSCALES utilizes a crowdsourced threat intelligence model, drawing insights from a global community of over 25,000 security professionals. This collective intelligence accelerates the identification of zero-day threats and enhances the platform's adaptive learning capabilities.

 

Scalability & Administrative Overhead

❌ Proofpoint is designed primarily for large enterprises, the platform may require dedicated resources for management and maintenance, potentially leading to increased administrative overhead.

 

✔ IRONSCALES offers a scalable solution suitable for organizations of all sizes, with an emphasis on automation and user-friendly interfaces. This design reduces the need for extensive administrative oversight, making it accessible even to teams with limited security personnel.

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Why IRONSCALES?

Our platform protects your employee's inboxes from advanced phishing attacks that others miss, with the only technology that combines AI and human insights. Our platform is quick to deploy and  dead simple to manage (so you get instant protection).

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Advanced Threat Protection

Protect Better
Block advanced phishing and BEC attacks (and never seen before threats) with our Adaptive AI—dynamically sharpened by real-world user insights and a community of over 25,000 threat hunters.
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SOC Automation

Simplify Operations

Slash the time your team spends remediating email incidents from 30 minutes per incident to 30 seconds.

Our Adaptive AI scans every email for malicious indicators. When it finds a threat, it doesn’t just block it, it automatically finds and remediates all others like it in your environment.

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SIMULATIONS & TRAINING

Empower your Org

Triple the email security awareness of your workforce and transform your employees into a crucial line of phishing defense. We make it dead simple to sharpen your employees' understanding of real-world threats with:

  • Phishing simulation testing
  • Security awareness training (SAT)
  • Dynamic email banners

...and a GPT-powered chat assistant

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Case Studies

"The ability to provide real-time feedback on both positive and negative performance has proven very effective. It’s a wake-up call for our employees.”
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