Proofpoint Essentials Features

URL Defense protects against the latest URL-based email threats, including malware and credential phishing. It offers predictive analysis that runs continuously in the background to identify and sandbox suspicious URLs, performs real-time sandboxing during every URL click, and transparently rewrites all URLs that reach inboxes — protecting users on any device on the network.

Attachment Defense protects against known and unknown threats delivered through attachments, including malware such as viruses, worms, and Trojans hidden in many file types, and more serious malware like ransomware that can encrypt data before demanding payment. It also prevents phishing attachments designed to trick users and zero-day threats, and can handle both password-protected attachments and those with embedded URLs.

Automated Remediation lets your team spend less time on mail management and more time on work that matters. It proactively identifies malicious messages after they've been delivered and removes them from all inboxes across the organization — without any human interaction. Combined with pre-delivery detection, Proofpoint stops the widest range of human-targeted threats.

Email Warning Tags reduce the risk of compromise by helping users make informed decisions about emails that fall into the gray area between clean and malicious. They provide short descriptions of potential threats and convey the associated risk level. Tags are customizable and mobile-responsive, and let users block a sender directly from the tag, even on mobile.

Proofpoint Essentials features a policy-driven data loss prevention (DLP) filter to help you stay compliant. Built-in term dictionaries and smart identifiers reduce risk when employees make security and disclosure policy decisions. Emails can be blocked or sent securely using email encryption.

Keep your email up and running when a disaster strikes. Email Continuity features an emergency inbox that keeps emails available to users for up to 30 days, plus instant replay of lost or deleted emails.

Helps protect against legal liability and regulatory risk. Emails are stored in a centralized archive for up to 10 years and can be accessed by administrators and end-users from a browser, where they can be viewed, re-delivered to the mailbox, or exported.

Keep up to three branded social media accounts compliant and protected against hacking and spam. Choose from Facebook, X (formerly Twitter), and YouTube.

Proofpoint Essentials includes everything a small business needs to educate users and train them to be a strong last line of defense:

• Realistic phishing simulations: Thousands of phishing templates pulled from real-world Proofpoint threat intelligence across 13 threat categories. Administrators can build campaigns from real-life phish in a variety of languages, with full-featured reporting.
• Engaging training content: A constantly updated library of 900+ trainings covering a broad range of risks, including interactive and game-based training modules in more than 40 languages.