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Dmarcian vs Proofpoint Email Fraud Defense

Choose Dmarcian for a focused DMARC journey, or Proofpoint for broad email security with DMARC expertise.
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Compare product functionality

Feature set

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Dmarcian is a specialized platform, laser-focused on DMARC implementation and management. Its core strength lies in providing detailed RUA (Aggregate) reports, transforming raw XML data into easily digestible dashboards. We found its Automatic Subdomain Detection to be particularly useful, catching domains that might otherwise go unmonitored.
The platform excels at identifying legitimate sending sources and guiding users through the complex process of moving to a DMARC enforcement policy (p=reject). While it includes tools like SPF and DKIM checkers, these are primarily in service of DMARC alignment, rather than offering a full suite of email security functionalities beyond DMARC.
Proofpoint Email Fraud Defense, in contrast, is part of a much broader email security ecosystem. It leverages Proofpoint's extensive threat intelligence to go beyond basic DMARC reporting, offering advanced features like dynamic lookalike domain identification and a Virtual Takedown Service. This means it's not just telling us who's sending email from our domains, but actively helping to mitigate threats from similar, malicious domains.
A significant differentiator is its hosted authentication services for SPF, DKIM, and DMARC. These services alleviate common pain points like the 10-lookup SPF limit and DKIM key management complexities, ensuring robust authentication without manual DNS headaches. It also integrates deeply with Proofpoint's Secure Email Gateway, providing a unified approach to inbound and outbound email security.
How easy is each product to use

User experience

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Dmarcian offers a clean, data-rich interface that, while not always the most visually stunning, is highly functional for DMARC practitioners. We appreciate its detailed breakdown of sending sources, which makes pinpointing authentication issues relatively straightforward. The initial setup requires a good understanding of DMARC principles, but the guided workflows help new users navigate the process.
However, some users have noted that the interface can feel less intuitive or 'hectic' at times, especially when dealing with complex scenarios or navigating between different reports. We found that once you're familiar with its structure, it becomes a powerful tool, but there can be a learning curve for those unfamiliar with the DMARC specific terminology.
Proofpoint Email Fraud Defense, being part of a larger suite, provides a more integrated and often more polished user experience. Its emphasis on streamlined DMARC deployment with dedicated consultants and guided workflows aims to simplify the process significantly. The Supplier Risk Explorer is a great example of a feature designed for ease of use, providing quick insights into supply chain vulnerabilities.
That said, we've encountered feedback suggesting that implementation and configuration can still be a challenge due to the product's comprehensive nature and the complexity of integrating it into an existing enterprise environment. While the daily use might be smooth for filtering, the initial setup can be intensive. The UI, while robust, could also benefit from further intuitiveness improvements, as some users have pointed out.
Which product has the best support

Support

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Dmarcian generally receives positive remarks for its customer support. Users often highlight the helpfulness and expertise of their support team in guiding them through DMARC implementation and troubleshooting. We've found their team to be responsive and knowledgeable, which is crucial when dealing with the intricacies of email authentication.
While their documentation and free tools are extensive, direct support becomes invaluable for complex configurations or when specific DMARC challenges arise. The quality of support seems consistent across different tiers, which is a significant plus, ensuring even smaller organizations receive adequate assistance.
Proofpoint's support for Email Fraud Defense is often cited as a strong point, especially for enterprise clients who typically receive dedicated consultant support. The professional team and the assistance in automating tasks are frequently praised. This hands-on approach can significantly ease the DMARC journey, particularly for large, complex organizations.
However, some users have noted challenges in scheduling time with their busy support teams. While the quality of support is high once engaged, initial response times or the ease of getting a dedicated team member assigned can vary. For products with such a broad feature set, responsive and readily available support is paramount, and it seems this is an area where Proofpoint is continuously working to optimize.
Who should use each product

Suitability

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Dmarcian is an excellent choice for organizations primarily focused on DMARC implementation and monitoring. Its tiered pricing, including a free personal plan (though not for commercial use), makes it accessible for small businesses (SMBs) who are just starting their DMARC journey. For mid-market companies and enterprises, its comprehensive reporting and source identification capabilities provide the necessary depth.
For Managed Service Providers (MSPs), Dmarcian offers robust DMARC-specific features that can be integrated into their client offerings, though multi-tenancy might require thoughtful management across separate accounts or higher-tier plans. Its API access in the Enterprise plan allows for custom integrations, which is a plus for advanced users.
Proofpoint Email Fraud Defense is ideally suited for enterprise-level organizations that already use or are considering Proofpoint's broader email security suite. Its strengths lie in its deep integration with other Proofpoint products, comprehensive threat intelligence, and managed services for DMARC deployment. For SMBs, it might be overkill in terms of features and cost, unless they have very specific, complex security needs.
MSPs serving enterprise clients would find Proofpoint's offerings beneficial, especially with its hosted authentication services and multi-tenancy capabilities inherent in its enterprise-grade design. The consulting-driven approach makes it a strong contender for organizations that prefer a more guided, hands-on implementation process for their DMARC and overall email fraud defense strategy.
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DMARC report analysis
Source detection
Forward detection
Spoof detection
Notifications and alerts
Reporting
API
Multi-tenancy
SPF flattening
Hosted DMARC
BIMI
MTA-STS/TLS-RPT
Blocklists and reputation
AI copilot
DNS monitoring
Self hostable
Free trial/free tier
Dmarcian's main drawbacks often revolve around its user interface, which can be less intuitive for newcomers, and a perceived lower ability in broad threat intelligence compared to platforms with a wider security scope. Proofpoint Email Fraud Defense, while robust, sometimes receives criticism for its complex implementation process and potential for over-filtering legitimate emails, leading to delays.
We have pulled the average ratings from G2 for each product, and also included the most recent negative reviews for each product in full. Positive reviews tend to have less detail and have a higher chance of being fraudulent, so negative reviews are a better signal for your decision.
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The security of emails made difficult
Its operation, to its responses dmarcian has obstructed my expectations. It has not simplified my experience with email authentication. Made my job hectic. The less user friendly interface makes navigating tough. There are concerns about its effectiveness in solving email scams and spoofing attempts. The system does not fully. Prevent emails, which leave businesses vulnerable to attacks. It also lacks comprehensive and detailed activity logs making it difficult to monitor and investigate security breaches. dmarcian is a poor tool when it comes to preventing activities that harm businesses. Its worst technology does not simply work for individuals. Improvements need to be made to increase the interface and user experience for navigation and management of security settings.
Juni S.
Secretary Airlines/Aviation Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
Overkill
Great filters for junk and spam. Easy widgets in email notifications to release legit email that is not spam Too much filtering. At times, overkill. Filters out legitimate emails. Protect network from illicit email spoofing. Employees that are non tech savvy that click on fishing emails.
Verified User in Food & Beverages
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
One of the best email security software
The best part about using dmarcian is it keeps our domain name safe from all the nonsense out there in terms of phishing, spam, fraud and its plans are competitive in nature which is why we don't need to shell out a big chunk of money to protect our domain. The downside of using dmarcian is its API Integration, which has many flaws, which is why it gets really difficult to integrate it with our servers and this is where we would like to see an improvement. Today, keeping domain safe is one big challenge and along with it, the activity log of your domain is critical; this is where dmarcian comes in and helps us keep everything secure and uptight.
Nishay S.
Executive Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
Not sure if it's worth the hassle
I do like that it auto scans my emails and sorts out the scam/fraudulent ones. I greatly dislike having to wait for the flagged emails, that are actually not fraudulent, but something that I am looking for. It does not send me the alert until the next day, and then once its been released and approved, it ends up taking another 10 minutes or so (Max) to get to me. I am getting significantly fewer fraudulent/scam emails
Verified User in Construction
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Prevents business digital work from fraudulents at ease
Easy to use integrated software to protect business emails from fraud. Increases deliverability of emails from business domains and ensures smooth outgoing. Uses best-in-class technology and process to configure emails and safeguard them from phishing. No major dislike about Dmarcian. The only challenge is the lower ability towards threat intelligence. The excellent customer support offered. Highly agile and faster than traditional email security gateways. Helps businesses in protection from viruses, malware and email threat. Just with one single click company can blocklist and allowlist IPs and Domains. Solid technology to protect business data from any fraud and bad behaviour. The technology is ideal for medium, small and large enterprise businesses.
Aswath V.
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
Email Protection by Proofpoint Fraud Defence
This product provides email protection for both Inbound and outbound emails from all the domains which help in securing the mailboxes. This adds the advantage of the analytics features alike continuously shows the volume of mails as phishing /secures messages. Like other proofpoint products this also has implementing and configuring problems as they are not easy to configure in the organization environment. This product offers you great security over emails and customers can leverage the support and different product portfolio they offer. We are securing our emails from phising mails /messages for all the domains and for both inbound outbound messages.
Anjali V.
Cyber Security Analyst Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Empowering Email Authentication
dmarcian's clear mission to promote email security and combat phishing resonates and I appreciate their work beyond pure profit motives. I am satisfied with dmarcian's tools, highlighting their ease of use, helpful support, and effectiveness in improving email security. While they offer free tools, their paid services can be expensive for smaller organizations or individual users. Their platform may not integrate seamlessly with all email service providers or security solutions, requiring additional configuration or workarounds. Dmarcian helps me to protect our domain from being spoofed by email attackers. This prevents fake emails from appearing to come from their domain, which can be used to steal sensitive information or impersonate individuals. This benefits me indirectly by ensuring the information I access is from reliable sources and not tampered with by malicious actors.
Tytus J.
IT Manager Information Technology and Services Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
Reliable tool for spam emails!
It's a great reliable tool and keep your inbox more secure and spam free. As a security measure this is great tool which prevents from any fraudulent emails and send alerts as necessary. I am currently using at my company and find all the spam emails being avoided. We usually receives too many on our generic email alias and this help in securing. It's a great tool, though I find the use of it a very little. Only being capable of avoiding spam emails. Also the dashboard is not much interactive It was always better to have precaution than being penalized by unwanted threat. It's always good to be more secure and spam free and take preventive steps towards running your business securely. We consider our emails to be safe and spam free. And probably easy to set up
Verified User in Information Technology and Services
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
Protected email identity
With its operation, it has allowed electronic emails not to be usurped and all the information in each email is not released for improper use Our clients have the security that when an email is sent on our part it is safe because Dmarcian does not allow the domains to be kidnapped causing pirate emails to be received I think that nothing dislikes because all its operation has been correct and executing all its processes well It was the problem that emails arrived with the same domain but we were not who sent them and robbed the information or requested payments to other accounts and the client thought that if it was our work team that sent those emails because the domain was the same, with Dmarcian that problem was solved because our emails were never piracy
Sophia G.
supervisor Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
We use it as our Email Proxy.
Ability to filter by most likely spam emails. We also have the ability to open up domains. The UI can be a bit more intuitive if it was up to me. I would recommend for the ease of use and security features offered. Fraud emails and Spam emails for our Enterprise account.
Verified User in Computer & Network Security
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Dmarcian offers clear, tiered pricing starting with a free non-commercial plan and scaling up, while Proofpoint Email Fraud Defense requires direct contact for pricing, indicating a likely custom enterprise-focused model.
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Small
$19.99/month (Basic plan, billed yearly, up to 100k messages)
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Medium
$19.99/month (Basic plan, billed yearly)
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Large
$199/month (Plus plan, billed yearly)
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Enterprise
$499/month (Enterprise plan, billed yearly, up to 5M)
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