NOMINATION HIGHLIGHTS

Fueled by the adoption of AI agents and assistants and advanced social engineering techniques, cybercriminals have increased the volume, speed and sophistication of email-based threats. With the rise of the agentic workspace, generative AI tools enable attackers to quickly generate convincing phishing lures and realistic fake login pages at scale. Attackers can also deliver hidden prompts that deliver malicious information to end users, confuse AI-based defenses, and even exfiltrate data that an AI assistant has access to.

Proofpoint Core Email Protection stops the broadest range of email cyberattacks, spam and graymail including BEC, account takeovers, QR code phishing, impersonations and lateral phishing, catching 99.99% of email security threats before they become compromises. It provides secure email gateway (SEG) and API deployment options to meet the email security needs of any organization. Customers can choose the deployment method that most suits their organization, with options for secure email gateway (SEG) and API-based deployments.

Unique to Proofpoint is our human- and agent-centric approach. Core Email Protection is differentiated by its big data-driven AI analytics and analysis capabilities, scanning 3.4 trillion emails every year. Language models are able to detect transactional language and urgency, while machine learning capabilities catch similarities to known threat behavior. Relationship graphs are able to pinpoint deviations from normal user interaction with computer vision, detecting hidden visual threats such as those in images and attachments.

With Core Email Protection, security analysts can work faster using integrated search and alert-based workflows. They can also benefit from automatic remediation of user-reported emails and real-time user coaching–all while ensuring a completely seamless experience for the end-user. Within Core Email Protection, we empower end users to make informed decisions on suspicious emails, with in-the-moment contextual warning banners that include a “report suspicious” button. If we discover that a user-reported message is malicious, we’ll automatically remove all instances of it from all user inboxes.

Proofpoint integrates deeply with Microsoft and Google to deliver advanced email threat protection that goes beyond native controls, in combination providing a more resilient email security service, ensuring that employees can stay productive, businesses operational, and organizational data secure.

Core Email Protection empowers organizations to reduce risk everywhere that their users interact. In addition, user and impersonation protection, prevention for accidental and intentional data loss, and best-of-breed security integrations such as CrowdStrike, Palo Alto and Okta help defense teams maximise automated threat responses and optimise the efforts of security teams.