What is Proofpoint Essentials and how can it affect your company?

What is Proofpoint Essentials?

Proofpoint is a cybersecurity platform aimed to protect workers, and data from advanced cybersecurity criminals that target email, social media, and mobile devices.

Proofpoint’s email protection is a cloud-based solution that allows companies to filter their inbox and outbox easily. This software can identify and protect users from malware and threats, both known and unknown malware software. This includes imposter emails, which aim to trick workers into sending money or sensitive business information, or business email compromise, also referred to as CEO Fraud, a fast-growing threat that can result in significant losses for a company.

Proofpoint offers a wide variety of products, in addition to email protection, to enhance a company’s security. These products include advanced threat protection, security awareness training, cloud security, archiving and compliance, information protection, digital risk protection, and premium security services.

What do Proofpoint features include?

Multi-layered threat protection

The email protection function uses multi-layered threat protection to identify known and emerging threats, including malware, accurately.

Proofpoint utilizes signature-based detection to protect against known threats and employs dynamic reputation analysis for both local and global IPs to filter which emails to accept and which to reject. The software analyzes the sender's credibility by examining the sender/recipient relationship, headers, and content of the email.

As part of their advanced threat protection, Proofpoint offers Targeted Attack Protection, which works to detect, analyze, and block potential URL threats before they ever reach your inbox, eliminating the receiver's possibility to click the URL. Threats detected include advanced email threats, which often come in the form of malicious attachments and URLs. TAP also comes with adaptive controls that isolate the riskiest URL clicks. Another feature of TAP is detecting potential risks and threats within cloud apps.

Proofpoint’s TAP feature doesn’t just work to catch threats. It researches each attack and looks for possible patterns and behaviors used in order to catch the next threat both more comfortable and faster.

Proofpoint helps companies to identify who are the most targeted individuals within the organization, so they can better protect them from threats.

Proofpoint scores threats from a scale of 0-1,000 based on the following factors: threat actor sophistication, spread and focus of attack targeting, type of attack, and overall attack volume.

The score helps companies to understand the risk for both the individual user and the overall risk for the company, and the score helps to understand which threats to prioritize in terms of resolution.

Control

Email classification using Proofpoint can be done in many languages. Emails will be divided into specific quarantine categories based on the potential threat: spam, phishing, imposter email, malware, bulk email, and adult content.

The analysis function will identify graymail and mark those emails at a lower priority to limit inbox clutter. Users can “promote” emails to a higher priority or move emails to a lower priority. Companies can customize the rules of what is considered “acceptable use” while using Proofpoint to better align with their specific needs.

Visibility

Proofpoint has an advanced message tracing features, a high-performance search engine that allows users to pinpoint hard to find log data.

Companies can get 60 real-time reports, which detail mail flow and trends. This allows companies to be proactive when addressing any potential issues and trends as they are identified. Users have the ability to create “safe” and block lists, lists of email senders they deem safe, and those they don’t want to receive.

Proofpoint also delivers intel about who your Very Attacked People (VAPs) are. The platform will inform security teams where sensitive information is potentially being exposed across email and the cloud. Companies will have the ability to lock down access to specific files in the cloud, prevent data loss and archive communications.

Proofpoint offers security awareness training, which helps users prepare for what a potential threat might look like. The activity alerts users to the most recent phishing attacks and lures through their “Attack Spotlight Series”. Training is interactive and game-based to keep users engaged with the content they’re receiving.

The platform also comes with a “PhishAlarm” button, which allows users to report suspicious messages.

The reporting tool alerts users to potential susceptibility areas, so training can be tailored to address those areas.

Conclusion

In today’s rapidly changing security landscape, having a robust email gateway can make a huge impact. Proofpoint’s email solutions provide next-generation features to provide an extra layer of protection against advanced threats.

How to buy Proofpoint Essentials for your company with Iron Cove Solutions

Iron Cove Solutions offers Proofpoint Essentials for Email Filter Solutions. Review our Proofpoint Essentials Plans and Prices. In addition, Iron Cove Solutions provides the ability to quickly authenticate and secure user access to cloud and on-premise applications when integrating with Okta. For information or on how to get started, contact us at (888) 959-2825