Proofpoint Core Email Protection Features

Actively gathers data on suspicious sources and characteristics of potentially malicious content

Supports secure implementation with popular email applications and clients.

Allows administrators to set user access privileges to permit approved parties to access sensitive data.

Has pre-built data loss prevention (DLP) functions which prevent employees or accounts that have been hacked from sending out sensitive information.

Supports compliance with PII, GDPR, HIPPA, PCI, and other regulatory standards.

Actively gathers data on suspicious sources and characteristics of potentially malicious content

Supports secure implementation with popular email applications and clients.

Allows administrators to set user access privileges to permit approved parties to access sensitive data.

Access pre-built and custom reports to monitor user activity and storage.

Prevents previous committers of fraud and other suspicious accounts from future communications

Supports compliance with PII, GDPR, HIPPA, PCI, and other regulatory standards.

Archives conversations, files, and other communications for future reference

Prevents malware or spam in emails either through predictive or reactive anti-malware/anti-spam tools.

Encrypts the content of emails and their attachments.

Isolates potentially malicious content and files before they can gain network access

Includes advanced tools, including machine learning analysis to detect threats often missed by traditional filtering tools, such as unsafe attachments, advanced malware, and targetted social engineering attacks.

Prevents both phishing attacks and spear-fishing attacks, including impersonation attacks.

Has pre-built data loss prevention (DLP) functions which prevent employees or accounts that have been hacked from sending out sensitive information.

Alerts administrators and other related parties about the unauthorized movement or release of company information.

Monitors user email activity, documents behaviors for baselining and anomaly detection.

Constantly monitors system to detect anomalies in real time.

Analyzes historical email data, identifies at-risk individuals, then detects and blocks targeted spam emails.

Allows administrators to set policies for security and governance.

Prevents spam emails containing phishing links, suspicious URLs, and malicous attatchments from reaching a user's inbox.

Prevents unwanted emails including bulk, mass, or other junk emails from reaching recipients mailboxes.

Prevents emails with malicious links or attachments embedded with malware, such as ransomware, spyware, and other viruses, from reaching email recipients.

prevent social-engineering attacks such as phishing, spear-phishing, and c-level executive impersonation attacks.

Provides filters such as: approved senders, whitelists, greylists such as bulk emails that may not be malicious, blocked senders, blacklists, IP reputation, content (such as profanity, credit card numbers, password protected files, and other sensitive information), virus detection, re-directs and malicious URLs, newsletter detection, attachment size, and invalid recipients.

Includes a quarantine area for users to manually inspect suspicious emails.

Monitors outgoing mail to prevent data loss by encrypting messages or preventing the messages from being sent.

Includes advanced threat protections such as machine learning to conduct abnormal behavioral analysis, display name spoof detection especially regarding c-level impersonation attacks, detecting lookalike email domains that are visually confusing.

Offers archival email retention for compliance purposes.

Offers standard reporting functionality.

Supports on-premises deployments of secure email gateways, which requires a company to maintain their own hardware. This is different than Cloud Email Security software which protects cloud-based email environments and do not require on-premises hardware installations.

Supports various encryption algorithms including AES (Advanced Encryption Standard), RSA (Rivest-Shamir-Adleman), Twofish, and Pretty Good Privacy (PGP).

Encrypts the email during transit between email servers, preventing interception by third parties.

Encrypts the message on the sender's device and decrypts it only on the recipient's device, ensuring that only the sender and recipient can read it.

Allows users to revoke access to encrypted emails or keys in case of compromise.

Enables users to set permissions on who can access, read, or modify their encrypted emails.

Allows senders to sign their emails cryptographically, providing proof of authenticity and integrity.

Verifies the identities of individuals or organizations through trusted third-party certificate authorities.

Integrates with antivirus solutions to scan email attachments for malicious content.

Generates reports on encryption usage, compliance status, and security incidents.

Logs and tracks encryption-related activities for compliance, troubleshooting, and security analysis.

Offers DLP features to prevent accidental or unauthorized transmission of sensitive information.

Offers intuitive interfaces for sending, receiving, and managing encrypted emails.

Offers application programming interface (APIs) and software development kits (SDKs) for integrating encryption features into custom applications or workflows.

Integrates seamlessly with popular email clients, including Gmail, Microsoft Outlook, and Thunderbird.

Automatically performs encryption and decryption processes to minimize user effort and errors.

Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting

Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input

Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting

Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input

Improves performance based on feedback and experience