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Top 3 reasons to choose Adaptive over Proofpoint.
Training built around your team's needs.
Choose from 1,000+ role-based modules, or generate custom lessons for your policies and workflows, including interactive deepfakes and studio-quality video. Proofpoint offers more generic content with fewer customization options.
Practice attacks beyond just the inbox.
Run voice, SMS, deepfake, and spear-phishing simulations informed by publicly available information about your organization. Proofpoint concentrates on just email phishing, drawing on threats detected within its own ecosystem.
Less work to keep your program always running.
Automate simulations, training assignments, phish triage, and reporting through configurable workflows. Proofpoint requires more setup and ongoing management to connect these processes.
Chris Ott
Business Information Security Officer, NerdWallet ($800M+ Revenue)
We didn't just adopt another training platform; we upgraded our entire security culture with a true partner that's leading the way in AI, deepfake defense, and cybersecurity.
See the difference with Adaptive.
With Proofpoint
With Adaptive Security
Selected micro-learning customization is delivered through services
Generate company-specific lessons directly from your policies
Documented customization services cover selected training content
Edit the examples, quizzes, text, images, and videos in your custom modules
Simulation materials do not cover live conversational AI impersonation
Let employees question, verify, and refuse requests from responsive AI callers
Simulation materials do not cover interactive executive deepfake scenarios
Test employee responses to convincing executive impersonations
AI ThreatFlip turns received email attacks into simulation templates
Build coordinated email, SMS, and voice scenarios around your organization
Pricing built to make leaving Proofpoint easy.
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Enterprise
Build a package around your organization’s security, deployment, and compliance needs.
Custom pricing
Dedicated support
Every account gets a dedicated Customer Success Manager.
Protected from day one
Start blocking malicious email and launching training immediately.
Onboarding rated a perfect 10
Customers consistently rate onboarding a perfect score.
Frequently Asked Questions.
Choose Adaptive to create training from your company's policies, give employees practice handling responsive voice and executive impersonation scenarios, and manage that program in one platform. Agentic Email Security and AI Governance extend the program with real-world exposure and behavior signals through the corresponding products.
ZenGuide provides threat-driven learning, simulation templates, and automated pathways. Adaptive combines policy-based content generation with OSINT-informed scenarios, executive personas, and AI conversations employees can challenge in real time.
ZenGuide automates learning pathways, and its Collaboration Security integrations can use real attacks to trigger training or create safe simulations. But Adaptive includes how your team creates original company-specific lessons and what employees can practice in interactive scenarios.
Yes. Adaptive's AI Content Studio turns policies and prompts into original, editable training. Your team controls the examples, quizzes, branding, and updates directly within the platform. Proofpoint's documented Customization Services modify selected micro-learning content. Adaptive puts policy-based creation in your team's hands, so a new procedure can become a lesson without commissioning a customized module.
Yes. Adaptive's AI voice personas respond to employees in real time. An employee can question a caller's urgency, insist on independent verification, and refuse an exception while the persona continues the conversation. Proofpoint's documented simulations include threat-based templates and telephone-oriented scenarios; Adaptive provides a concrete way to rehearse the back-and-forth of a convincing impersonation attempt.
You can evaluate Adaptive training and simulations without immediately replacing your email security setup. We'll review simulation delivery, allowlisting, and coexistence requirements during setup.
However, Adaptive's native email detection signals require Adaptive Email Security.
Adaptive integrates through an API without requiring MX record or mail-routing changes.
Adaptive focuses on employee AI and SaaS behavior, in-the-moment guidance, and connecting governance events to employee risk and targeted training, while Proofpoint's AI security portfolio just includes discovery, inspection, and policy enforcement.
They require the corresponding Adaptive products. Your proposal will identify the training, simulation, email protection, and governance capabilities included.
We'll review reporting, audit, and content requirements during transition planning and confirm what can be carried over or retained before rollout.
Yes. Share your renewal date and requirements. We'll scope the evaluation around your security review, implementation needs, and procurement process.
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