Marketing description

Email is the number one threat vector - more than 90% of cyber-attacks start with email. Proofpoint Email Protection catches both known and unknown threats that others miss. By processing billions of messages each day, Proofpoint sees more threats, detects them faster, and better protects you against hard-to-detect malwareless threats, such as impostor email. With Email Protection, you can stop a vast majority of threats before they arrive in your user's inbox.

Key selling points

• See more threats, detect faster, and protect better
• Improve productivity with fast email tracing and email hygiene
• Scale for large enterprises with complete flexibility
• Provide operational efficiencies via automation of security operation and threat response

Product features

• Detect phishing and impostor email
  Proofpoint Email Protection detects emerging threats before they can get to your user's inbox. An advanced machine-learning technology accurately classifies various types of email and detects threats that don't involve malware. This includes credential phishing and impostor email - also known as business email compromise (BEC).
• Block malicious and unwanted email
  With signature-based detection, it blocks known threats like viruses, trojan horses and ransomware. And it uses dynamic reputation analysis to continually assess local and global IP addresses to determine whether to accept email connections. This unique email classifier also dynamically classifies a wide variety of emails. This includes impostor, phishing, malware, spam, bulk mail, adult content and circle of trust.
• Track down any email in seconds
  Email Protection has powerful search capability. With the smart search feature, you can easily pinpoint hard-to-find log data based on dozens of search criteria. You can also swiftly trace where emails come from and go to. Email Protection provides you with granular details of search results, including metadata with over a hundred attributes.
• Scales for large enterprise with complete flexibility
  Email Protection supports the demands of the largest enterprises in the world. It allows you to create highly customizable email firewall rules at the global, group and user level.
• Raise end-user security awareness
  The email warning tag feature enables your end users to make more informed decisions on the emails that fall into the gray area between clean and suspicious. It surfaces a short description of the risk associated with a particular email. And it conveys the level of risk with different colors, which is easy to consume by your end users. As a result, this feature helps reduce the risk of potential compromise by making your end users more cautious of uncertain email.