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Email Protection

Stop email attacks and initial compromise with Proofpoint.
Break the attack chain.

Protect your people from advanced email attacks and identity-based threats. Defend sensitive data from theft, loss and insider threats.

Comprehensive Visibility

Know who is being attacked and how. Identify your Very Attacked People™ (VAPs)

Unparalleled Efficacy

Detect more threats accurately with ML and behavioral analytics

Operational Efficiency

Reduce your team’s workload

Trusted by Over

45%

of the Fortune 100 Companies

Over

36M

Cloud Accounts Protected

We Sandbox

17M+

Attachments per Day

We Monitor

16M+

Cloud Accounts

We Analyze

26B+

URLs Per Day

We Analyze

2B+

Email Messages per Day

Email Security and Protection

Email is the No. 1 threat vector, with 96% of suspicious social actions arriving through email. In addition to common email threats like phishing attacks and malware, emerging business email compromise (BEC) has posed a new threat to organizations.

Email Protection catches both known and unknown threats that others miss. By processing billions of messages each day, Proofpoint sees more threats, detects them faster and better protects you against hard-to-detect malware-less threats, such as impostor email.

With Email Protection, you can stop a vast majority of threats before they arrive in your user’s inbox.

Business email compromise and supplier risk exceed all cybersecurity losses combined

99% of all data loss incidents and people-centric

The vast majority of ransomware attacks start with email

Features Include

COMPREHENSIVE VISIBILITY

Know who is being attacked and how

UNPARALLELED EFFICACY

Detect more threats more accurately

OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCIES

Reduce your team’s workload

Frequently Asked Questions

Proofpoint Essentials provides a complete, cloud-based security and compliance solution. It stops email threats and provides policy-based outbound protection for files and email leaving the environment. Email continuity ensures that your customers can continue emailing as normal even when their regular service is down, and archiving preserves all emails and attachments for compliance.

Threat protection
Block threats before they reach users’ inbox with the industry’s most comprehensive defense-in-depth approach. Proofpoint tracks more than 3 billion emails, 45 billion URLs and 500 million domains. That means stronger, more complete protection across a range of threats—with less overhead and near-zero false positives.

Impersonation protection
Stop business email compromise (BEC), supplier invoice fraud and other attacks that hijack your email domain. Address all ways attackers impersonate your brand and the suppliers you trust. Protect against compromised suppliers and accounts.

Email data loss prevention (DLP) and misdelivery protection
Take control of what leaves your environment with policy-based email DLP and encryption. Keep data protected and cut data loss risk 65%—even when users are careless or compromised. Defend data from external threats and users who accidentally send email to the wrong person or with the wrong attachment.

Identity threat protection
Break the attack chain with a web of deception that slows attackers’ lateral movement, prevents privilege escalation and alerts you when they enter your environment. Discover and remediate identity risks, clean up attack paths and safeguard vulnerable identities.

  • Over 50 percent of the Fortune 100, rely on Proofpoint
  • Trusted by 200K+ SMBs Globally
  • Sandboxes 17M+ email attachments per day
  • Analyzes 26B+ URL’s per day
  • Monitors 16M+ cloud accounts
  • Analyzes 2B+ email messages per day

“Proofpoint not only blocked all the email-based attacks, bulk mail, and spam coming to our employees and agents; it also stopped criminals from hijacking our company name. That kind of security—protecting our brand—is priceless.”

  • Scot Lymer, Senior Information Security Analyst – Shelter Insurance

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