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Proofpoint ZenGuide

Additional Info
Company | Proofpoint |
Website | http://www.proofpoint.com |
Company size (employees) | 1,000 to 4,999 |
Headquarters Region | North America |
Overview
According to Verizon’s 2024 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR), 76% of security incidents involve the human element. Organizations struggle to protect users from both sophisticated attacks and unintentional errors while managing limited security resources. Traditional compliance-focused security awareness training fails to address these issues and are not enabled to drive meaningful behavior change or reduce human risk.
As a leading security awareness and behavior change solution, Proofpoint ZenGuide transforms traditional security training into an automated, risk-driven program. Powered by industry-leading threat intelligence and real-world attack data, ZenGuide ensures education reflects current threats and regional risks.
Through seamless integration with People Risk Explorer, ZenGuide revolutionizes how organizations identify, engage, and empower their most vulnerable users by delivering security education that can be easily personalized to each individual’s needs.
For lean security teams, ZenGuide simplifies program management through automation and an intuitive interface, eliminating manual intervention while ensuring targeted protection for high-risk users. The adaptive framework provides progressive learning paths that grow with user competency while respecting the limited amount of time users have, to be trained, ensuring education remains challenging and relevant for each employee.
The solution engages employees with a variety of learning options and by connecting their actions directly to organizational security outcomes, fostering accountability and reinforcing positive behaviors. Comprehensive dashboards provide visibility into risk reduction and behavioral improvements, enabling organizations to demonstrate measurable program impact.
Supporting over 90,000 enterprises and 60 million learners globally, ZenGuide builds security-conscious workforces that actively contribute to reducing organizational risk through sustained behavior change.
Key Capabilities / Features
· Prioritize, engage, and empower high-risk individuals: ZenGuide integrated with Proofpoint People Risk Explorer and Targeted Attack Protection provides insights into at-risk people. This allows you to prioritize education and interventions tailored to their behaviors, roles, attack exposure, privileges, or user-risk profiles. For example, you can automatically assign training on handling sensitive data securely to individuals who trigger a Data Loss Prevention alert or immediately educate finance personnel who click on credential-phishing links.
· Help Lean Security Teams Scale: ZenGuide helps teams scale by automating the enrollment and delivery of timely, personalized education through Pathways and Adaptive Groups. Using the intuitive Pathways interface, we simplify the creation of personalized learning paths, integrating training assignments, threat simulations, and knowledge assessments into a succinct curriculum. With Adaptive Groups, users are automatically enrolled into these paths with no administrative intervention based on individual behaviors, roles, or risk profiles, ensuring education aligns with their vulnerabilities and recent activities.
· Engaging and Memorable Education: The ZenGuide Content Library provides 2000+ educational pieces, 130+ adaptive learning assessments, and 10,000+ phishing templates, available in 43 languages. Content is updated as often as weekly and organized based on difficulty levels (beginner to advanced) to allow administrators to easily build effective curriculums that build on employee competency levels. This adaptive approach keeps employees engaged with concise, personalized training that fits into their busy schedules and without disrupting productivity. The Learner Dashboard empowers employees to track their risk scores, learning progress, and contributions to organizational security. By connecting their actions to risk reduction, ZenGuide fosters accountability and reinforces positive behaviors.
· Strengthens organizations' risk mitigation strategies: ZenGuide’s Admin Dashboard offers program-wide visibility into risk reduction and behavioral improvements. Administrators can align metrics with business goals, track program success, and demonstrate quantifiable outcomes, saving time while providing actionable insights.
How we are different
· Industry-Leading Threat Intelligence for Real-World Learning: ZenGuide is powered by unmatched threat intelligence, analyzing over 3.1 trillion emails, 21 trillion URLs, and 800 billion attachments annually. Unlike others who rely on third-party providers, Proofpoint’s content developers work in collaboration with our threat analysts to develop cutting-edge content based on trending topics like AI Deepfakes, QR phishing, or regional risks. Our ability to release new content weekly ensure employees receive timely updates on real-world threats, not hypothetical scenarios.
· Holistic Human Risk Management: Unlike competitors that focus on training completion metrics or phishing simulation results, ZenGuide delivers a comprehensive approach to mitigating human risk. By integrating with People Risk Explorer, ZenGuide provides unparalleled visibility into user risk by evaluating critical factors such as behaviors, roles, attack exposure, privileges, and even regional-specific threats. This insight enables organizations to identify their most at-risk people and adapt their educational programs accordingly. Our solution simplifies the creation of tailored learning paths by leveraging user risk insights and automatically enrolling individuals based on observed behaviors, ensuring timely education--an essential factor in driving meaningful behavior change. Competitors lack this level of visibility, limiting their ability to effectively adapt programs based on evolving risks.
· Focus on Sustained Behavior Change and Engagement: ZenGuide is designed to drive long-term behavior change by combining gamified learning experiences, adaptive micro-/nano- educational modules, and a Learner Dashboard that empowers employees by connecting learning directly to organizational security outcomes, fostering accountability and reinforcing positive behaviors. By making learning progress tangible, the Learner Dashboard motivates users to take an active role in improving their security practices, ultimately creating a more engaged and security-conscious workforce. Our approach has proven successful as evidence of having over 90,000 enterprise customers and supporting over 60 million learners.
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