Proofpoint Email Protection helps secure and control your inbound and outbound email. It uses machine learning and multilayered detection techniques to identify and block malicious email. It also dynamically classifies today’s threats and common nuisances. And it gives you granular control over a wide range of email. This includes imposter email, phishing, malware, spam, bulk mail and more. It also offers complete flexibility with custom security policies and mail routing rules. It’s also the most deployed email security solution by the Fortune 1000. And it scales for even the largest enterprise. What’s more, it supports cloud, on-premises and hybrid installations.

Email is the No. 1 threat vector, with 96% of suspicious social actions arriving through email.1 In addition to common email threats like phishing attacks and malware, emerging business email compromise (BEC) has posed a new threat to organizations. 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 hardto-detect malware-less threats, such as impostor email. With Email Protection, you can stop a vast majority of threats before they arrive in your user’s inbox.

Catch Emerging Threats That Others Miss

Detect phishing, impostor and fraudulent email

Email Protection detects emerging threats before they can get to your user’s inbox. Proofpoint Advanced BEC Defense powered by NexusAI is designed to effectively stop a wide variety of email fraud. That includes payment redirect and supplier invoicing fraud from compromised accounts. These types of threats require a more sophisticated detection technique, as there’s often no malicious payload to detect. Advanced BEC Defense is our ML and AI-powered detection engine. It is specifically designed to find and stop BEC attacks. It dynamically detects BEC by analyzing multiple message attributes. Some examples include:

• Message header data
• Sender’s IP address (x-originating IP, reputation)
• Message body for urgency and words or phrases

It determines whether a message is a BEC threat. And it detects various BEC actor tactics. Such as:

• Reply-to pivots
• Use of malicious IPs
• Use of impersonated supplier domains

Advanced BEC Defense also provides granular visibility into BEC threat details. That includes BEC theme, gift card, payroll redirect, invoicing, lure or task. It provides observations about why the message was suspicious and message samples. That way, your security team can better understand and communicate about the attack. Data from NexusAI is then fed into the Proofpoint Nexus Threat Graph. It analyzes and correlates threat information across email, cloud, network and social from all of our customers. And thus gives you the protection to stay ahead of the threat landscape.

Block malicious and unwanted email
We’ve built multilayered detection techniques into Email Protection to defend against constantly evolving threats. With signaturebased 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. Our 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. And it quarantines incoming email by types. Together, these features help protect you at the first signs of malicious activity.

Track Down Any Email in Seconds
Email Protection has the most 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. The search is complete in seconds, not minutes.
You can download and export your search results by up to 1 million records. Moreover, several real-time reports are built into the product, giving you the detailed visibility into mail flow and trends. With this data, you can proactively address issues as they emerge.