Proofpoint exemplifies leadership via vision completeness and execution prowess
Sunnyvale, California, December 17, 2024 – Proofpoint, Inc., a prominent cybersecurity and compliance enterprise, has proudly announced its designation as a Leader in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Email Security Platforms. Previously acknowledged as a Leader for seven consecutive years before the retirement of the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Email Security in 2015.
Gartner assessed 14 vendors in its 2024 report and identified Proofpoint as a Leader due to its outstanding execution capabilities and visionary completeness. Particularly noted were Proofpoint’s extensive platform functionalities, encompassing detailed risk dashboards, robust data loss prevention features, and an adept defense system against email fraud.
“Gartner’s assessment further affirms our strategy of delivering cutting-edge threat detection measures to combat every form of human-centric threat across various user interaction scenarios,” stated Darren Lee, executive vice president and general manager, Security Products and Services Group. “This acknowledgement underscores our commitment to rapid innovation, aiming to tackle existing email security dilemmas while proactively exploring future challenges driven by customer feedback and industry trends.”
Email remains the primary avenue exploited by threat actors to target employees and breach organizational defenses. The effectiveness of cyber attacks like business email compromise (BEC) and credential phishing lies in their personalized, multi-pronged strategies to manipulate individuals. To counter these evolving threats, organizations require an integrated defense strategy rather than relying on isolated email security tools.
Proofpoint’s Threat Protection solution sets a benchmark in addressing human-centric risks by leveraging two distinctive proprietary platform components: Proofpoint Nexus, a multi-tiered AI-driven threat detection system, and Proofpoint Zen, a suite of control technologies ensuring comprehensive protection across email, collaborative platforms, and cloud services. Together, they offer a seamless protective experience, shielding users and security professionals from 99.99% of email threats before reaching their inboxes.
Over the preceding year, Proofpoint has unveiled several pioneering features including:
- Pre-delivery LLM-based Detection: Marking an industry-first, Proofpoint introduces a pre-delivery threat detection mechanism that employs semantic analysis to interpret message intent. Powered by a large language model (LLM) engine, this technology thwarts advanced email threats such as email fraud and credential harvesting before they reach Microsoft 365 or Google Workplace inboxes.
- Continuous Protection against URL-based Threats: Leveraging pre-delivery detection, Proofpoint identifies and blocks threats prior to inbox delivery, eliminating the risk of user activation. Suspicious messages with URLs undergo sandbox analysis, while delivered messages are consistently monitored for potential link mutations towards malicious intent.
- Adaptive Email Security: Offering an Integrated Cloud Email Security (ICES) approach bolstered by behavioral AI-based detection to halt targeted threats like internal phishing and advanced email fraud targeting vulnerable personnel. This solution enhances threat identifications with user-friendly behavioral anomaly explanations and automatically quarantines high-risk threats, providing real-time guidance to flag potential risks lacking overt malicious payloads.
- Proofpoint Collab Protection: Extending phishing safeguards beyond email to shield against malicious URLs transmitted across messaging, collaboration, and social media apps. Fueled by Proofpoint’s threat intelligence, this feature delivers real-time URL scrutinization and blocks malicious links at the user click event.
- Adaptive Email Data Loss Prevention: Automatically identifying and obstructing unintentional and deliberate data breaches via email, thwarting costly risks for organizations before data mishaps occur. By amalgamating Proofpoint’s threat mitigation and data protection technologies with AI-driven behavioral analysis, this solution bridges an essential gap in DLP strategies, preventing misdirected emails to avert potential reputational harm, customer loss, and regulatory penalties.
As of December 16, 2024, Proofpoint boasts an impressive overall rating of 4.6 out of 5 in the Email Security Platforms sector, based on 497 reviews on Gartner Peer Insights™. Explore these 5-star reviews.
For further details about Proofpoint Threat Protection, kindly visit: https://www.proofpoint.com/us/products/protect-people.
*Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Email Security Platforms, Max Taggett, Nikul Patel, Franz Hinner, Deepak Mishra, December 16, 2024.
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About Proofpoint, Inc.
Proofpoint, Inc. stands as a reputable force in the cybersecurity and compliance sector, safeguarding organizations against imminent threats and vulnerabilities affecting their personnel. Through an integrated suite of cloud-centric solutions, Proofpoint assists global enterprises in thwarting targeted threats, securing their data assets, and empowering their user base against cyber intrusions. Renowned entities of all magnitudes, including 85% of the Fortune 100, rely on Proofpoint for human-centric security and compliance resolutions that mitigate their most critical risks across email, cloud services, social networks, and the web. For more information, visit www.proofpoint.com.
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