Proofpoint Enterprise and Protect

Features:

Proofpoint Enterprise: Enterprise-class Email Security, On-demand

On-demand email security doesn't have to be "one size fits all." The Proofpoint Enterprise hosted service provides comprehensive protection against both inbound email threats and outbound content security risks — without requiring any on-premises hardware or software.

Proofpoint Enterprise is a highly-configurable, cost-effective anti-spam service that can be deployed with any combination of Proofpoint's email security and data loss prevention modules. Enterprises that prefer the convenience of hosted email security can now benefit from Proofpoint's unrivalled anti-spam effectiveness, comprehensive DLP features and unparalleled ease-of-use. Proofpoint Enterprise uniquely combines the power and customizability of Proofpoint's enterprise-proven email security platform with the cost-effective convenience of the SaaS delivery model.

Proofpoint Enterprise Configurations
Proofpoint Enterprise is typically deployed with any of three configurations that support the most common inbound threat protection, outbound data loss prevention and email encryption requirements:

• Proofpoint Enterprise Protection: Proofpoint Enterprise Protection delivers all of Proofpoint’s best-in-class inbound email security and email management components. Features include: advanced connection management; Proofpoint MLX™-powered spam detection with 99% effectiveness guarantee; signature-based and zero-hour virus protection with 100% effectiveness guarantee; email firewall, deep content inspection and outbound filtering capabilities to enforce acceptable use policies for message content and attachments; advanced message tracing; and TLS encryption.
   
• Proofpoint Enterprise Privacy: For enterprises with advanced regulatory compliance and data privacy requirements, Proofpoint Enterprise Privacy protects private information, defends against leaks of confidential information and ensures compliance with common data protection regulations including HIPAA, GLBA and PCI standards. Features include: advanced, highly accurate detection of private or confidential information in unstructured and structured data; pre-configured data protection policies; an easy-to-use administration console; and robust incident management.
   
• Proofpoint Enterprise Encryption: For maximum data loss prevention flexibility and control, Proofpoint Enterprise Encryption includes the same data loss prevention as Proofpoint Enterprise Privacy, but adds easy-to-use, policy-based encryption features. Proofpoint Enterprise Encryption helps mitigate risks associated with regulatory violations, data loss and corporate policy violations by automatically applying encryption based on your organization's unique policies.

Web-Based Policy Management and Administration
Proofpoint Enterprise's web-based administration interface to Proofpoint's unified policy management framework, ensuring consistent application of corporate messaging policies. The administration console makes it easy to monitor and control all Proofpoint modules and define messaging policies. Different policies can even be defined for different groups of end-users.

The Ajax-based interface gives you "drag and drop" customization of the reports, status information, RSS feeds and other components displayed. Even create "mashups" of information from external sources.

Proofpoint's outstanding ease-of-use extends to end-users as well. Easy-to-understand reports and controls, such as Proofpoint's end-user digest, web-based quarantine and personalized safe- and block-lists, give users complete control over their own spam preferences.

Proofpoint Protect: "No Compromise" Inbound SaaS Email Security

Proofpoint Protect is an easy-to-use, low-cost inbound email security solution, designed for organizations that don't require outbound data privacy and email encryption features. It offers the lowest total cost of ownership—as well as simplified configuration and administration—coupled with Proofpoint's unrivalled connection management, anti-spam and anti-virus accuracy. Proofpoint Protect uses world-class datacenters and includes Proofpoint's industry-leading availability, anti-spam and anti-virus performance guarantees.

Designed for true, "lights out" operation and zero administration overhead, Proofpoint Protect includes 8x5 phone support for customer requests, outbound spam and virus scanning, email based reports, end-user digests and email quarantines and advanced availability features such as email spooling.

Learn more about the technology behind Proofpoint's spam protection and Proofpoint's anti-spam service.

Technology:

Next Generation on Demand Architecture

Proofpoint Enterprise is powered by the Proofpoint Flexible Managed Services Architecture, which was designed to meet any enterprise deployment strategy-from fully hosted to hybrid installations. It offers mid-sized and large-sized enterprises an ideal solution for:

• Comprehensive, on-demand email security: Both inbound email security and outbound data loss prevention modules can be deployed "in the cloud" for comprehensive email protection, without the overhead of on-premises equipment.
   
• Hybrid model: Inbound anti-spam, anti-virus and policy enforcement features can be hosted while outbound email encryption and data loss prevention features are delivered on-premise, deployed as Proofpoint appliances, virtual appliances or software installations. Customers aren't "locked in" to either deployment model and can easily move services between on-demand and on-premise deployments at any time.
   
• Second-layer spam protection: Proofpoint Enterprise or Proofpoint Protect can provide an ideal solution for enterprises that desire a second layer of connection management, spam protection and virus prevention in front of their existing gateway or mail server-based email security solutions.

Unlike other on-demand services, Proofpoint Enterprise's next-generation hosting platform provides each customer with a fully-isolated instance of Proofpoint's service, ensuring complete security of customer data and complete flexibility in system configuration. Administrators have total control over their email security preferences, policies, enabled modules, end-user features, alerts and reporting.

Hosted in Proofpoint's world-class datacenters, Proofpoint Enterprise offers enterprise-grade performance, reliability and five-nines availability.

Proofpoint Protect is hosted in the same world-class datacenters as Proofpoint Enterprise and offers the same industry-leading availability, anti-spam and anti-virus performance guarantees.

Proofpoint MLX™ Technology

Advanced Machine Learning
The power behind Proofpoint's enterprise messaging security solutions-Proofpoint MLX-is an advanced, patent-pending machine learning system developed by the scientists at the Proofpoint Attack Response Center. Based on advanced statistical techniques including logistic regression and information gain analysis, Proofpoint MLX enables the accurate classification and identification of unstructured content, as found in email and other documents.

Unparalleled accuracy
Proofpoint MLX is the basis for the unrivalled anti-spam accuracy delivered by the Proofpoint Spam Detection module. Using MLX, Proofpoint analyzes hundreds of thousands of structural, image, content and reputation attributes to accurately differentiate between spam and valid messages. Traditional anti-spam solutions evaluate only a limited number of attributes and are unable to decisively classify spam, leading to low effectiveness and a high rate of false positives.

Futureproof intelligence
Proofpoint's intelligent anti-spam technology continually updates itself to defend against new forms of spam. Ongoing self-training and new techniques developed by Proofpoint scientists allow MLX to predict and adapt to new forms of spam as they appear. MLX updates are automatically delivered to all customers several times per day.

As a result, Proofpoint MLX offers 99.8% or higher effectiveness—even against the most difficult forms of image-based spam, attachment-based spam, spam "backscatter" and foreign language spam.

Unlike other anti-spam solutions, Proofpoint's ability to defend against spam attacks does not degrade over time-and updates to the MLX anti-spam engine are automatically delivered to your enterprise on a regular basis. Proofpoint MLX is constantly evolving to counter emerging threats, ensuring that your messaging infrastructure is secure against tomorrow's spammers as well as today's.

Proofpoint MLX also powers the advanced content security features of the Proofpoint Digital Asset Security module and the intelligent perimeter security features of the Proofpoint Email Firewall and Dynamic Reputation service. Proofpoint is the only vendor to apply these powerful machine learning techniques to email security and data loss prevention.

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On-demand Email Security for Today's Enterprise

Designed specifically to meet the needs of mid- and large-sized enterprises, Proofpoint Enterprise is the first hosted email security solution to offer the level of flexibility, security and control that larger organizations require. On-demand email security doesn't have to be "one size fits all." Proofpoint Enterprise can be configured with nearly any combination of Proofpoint's modular email security, data loss prevention and email infrastructure optimization features.

For organizations that demand powerful spam blocking, virus protection and content filtering capabilities, but don't require the advanced customization or data loss prevention (DLP) features of Proofpoint Enterprise, we also offer Proofpoint Protect. Proofpoint PROTECT is an easy-to-use, lower-cost version that offers extremely low total cost of ownership—as well as simplified configuration and administration—coupled with Proofpoint’s unrivalled anti-spam, anti-virus and content filtering accuracy.

Proofpoint Enterprise uniquely delivers:

• The industry's highest level of anti-spam and anti-virus performance, powered by patent-pending Proofpoint MLX technology.
• Customizability that goes an order of magnitude beyond traditional hosted email security services.
• A fully-isolated instance of Proofpoint's service, ensuring complete security of customer data and total flexibility in system configuration.
• Both inbound email security and a full complement of data loss prevention and encryption features.
• Deploy entirely "in the cloud" or take advantage of Proofpoint's hybrid configuration options (for example, deploy outbound data loss prevention features on-premises while inbound email security features are hosted on-demand).

Additional Proofpoint Deployment Options
Proofpoint's email security and data loss prevention solutions are offered in a variety of form factors for maximum deployment flexibility:

• SaaS: Proofpoint Enterprise delivers Proofpoint's unified email security and data loss prevention features as a cost-effective, easy-to-adopt and easy-to-manage SaaS solution. It offers the industry's most effective protection against both inbound and outbound email-borne threats, without requiring the installation of on-premise hardware or software.
   
• Hybrid SaaS/On-premises: Proofpoint Shield is a SaaS solution that works in conjunction with any email security appliance—making it easy to realize the advantages of a “hybrid” on-demand/on-premises email security deployment. It reduces the volume of email reaching your organization’s on-premises appliances by up to 90%, moving connection management and front-line anti-spam features into the cloud.
   
• Hardware appliance: The Proofpoint Messaging Security Gateway is a hardened, secure, easy-to-deploy appliance that installs in minutes. A variety of appliance models are available to support enterprises of any size.
   
• Virtual appliance: The Proofpoint Messaging Security Gateway—Virtual Edition delivers the same best-in-class protection as Proofpoint's hardware appliances, combined with the many benefits of virtualization — including cost savings, rapid deployment and provisioning, simplified change management and easy backup and disaster recovery. The virtual appliance runs on any standard x86 desktop or server using VMware Server or VMware Infrastructure.
   
• Software: The Proofpoint Protection Server delivers Proofpoint's messaging security platform as software for the Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system.

Diagram:

Proofpoint Next-Generation Hosting Architecture

Screenshots:

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Summary Dashboard	End-user Digest
End-user Safe/Block List	End-user Web-based Quarantine

Documentation:

Download the Proofpoint on Demand Datasheet (PDF).