Proofpoint Threat Protection
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Proofpoint Threat Protection
Additional Info
| Company | Proofpoint |
| Website | http://www.proofpoint.com |
| Company size (employees) | 1,000 to 4,999 |
| Headquarters Region | North America |
Overview
Email is a fundamental enabler of modern business. It is also the number one threat vector. Email-based attacks—from phishing to business email compromise (BEC), supply chain, ransomware and cloud account compromise—are constantly evolving, but continue to target the weakest link in the attack chain: people. Human-centric attacks dominate the threat landscape – the 2023 Verizon DBIR found that 74% of breaches involve a human element.
Proofpoint Threat Protection is an AI-driven solution that helps organizations protect people from modern email threats and changes unsafe user behavior. It reduces risk and improves operational efficiency by accurately stopping more threats pre-delivery and automating post-delivery remediation. Threat Protection provides unique visibility into organizations’ people risks and unparalleled insights into the threat landscape.
Threat Protection provides actionable visibility to help you understand an organization’s human attack surface – who is most attacked and what threats are targeting them. It also delivers unparalleled threat insights that help you keep up with the ever-changing threat landscape. People risk and threat insights integrate with our security awareness capabilities, enabling a targeted, threat-driven security awareness program.
The solution improves the operation effectiveness of security teams. By stopping more threats before they are delivered to people’s inboxes, security teams has fewer incidents to manually triage and manage. Combined with automated remediation, teams can enable consistent and scalable incident responses to sophisticated email-based attacks.
Key Capabilities / Features
Proofpoint Threat Protection safeguards millions of users across 230,000 plus customers, partners, and providers by proactively stopping phishing attacks and sophisticated threats.
Focus on User Protection:
• Prevents harm before it starts: Leveraging large language models (LLMs), Proofpoint offers industry-leading pre-delivery protection that blocks social engineering attacks before they reach users' inboxes. This is critical as nearly 1 in 7 malicious URL clicks happen within one minute of email arrival.
• Identifies and educates at-risk users: The platform identifies "Very Attacked People" (VAPs) and targets them with personalized security awareness training, minimizing risky behavior and strengthening their defenses.
• Automates remediation and simplifies user actions: Proofpoint automates threat response and streamlines email reporting, minimizing manual work for users and IT teams. Users can report suspicious emails with a single click, triggering automatic analysis and quarantine.
Comprehensive Threat Protection:
• Unmatched detection capabilities: Proofpoint analyzes billions of emails and URLs daily, offering comprehensive protection against phishing, BEC, and other advanced threats.
• Integrated, end-to-end solution: The platform seamlessly integrates prevention, detection, and remediation, offering a holistic approach to email security.
• Adaptive controls based on risk: Proofpoint utilizes risk-based adaptive controls like email isolation and predictive sandboxing to provide targeted protection for vulnerable users.
By empowering users and providing a comprehensive security shield, Proofpoint Threat Protection enables organizations to significantly reduce email-based threats and improve overall security posture.
How we are different
• Proofpoint Threat Protection sets itself apart with its big data-driven AI analytics and analysis capabilities which work to minimize human error and clicks on malicious content. The platform provides superior efficacy and low false positives against advanced email threats, providing customers with a proprietary 26+ layered detection ensemble built in-house including URL defense, attachment defense, BEC defense, predictive URL sandboxing, and a world-class behavioral AI engine. Every day, Proofpoint analyzes over 3.1B emails, monitors over 49B URLs, blocks 3.0M BEC attacks and 7.0M TOAD (Telephone-orientated attack delivery) attacks, scans 3.0B attachments and 4.75B mobile and email messages across 150+ ISPs while threat researchers track hundreds of sophisticated threat actors.
• Unique to Proofpoint is our people-centric approach. Email threats require a human to click, download or reply. Organizations need to understand who their very attacked people are. Our platform provides visibility into who is most attacked and the threats targeting them. With this insight, organizations can mitigate email attack risks by applying adaptive controls, including browser isolation and targeted security awareness training. This approach empowers end users, reducing risky behavior and strengthening the human line of defense.
• Cybersecurity skills shortage, alert fatigue, and managing disjointed point products have led to increased team workloads. Proofpoint Threat Protection tackles these challenges by offering a flexible platform that seamlessly adapts to existing security environments, either through inline or API-based deployment. Furthermore, with a multi-layered approach built on AI and machine learning detection and behavioral engines, Proofpoint secures global organizations with an efficacy rate of 99.999%. Our leading detection ensemble and scalable platform lead to increased operational efficiency and ultimately allow security teams to dedicate more time to protecting their most valuable asset: their users.
