About Proofpoint

Comprehensive Messaging Security for the Enterprise

The messaging infrastructure in most large organizations is under constant attack from incoming threats that hinder productivity, waste resources, and add new risks in the form of network impacts, downtime, or even employee lawsuits.

But messaging security involves much more than simply stopping spam, fraud and viruses. The enterprise is also facing a security challenge from within the organization in the form of outgoing email content that can leak through the messaging infrastructure—unintentionally or maliciously—and cause harm. A growing number of corporate policies and regulatory compliance mandates have arisen in recent years, and IT departments are pressured to ensure that messaging coming into and out of an enterprise is secure and compliant with policies and regulations.

Proofpoint, Inc. is the leading provider of enterprise-class messaging security solutions that protect organizations from the threats and risks of both inbound and outbound email and other messaging streams. Proofpoint's comprehensive platform enables companies to stop spam, defend against viruses and network attacks, and prevent leaks of confidential or sensitive information.

Futureproof Messaging Security in a Single Platform

Proofpoint solutions are built on a modular, highly extensible architecture that can easily evolve to address future threats or message streams. Designed specifically for large enterprises, Proofpoint messaging security solutions are the first to combine anti-spam, anti-virus, and robust outbound content security features in a single platform.

• Comprehensive Email Gateway: Proofpoint provides multi-tier messaging security to defend organizations against all types of threats associated with both incoming and outgoing email communications.
  
  
• Most Accurate Content Classification with Proofpoint MLX™: Proofpoint is the only vendor to apply advanced machine learning techniques to messaging security, resulting in more thorough and accurate classification of unstructured content as found in email messages and attachments containing valuable or non-public information. Proofpoint MLX™ technology is the basis for unrivaled anti-spam accuracy, advanced content classification capabilities, and intelligent perimeter security features such as reputation-based traffic control.
  
  
• True Enterprise-class Platform: The Proofpoint messaging security solution scales indefinitely to support millions of messages per day. Proofpoint servers and appliances can be easily deployed in industry-standard cluster configurations to support complex or geographically distributed data centers. The Proofpoint Messaging Security Console provides a centralized, web-based administration interface for complete visibility into the state of the enterprise messaging system.

Company History

Eric Hahn, a pioneer in corporate messaging products and former CTO of Netscape, founded Proofpoint in June 2002. Over the last several years, Proofpoint has gained accolades from industry analysts and technology experts, and our customer list includes a broad range of market leaders. We have assembled team with deep roots in the messaging and enterprise software industries including Microsoft, Lotus Development Corp., Netscape Communications Corp., Critical Path, Oracle and Sun Microsystems.