Proofpoint
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Proofpoint
Additional Info
| Website | http://www.proofpoint.com |
| Company size (employees) | 1,000 to 4,999 |
| Headquarters Region | North America |
Overview
The critical parts of the attack chain can’t be effectively combatted without taking a human-centric approach. People — not technology — are the primary targets of today’s advanced attacks; 74% of breaches include a human element (human error, privilege misuse, use of stolen credentials, or social engineering).
And people are busy. They’re distracted. Sometimes they click the wrong things. Even organizations’ best employees will open the wrong email, fall victim to fraud and make the same digital mistakes
we all make.
But many organizations do not prioritize their people in their cybersecurity defenses, investing instead in legacy endpoint and network security.
Protecting the human layer has never been more top of mind. In fact, Gartner has identified human-centric security as one of only three strategic imperatives for CISOs in 2024 and 2025.
At Proofpoint, we understand human risk in ways that others can’t, shedding light on who is attacked, whose behavior is risky, whose compromised account holds the keys to the kingdom, and who puts data at risk. This is precisely why organizations worldwide, including 85% of the Fortune 100, turn to us as their strategic partner of choice to defend their human layer.
Proofpoint’s mission is focused on helping organizations protect their people—and in turn, protect their data, business and reputation. We help organizations combat advanced threats, protect their data, and modernize compliance with a unique human-centric approach that blocks attacks, secures cloud accounts and manages compliance risk.
How we are different
• Proofpoint analyzes more human communications than any other cybersecurity company. Every day, we scan over 3.1B emails, monitor over 49B URLs, block 3M email fraud attacks and 7M TOAD (Telephone-orientated attack delivery) attacks, analyze 3B attachments and 4.75B mobile and email messages across 150+ ISPs. With our commitment to innovation coupled with a strong focus on AI and ML, Proofpoint is well-positioned in the industry. AI and ML, for example, require robust detection models and a high-fidelity data pipeline to yield accurate detection rates operational efficiencies, and automated protection. Proofpoint customers benefit from one of the largest and most diverse global cybersecurity data pipelines across email, the cloud, and mobile computing.
• Proofpoint is the only security partner that aligns protection with human-based risks from initial compromise to lateral movement to data exfiltration. In doing so, CISOs gain an innovative and comprehensive view of their threat surface—a view only Proofpoint can share due to the breadth and depth of our extensive data set. We detect and stop attacks more effectively than competitors and reinvest twenty percent of our annual revenue into R&D, one of the highest percentages in the industry.
• In 2023, Proofpoint further expanded its platforms and launched industry first innovations that enable organizations to effectively combat increasingly common threats from initial to post-compromise. In December 2023 Proofpoint acquired Tessian, a leader in the use of advanced AI to automatically detect and guard against both accidental data loss and evolving email threats. Combining Proofpoint's industry-leading threat and data loss protection technology with Tessian’s AI-powered behavioral and dynamic detection, our solution will drive unparalleled effectiveness against the full range of human-targeted threats, from social engineering to malware to credential phishing.
