COMPARISON BRIEF
Proofpoint & Kiteworks Better Together
Complement Proofpoint’s powerful email hygiene and threat protection with Kiteworks’ comprehensive email encryption, compliance tracking and controls, and seamless usability.
| Capability | Proofpoint Email Protection | Kiteworks Email Protection Gateway |
|---|---|---|
| Email threat protection – Defend your organization from phishing attacks, imposter email, malware, and business email compromise (BEC). | ✓ | |
| Email hygiene – Eliminate SPAM from users’ inboxes. | ✓ | |
| Automated email encryption policies – Give the encrypt-or-not decision for each email to automated policies, not users or plugins. Supports Microsoft AIM classification metadata. | ✓ | |
| Email encryption standards – Support S/MIME, OpenPGP, and Push HTML. Works with any standard email client and service without the need for plugins. | ✓ | |
| Automated certificate and key management – Free up IT resources and make encryption seamless for end-users. | ✓ | |
| End-to-end encryption option – Administrators, vendors, and governments cannot access emails in servers and in transit because they are encrypted in the sender’s client and decrypted only in the recipient’s client. | ✓ | |
| Unified third-party communications – Lay the groundwork to manage a single set of controls, policies, user roles, and indicators across all sensitive email and file sharing. Extend it to transfers via web forms, SFTP, MFT, and API integrations. | ✓ |