Proofpoint Core Email Protection Features

Administration (8)

Intelligence Reporting: Based on 125 Proofpoint Core Email Protection reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Actively gathers data on suspicious sources and characteristics of potentially malicious content
Email Integration Suppor: Based on 129 Proofpoint Core Email Protection reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Supports secure implementation with popular email applications and clients.
Access Management: Based on 122 Proofpoint Core Email Protection reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Allows administrators to set user access privileges to permit approved parties to access sensitive data.
Data Loss Prevention: Based on 83 Proofpoint Core Email Protection reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Has pre-built data loss prevention (DLP) functions which prevent employees or accounts that have been hacked from sending out sensitive information.
Compliance: Based on 84 Proofpoint Core Email Protection reviews. Supports compliance with PII, GDPR, HIPPA, PCI, and other regulatory standards.
Intelligence Reporting: Actively gathers data on suspicious sources and characteristics of potentially malicious content 91 reviewers of Proofpoint Core Email Protection have provided feedback on this feature.
Email Clients: Supports secure implementation with popular email applications and clients. 90 reviewers of Proofpoint Core Email Protection have provided feedback on this feature.
Role-Based Rules: Based on 86 Proofpoint Core Email Protection reviews. Allows administrators to set user access privileges to permit approved parties to access sensitive data.

Maintenance (4)

Auditing: Based on 125 Proofpoint Core Email Protection reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Access pre-built and custom reports to monitor user activity and storage.
Allow and block lists: Based on 139 Proofpoint Core Email Protection reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Prevents previous committers of fraud and other suspicious accounts from future communications
Compliance: Supports compliance with PII, GDPR, HIPPA, PCI, and other regulatory standards. 125 reviewers of Proofpoint Core Email Protection have provided feedback on this feature.
Archiving: Based on 100 Proofpoint Core Email Protection reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Archives conversations, files, and other communications for future reference

Security (6)

Anti-Malware/Anti-Spam: Based on 140 Proofpoint Core Email Protection reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Prevents malware or spam in emails either through predictive or reactive anti-malware/anti-spam tools.
Encryption: Encrypts the content of emails and their attachments. This feature was mentioned in 113 Proofpoint Core Email Protection reviews.
Quarantine: Based on 136 Proofpoint Core Email Protection reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Isolates potentially malicious content and files before they can gain network access
Advanced Threat Protection (ATP): Based on 98 Proofpoint Core Email Protection reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. 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.
Anti-Phishing: Based on 102 Proofpoint Core Email Protection reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Prevents both phishing attacks and spear-fishing attacks, including impersonation attacks.
Account takeover prevention: Based on 86 Proofpoint Core Email Protection reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Has pre-built data loss prevention (DLP) functions which prevent employees or accounts that have been hacked from sending out sensitive information.

Detection (3)

Data Exfiltration Detection: Alerts administrators and other related parties about the unauthorized movement or release of company information. This feature was mentioned in 79 Proofpoint Core Email Protection reviews.
Activity Monitoring: Monitors user email activity, documents behaviors for baselining and anomaly detection. This feature was mentioned in 84 Proofpoint Core Email Protection reviews.
Real-Time Detection: As reported in 93 Proofpoint Core Email Protection reviews. Constantly monitors system to detect anomalies in real time.

Protection (3)

Targeted Attack Prevention: Analyzes historical email data, identifies at-risk individuals, then detects and blocks targeted spam emails. 90 reviewers of Proofpoint Core Email Protection have provided feedback on this feature.
Policy Enforcement: As reported in 93 Proofpoint Core Email Protection reviews. Allows administrators to set policies for security and governance.
Spam Filtering: Prevents spam emails containing phishing links, suspicious URLs, and malicous attatchments from reaching a user's inbox. 95 reviewers of Proofpoint Core Email Protection have provided feedback on this feature.

Functionality (10)

Anti-Spam: Based on 112 Proofpoint Core Email Protection reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Prevents unwanted emails including bulk, mass, or other junk emails from reaching recipients mailboxes.
Anti-Malware: Based on 112 Proofpoint Core Email Protection reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Prevents emails with malicious links or attachments embedded with malware, such as ransomware, spyware, and other viruses, from reaching email recipients.
Anti-Phishing: Based on 111 Proofpoint Core Email Protection reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. prevent social-engineering attacks such as phishing, spear-phishing, and c-level executive impersonation attacks.
Filtering Functionality: Based on 112 Proofpoint Core Email Protection reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. 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.
Quarantine: Based on 114 Proofpoint Core Email Protection reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Includes a quarantine area for users to manually inspect suspicious emails.
Outbound Email Monitoring: Based on 106 Proofpoint Core Email Protection reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Monitors outgoing mail to prevent data loss by encrypting messages or preventing the messages from being sent.
Advanced Threat Intelligence/Protection: 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. 111 reviewers of Proofpoint Core Email Protection have provided feedback on this feature.
Archiving: Based on 91 Proofpoint Core Email Protection reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Offers archival email retention for compliance purposes.
Reporting: Based on 111 Proofpoint Core Email Protection reviews and verified by the G2 Product R&D team. Offers standard reporting functionality.
On-prem deployment: 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. This feature was mentioned in 49 Proofpoint Core Email Protection reviews.

Encryption Techniques - Email Encryption (3)

Encryption Algorithms: Supports various encryption algorithms including AES (Advanced Encryption Standard), RSA (Rivest-Shamir-Adleman), Twofish, and Pretty Good Privacy (PGP). This feature was mentioned in 21 Proofpoint Core Email Protection reviews.
Transport Encryption: Encrypts the email during transit between email servers, preventing interception by third parties. This feature was mentioned in 21 Proofpoint Core Email Protection reviews.
End-to-End Encryption: As reported in 20 Proofpoint Core Email Protection reviews. 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.

Authentication, Verification, and Access Controls - Email Encryption (4)

Revocation Mechanisms: As reported in 20 Proofpoint Core Email Protection reviews. Allows users to revoke access to encrypted emails or keys in case of compromise.
Access Controls: Enables users to set permissions on who can access, read, or modify their encrypted emails. 20 reviewers of Proofpoint Core Email Protection have provided feedback on this feature.
Digital Signatures: Allows senders to sign their emails cryptographically, providing proof of authenticity and integrity. 20 reviewers of Proofpoint Core Email Protection have provided feedback on this feature.
Certificate Authorities: As reported in 20 Proofpoint Core Email Protection reviews. Verifies the identities of individuals or organizations through trusted third-party certificate authorities.

Security Enhancements and Auditing - Email Encryption (4)

Malware Scanning: Integrates with antivirus solutions to scan email attachments for malicious content. This feature was mentioned in 21 Proofpoint Core Email Protection reviews.
Reporting: Generates reports on encryption usage, compliance status, and security incidents. This feature was mentioned in 21 Proofpoint Core Email Protection reviews.
Audit Trails: Based on 21 Proofpoint Core Email Protection reviews. Logs and tracks encryption-related activities for compliance, troubleshooting, and security analysis.
Data Loss Prevention (DLP): Based on 21 Proofpoint Core Email Protection reviews. Offers DLP features to prevent accidental or unauthorized transmission of sensitive information.

Integration, Compatibility, and Usability - Email Encryption (4)

User-Friendly Interfaces: As reported in 22 Proofpoint Core Email Protection reviews. Offers intuitive interfaces for sending, receiving, and managing encrypted emails.
APIs and SDKs: Based on 20 Proofpoint Core Email Protection reviews. Offers application programming interface (APIs) and software development kits (SDKs) for integrating encryption features into custom applications or workflows.
Email Client Integration: Based on 21 Proofpoint Core Email Protection reviews. Integrates seamlessly with popular email clients, including Gmail, Microsoft Outlook, and Thunderbird.
Automation: As reported in 20 Proofpoint Core Email Protection reviews. Automatically performs encryption and decryption processes to minimize user effort and errors.