Insider Risk Platform Comparison

Above vs. Proofpoint

Teramind records everything: screens, keystrokes, sessions. It leaves your analysts hours of footage to review.

Above sees and investigates everything too, with AI, and surfaces only what matters, without putting your people under a microscope.
Proofpoint ITM (formerly ObserveIT) records endpoint activity — screen captures, keystrokes, and risk-scored timelines your analysts review.
Above’s AI agents investigate behavior and intent across SaaS, endpoint, identity, and AI, and hand you the finished case — without blanket screen recording.
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Why teams switch

Where Proofpoint leaves the work to your analysts

ObserveIT's heritage is endpoint recording. The risk scores and screen captures still land on your team to investigate.

Activity to review, not answers

Risk-scored timelines and contextual screen captures pile up, and your analysts still reconstruct what actually happened from them.

Surveillance your people feel

Agent-based screen capture and keystroke monitoring on endpoints invites privacy, works-council, and legal pushback.

Endpoint-bound by design

The agent sees the endpoint. SaaS, identity, and AI-era activity need the rest of your stack — and still arrive as alerts to triage.

At a glance

Above vs. Proofpoint, side by side

Proofpoint records the endpoint and scores the user; the investigation is your team. Above runs the investigation on every signal, included.

Recommended
Teramind
Primary output
Screen recordings, keystrokes & alerts
Finished AI investigations
Who does the investigating
Your analysts, by hand
AI investigative agents
Detection approach
Rules + UEBA baseline deviation
AI behavioral investigation
Employee privacy
Screen & keystroke surveillance
Investigation, not blanket recording
AI & agent activity
No AI-agent monitoring
Seen and investigated
Coverage
Desktop & servers (agent)
SaaS, endpoint, identity & AI
Response
Block / quarantine
Real-time guidance + recommended actions
Time to resolution
Hours reviewing footage
Minutes
Proofpoint
Primary output
Risk scores, timelines & screen captures
Finished AI investigations
Who runs investigations
Your analysts, by hand
AI investigative agents, bulit in
Detection approach
Policy + risk scoring
AI behavioral investigation
Employee privacy
Endpoint screen capture & keystrokes
Investigation, not blanket recording
Primary coverage
Endpoint agent (Win/Mac/Linux)
SaaS, endpoint, identity & AI
AI & agent activity
Separate AI add-on
Native, seen & investigated
Setup & upkeep
Agent rollout + recording policies
Connect and investigate
Time to a finished case
Hours reviewing footage
Minutes
Proofpoint
Primary output
Finished AI investigations
Risk scores, timelines & screen captures
Who runs investigations
AI investigative agents, bulit in
Your analysts, by hand
Detection approach
AI behavioral investigation
Policy + risk scoring
Employee privacy
Investigation, not blanket recording
Endpoint screen capture & keystrokes
Primary coverage
SaaS, endpoint, identity & AI
Endpoint agent (Win/Mac/Linux)
AI & agent activity
Native, seen & investigated
Separate AI add-on
Setup & upkeep
Connect and investigate
Agent roolout + recording policies
Time to a finished case
Minutes
Hours reviewing footage
Integrate with your current tech

Above plugs into the identity, HR, EDR, and cloud tools you already run, so every investigation arrives with full context.

Integrations

Built for Investigation, Not Just Logging

Above and Proofpoint both connect to your stack. The difference is what the connections are for.

Above's integrations pull context in

Identity, HR, and SaaS activity data feed directly into every AI-driven Above investigation, building a real narrative around who did what and why it matters. Teramind's integrations push logs out; activity and alerts are formatted and shipped to your SIEM or SOAR for your team to interpret manually.

Identity and HR context are built into every Above investigation

Above connects to Okta, Microsoft Entra ID, Google Workspace, and Deel to pull role, department, manager, hire date, and account status for the specific person involved in an incident automatically, as part of the AI investigation itself. You get a narrative that already knows who someone is and what's normal for their role, not just a username to look up separately.

Above leverages SaaS activity as a real evidence source

Above ingests Google Workspace activity directly as investigation evidence, not just endpoint capture. That means visibility into what happened in the apps themselves, correlated alongside browser and identity signals in the same investigation.

Above gives you context instead of logs

Above's integrations are built to answer "who is this, what's normal, what changed, is it risky" automatically, inside the investigation. Teramind, like most monitoring platforms' integrations, is built to format and forward events to your SIEM, SOAR, or ticketing system, leaving the interpretation to your team.

Above's integrations pull context in
Identity, HR, and SaaS activity data feed directly into every AI-driven Above investigation, building a real narrative around who did what and why it matters. Proofpoint's integrations push logs out; activity and alerts are formatted and shipped to your SIEM or SOAR for your team to interpret manually.
Identity and HR context are built into every Above investigation
Above connects to Okta, Microsoft Entra ID, Google Workspace, and Deel to pull role, department, manager, hire date, and account status for the specific person involved in an incident automatically, as part of the AI investigation itself. You get a narrative that already knows who someone is and what's normal for their role, not just a username to look up separately.
Above leverages SaaS activity as a real evidence source
Above ingests Google Workspace activity directly as investigation evidence, not just endpoint capture. That means visibility into what happened in the apps themselves, correlated alongside browser and identity signals in the same investigation.
Above gives you context instead of logs
Above's integrations are built to answer "who is this, what's normal, what changed, is it risky" automatically, inside the investigation. Proofpoint, like most monitoring platforms' integrations, is built to format and forward events to your SIEM, SOAR, or ticketing system, leaving the interpretation to your team.
What sets Above apart

The investigation runs itself

AI runs every investigation

Proofpoint hands your analysts a risk-scored timeline and screen captures. Above's agents assemble the behavioral timeline, pull in context, and recommend the next action — no one scrubs through recordings.

Protect the company, not surveil your people

No blanket endpoint screen capture or keystroke logging. Above investigates behavior and intent, the posture employees, works councils, and legal can stand behind.

Sees and investigates everything

SaaS, endpoint, identity, plus the AI era: custom GPTs trained on your IP, OAuth-scoped agents, personal AI. Not just recorded on the endpoint — investigated.

An honest take

When Proofpoint might be the right call

If you need agent-based endpoint user-activity monitoring with session recording and risk scoring as forensic evidence — and ObserveIT's long track record in that space — Proofpoint ITM is built for it. Above is for teams that want the investigation done for them, coverage beyond the endpoint, and a privacy-respecting posture the whole organization can stand behind.

Moving off Proofpoint?
We handle the switch

Run Above alongside Proofpoint ITM during evaluation, compare investigations on your own data, and retire the endpoint recording when you're ready. No rip-and-replace risk.

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Questions teams ask when comparing

How is Above different from Proofpoint ITM?
Proofpoint ITM (formerly ObserveIT) records endpoint user activity — screen captures, keystrokes, and risk-scored timelines your analysts review. Above runs the investigation itself: AI agents assemble the behavioral timeline, pull in context, and surface finished conclusions across SaaS, endpoint, identity, and AI.
Does Above record screens or log keystrokes?
No. Above investigates behavior and intent without blanket endpoint screen capture or keystroke logging — the privacy-respecting posture employees, works councils, and legal can stand behind.
Can Above cover more than the endpoint?
Yes. Above investigates SaaS, identity, and the AI era — custom GPTs, OAuth-scoped agents, and personal AI — not just what an endpoint agent records.
How long does it take to switch?
Run Above alongside Proofpoint ITM during evaluation, compare investigations on your own data, and retire the endpoint recording when ready. We handle data connection.

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