Proofpoint Information Protection

Key Capabilities / Features

Proofpoint Information Protection works with organizations of all sizes, including small teams with limited resources. Administrators can access all tools, policies, workflows, dashboards, and reports out-of-the-box to do their jobs efficiently. As a cloud-native solution with modern privacy controls and a highly stable agent, it deploys quickly, scales automatically and is easily maintained, saving valuable time.

In a unified console, Proofpoint includes all policy management, workflows, alert management, classification sophistication, reporting, and dashboards that administrators and analysts need for accurate DLP and quick incident resolution.

We offer versatile channel-specific policy enforcement (block, encrypt, change sharing permissions, delete, read-only via browser isolation) and simplified DLP management in a single console so you can operate efficiently.

Organizations of all sizes can:

• Leverage the power of context on data and behavior
• Get visibility into and prevent data loss across channels
• Investigate incidents while protecting users’ privacy
• Implement a streamlined and highly scalable cloud-native solution

In 2023, Proofpoint introduced key innovations for DLP including:

• Privacy by Design for DLP: As international organizations work to meet new and changing local privacy and data sovereignty requirements, Proofpoint released new privacy-related capabilities so that organizations can mask sensitive data or anonymize user identifying data in the console to limit its exposure and create custom data access policies to address privacy and compliance needs. 

• Misdirected Email: Leveraging machine learning for anomaly detection as well as content scanning, Proofpoint’s new Misdirected Email solution prevents employees from accidentally sending emails and files to the wrong recipient and possibly creating a data loss incident.

How we are different

• No other solution in the DLP market is as behavior aware. Proofpoint provides deep visibility into user activities leading to data exfiltration such as file manipulation, web browsing and application usage. The solution combines these behavioral insights with advanced content identification, including AI-powered classification, Exact Data Matching and more to determine data loss potential. Analysts can quickly assess data loss risk across email, cloud applications and endpoints, reach high-fidelity verdicts and take appropriate action. All other solutions focus primarily on data classification to control data loss.

• Proofpoint provides a flexible, scalable, and cost-effective cloud-native solution that includes all the workflows, unified alert manager, classification sophistication, reporting, and dashboards that admins need for accurate DLP, versatile policy enforcement and simplified alert management. Sophisticated cross-channel analytics accelerate incident resolution. Tools that show a timeline of user activities and the lineage of files help organizations better understand data loss risk and user intent. Analysts save time with explorations, enabling instant visibility into changing patterns of risky behavior.

• AI-powered classification samples files in cloud and on-premises repositories to classify documents with speed and up to 99% accuracy. Our classification solution integrates with and augments our DLP solution with AI-generated detectors and dictionaries to detect business-critical information.