Overview

Proofpoint’s Information Protection provides out ­of-the-box visibility without the complexity and costs of legacy data protection tools. Users can easily manage sensitive data in motion (as it’s sent via email), prevent data exposure and inappropriate access to data (in SaaS applications), visualize data at rest (stored on-premises), and understand data movement at the endpoint.

Proofpoint Information Protection meets the needs of modern DLP customers by focusing on the most important modern DLP channels today—email, web, cloud services, endpoint and data at rest. The solution recognizes that people are the most vulnerable channel for data loss and uses threat awareness to help identify most likely data loss vectors and at-risk individuals.

As a cloud platform, the TCO of Proofpoint Information Protection is superior to other legacy DLP solutions because there is little to no on-premises infrastructure (hardware) or relational database requirement. Its cloud architecture provides cost effective scaling and management, while saving admins time by providing mature policies, rules, workflows, reports, and dashboards out-of-the-box that admins need to do their jobs efficiently, without wasting time on scripts or command line interfaces.

All major components operate within the cloud and provide for a utility model with automated updates and rapid scalability for organizations that are growing or downsizing. Configuration and management are through a consolidated set of consoles and policies are shared across all channels. There is also near-zero risk for corporate asset exfiltration via personal webmail due to isolation.