Proofpoint Email Security

Proofpoint helps organizations protect, manage, and control their business-critical enterprise messaging systems. The company delivers its email security solutions to a rapidly growing number of leading global enterprises, universities, healthcare organizations, retail chains, and government agencies—all of whom rely on Proofpoint technology to defend against spam and viruses, comply with email-related regulations and prevent confidential information from leaking via email and other network messaging systems.

Since its start in June 2002, Proofpoint has gained accolades from industry analysts and technology experts, and its customer base has grown rapidly to thousands of enterprise, government and university accounts, including a broad range of worldwide market leaders.

Proofpoint helps organizations protect, manage, and control their business-critical enterprise messaging systems. The company delivers its email security solutions to a rapidly growing number of leading global enterprises, universities, healthcare organizations, retail chains, and government agencies—all of whom rely on Proofpoint technology to defend against spam and viruses, comply with email-related regulations and prevent confidential information from leaking via email and other network messaging systems.

Proofpoint’s software and appliance solutions now process hundreds of millions email messages per day, protecting millions of email inboxes from both inbound and outbound message-borne threats.

Key strengths of Proofpoint’s security solutions include:

• Proofpoint provides unified email security and data loss prevention solutions for enterprises, universities, government organizations and ISPs to defend against inbound threats such as spam and viruses, prevent leaks of confidential and private information across all protocols, and encrypt sensitive emails.

• All Proofpoint features—including anti-spam, anti-virus, multi-protocol content security, policy-based encryption and reporting features—are managed centrally from a single administrative GUI and deployed on a unified appliance architecture. Features can be deployed in nearly any configuration, to meet your organization’s unique requirements.

• Proofpoint provides the most scalable and flexible deployment model including: hardware appliance, virtual appliance, hosted services and software.

• Proofpoint’s products are controlled by a single management and policy console and are powered by Proofpoint MLX technology, an advanced machine learning system developed by Proofpoint scientists and engineers.

• Whether your deployment involves a single Proofpoint server or multiple, globally distributed appliances, all policy management and administration tasks are controlled via Proofpoint’s centralized, web-based administration console.

• Proofpoint 5 is the industry’s first single-appliance solution for defending against inbound spam and viruses, preventing leaks of confidential and private data, encrypting sensitive information and analyzing messaging infrastructures. Delivering these capabilities on a single platform enables customers to radically reduce costs and complexity while improving the overall effectiveness of their messaging security infrastructures.

In 2006, Deloitte named Proofpoint the fastest-growing young technology company in North America. The company was named a “Strong Performer” in Forrester’s 2006 Information Leak Prevention Wave report. Proofpoint’s “impressive” solution offers easy configuration, 99.6%+ effectiveness against spam, zero false positives and a plethora of outbound security features. Proofpoint was named as one of 75 Innovation All-Stars by the California Innovation Corridor, one of California’s initiatives to foster entrepreneurship, innovation and workforce competitiveness.

What’s more, advanced technology solutions like the Proofpoint Protection Server have proven extremely successful for industry leaders such as Hitachi Data, Systems, providing highly accurate spam filtering with an absolute minimum of false positives. This high level of accuracy is due to Proofpoint MLX machine learning technology, which classifies incoming email as spam or valid mail based on the analysis of more than 100,000 structural and content attributes of each message.